What a good boy am I!

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner, eating his Christmas pie,
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said "What a good boy am I!"

Finn has found his hands...as well as his thumb (he didn't pull out a plum, though!). Developmentally, this is a good step. He has sucked on his hands/fingers/thumb before, but it was more of an accident that they found his way to his face and into his mouth. Now he is actively seeking them out and bringing them to his mouth. In the last day or so, he has had his hands in his mouth many, many times, but more importantly, his thumb has been in there and he has been actively sucking on it three or four times. Boo. I really don't want him to be a thumb sucker (thumb sucking scarred me for life, okay not really, but I hated that I sucked my thumb until I was FIVE!), but there really isn't much I can do about it. I'm not going to pull it out of his mouth or keep giving him his pacifier if he doesn't want it. So, I'll just deal. Too bad it is so cute.

So far, so good regarding his cold. He is congested and I have to use the sucker to get stuff out of his nose, which he HATES, but I am able to get a little bit out. Up until now, I haven't been able to so that is good. He isn't congested all the time, so I think if he does have a cold, it is very mild at this point. I'm hoping since I am under the weather, too, that he is getting antibodies from me and that it will stay mild. We'll see over the next day or so. So far it hasn't moved into his lungs, so my fingers (and anything else that will) are crossed that it will stay that way.