The Binky Fairy and the Big Girl Bed

Well, we had a lot of changes at our house this past weekend. The binky fairy came to take the binkies from Yaya and take them off to the baby's who need them (or something like that.) I am not sure she really bought the whole baby thing because one night we were talking about the binky fairy coming and the baby's and she said, rather seriously, that her binkies where too big for baby fairy's mouth. LOL--that girl is too smart!

We have been talking about it for several weeks, saying that the binky fairy was coming when the flowers come. She would answer, not yet! I not ready. Well, basically I decided that she was ready. She would wake up several times a night looking and wanting her binky, which I would have to find for her. She was still in her crib and could not reach them when the fell on the floor. I was getting tired of being tired in the mornings. Okay, maybe a bit selfish on my part to take away something of comfort to her, but....I did it anyway--judge at will.

We told her a couple days before that she was coming--Yaya decided that the fairy was a girl, pink, maybe yellow--then she saw a pic in a magazine of a very colorful fairy and she said that was the binky fairy. Okay, great, now we know what she looks like! M said that when the fairy came, she would leave a picture of herself. We enlisted Bean to help us convince her that this was a big girl thing to do, that she would like him and not have a binky any more. I had to balance having him help with the little lie we were telling and Bean aware that we were not telling the truth. It has been interesting, to say the least. I did not want Bean to think it is okay to tell a fib/lie but that we thought we needed to tell her the binky fairy was coming so she might be willing to let go of them more easily. I explained this to Bean and he seemed okay with it all.

Okay, back to Yaya. We told her on Friday that it was her last night with the binkies and that the fairy was coming tomorrow. Saturday morning was like most, binky in bed after sleep (she only had them at night and at nap anyway) and downstairs for breakfast. Some time during the morning, I went up stair and put a picture of said fairy and a sparkly bracelet (Yaya LOVES bracelets) on her pillow. Nap time comes, upstairs we go, and she says "where my binkies?" I say, "look the binky fairy was here" and show her the pic and the bracelet and tell here there are no binkies. "She must have come to take the binkies". Yaya got upset, of course, but we talked about it and I told her she was a big girl, didn't need them anymore and they were going to a good place. She accepted it (somewhat) and went down for her nap.