Thumbs Up

In the last week, Megan has become quite adept at thumbsucking. To be sure, there are still plenty of times when she sticks half her fist in her mouth, and she is still quite fond of those first two fingers, but Megan can now routinely get that opposable digit alone into her mouth. Megan has never really liked the pacifier (and I never encouraged it), but her thumb seems to be quite soothing for her. In fact, last Friday she put herself to sleep just by popping her thumb in her mouth - DURING THE DAY!!

So far the hitch-hiker thumb hand position hasn't been for Megan. She instead prefers the lobster-claw-around-the-nose technique (with or without the forefinger mustache, as seen here).

Neither Mac nor I were thumb suckers. My sister, however, practically had to have her hand tied down to get her to stop. Ironically, I ended up with the horrendous over-bite; my sister's teeth were fine.

PS - please ignore the dirty shirt. We really do put clean clothes on her everyday (usually multiple times!) - honest, we do!