Thumb Gloves / Crib

We have two thumbsuckers in the family - L'il Girl and Baby Girl.  We haven't tried anything with L'il Girl to get her to stop except to talk to her and show her pictures of people with extreme buck teeth so she understands what she's doing to her teeth by sucking her thumb.  She says she wants to stop, but she is having a really hard time.  So I found some thumb gloves online and decided to give them a try.  They definitely work when she's wearing them.  The past two nights she has slept with them on and has not fallen asleep with her thumb in her mouth.  So we are making progress.  As soon as I see her sucking her thumb, I tell her to put her gloves on.  We'll see how it goes.  I'm hoping it will do the trick in time.  Then we can move on to Baby Girl. :-)

L'il Girl loves her little brother so much.  She is where they got the phrase "love him to death" from.  She always wants to hug him or make him stand and walk holding his hands.  She just can't leave him alone.  Poor little guy!  He does ok for the first hug, but then starts to get annoyed, and understandably so.  So we need to work with her on finding the right balance of showing her love, which is tough for a 4 year old.

In other news, we moved Baby Boy out of our room a couple weeks ago.  It was rough for about a week.  He would wake up a couple of times through the night and cry for 45 minutes to an hour.  I'm happy to report that for the last 4 or 5 days, he has slept through the night, with only some minor noises coming from his crib.  I sure hope he keeps this up!  Prior to this he had only slept through the night 2 or 3 times in his 11, almost 12 months of life.  I am well overdue for some good nights of sleep!

Can you just see it in his face? -"Mommy, help!"