What a kid will do....for a Dinosaur!

Boston has been a thumb sucker since birth.  And I have been agonizing over how to get him to stop.  Honestly I hadn't tried anything because i had heard horror stories form my MIL about getting Dean to stop. My sister Kristan was able to cut up her daughters binkies, and she was doing just fine without them. I joked that I would have to cut off my kids thumbs.   That night I told Dean that we needed to try to do something about it.  My genius husband told Boston he could have the Dinosaur Train toy he wanted so badly if he stopped sucking his thumb for 7 days.  Of course Boston eagerly agreed and I thought ya right this is never going to work.  Later that night we put him to bed and about 15 mins later he came in our room with his blankies and said he had to give them up in order to fulfill the deal.  Well it has been 8 days and he has done it!  No one is more shocked than me.  Gave up his blankie and his thumb in one week!!! And all we had to do was get him a toy!  Had I known this I would have done this months ago.  Now he is asking Avery when she is going to give up her blankie for a princess doll.......she will not be so easy!