The Blackburns' Fall Visit and Finger Sucking

My parents came a couple weekends ago, and we had a great time with them! A couple highlights were the car they brought after rescuing it from a neighbor who was giving it away and an air show. Our kids can't get enough of time with their Grammy and Grandpa!


Unfortunately, the only speed avaiable is quite fast, so here's my mom running next to crazy driving Lydia.


Jenna preferred to stay out of the car and hold Grandpa's hand.


At the airshow, Drew was in heaven! Trucks, planes, firetrucks...his dream world!






In the last month, we've been working hard on helping the girls quit their finger sucking habits. We're seeing great success, and two pieces of advice were most helpful.
1. Sticker charts: we had to divide the day into several parts so that they could have some success, but this was the key in making them active participants in the effort to quit. They were quite motivated by a sucker or a trip to the dollar store with Daddy!

2. Band-aids: when it's time to sleep, we put a band-aid on their fingers to remind them not to suck. Someday we'll have to do it without band-aids, but both girls are working toward their final reward by going several days and nights in a row with no sucking! Yippee! Success...finally!