Binky Breaking Part 2

Remember this post....I can't believe it was over a year ago.  Look at how cute and little they were.  Well I knew the day would come I would need to re-do the binky breaking since that only lasted about a month I think.  Well, it came this last weekend.  I want them broken of their binky well before the baby comes, I'm hoping they will start talking more and it was just time since they're about to turn 18 months.  We waited until after our trip to St. George and then had to wait for a time when we would have the girls ourselves as to not impose this on a babysitter to enforce while they were figuring out their life without binkies.

I may have shed a couple tears talking to Shane about it (I know, I'm pregnant) but as I said to him with tears in my eyes... 'they just love their binkies sooo much, it's seems mean.' lol, I'm a freak, I know. Pretty much I had to be binky broken right along with the girls.  As Shane said at the end of the weekend, you may have cried more this weekend then the girls.  It was a long weekend for me and I don't know why but was so emotional about it all and just sad that I couldn't help my girls and they just had to figure this out on their own.

So here's how it went.  I made Shane put them to bed the first night without the binkies while I was at a baby shower.  I was shocked when I came home at 9pm and it was silent.  I thought for sure one of them would still be hysterical. Shane proceeded to tell me that they didn't protest at all! One gave one little whine and then it was silent. All night I kept waiting for them to try and find it and wake up and freak, but they didn't. About 5:30am that morning for about an hour they were both awake whining and then would go to sleep, then wake up and whine then go back to sleep but it wasn't hysterical or anything. Enough to keep me awake but not too bad at all.  

After the first night, it ended up being a long weekend.  Siena adjusted to sleeping without it pretty fast and didn't have much of an issue.  Aria had to cry herself to sleep at night once and for a nap once and then would wake up early in the morning and moan for about an hour before falling back to sleep.  Now she is doing fine at sleeping again and all is well with her.  

Siena on the other hand has had the hardest time during the day.  Her temper tantrums have increased in frequency, duration and intensity.  She is having to re-learn how to calm herself down without a binky and it's been hard for her.    Sunday at church was the worst.  She had gotten ahold of my iphone and was playing with it when she got frustrated at something on it and handed it to me to fix.  Well when I took it she freaked out, thinking I was taking it away from her I guess.  So I grabbed her and she was so loud I had to walk outside in the rain.  I walked across the parking lot to a little pavilion and we sat there for 15 mins while she had her meltdown.  She got down and laid in the rain and everything.  I didn't know what to do so I just let her get it all out.  Then I had to go find Shane so we could get our stuff and go home and she kept crying the entire time for an hour total until I got her blankets and she fell asleep in my arms.  

Since then it's gotten a little better but she definitely has her tantrums still.  In fact as I type this I just got a text from my sister saying Siena is mad that she can't have my sister's laptop.  Aria is just playing away on her horse. 

Overall I'm glad it's done and over with and the worst of it is over for sure.  There are times I just want to give it to them because I know it would make them so happy but I'm being strong.