It’s Too Early For Me To Lose The Battles July 23, 2008

Since Squeaks was cut out of my womb, she has been a thumb sucker.  There were 2 weeks when she was about a month old that she used a pacifier, but she reverted right back to the thumb.  It hasn’t been much of a problem for us, as she only sucks her thumb when she’s tired or in an uncomfortable situation.  She does it a little bit at bedtime, but doesn’t sleep with her thumb in her mouth.  For this reason, we’ve let her continue to do it to this point, but we’ve set her 3rd birthday as the cutoff point for thumb sucking.  We remind her often that when she’s three, she can’t suck her thumb anymore.  At first she seemed horrified at the thought, but now she’s more accepting.  We’ll see when the time actually comes (in November).

Today we were at the post office (where she announced to the whole crowded, silent room that “It’s spooooky in here” — a word she learned from the damn Backyardigans).  As we were waiting for our turn at the counter, I noticed that she had popped her thumb in her mouth.  It was very close to naptime so I wasn’t surprised to see the action, but I thought I would talk to her about it.  When I asked her why she was sucking her thumb, she popped it out of her mouth, looked at me with disgust and said “I’m NOT three”.  She promptly returned her thumb to her mouth and I was forced to admit that the girl had a point.

I hate when she’s right.