"my bear"

We are trying to wean binky and banky once again. We started awhile back with cutting the binky down and it worked for a short period of time, but I became lax and the habit became worse than ever.

She is at an age where I can explain binky and banky are only for bed and she is doing pretty well with it. She has a shadow box above her bed that she can reach and she keeps her binky's in there for bedtime. Occasionally she will walk out with one or both of them, smirk at me and then run back and put them in bed so I would say at this point the process is going pretty well.

What we have noticed though is that as we are weaning binky and banky she has grown a new attachment to a black bear she has owned for awhile. I don't know what drew her to this particular stuffed animal, but it now goes everywhere with her in place of her banky. If you ask her what its name is, she proclaims "my bear" and this is what she calls it. I guess it is better for her to be walking around with her bear than dragging banky through the mall.