Disaster Averted

Jonah and his froggy binky.  Everyone who knows Jonah knows very well that he LOVES his froggy binky.  My sister got it for him once he had been home from the hospital for a few months.  My whole family was going to Mexico and we couldn’t go and she had it sent to me while they were gone.  It has been a life saver.  When Jonah was so little and couldn’t keep it in his mouth for very long, it would fall out but not go very far.  Once he got old enough to handle it he could always find it when he was asleep.  Now that he is really too old to have it, he still can find it in the night.  I try to limit him having his binky to nap time and bedtime, but the occasional he is whining and I can’t take it happens and he walks around with it in his mouth.  He is so attached to it, when I ask him to give it to me he will sometimes hug it first.  Sometimes he grabs it from me to have a couple of quick sucks before I put it in his bed.  I know, it is pathetic, but I am not ready to deal with it being gone. 

We have lost it a few times, but only for a short time and then we are back to normal.  Well last night, bedtime came and no one knew where his binky was.  Jacob is usually our find it man and seems to always know where everything is.  He had no idea, although he sent me on several wild goose chases.  I searched and searched.  Bryan gave Jonah a different binky and said he would have to use that.  Jonah replied, '”no I can’t, that one is broken and too hard”.  Jonah sat in bed playing and crying out while I tore the house apart trying to find it.  After an hour and a half of searching (and the house getting a little picked up) I came to accept the fact that I wasn’t going to find it.  I was so tired and not ready to deal with a night of crying, but I figured this was it.  If we make it through tonight then he will never have it again.   I put Jonah in my bed and said, you can lay here with Momma, but you have to go to sleep.  He was very excited about that.  I then proceeded to get ready for bed which includes getting out my exercise clothes for the morning.  I went to get something out of my top dresser drawer and low and behold, there was froggie binky!

Disaster averted, although it may have been better to not find it and be done with the whole thing.  I really have no intention of getting rid of it any time soon though.  I know it is bad for his teeth and bad to have something to soothe him to sleep, but I really don’t care because it helps him be able to sleep which in turns helps me to be able to sleep!