No more facifiers

We just reached another kiddie milestone.  We are officially a pacifier (or facifier as Iris calls them) free house.  Both kids loved them and for that I was always thankful.  It was nice to have a simple way to calm them and help them sleep.  Aunt Jen helped with ending Miles' addiction to the plastic a few years ago by saying the pacifiers were traveling with her on the airplane back to Phoenix.  I was surprised that's all it took and he was fine from that first night on.  Thanks Jen!
I'd been wondering how to break Iris of the habit.  I knew we really just needed to be hard core and take them away one night, but I worked it up to something much bigger than it was.  We had McKenna, one of the daycare teachers, babysit so we could go out for an anniversary dinner.  When I went in to get Iris the next morning all her pacifiers were out of the crib set up on the shelf.  I'm not sure why McKenna took them out of the crib, but who cares.  Iris slept all night!  We figured we better just roll with it and here we are...facifier free!