Bye-bye fingers!

For the last couple of weeks, the boys fixation on their thumbsucking and finger-sucking has been driving us batty. So, we bit the bullet and bought thumb and finger-sucking guards. We started with them on Friday night and so far it's going surprisingly well.

Quinn has been a superstar and wears it almost 24/7, and he hasn't sucked his fingers since we started. Last night he slept through the night (he had been getting up in the middle of the night because he couldn't suck his fingers to go back to sleep), and he woke up with a SMILE! What a trooper.

Aidan is doing pretty well with it also, but he's having a bit of a harder time mostly because he is just so darned attached to his thumb, and he's worried about what his friends will think if they see him with the guard on. That being said, he did wear it to school on Monday and again today.

Fingers crossed that these drastic measures work because I just can't deal with the oral fixation any more!!

On a totally different note, my parents were in town yesterday so we took the kids and went to Greenview Aviaries. It was such a fantastic day. It was a bit windy, but the kids absolutely loved playing on the playground before we went into the zoo, and then they loved being able to see the animals up close. The wolf, baby chicks, and lemurs were a definite hit with them.

They also loved spending time with my parents, because this was the first time they really got to spend a fair bit of time with them. Now that my dad is retired, hopefully they'll be able to do things like this more often.

Here are some pictures from our day yesterday: