Paci Free!!!

That's right. Cort is paci free. Now before you all decide that we are absolutely insane to have taken the paci right when we brought home a new baby let me explain.
At dinner last week I mentioned to Chris that Cort's overbite was really getting bad and that we needed to take the paci soon( meaning this summer some time). Chris sort of playfully asked Cort if he wanted to throw away his paci's. Cort promptly said no and then asked to get them back out of the trashcan ( i guess thinking Chris was saying that we had thrown them away ) We told him that Mommy and Daddy wouldn't throw away his paci's but he could when he was ready. He then pitched a fit to throw them away. So we gave him two of his paci's - he then went to every trashcan in the house until he finally decided to throw them away in Cohen's trashcan( is it wierd that I love that Cohen has a trashcan in our house? ;)). I think he chose it because all of the other one's were getting pretty full and Cohen's was empty. He went to bed that night with no problem!!! He has asked about them occasionally but then says that he threw them away in Cohen's trashcan and that he's a big boy just like daddy. ( he's very into that - being "just like Daddy")
He has had some trouble unwinding for bed but he doesn't cry and he doesn't ask for his paci and it's getting better. We are so proud of him. He doesn't even mind that Cohen has the same paci.
We had one little mishap on Monday when he found a paci that we hadn't recovered. He brought it to me - very excited saying "green Paci, Cort's green paci." I thought it was going to be all over. He then ran and put it in his crib. I told him that that was where we use to put them and asked him if he remembered where he put the other ones and he said in the trashcan. So I took the paci out of his crib and he started to cry. I didn't want to be the one taking his paci - I loved that it was a decision that he made and that he had gotten rid of them himself. So I handed him the paci and asked him what he thought he should do with it. He looked at the paci for a good 30 seconds or so and I held my breath. He then ran out of his room and into Cohen's room and threw it in the trashcan!!!!!! So proud.
I can't believe how easy it was.