Our Doggies & a Duck

When the kids were born the immediately got pacifiers as they hoped this would help them to learn how to "suck". Since they were born at 33 Weeks 5 Days they had not yet learned this simple task. These pacifiers were very big for them at the time and it was hard for them as premature babies to keep these in their mouths. So I did a little research and found these AWESOME wubba nub pacifiers. These worked great as they helped keep the pacifiers in their mouths and it was less crying for all of us. These little wubba nubs were a huge life saver in the beginning.
However, I quickly learned that we would need to have extra of these since they could get lost. There was the time that I had taken E to Target with me to pick up a prescription and she had dropped it somewhere in the store so I then spent an hour looking for it as I was afraid what would happen if we did not have it. It was at this point that I decided that these would stay in their beds and they could only have them at home. Then there was the time when they got a little older and they would chew on them and the plastic would start to wear so Grandma A got great at replacing the binker part of the dog and duck. At one point Jon and I had decided that we were going to take them away. The next time they "broke" (needed fixing) we were just going to cut the binker part off and they could have the dog/duck. This was a great idea until it happened and Aimee started to hyperventlate because she did not have her dog. Clearly she was not ready to part with it so we have continued to fix these things.
Until today....Grandma and Grandpa E arrived last night for a week long visit. When we were getting ready for bed last night Grandma had a talk with the Girls (K wanted no part of it) about giving the binkers to the babies who needed them. She told them that we would go pick out new doggies/ducky that we could snuggle with under our arms instead of ones we put in our mouth. This morning we had all three carry their binkers downstairs and put them in the box to send to the babies. Then we headed out to the mall and picked out new doggies. We talked it up big time.
Well when we got home we made a big production about taking our new doggies to bed with us. Things were going great until K started to cry and then the girls started to cry. Daddy and Grandma comforted them and I had to step out as I was crying too. It is hard to take something away from your child that they use to comfort themselves. However, these pacifiers are not healthy and they do need to go. Their teeth are affected by them and just the bacteria on these things alone is not healthy. So it is nap time and we all stayed strong and all the kids are asleep w/out their binkers!!!! Now we will see what bed time brings. Wish us all luck!