what in the world am i doing? i will sit at my computer sometimes for 20 minutes trying to think of my status for facebook. why in the world am i starting a blog? well, because so many of my friends have one and i love reading about their families. i'm hoping that i will continue to update this blog to keep my family and close friends in the know of franco family happenings.

what's the current topic? brianna's thumb sucking. she has sucked her thumb pretty much coming out of the womb. she was convinced that she would stop when when she turned 5. i guess she thought that it would magically happen but it didn't. danny and i decided now is the time to help her. for the last week we asked her to not suck her thumb during the day and she did great. tonight is the first night of no thumb sucking at night (the hardest time to not to). she is such a trooper! we got a small notebook and some pretty stickers. in the morning she gets to put a sticker in her notebook and when she has 14 stickers she gets to go to pump it up. when i told her tonight that we were going to start i expected some tears and her to say it was going to be too hard but she said, "i think that sounds good."

i am so proud of her. i stayed with her and rubbed her back till she went to sleep, to help her on her first night away from her thumb. she is so adorable. she kept her arm under the covers at her side to help her with the temptation. she did wake up once and creeped out of her bed to tell me she couldn't sleep without me. i rubbed her back some more and and gave her a stuffed animal to cuddle with.

i am so proud of her for taking on this challenge with such a good attitude. so night number 1 is under our belt. only 13 more to go. hopefully by then the habit will be kicked!