Where is thumbkin?

See how precious this little guy is with his thumb! I mean how much cuter can a little boy get? I have not had the fortune of having a baby become attached in any way to a pacifier but have seen the purpose in them. I wanted Gracelyn to like them so bad but nope. So when Cannon didn't care for them either I was bummed but around 4 months he quickly found a pacifier attached to him. YEAH!! Problem solved. I encouraged it. Helped him out if he got frustrated finding his little treasure. Cameron fussed at me the entire time begging me to not encourage his thumb sucking habit. Well 3 1/2 years later where did we find ourselves? With a child who had his thumb in his mouth 24/7!!! I mean all the time especially at nap time or bedtime. It was something that we saw was affecting his teeth and I was wondering how in the world were we going to get rid of this "treasure."

So I had given up trying to come up with a plan but Mason stepped up to the plate. 2 or so weeks ago he threw a toy at Cannon and he tried to catch it but instead it cut his thumb. Cannon was devastated. I mean he was sooo upset that Mason had hurt his thumb. He tried very hard for the entire day to suck his thumb and had no luck. It hurt and was sore. So nap time was short because he couldn't fall to sleep. Bedtime was excruciating because he didn't have anything to keep him occupied so he kept getting up but oh well we pushed through. I thought surely in a few days he would be fine. Well 2 days turned into 5 and then before we knew it a week went by. THERE WERE MANY FITS IN THIS TIME. Remember the Easter Egg Hunt?? I think he could have calmed down if his thumb were available.

So here we are 2 1/2 weeks later and NO THUMB! I can't believe all it took was a boo boo to his thumb and viola it would be over. I mean seriously how blessed can one girl be? So we are thumb free and we didn't even try. I will say that I never doctored that thumb because after I saw that it was keeping him from sucking it I decided that although I didn't want it to get infected I didn't want it to heal super quick either. I did have thoughts of rubbing dirt in it a time or two when it looked a little too good but nah I would never do that.

He is healed nicely now and we don't have a child sucking his thumb. I miss it kinda. It was just a neat characteristic of Cannon. The blanket holding thumb-sucker. But now we get the really fun stuff of him talking more and more. He is doing FANTASTIC in his speech. If you are sure of the context of his conversation you can understand almost anything he says. He is typical in that he switches or makes up words but Gracelyn was the queen of that and we fed into it a little too much at times and called ordinary objects her quirky nicknames for YEARS. But for the most part he is right on track for his progress. YEAH CANNON!

But I am hoping that baby #4 takes to the paci and puts the others to shame. Boy that would be nice.

Side note~Lots of prayers need to go out to my friends and family who have hurts. Emotional and physical-so just sit at your screen and repeat after me:

Lord, Please hold in your hand all of Keri's peeps who are hurting. You know their hurts better than anyone and please provide peace, comfort, and healing for them all. Amen

Be Blessed!!!