It's Time to Say Goodbye

Well, we have finally done it--no more binky!  It has actually been a lot easier than I thought.  The hardest part is nap-time.  I thought for certain that we would be waking up several times during the night to soothe Zuri--when she would wake up at night, she would find her binky and go back to sleep; if she couldn't find it, she would cry until we came in and found it for her, so I thought for sure that we would have several sleepless nights.  Not so!  Yay!  She has been sleeping seamlessly through the night even without her binky!  Whoohoo!

We are going on a full week without the binky.  I guess it helps that for the last couple of months I have been limiting her binky to only bed and nap times and when we travel.  I wanted to completely eliminate it a few months ago when her last tooth came in, but I knew she would need it while we traveled (to help with her ears).

She doesn't even seem to miss it--except when we first put her down for bed or a nap.  She is usually really easy to put down, but without her binky, it has been taking her longer to go to sleep.

My little girl is growing up!