"Say hello to my (new) little friend..."

(sorry for the quality, it was taken from my SIL's iPhone)

My new Paci!

That's right, we have moved on from the "soothie" hospital paci to this new guy! Mills began to have a love/hate - actually, no, hate/hate relationship with the former paci...as in if he was crying before, he would SCREAM when you put the paci in his mouth, and then gag like you were trying to choke him with it! Can we say drama KING??? But I still liked to have it in my purse when we went out, because if he got upset somewhere, I could still quiet him down with it if I held my finger in the opening...very high maintence.

Well...Friday night the three of us headed out to dinner, and I realized on the way that I had forgotten our safety net - the paci - but we didn't want to turn back around and go get it, so I ran in CVS to grab a new one! The only soothie paci they had was pink, and I knew daddy would NOT go for that, so I grabbed the only other option that was for less than 3 months old, the Gerber Nuk Orthotic, and Mills LOVES it! :) (Of course I may jinx myself and this may change tomorrow.) He sat through dinner awake and looking around, just sucking away! And it stays in his mouth so well that now we can just lay him down or put him in the swing with it and he falls asleep SO FAST! Needless to say, we love it, too! And we have cute styles of this paci that we received for shower gifts (and cute paci clips that will fit, too), but I was just afraid it was too soon to start experimenting. Nope, this new thing works like a charm! :)