Binkie Ceremony

We had a Binkie Cutting Ceremony for Derek last month to help him get rid of his addiction. :) But before I get to that, I had to share this funny moment in the life of Derek: I walked into the room a couple weeks ago to find this...

Megamind is currently his favorite movie, and he looooves climbing on the couches though we discourage him every time we catch him, but I just had to grab my camera before I did anything. He's blissfully oblivious to my presence...

Until I catch him!! He was in such a rush to get off the couch, he face-planted. Awesome.

Moving on to the Binkie Ceremony... I got this idea from somewhere other than Pinterest. I know this because I can't find it in any of my boards there, so I must've picked it up, well, elsewhere. Regardless, it worked like a charm. We had a rough first week, but Derek has done marvelously well. He helped me weed through all these movies and pictures this morning and kind of had a little binkie revival, but we squashed that with a let's-go-play-with-your-cars distraction. Hehehe...

We brought out all the binkies we could find and let Derek have them to suck on for a few minutes while we set up. He and Grandma aren't sure what we're doing yet, but they will.

Happy with his binkie

The premise is simple: let the kid see/help you cut the tips off the binkies and then try to suck on them. Tipless binkies are usually too short to keep in their mouths by just sucking. Once they show lack of interest, help them throw them in the trash - and then immediately take the trash out. Voila!! No more binkies, and the kid thinks they did this on their own. Genius.

Attempt with Binkie #2 - we could only find two that night. I found two more later, but secretly threw them away. Bahahaha!!

See? He's trying so hard to keep that binkie in his mouth, but the tip is waaaay too short.

Operation: Binkie Dump!

This video is optional viewing: it shows what happens 30 seconds after the binkie dump, when he finally realized what we'd done. :)