Our Peaceful Sleeping Beauty

Aubrin has always been a great sleeper. Like Jackson, she has slept through the night since she was two months old and very rarely does she ever get up at night. However, over the past couple of months she has been waking up more and more in the middle of the night hysterical because she couldn't find her pacifiers in her crib. Aubrin has always had two pacifiers, one in her mouth and one in her hand. Although, she only kept the one in her mouth for only moments until she fell asleep and then it would fall out, but she would hold tight to the one in her hand all night- unless she let it go and she couldn't find it.
Since Aubrin turned 18 months I kept saying, "This is the month I will take her pacifiers away." I just never did it. Jackson never had a pacifier so I wasn't sure the right way to go about it and to be honest, I was selfishly scared that my great sleep would be no more. I would ask people their advice on how to take a pacifier and almost every person would say, "Aubrin has a pacifier?" The pacifier never left Aubrins crib- for the most part. She never walked around the house with it in her mouth and it NEVER left the house with us in her mouth.
One day I told Aubrin that the pacifier fairy was going to come visit her soon and was going to take her pacifiers. I just wanted to get her reaction. She said "No mommy", and left it at that. Later that day I went to change her diaper and guess what I found tucked into the front of her diaper? Yes, her pacifiers. That little stinker was hiding them just in case that tricky fairy decided to come to our house.
A couple weeks ago when Aubrin was napping, Todd and I decided it was time. So we decided that when she woke up from her nap we were going to turn her crib into a toddler bed and take the pacifiers. As Todd was taking the front off her crib, he turned and looked at me as I was crying. I always seem to have a good cry when our babies hit a milestone.
Aubrin was excited to see her new bed. Todd told her that when big girls sleep in big girl beds they don't use pacifiers any more. She just giggled and continued to love her bed.
That evening we went to the Wiggles. When we got home we changed into Pj's and Aubrin got cozy in her new bed. Not once did Aubrin ask for her pacifier and she slept beautifully in her new bed.
Aubrin still has not asked for her pacifiers. Also, she has not gotten out of bed. I was a bit concerned that she would get out of her bed in the middle of the night, but she stays in her bed like a big girl. We are so proud of her for giving up her crib and pacifiers with no problems.