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Another quick post...  Maybe I'll eventually get caught up on what I want to write!

Levi quit sucking his thumb a week ago!!!  There's been just a couple slip ups, but overall he's doing SO good.  It started with the boys running around last Tuesday wearing those stretchy gloves.  The next day Levi made some comment to me about not being able to suck his thumb with the gloves on.  Later we were running some errands and I went to Gemmen's for a couple things.  Levi wanted to look at the toys and said maybe he could pick something out to get for not sucking his thumb (we've been talking about that for months).  I figured now might be the time, so he picked out a new combine and I told him he had to go for 7 days to earn it.  A few times he held up his fingers and said, "That's a long time..."  :)

The first couple days I noticed there were a few times that it was especially hard for him.  I would be snuggling on the couch with him, and that would normally be prime thumb sucking time, but he was just real fidgety with his hands and not sure what to do with them.  Today in the car on the way to the grocery store he was real quiet listening to the music, and normally he'd be sucking his thumb, but I looked back and he was just sitting there no thumb in the mouth!  He must have sucked it during his nap today, so he's got a little time added before he gets his new toy, but we're not terribly concerned about since he clearly has it under control most of the time.