No More Thumbs....Take 2

I think it was about a year ago that we tried to get Emily to quit sucking her thumb. It went so well and I really thought she was done with her thumb....but some how over time, her thumb ended-up back in her mouth. At first it was just at nap time, but the last couple of months she was asking to suck her thumb all of the time. We have been talking about "no more thumbs" for a while, but on December 31st Emily decided she wanted to quit. We bought some new medicine to paint on her thumbs.....and so far so good. It has been a little over 2 weeks and she has not sucked her thumb one single time!! We are so proud of her!! For the longest time she had been saying that when she is a big girl and quits sucking her thumb that she wanted to go to Build-A-Bear. Last Friday was the big day.



Emily was SO excited. After changing her mind several times, she finally decided to go with a very colorful teddy bear.


Right after this last picture was taken, it was time to fill her bear with stuffing. I'm not sure what happened, but the bear went flying through the air and there was stuffing EVERYWHERE. For some reason it scared Emily really badly and she was crying VERY hard. (this was not how I had pictured our wonderful day at Build-A-Bear) We finally got her calmed down. If you look at her face in the mirror, you can tell that she was still a little upset.



Here she is with her final product. She still was not in the best mood. (we had also stopped by the make-up store before Build-A-Bear and she has on blue eye shadow--her eyes look kind of funny)


After a yummy meal at Chick Fil A, Emily decided that she wanted to go back and play a little more at Build-A-Bear. I was so glad to see her having fun and happy about her new bear.




Thankfully she ended-up having a great time. I am praying that she is finally done sucking her thumb and that I will not have to have a blog post titled "No more thumbs.....take 3" : )