So, the good news is that we have been binky-free for 10 days now and all has been going really well. She rarely mentions it and doesn't ask for it at all. Amelia's new addiction when its time to sleep seems to be listening to her "Amelia" song, which she requests by name. The song is from a CD given to her by Grandma and Papa and has her name in nearly every song. Its a very cute CD that I think they picked up at Festival of the Little Hills, I think any kid would love hearing songs about themselves! There is definitely one song that is better than the rest and Amelia can not get enough of it. So much so, that during naptime I just press the repeat button so it keeps playing over and over again until the nap is over. She is back to 3-4 hour naps and normal nighttime sleeping hours. In addition, the tears have been kept to a minimum. Great news, right?
Well, this is all fine and dandy except that now she has been caught on a few occasions sucking her thumb! Yikes! It has only been twice total and both times were when she was winding down for naptime, but that is not at ALL what I was expecting to happen. I had to sneak in a few nights ago after Jason put Amelia to bed with a "forbidden" crib toy and I was relieved to see her thumb was no where near her face. But, then yesterday when I heard her wake up from her nap, I went in and her thumb was wet. When I said, "why is your thumb wet?" (I'm in denial, can you tell? Why else would it be wet??). She said, "in mouth" and I said, "show me" to which she very clearly stuck her thumb in her mouth and started to suck it! Aye, yi, yi!
A friend of mine mentioned that she heard it is very unlikely for a child to become a thumb sucker after 15 months, so I am hoping that is true. Amelia sees the dr. on Friday for her 2 year check up, so I'll get the low down then! I guess the next step will be this cactus binky I found on the internets, only $19.95, plus S&H. Do you think I can just attach a cactus somehow to her thumb? Might be worth a try!
She was very excited to go to Parker's house and immediately wanted to put the pacifiers directly into his mouth (which I quickly tried to nix). All was good and well until it was time to leave and I made the fatal mistake of saying, "Say good-bye to your binks". She decided at that point that she instead wanted to take them back home with her, saying something like, "no, bink, me, home". Hmmm....that wasn't exactly what I had in mind. Luckily, the crisis was narrowly diverted when I suggested that Amelia leave the binks in Parker's room in a special place. She chose to put them on his chair and we were out of there. All was well when we left and we made a big deal about her being such a big girl. We even called GG in Washington, DC to tell her where we were and what we just did. However, bedtime was pretty rough. She cried for 45 minutes before finally falling asleep. She also awoke at 6 AM sharp, about 2 hours earlier than usual.