We packed up all of Aedan's sippy cups this weekend, and he is now drinking out of a "big boy" cup. I did a little happy dance as he proudly threw them in the garbage, because I despise sippy cups for the following reasons:
1) They don't always work! They give you a false sense of security that the liquid you place in the cup is actually going to stay there, but it doesn't! In a sleep fog at 6am it is easy to put the top on wrong, or not secure the white "stopper" so it falls out allowing your toddler to spill juice all over the house!
2) They are easy to lose. Because you are letting your toddler roam the house with the cup it is easy for them to end up odd places, only to be found at a later date and time. No matter how hard I tried to keep track of all of the cups, we constantly had a "rogue" sippy lost somewhere in this house, and it is never fun when you actually locate it!
3) They are impossible to clean. Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of cleaning them will surely agree with me. Could they come with anymore small hard to clean parts?
4) My son used it JUST like a bottle! Nothing like watching an almost three year old suck back a bottle in two seconds. He was using them for comfort, and at three, he should be able to comfort himself by other means.
Ok, rant on sippies is over, I am just so happy they are gone, although we have a new problem. I am sure you can guess by the title of this post what our new problem is!! It isn't that he can't physically drink out of a normal cup, he actually does a great job with that, our problem is that he can't remember not to knock it over. When he sits down we remind him that he has a big boy cup, and to be careful. As he is eating both Chris and I move the cup out of harms way at least twice. Then at some point during the meal, while the two adults are not paying attention, he activates his go go gadget arms and manages to knock the cup over. Every meal. After the first couple of meals we started filling the cup only half way, and now he gets about three sips in his cup at a time. The kicker is that our dining room is carpeted (yeah who thought that was a good idea?), so it isn't an easy clean as you can imagine! I am hoping his gets used to this new cup thing soon so I can clean the carpets. Until then, my house will smell like sour milk. Sigh...
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2 comments:
Yay Aedan! We're slowly doing that with J! We found these great juice box things (they're really a like sport bottle though) and he LOVES them! But he's working on the big boy cup. NOW I just have to get Gabriel to drink from a sippy!
Ew, one time I gave Cooper a sippy and I hadn't cleaned out the valve thingy and he handed it back to me. It literally smelled like rancid yuck. Hate those cups! But I haven't had the guts to get rid of them yet.
By the way, I love your writing! Keep it up.
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