Fingers

One thing I knew before I met Eden was that she liked to suck her 3 middle fingers.

Here's her photo at referral:



In April:



And the first week I met her:



The week in Ethiopia, she'd look at me, put her fingers in her mouth, and go to sleep. I'd hear her in the middle of the night sicking those fingers. The same thing happened the first week home. She would put those fingers in her mouth to help her go to sleep and then again to put herself to sleep if she woke up in the night.

She went through a week of huge sleep issues, and I noticed during that time she REFUSED to put her fingers in her mouth! She didn't go to sleep, and wouldn't do anything that made her go to sleep. The past few weeks, she has been sleeping pretty much like a normal toddler. I rock her, she goes to sleep, wakes up once or twice and needs comforting, and goes back to sleep. She ends up sleeping 11 or so hours a night, and I get between 6 and 8 hours. Not bad at all. She still puts herself back to sleep, unless she decides she's all done sleeping! But I have noticed she doesn't suck her fingers anymore. Not at all.
Which I thought was strange, but I realized I'm her comfort now. She knows I'm here. She knows I come when she cries. She knows I feed her. She has stopped panicking for her bottle, she is VERY possessive of me, but she knows I'm hers. And she makes sure everyone else knows that, too!

I'm concerned about when she starts daycare, how she will be affected by that at first. I'm very curious to see if those fingers go back into her mouth for a while until she knows I always come back for her.

Oh, how I love this girl!!!