The big news around our homestead this week is: no more bottles! I feel a little tug at my heart when I say that. The baby is now all about the sippy cup. All the time. Not just during the day, at lunch, and for snacks, but even first thing in the morning and as we rock her before bed at night. Milk in cups. Even cups without lids. Sometimes they spill. Occasionally they get stirred with a knife. But mostly, they get used for drinking -- just like a big girl. In seven weeks, she'll turn two. She still wears bibs to eat yogurt, needs cuddles after loud noises, sleeps with a binkie. But she drinks her milk from her cup. In the last ten days, we've had just a few heartfelt cries, "ba-da...milk...ba-da" -- but none of us caved, and the moment passed quickly. And she went on to the cup. I'm so proud.
Also? So delighted that I don't have to find stinky bottles under the couch, don't have to take up half the dishwasher's top rack with that basket that holds bottle parts, don't have to search for nipples bigger than a size 1 when Husband has forgotten to run the wash, don't have to buy more nipples to replace the ones she's bitten through in the process of teething.
As much as six months ago, I was eager to get her onto cups during the day. But this second child may be it for us. This week, we may just have passed a milestone. We may be a house that, after four continuous years of use, no longer needs a colander of bottle parts drying on the counter 24/7. It feels good, if unfamiliar. Although getting my colander back might revolutionize my cooking, I still feel sentimental about losing the name-brand silicone and plastics because that loss means my baby girl is growing up. And yet I have to toast her incredible progress (I get a martini, she gets milk.) Here's to the first of many milestones for you, Daughter. As Son would say, "Cheers, clink!"
Friday, February 29, 2008
Milestone Week
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I love, love, love the picture!! And kudos to you! Minnie 2 insisted on cups over bottles many, many months ago, but Minnie 1still wants bottles for milk. Everything else can be in a sippy, but milk has to be in a bottle. And I haven't pushed it, 'cause she also REQUIRES that her milk be warm, and I've learned thru experience that warm milk and sippy cup valves do not make happy partners. Plus, I'll be the first to tell you that with twins, there are many painful-to-acquire milestones that I just don't have the energy to enforce. :-) (Particularly not this week. That sinus infection? Yep, turns out I have that as well as pink eye. And I woke up this morning to laryngitis. Sucks to be me, eh?)
Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so proud of you and of daughter. I am thrilled.
love your giddy friend
Multiplesmommy-- sorry about your eye :-(
I forgot about bottles. Can you believe that?
I mean I forgot the struggle to get the last one off hers.
in the end, a friend's mom did it in one afternoon.
amazing stuff
hee hee hee, Dallas Meow, you forgot about bottles? Isn't it funny how easy it is to forget these things? When I was pregnant with Daughter, Son was just over 2, and I was unpacking the newborn jammies to load into the dresser and came across a package of diapers the size of my palm and nearly fainted. The baby would be able to wear these!? Thanks for coming over and for leaving a comment.
MM and Angie -- thanks for celebrating with me!! -clink- Ang, you know Husband is thrilled beyond belief. :)
MM, so sorry you are so sick. I send lots of love and sympathy.
The picture is adorable. I will be heartbroken I think when the baby is finally done with bottles. It is going at a wicked speed this growing up stuff they do..
Congrats to daughter! I didn't realize she was so close in age to my little girl (who turned 2 on January 30); when you write about her, she seems much more verbal than my little one. I don't know about getting her off bottles, though. I'm actually just weaning her off breastmilk now and it's too heartbreaking to deny her both! I think I've gone for 2 or 3 days without BFing now (amazing how I don't have a memory of the last feed...) so this may be it. But I think we'll wait on the bottles!
Hmm, my last comment makes my DD sound developmentally slow. I should really read things over before hitting buttons...!
SO JEALOUS. My kid would poke my eyeballs out if I took her bottle away.
Passing through theses stages with our second was bitter sweet too. We have been diaper free for a month now. It's had to believe, wonderful and a bit sad all at the same time. I get that.
that is such a sweet picture of my niece!
Kim and Amy, yes this whole growing up thing is completely bittersweet, isn't it?
Mr Lady, you are hilarious.
MIQ: (((hugs)))
Fawn: your daughter doesn't sound slow! One thing is for sure, my daughter is racing through things that her big brother took much more time on because she wants to try to catch up to him.
Also, the reason she's still on bottles is exactly what you're going through: I didn't want to try to wean her from bottle and breast at the same time. We weaned nursing at a year but kept the bottles, and then they just stuck around for a while. I think going at the pace she wants is the key here. You're doing exactly the right things for her, I'm sure.
PS Your new photo is gorgeous!
Getting my son on the bottle was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. Congratulations!!
Hoppin~
Anastasia Beaverhousin
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