No more thumb sucking!!!

I can't remember if I wrote in here before about Lincoln's thumb sucking or not. I bought this stuff like nail polish and put it on and it said generally after one application, the thumb sucking stops. Well, Lincoln seemed to not notice a bit, so I licked his thumbnail to see if it just really wasn't bad, but DEAR LORD! It was the most bitter, awful tasting stuff I have ever had! So, yes, it should have worked, but yet again, my son was tougher. lol.

One day a few weeks ago, Jon told Lincoln to show me his thumb and there was a HUGE blister on it. Jon said it looked like it was infected and I agree, it was extremely red around the edge of the blister. Jon said he was going to open it up and see what came out. Lincoln did just fine, and it was only water. However, Jon told him that his thumb would fall off if he kept sucking it. We told him that he needs 2 thumbs so he had to quit sucking it. We kept telling him how awful his thumb looked and that if he got another blister, then dad would have to open that one up, too. It was great because the skin from the blister was "flapping", but we didn't cut it off because that just added to the drama. lmao as I think about this.

No kidding after that, Lincoln hasn't sucked his thumb since. When we'd put him to bed, he would cry asking us if he could suck his thumb, but we kept reminding him about it falling off. We would check on him later and he'd be laying on his arm. Oooooh, he did that so the temptation would not be as bad. Ooooh, my little baby boy!

So, it's been a few weeks now and he's officially thumb-sucking free. Even in the car now, he doesn't suck his thumb, so I'm assuming he's not sucking it in the middle of the night either.

Last night we were tucking him in and he told us he was going to suck his thumb. Jon said, "What?!" Lincoln laughed and said, "No, me just pretend, Dad!!" I'm telling you, he's a little something. lol.

Peace.