German Pacifiers are taking over the world.

I know I might be venturing into Lou Dobbs or even Andy Rooney territory here, but you have been warned. As you can tell by nearly every post, parenting (while rewarding) is not the stuff of excitment. A lot of waiting and watching with brief bursts of activity.

During all this waiting and watching, I noticed that all of Liam's pacifiers are made in Germany. While they are lovely pacifiers, I have to wonder how Germany came to corner the pacifier market. Have we fallen so low America that we can't fashion our own pacifiers? Is pacifier technology so advanced that we may need to introduce an Apollo program just to catch up? Will our sons and daughters first words be mutter or vater? I ask you.