Bunny and Sucking Dirt Thumb
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:38 pm
Chloe was nearing two when I was expecting Anna. She was still nursing and I needed to find a way to wean her, as she didn't seem inclined to give up the breast on her own. I got the brilliant idea of putting a little Nestles Quick in a sippy cup of milk and giving it to her when she was clamoring to nurse. It worked brilliantly and soon Chloe had transferred her addiction to breast milk to what she called "Bunny." All she knew was the Goods came from a yellow container with a rabbit on the label.
It wasn't long until I decided Chloe needed to be weaned from "Bunny" to straight milk, so each day I put a little less bunny in the sippy. It got to the point where Chloe began inspecting her sippy cup before she'd take a drink to see if the milk inside looked brown enough. If it didn't, she'd screech and fling her cup across the room. Eventually, she got used to drinking plain white milk. She still loves bunny, though, and we can never run low or she starts freaking out just like my cats do when the Meow Mix is nearly gone from their bowl.
Chloe also sucked her thumb until she was six years old. She only ever sucked her left thumb while pulling her right ear with her right hand. One night, while cuddling in bed with her, I said, "You sure do like your left thumb, Chloe. It must taste good. What does it taste like?"
She pulled her left thumb out of her mouth long enough to say, "Bunny."
I asked her what her right thumb tasted like.
She stuck it in her mouth only briefly, made a face, and replied, "Dirt."
Left thumb=delicious bunny. Right thumb=dirt.
To this day, at my house, "You suck Dirt Thumb!" is a terrible insult. I made it up myself.
There are couple of posters here who suck Dirt Thumb. Hard. But I don't say it to them; it's far to mean. I just think it. ;)
KA
It wasn't long until I decided Chloe needed to be weaned from "Bunny" to straight milk, so each day I put a little less bunny in the sippy. It got to the point where Chloe began inspecting her sippy cup before she'd take a drink to see if the milk inside looked brown enough. If it didn't, she'd screech and fling her cup across the room. Eventually, she got used to drinking plain white milk. She still loves bunny, though, and we can never run low or she starts freaking out just like my cats do when the Meow Mix is nearly gone from their bowl.
Chloe also sucked her thumb until she was six years old. She only ever sucked her left thumb while pulling her right ear with her right hand. One night, while cuddling in bed with her, I said, "You sure do like your left thumb, Chloe. It must taste good. What does it taste like?"
She pulled her left thumb out of her mouth long enough to say, "Bunny."
I asked her what her right thumb tasted like.
She stuck it in her mouth only briefly, made a face, and replied, "Dirt."
Left thumb=delicious bunny. Right thumb=dirt.
To this day, at my house, "You suck Dirt Thumb!" is a terrible insult. I made it up myself.
There are couple of posters here who suck Dirt Thumb. Hard. But I don't say it to them; it's far to mean. I just think it. ;)
KA
