Birthday Binkies

Yesterday was Chris' birthday and Boo had a wonderful gift for him; after his (non)naptime, we gathered up all his binkies and put them in a birthday bag for Daddy, who is then going to "give" them to other little babies who need them.  This was actually Daddy's idea a few days ago and we all talked about it at bedtime the past two days.  Boo was a bit hesitant, but seemed to be okay with the idea.  Last night was great!!  I  only heard him cry a couple of times, but they didn't last long enough for me to even get out of bed and to his door before he quit.  What a trooper.  Nap time today has been a little more eventful: even though I knew he was tired, he fought going to sleep for almost an hour.  How did I know?  The kid was kicking his crib rails repeatedly and it. was. driving. me. nuts!  I finally went back up and rocked him a little more, put him back in his crib, told him it was time to go to sleep, and I haven't heard a peep for an hour and a half so far...yeah!!  So I guess we're going cold turkey.

We are so so proud of our boy!!!

Boo also helped me make and frost Daddy's birthday cake yesterday.  We finished just before he got home from work and surprised him by singing "Happy Birthday!"  Well, okay, Mama sang most of it and Boo did the last line, but he did a great job with that line.  He helped Daddy blow out the candles and then we all had a (small) piece of cake before dinner because it was a special day.  By the way, chocolate cake makes our sweet little boy a spaz!!!  By the time we left for dinner, he was running around in circles and laughing hysterically.

Boo placed the candles on the cake.

He didn't make it easy for Daddy to blow them out!

Happy birthday, Dad!!

Eating the cake he helped make.

On the "phone" with Daddy during the day.

So ready to eat some cake:

Happy birthday, honey!
You're an amazing husband and father and we are so blessed to have you in our lives.
We love you, forever and ever and always.

Binky

A few nights ago, we trialed Boo going to sleep without his beloved binky.  Now, I've been reading about it and many people seem to wait until their children are around age 3 to take the pacifier away.  But others have said that they trialed it much sooner (or forgot it when going on a trip) and the child did very well without it.  So we thought, why not give it a shot...

We had had a couple of conversations with him throughout the day about giving his binky to the binky fairy for another little girl or boy to have who needed one.  And maybe a big-boy present would be in its place when he woke up!  He seemed to be okay with this.  So Daddy put Boo down for the night; he asked to be placed in his crib soon after they started rocking, which is not uncommon anymore (we've come a looong way, baby).  Because Boo was just in there talking up a storm, Chris decided to sit next to the crib until he settled down more.  Wellllll, that lasted over an hour!  At that point, I could hear Boo saying (through the monitor) "Uv oo, Dad-dy.  Daddy night-night, floor.  Daddy, legs, floor."  I had no clue what on earth that last one meant, so I went upstairs to see what he was doing.  Come to find out, he was laying face-down in Boo's doorway, trying to inch himself out without being seen - flashback to last summer!!!  I could hardly contain my laughter at seeing my grown husband on the floor, being caught by our 2 year old trying to leave his room!  (He could only see Chris' legs at this point, hence his last comment.)  So we just decided to bite the bullet; we gave him one of his trains and said good night.  And then proceeded to listen to him cry and sob his heart out for the next 10 minutes.   But not for his binky, nooo...he is scary smart: he cried for his daddy.  Who caved.  That little boy got his binky and was asleep within 5 minutes.  Like Chris told me, if he had been crying for Mommy, I probably would have been up those stairs just as quickly.  He was starting to sound a little panicky by the time Chris got to his room with the binky.

At least we tried.  And we'll try again at some point.  But this round goes to the binky.

Parents: 0  Binky: 1