These are the moments that make up life, never always the right timing, right way, but just life. If I learn to worry less about what other's think, and worry more about what God thinks or just living life, a praise worthy life than the binkies aren't the issue.
With that out of the way we move on to The Last Sleep
The binkie angels made their first appearance at our house the other night...but before we get to that we had some very important things to get ready for first! This included a trip to the craft store to get all the necessary things that any special binkie box would need...pearls, glitter, stickers and it wouldn't be complete without some orange ribbon!
The angels were going to come get the binkies for the babies who needed them in heaven. Or they could go to the new babies who weren't born yet and would need them after they were born. Either way, God knew who needed them the most!
After the binkie box was created, Brooklyn said goodbye to her precious binkies. I have to admit I started getting a little sad...yes, I knew what we would be up against with sleep now, but more than that this sweet little thing had her binkies since she was born. So now, just two months shy of four years old our spunky little B has held on to those for the past 3.10 years. This is how I always saw Brooklyn when she slept...One binkie in her mouth, the other in her hand. That was my little baby who at the age of 3 mos. had her binkie to comfort her along with mommy and daddy after she came down with RSV. The same little girl who hung on to it for dear life on her first airplane ride, the first sweet girl who offered her binkie to her brother "anytime he needed it!"
Oh that first night was hard! There were tears, lots of them! Kicks to the sheets, frustrations, lots of back scratches, extra books, tickies (yes Shawna we have taught tickies at our house and oh does Brooklyn love them!). Then finally somewhere around 10:15 (we started at 7:45) there she was for the first time in almost 4 years asleep with her mouth slightly parted with something missing. That thing that represented her baby days and kept her little, in my head at least.
She woke up and we did the no binky dance (I told you we have a lot of dances in this house...you should see the potty dance). Then she ran excitedly to her angel binkie box to check to see if they came and this was what she found...
Her look alone was priceless...wish I captured it but I was enjoying the moment holding her hand.
We are on night five, night five means tomorrow she gets her last sticker to complete her sticker chart of the week and she will head off to get the coveted cart!
This post was started last week on night 5 we are now on night ELEVEN! And the cart is being used everyday! Along with the angel dust that definitely makes it easier to fall asleep each night. Way to go Brooklyn...
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Owen loves tickies too :) Way to go Brooklyn!!
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