Bye bye binky!

So we decided it was time to get rid of the Binky. Obviously we picked a horrible time... it's pretty much a horrible time whenever you change the life a your child I think and lets face it the Binky is one of Sawyer's  favorite things in the whole world. I was really scared because he is already such a bad sleeper that it would just make things that much worse... but how much worse could they get? So we were all in our bed watching kung fu panda one night and Braydon and I looked at each other and said lets do it tonight. cold turkey lets just get rid of it. Well, we have talked about ways to get rid of it. Like putting it on a balloon and sending it in the air, or having him just take it to our big dumpster and throw it away, we have cut the Binky and he still doesn't care, we put a hole in it and he doesn't care. So we decided to pack him up put him in the car and take him to target to let him pick out a toy. we told him on the way there that he had to give his Binky to pay for his toy. We kept repeating it over and over on the drive over so he understood. he was so excited because he was going to get a buzz or an iron man. so we got there he started running where he thought the toys were. So we got to the isle of the toy story characters. He  was so excited. He saw all the fun characters, woody, buzz, bulls eye, Mr. pork chop, and Rex (his favorites) He already has a woody so we told him maybe a buzz, but he could really pick whatever he wanted. So he picked a buzz and off to checkout to pay for his buzz with his Binky. We took the Binky off his shirt and he carried it to the lady. The lady had his buzz and waiting for him to pay. He handed her his Binky and said "bye Binky love you much" and we left. He has asked about it only at night because he has been sick, but we have not given in. He now knows when he wants it and asks for it he says "Binky for buzz" We will see how it goes, but I think he will soon forget about it beloved Binky!