Lydia is Growin Up

I just really want to document how this process is going so that I can remember just in case I have to deal with it in the future.

Lydia is doing amazing. It was pretty hard for that first few days, but really, I think she has finally made the decision, herself, that she will stop sucking her thumb! She is feeling so happy and proud of herself now and it is making me so happy. She recognizes that she is doing something important and significant.

It has been difficult for me to see a whole new maturity level reached by her as she has went through this. It really has made me realize that she is growing up so fast! Just this morning, I was leaving for school and she kept asking me not to go. That makes it so difficult for me to leave. Then she started being really ornery and mean because I couldn't warm up her chocolate milk (our microwave is broken). I finally had to leave and as I was walking out the door she came running up to me, "Momma. Mommy wait!" she came up to me and said, "I'm sorry Momma." and gave me a big hug! I was so impressed. She made that decision all on her own. Then she said, "You can go and come back. I can play games with my Daddy." It brought me to tears to hear her be so mature. I was so proud of her and happy that she realized that it was ok for me to go to school and that I will always come back, but it also broke my heart that it wasn't me that would be there to play games with her...I just love that little girl and I don't know what I'd do without her and her Daddy.


I love her to pieces and I am so honored to be her mom.