Advice..

Julia sucks her two middle fingers all the time. It was cute when she was 1 and 2 and now she is 3 and pushing 4 and we leave for Africa in 98 days and I am a little nervous to have a daughter sucking her fingers with different germs and stuff there... So we are talking to her about it, trying to give her this deadline and we aren't getting a whole lot of enthusiasm. Tonight as we lay in bed snuggling, she mentioned to me that she will just use her tee-tee to rub against her nose so she can fall asleep without her tee-tee. Her good intention didn't last long as a few minutes later in went the fingers. Bradyn very much loved sucking her thumb even up to this last 5 months, and won in her battle with this temptation, much to our delight and relief. So tonight as we were all laying all laying in bed snuggling and talking, Bradyn starts to give Julia some advice. "Julia, do you want to know what I did. I rubbed my face with my blankie and then I would make up a story in my head and I would get distracted from wanting to suck my thumb. Sometimes I would talk to myself. Not, you know, outside, but inside my head." Not sure this advice will work, but I thought it was cute