binky

the binky. she loves it...she hates it....she loves it....we hate it....she loves it! when we first brought dottie home from the hospital, she was pretty darn into her binky and we were okay with that. that relationship was short lived. even in the craziest moments of crying, the pacifier didn't work. that is until our trip to new york year in may. she got a cold and for some reason, she seriously became an addict. she couldn't fall asleep without it all of the sudden and when it fell out of her mouth in the middle of the night, she cried and cried until we put it back in (bad parenting skills obviously). when we returned from our trip, our low point was a night when she woke up screaming 7 times until we replaced the binky. that was the end of it. cold turkey my friend. 2 days later, if we gave it back to her to see what happened and she might as well have been looking at a block. an old friend but nothing special. anyway, as of late, we have kept a couple of them in her crib because she likes playing with them. she doesn't suck on them for a long time, she just likes getting the binky in her mouth, sucking on it, and then pulling it out. it is the cutest thing. sometimes we watch her on the monitor talking to herself playing this little game. this is a picture of her playing her little game. (the sweater in the picture is a sweater of mine from when i was a baby. so cute, it zips up the back!).