Paci's be gone!

Ellie did it!  (And so did we)  It's been 3 weeks since Ellie's last pull on a pacifier.  We knew that Ellie could manage without one (she did it all the time outside the home).  We used the Utah trip as our week of withdrawal.  We told her that pacifiers weren't allowed in Utah.  The only side effect has been more than normal wakeups in the middle of the night.  But it's a small price to pay to be past the pacifier usage.

We've celebrated with the purchase of a purple giraffe from the Salt Lake City zoo and providing unlimited amounts of gum to chew.

This ends our chapter with pacifiers.  The last time we tried giving one to Eva, she literally spit it out and sent it flying across the room.  I guess it's one of the bittersweet things of watching children grow.  Pacifiers have been such a big thing for Ellie, and therefore us, and now it's just gone, over, finito.

Bye, bye pacifier.