Don't Suck Your thumb or It will Ruin Your Teeth!

Anyone who has a thumb sucker knows that they can't just quit when they want to.

 After trying the gloves, popsicle stick taped to your thumb, the hot fingernail polish, socks on hands at night, etc.  She would cry because she wanted to quit so bad, but it was so hard. We were blessed with an accident that didn't seem like a blessing at the time.

Anna was about 5, right around kindergarten.  She was playing downstairs by the couch and slipped near the big, wood desk.  Her chin hit the desk so hard that she knocked her teeth loose.  She took a chunk out of the inside of her lip and her teeth had cut through under the bottom lip.  It was so sore that she quit sucking her thumb.  I really think we would have struggled with that one for a long time.  The picture with the dandelions  shows her teeth that reattached crooked.

 This is a good picture of her crazy teeth.  She was still adorable.

 So after years of braces...
Here she is with the braces gone, hopefully forever.

Let me tell you a little story about a girl who sucked her thumb since the day she was born.  I suspect it probably started way before that.