EFFORTS THWARTED.

I have been trying to wean Lucy off of the All Important Pacifier, which has proven to be tough now that she can verbalize it.  So instead of the bink being out of sight and out of mind with no way to ask for it, it will suddenly occur to her that her mouth is a void (for which she can use to clearly say):

"Binky Mommy? Binky? New binky? Four binkies? Five binkies? TEN BINKIES!?!?"

And then this morning, I was confronted with this: