Uh oh...thumbs up!

Well I knew the day would come, and he certainly hasn't begun  making a habit of it or anything but Chester has begun sucking on his thumb!

Nothing fancy just plain ole fingers up til this point...

You'd think after greedily gumming his fingers for all these months that perhaps he'd get a clue a little quicker.  Nope.  It happened yesterday afternoon when I was breastfeeding him.  Being the martyr that he is, I took him off my first boob after a measly thirty minutes and was in the middle of switching him over for his next half hour  marathon, only to have him immediately suck on his fingers as if to say, "Ohmigod I'm so hungry why don't you ever FEED me dammit!"  But this time he stuck his thumb in his mouth!  This was followed quickly by the addition of an index finger, so he still hasn't QUITE gotten it yet but he's close.  He really hasn't enjoyed pacifiers since he's found his fingers.  In fact, give him a pacifier and he'll spit it out like a watermelon seed.  P-TOOIEE!  See for yourself...