Sweet Success

I can't believe I am about to write this, but I think it's official. Brooklyn has kicked her thumb sucking to the curb. In just three weeks she has gone from sucking all night and part of the day to not sucking at all. Today was the big test. While playing a game of slide around the kitchen with your socks on, she fell and hit her cheek on the cabinet. Her first response is always to grab her blanket and suck her thumb while she nurses the pain. Today she cried- just cried. No blanket and no thumb.

Brooklyn gave up her thumb for Lent, but that is not all. We have been bribing her. My friend, Paula, likes to use the word reinforcement. I think it's a bribe. My parents bribed me. First with a bubblegum machine and then with money. I received one dollar a day until I had enough to buy a new baby doll. Rose was her name, and she was perfect. So perfect that I stopped sucking my thumb for her (although I was in Second grade at this point). Brooklyn is following in my footsteps. She wants a doll too; an American Girl doll. So, here is what I am thinking. Since Grandma didn't have a girl, and I know Mike wasn't bribed with doll, maybe she will want to do the honor. Brooklyn has it all worked into her head...it was whispered by her sister I believe. She would like to go shopping at the American Girl shop followed by lunch. Bailey claims that your doll gets her own seat at the table; Brooklyn can't hardly stand it. A store just for doll!!! So, Grandma, what do you think???

And just so Grandma can be let off the hook so to speak. She sent Brooklyn money last week to treat everyone to ice cream. Brooklyn immediately asked if we could take Miller too. She thought he might like a lick, and then she decided a bottle might be better for him. Always thinking about the babies- that's my girl!