Binky Drama

Fox is the first of my kids to ever use a

Binky!

This is all new to me.

Part of why I originally shied away from them

is hearing the horror stories of

the 'lost Binky',

the 'stolen Binky',

the 'can't-pry-the-durn-thing-away-from-my-kid-Binky'!

I just figured,

"Why deal with it?"

"Just don't give the kid a Binky to start out with!?"

Duh!

Then my little Fox came along.

I learned pretty early on

those first couple days

that this kid needed one.

All he wanted to do was

'suck'.....

and as a breast-feeding mama with 3 other kids,

well,

that was not gonna be part of the program!!

My first

'Binky-baby'

was born.

This is where the story gets

funny!

Because, as luck would have it......

I lost the durn thing

and spent the better half of a perfectly nice day

re-tracing my steps

all over town trying to find it!

Not fun.

I was getting panicky.

"How did this happen?"

"Where was it?"

"What was I going to do?"

I had 2 or 3 other Binky's given to me at a baby shower.

Outright rejection.

He would have none of that nonsense.

OMG! OMG! OMG!

In my desperation and despair I finally

broke down

and petitioned and pleaded with a higher power to

please help me find this Binky!

It's the green-ish blue-ish ones they give you at the hospital.

Why did he need the one Binky I couldn't find in a store?

Why that one?

Then I remembered something.

Many moons ago.....

I was pregnant with Ryan and bought a Binky

as a joke!

I had kept it all these years

and knew it was stashed somewhere in my laundry room.

In fact, I knew exactly where it was stashed in my laundry room

and went to find it!

Of course,

this

Binky

he would take!

As hard as I laughed the first few minutes

that quickly died off.

I found over the next day and a half

that the disturbed looks of strangers and nosey passer-bys

was a little more than I needed.

Thankfully Fox had his

2-month well-check

scheduled

and his pediatrician had oodles of those

greenish-blue rubber wonders.

They even sold them attached to stuffed animals!

I bought one.

It'll be a heck of a lot harder to lose it

now that it's attached to a

monkey!

(Flirt mode)

Once he realized I was taking his picture

he really turns it on!

Side view.

Binky drama solved!!

Always have 'extras' on hand,

and realize the irony that,

naturally,

only the most hideous binky you have

is the only one he's gonna want!

Getting loves from Phoenix!!
His face says it all!

"Mom!

Get him off me!

You just washed my hair!!!"