Habit Broken, Reward Awarded

Anyone with an addiction or solidified habit can sympathize. At 6 weeks old, Liberty found her thumb. It's been a permanent fixture in her mouth ever since--- 9 1/2 years!!! We had exhausted our resources for a permanent solution. Thumb, fingernail polish, rings, icky stuff, bandaides, gloves, charts, reminding, begging, threatening, even asked the doctor to cast it (she said no! ;)-- nothing helped for more than a half an hour. Well, at least until 30 days ago....
Liberty has been begging to get her ears pierced FOREVER! After a long, frustrating day of reminding her to keep her thumb away from her face, I finally blurted out- "Keep your thumb out of your mouth for 30 days and we'll get your ears pierced." .....That was it! The magic! ;)
She got a star on the calender for every day she didn't suck her thumb. After 10 days, she stopped wearing a bandaide during the day (her mental reminder to keep it out). Then at day 14, she was done completely even the nights! She still had to wait the whole 30 days but she hasn't given in once. We are SOOO PROUD of her! Habit's are hard things to break. She's amazing!!!
Here's her reward for a job well done!

We just went to Walmart. It only cost us $12.70 and that was with extra large bottle of solution. She was so excited. I think the lady was even more nervous than Liberty- if that was possible. But they both did a great job. Liberty said it stung a little but wasn't what she expected. She did a great job and was very brave. They look awesome!

Way to go, Girlie!

Luv ya!