Bye Bye Paci!!

Before Austin was born, I struggled with the decision on whether we would give him a pacifier or not. It always bothered me when I would see 3-year olds walking around stores with a pacifier in their mouth. Well, when you have a screaming newborn, it's easy to succumb to the easy soother. However, we restricted his use of the paci to only when he was napping, riding in the car, or sleeping at night. As he got a little older, it was only allowed during sleep/naps. It was always my goal to get him off of this by his 2nd birthday, which is in less than two months. I heard suggestions from others about cutting the tip off so it wouldn't give the sucking sensation anymore. That was my original plan, but the other night on a whim, I just decided to lay him down at bedtime with just Woofie (his constant companion dog) and no paci. He never even asked about his paci and went to sleep no problems. Was this just a fluke?! Well, here we are four days later and still no paci! I'm so proud of my little monkey! I had no idea it was going to be this easy to take it away from him.