Thumb Sucking Party

No, we did not have a thumb sucking party, but I wanted to combined 2 posts tonight and that was the best title I could come up with (it's been a long day). Today as I was running around doing errands, sweet Cannon fell asleep in his car seat. When we got home I noticed he had fell asleep with his thumb in his mouth. UH OH! I was really hoping neither of my kids would pick up that nasty habit, but knew since Curtis and I both struggled with it when we were younger, the odds were definitely against us. I tried very carefully to get him out of the car without waking him, so I could get a picture, but sure enough he woke up. Then he went right back on sucking his thumb, so I caught a little video instead. Hopefully it's just a phase he's going through and it won't be something we have to try to break when he's older. Although, you have to admit it's pretty dang cute.

Then later the kids and I went to a BBQ put on by my work. It was a lot of fun, although a little stressful as well. It was hard to take care of my 2 little ones all alone and do refill duty (making sure there were always salads and rolls, etc. out). Cannon of course wanted to be held and Kylee was super shy (poor thing, hopefully that also gets better as she gets older) and just stuck right by my side the whole time. They had a ton of blow up slides she wanted to ride, but I had a hard time pulling myself away and getting someone to hold Cannon to go with her and she wouldn't go with anyone but me. I should have got WAY more pictures than I did, but this was the best I could do.

This was the closest I got to Kylee playing with someone other than me. Any suggestions on how to help her overcome her shyness? In nursery she hardly plays at all. Most of the time she just watches other kids play. Although, she does stay by herself and lets me go to class, so at least that's a step in the right direction.