Florida Vacation!

We took a beach vacation to Florida! We stayed in the Seagrove Beach area, which is between Destin and Panama City, off of the 30A Highway. It was a great time! The drive overall is about 12-13 hours and we broke it up into two days driving down, but drove home in one day coming home. The first night we stayed near Birmingham, Alabama, and as always, the girls loved staying in a hotel! 

We stayed at a condo that had private access to the beach and all we had to do was walk out our door and there was the beach! It was a nice place and the girls loved the bunk beds it had! They also enjoyed sleeping in the pull-out couch a couple of nights and sitting at the bar to eat meals! We had perfect weather all week with only a few pop-up storms during times we hadn't even planned to be at the beach. The surf and waves were a little rough towards the end of the week, but we had a great time playing in the sand and water! 

4th of July Playing

I put out my July 4th decorations last week and just as soon as I got them out, they were taken down to be played with. Molly asked if she could have them to play with so I said sure. I'm not quite sure what exactly she was doing, but she had a great time! :) 

Thumbsucking

Molly had been a thumb sucker ever since she was about 3 1/2 months old! We were so thankful that she found her thumb when she did because it totally soothed and calmed her and we loved it! I remember taking her to the doctor for a checkup shortly after she found her thumb and when I told the doctor about it, she was less than thrilled! Her thoughts were that it will be hard to break later on. That kind of annoyed me because at the time when she was just 3 1/2 months old I did not care at all about years later! All I cared about is that she found something to soothe her when she was upset! 

Molly has sucked her thumb ever since and each time we go to the dentist we've been asked about this. The dentist didn't seem too concerned and even told us not to really worry about it, that she would probably just stop sucking it on her own. 

This past year for school she had to wear a mask all day long and I thought that might help her to stop sucking her thumb, but that backfired! Instead, I feel like she sucked it more when she got home from school to make up for lost time! 

Well, we went to the dentist earlier this month and the dentist asked about it again. I told her we hadn't really done much to try to get her to stop, so the dentist gave us a little help. She painted some polish on Molly's thumb that tasted really bad (like ear wax) and would last for a couple of days. When we left Molly tried sucking her thumb and did not like it at all! And guess what?! It worked! Molly has stopped sucking her thumb! The yucky polish has more than worn off and we didn't even have to buy more to put on. She just decided to stop sucking it and we are so proud of her! I'm kind of sad for her because it was such a comfort to her and she said it felt so good on her tongue, but I guess all good things must come to an end! 

More Memories!

 This came up on my memories the other day and I think it's so funny! I remember this picture so well! Lucy was a little over a year old and we had gone down to Joplin for the day to see my sister and nephews. We went to the mall to walk around and took some pictures in a photo booth. I think this picture is so funny! I still have the photo strip hanging on my refridgerator and love seeing it every day! 

Memories

 This came up on my memories app the other day. It's such a sweet, cute, funny picture!