Thumb Sucking

As everyone knows Emma has been sucking her thumb since she discovered that it existed. We have tired to get her to stop sucking on it and there for awhile she was doing pretty good but the last several months she had been getting really bad. She was even to the point that she would not take her thumb out even to talk. I found some Stop Nail Biting stuff at the store awhile back and had been threatening to use it on her thumb if she did not keep it out of her mouth.

Last Tuesday I decided to stop threatening to do it and actually put some of it on her thumb. Knowing that it was on there she kept her thumb out of her mouth but made it clear that she was not happy about it. That night at supper she put some food in her mouth using her fingers and got a good taste of the stuff. Needless to say after that she did not want to eat anymore food and the night just went downhill from there. On the up side we have yet to see her put her thumb in her mouth since then.

Hopefully that one time broke her from sucking on her thumb. The downside is that without the thumb sucking it has been a real bear trying to get her to go to sleep. Take the good with the bad I guess.

Emma wanted to play in the snow that we got last week so while Drew and I worked on Supper we let her go play in the snow on the deck. That is where it was deepest anyway. Here are a few pictures of her shoveling the snow off our deck.

Fun with Daddy

One thing that we did get to do over the New Year's Holiday was make a trip to the Children's Museum. I'm not really sure who have more fun Drew or Emma. It was probably Emma since I know that Drew was tired but he has not gotten to go with us for awhile so it was nice to have him along.

Going down the Yule Slide. If you look close you can see that Emma's hair was flying out behind her.

Construction Time




Make sure to check out the other two posts from today.

Redecorating/ Reorganizing

One of the things that I did with the extra time off over the Holidays was some redecorating/ reorganizing around our house. Mom had gotten each of the kids some wall decals for their rooms. Along with this Drew and I decided to make the third bedroom into a playroom for Emma. There just was not enough room in the living room for all of her toys anymore.

Emma's Bedroom. I took the Noah's arch pictures and lamp out of the room and in there place put the wall decals up and she got a new fairy nightlight.



Playroom. We purchased an additional bookcase for more storage and I also labeled the bins using pictures so that Emma would be able to tell what toys were where. The circles were decals that we had left over from redecorating her bathroom last year.

Happy Holidays

Here's hoping that everybody had an enjoyable holiday season.

Drew had off over Christmas so that Friday once I got of work we headed to Jasper. Friday night we opened a few presents at Vince and Linda's and then Emma had enough so we waited to open the rest until Saturday. Saturday we opened the rest of the presents and them Mom and Dad came over and we played cards for awhile and enjoyed each others company.



Sunday we went over to Mom and Dad's house to spend some time with them. When Barbara, Wes and the Kids got their we ate lunch and then opened up presents. The girls both received a lot of Barbie stuff and Emma was in 7th Heaven. After Emma took her nap we headed by home to do Christmas at our house as well. I was off work on Monday which gave me time to get everything put away and do some much needed house cleaning.



We really did have a fantastic Christmas. Drew had to work over New Year's Weekend so for us it was really just another weekend but it was nice to have an extra day off to spend with Emma.