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Today is bittersweet.  My parents have been visiting and hanging out with the kids but will be flying back to U.K. tomorrow.  Mason and Jacob said they'd give their pacifiers (dummies for the British) to Mum and Dad so that they could take them back to England and give them to cousin Sam.  Afterall Sam's still a baby and doesn't have any pacifiers of his own (well, that's what we told Mason and Jacob).  So just before bed the twins placed all their pacifiers in a box and sealed it for Sam.  It wasn't easy getting them to go to bed.  Both suddenly realized their folly but it was too late - Ann and I stood firm and after a couple of hours of crying, whining and manipulating, I'm proud to say they've both been asleep for more than an hour.  Without pacifiers!  Yaay for our big kids!