Finally!

For weeks now, I've been going back and forth about whether or not to break Haylie from her pacifier.  I wanted to for various reasons, mainly I didn't want it inhibiting her speech or messing up her teeth.  I didn't want to for various reasons also, mostly selfish ones, like I was afraid she wouldn't sleep as well at night and take those wonderful 2-3 hour naps in the afternoon.  We, at one time, had 5 pacifiers.  About a month ago we lost two of them--couldn't find them anywhere, so we were down to three.  A couple weeks ago I was going through one of those "wanting to break her from it" moods so I cut the tip of one of them off and gave it to her, in hopes that she would start breaking her habit of sucking on it so much.  Somewhere in between that week and last week we lost one of the two good ones that we had left.  So that left us with the "broken" one and only ONE good one!  It was last Friday night, and we were getting ready to take her to her Mema and Papa's house so we could  have a date night.  She had both pacifiers up until time to walk out the door, and all of a sudden the good one was gone!!  Not anywhere to be found!  So, I searched for it for like 40 minutes because I didn't want to send her over there without it.  What if she didn't sleep at all for them? What if she just cried for hours?  Well....I didn't find it!  So, to Mema and Papa's house she went with only her "broken" pacifier.  She did fine.  She slept well.  She did wake up a little earlier than usual, but still she slept all night long.  The next day when we went to get her they couldn't find the "broken" one---MAN those things are hard to keep up with!  So we decided it was time!  She has been without a pacifier since Saturday, the 13th and she's doing great!  If I had known it would have been so easy I would have done it sooner---I guess.  Maybe not, though, because I'm actually sort of sad about it.  For some reason, it makes me feel even more than other things, that she's not a baby anymore. 

She's been ultra affectionate the past few days, I don't know if it has something to do with the no pacifier or not, but I'm loving it.  I love her kisses and hugs!!