Tonight was a BIG night at our house.

A few weeks back Tyler told me, he needed to talk to me. I took him in my room and sat with him on the bed. I asked what he wanted to talk to me about.
Tyler: Mommy my words are hard. My binkies give me yucky words.
Me: I know your words are hard Pal. What do you think we could do to help?
Tyler: I want to give them to the Easter Bunny. NO YET but Easter is coming so when the Bunny comes I give leave them for him.

We have been preparing for this event for 15 days. We have talked about what a big boy Tyler is, for giving his binkies away. How proud Daddy and I are of Tyler for making this choice.

Tyler and I sat down tonight and wrote a letter to the Easter Bunny, Tyler drew pictures of himself and of the words he wanted to write. We got out our special bag, red velvet draw string type, lined up Tyler’s 11 binkies, and said good-bye. Tyler gave each binkie, one last suck, a kiss, and said good-bye. After all the binkies were in the bag, I enclosed Tyler’s letter and tied the strings. We set the bag in Tyler’s Easter basket, for the Bunny to find. Tyler looked up at me with tear filled eyes and said “Mommy Ima miss my binkies” I told Tyler how proud of him both Daddy and I are and that we will be here when ever he needs us, I told him it will be alright and that I love him very much. I reminded him that his new elephant was up waiting for him in bed. Tyler smiled and went up to bed with no complaints.

I am not really sure who this is harder on at this point, me or Tyler. I feel like I am loosing my baby boy tonight, I am realizing how quickly kids grow up. The fact is, Tyler will forever be my baby but he is growing into a magnificent little boy ….so fast.