No longer a thumb sucker!!!

On Monday, Barrett informed me that he wasn't going to suck his thumb any more.  Well....we've heard that one before (many times in fact), so I said, "Ok.  That'd be cool!" and then thought "whatever....don't believe it."  We may have mentioned a few times to him that he's too old to be sucking his thumb, but we figured he'd eventually stop on his own...that we couldn't make him stop unless he wanted to.

On Monday night he said, "Daddy?  Will you put jalapenos on my thumb so I won't suck it?"  lol!  We decided that might burn his eyes if he rubbed his eyes, so Mike came up with the idea of using ginger.  We got Barrett's thumb wet and then sprinkled powdered ginger on his thumb.  He went to sleep holding his thumb upright on top of his belly....looking at it with a pout on his face.  He woke up the next morning and was soooooo excited to show us that he hadn't sucked his thumb all night!!  We were so proud...and VERY surprised!

As an extra incentive to keep it up, we told him that if he made it to Saturday without sucking his thumb at all (naps or bedtime) then we'd get donuts for breakfast.  Well.......

 

The next goal is a month.  We told him that if he makes it 4 weeks without sucking his thumb that we'll take him and Brody to Legoland!

Brody (seeing that the reward is bigger at the month milestone) asked, "If he goes a year without sucking it what will happen?  Will we get to go to Disney World?!?!?"  lol.  Not sure what we'll do...but Disney World sounds like fun to me too ;)