It appears that we have a thumb sucker! The boys both had pacifiers (or "yaya's" as they decided to call them), Ivey never wanted a paci or a thumb, just Mama, and it appears that Olive has gravitated towards her thumb. She started by sucking on her hands, but in the last week she's found it. She will take a pacifier if I give it to her, but it doesn't stay in for as long as the thumb.
I know that some people have had a hard time breaking their thumb-suckers from the habit, but I am actually pretty pleased with this arrangement. Olive is such an intense little girl, she needs to be able to self sooth. I think her new comfort has helped her start to go for more than 10 minutes in the car without screaming... not much longer than 10 minutes, but I'll take what I can get! Yes, I may curse it later, but for now I will just enjoy the happiness and the fact that she can't drop her thumb in the car!
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