Ok, so yesterday we were at the post office and on the way home, Mackenzie seemed to have discovered that the wiggly thing on the end of her arm was what pulled the pacifier out of her mouth. We were stopped at a red light and I looked back into the little mirror I put back there and she seemed to really be thinking hard about that thing and how to get the pacifier string out of her clenched fist.
Well, the next time I looked back there, the fist was being jammed into her mouth without the string, so she must have figured something out! She's been jamming her fist into her mouth for the past couple of days, and I made the comment to Phil (in an email) that once she figured out how to get her thumb to stick out so she could suck on it, I thought that old pacifier might be history.
I tried giving the binkie to her last night before she went to sleep, and she took it reluctantly. In the middle of the night, I heard her smacking and rooting around with her fist by her mouth. I tried to give her the pacifier and she wanted nothing to do with it.
This morning, she was in her swing, watching Daddy on t.v. when she got really quiet, so I went to check and she found that thumb! I know she's wanted it since we were in the hospital! (there's one picture of her thumb in her mouth from the hospital). I am trying to capture a good photo, but whenever I get close, she moves it away.....
It is adorable for now, until she needs braces. And you can't really cut off the end of her thumb to make her stop sucking on it, like you would a pacifier...... Hopefully it's temporary!
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