All Hail the Pacifier

The pacifier, aka the greatest invention of all time. At least in our house it will always be known. Kenedi LOVED her paci when she was little. We started giving it to her in the hospital. She was really pitiful the second night so we asked for one and she thought it was heaven on earth. She would suck so hard that she would smack. It was so cute. We brought her home at about 5 and a half pounds and they were huge on her little face.

Kaiden on the other hand HATED them. She would push out her tongue, spit it out whatever she could to not take one. We tried every kind made. We were determined she just had to take one. She had colic and oh boy did we need her to take her paci. We finally found one she liked and it changed our lives for the better!!

We were able to put them to bed awake with their paci and they would just drift off to sleep. It was fabulous. It was like magic. If they were teething...paci, fever...paci, mad...paci, car rides... paci it was just wonderful. It made them so happy!!

We started when they were pretty little only trying to use them in their beds or in desperate situations. I was really weird about them using them in public. Don't really have a good reason, I just didn't like it too much. So, when they would wake up we would say "Bye Bye paci" and throw it in their bed. Well, as they got older they would ask for them. They called them "bye byes". It was kind of cute for a while but they got really pitiful when asking for them.

Jeff and I decided that since he was off a couple of weeks ago we were going cold turkey. It was so much easier that I ever imagined. They really don't care at all. So bye bye to the bye byes.