Our New Task At Hand

This weekend we started working with Jadon on not sucking his thumb. He will be 4 later this year and we are hoping that by then this whole thing will be kicked. We did try to start him off on a pacifier trying to keep this very thing from happening, but when they start taking the pacifier out to put their thumb in there's not much a parent can do.

So, we've started off by using band-aids on the thumb he sucks. I took him to Wal-Mart on Sunday and let him pick out his band-aids. Now we have array of band-aids that he gets to chose from everyday. He gets to take it off for nap times and bed times other than that the band-aid stays on. He has done surprisingly well, we've had one major breakdown on the way to church Sunday. He wanted to take the band-aid off for class. This was a big deal because the sweet teachers in his room will let him sit on their laps and suck his thumb while snuggling their hair. He knew with the band-aid on he wouldn't be able to snuggle their hair as he loves to do.

We've threatened him that if the band-aids don't work then we will move to Tabasco sauce like his cousin Gavin had to do. So, far that has worked to keep him from slipping the band-aid off.

I had to post some photos of Haven. She just woke up from nap and wanted her hair done, but wanted to do it herself. I remember when my sister, Mallory, was about Haven's age and a little older she was always doing her hair. She would come up with some of the craziest hair-dos and we would always tell her how pretty she was. The more accessories she could put in her hair the better.