Lookie, Lookie, Where We Found Nuki!

Cameron had been laying down on the blanket that I made for him and he was nicely playing with toys and his nuk, the brand name of a pacifier.

We use to use different pacifiers for our kids, but this kind would be given to them in the hospital. I always thought they were rather strange since you could see through them and see your child sucking on the pacifier.

Since the brand name that we use to use was Nuk, we soon stopped calling it a pacifier and would call it a nuk or nuki. I guess out of habit we still call this pacifier a nuk even though it is called a Soothie. I only realized tonight as I was writing this blog. I figured I should check to see if it was called something, and sure enough, it had a name.

The funny thing about this picture is that I had picked Cameron up off of the blanket and sat down with him on the couch. I looked back at the blanket nearby scanning to find his nuk. I couldn't find it anywhere. I asked Anna and Emma if they knew where it was and they started laughing and telling me it was stuck in Cameron's shirt. I searched the front of his shirt expecting it to be there, but the girls helped me find it in back. I'm not surprised that he ended up getting the nuk behind his head when he was laying down on the blanket, but I am surprised that it got stuck there as I picked him up and that it stayed in place. I guess it helped that the nipple part was stuck inside the shirt.

I have come to realize that I prefer these kinds of pacifiers since they are a solid piece of rubber. There is no way for germs to be trapped inside the rubber like it could with the other ones we use to use. Unfortunately, right before we had Cameron, I purchased a package of Nuk brand pacifiers and haven't really used them. I'm not sure someone else will want to use them even if I tell them they have only been used a time or two. Oh well!

Have to Have My Harry Potter

Justin desperately wanted to play the Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 wii game today, but sadly, he had to keep waiting for mom. Benjamin, Anna, and Emma went off to school and Justin wanted to play. He kept begging mom to go downstairs and play with him. I did love playing the Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 wii game, but I hadn't played Years 5-7 yet. I wouldn't mind playing, but sometimes it's not always convenient to play when your kids want you to. He was very willing to get me downstairs quickly by saying, "You better take Cameron downstairs because it's not very safe if I do it." You better believe that I got up from what I was doing on the computer to check and see if he had picked up Cameron. Luckily, he hadn't and I don't think he would, but a concerned mother still better check. He said he would bring down the "Nuks" or pacifiers for Cameron, in fact, he wanted to bring down all four that were on the table. I told him ONE would be fine. Shortly after that, I received a phone call from my neighbor, Deb Smith, and was on the phone a little while when Justin came up and whispered in my ear, "Mom, Mom, remember you're going to come down and play Harry Potter with me." I quickly got off the phone and went downstairs. I figured I better take a picture of him to remember this moment. I'm sure many more hours of entertainment will be had by this game, whether he plays by himself or has to beg his mom (or someone else) to play with him.