Jakob no longer sucks!
Big news everyone! We are so very proud of Jakob. Today we held a ceremony graduating Jakob from sucking… his fingers - of course!! After trying EVERYTHING (tape, band-aids and even hot sauce on the fingers, pleading, begging and threatening, putting a sock on his hand…), one day Jakob just made up his mind to stop.
Understandably, Heidi and I were a bit skeptical, so Heidi gave him a challenge: Can he go 30 days without sucking. Well, seemingly without effort… he did it. I guess he just had to make up his mind.
Today, the 17 of May, 2009 marks the 30th day suck-free!!!
Here is the certificate he got: Click on it to see it bigger and to be able to read it:
May 18th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Yay Jakob! Congratulations! Now…we are wondering when/how to stop Titus’ thumb sucking. Maybe Jakob can coach him?
May 18th, 2009 at 2:51 am
Woo hoo! Does Silas suck? I bet he does. Maybe Jakob can teach him how not to suck!
May 18th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Grandma and I are really proud of Jakob. We send our congratulations and will have to think of some special way to let him know how we feel. Would a present of some kind be in order, do you think? Jakob, let us know of something that you would really like to have. Great job, kiddo!
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Hey Kenny,
We actually took Silas’ binky (pacifier) away at the same time. It took Silas’ maybe 1 or 2 days of wanting the binky back to fall asleep, but he pretty much forgot about it after that. That’s the cool thing about pacifiers; you can take them away! Wish we could’ve done that with Jakob’s fingers! -Heidi