Hooray!

For a blog about being a SAHM, I realized that I haven't specifically talked about my son much. Since today was a particularly red letter day (and I have no one else to tell), I wanted to give you a run down of what we did today... or at least the highlight?

Today, (drum roll, please) my son drank from a straw for the very first time and took to it like a pro! He even held his new spill-proof thermos all by himself and finished ALL of his drink... WHEW-HEW!

We've been giving him sippy cups since he was five months old and he never liked to drink from them. Play with them, yes. Drinking, noooooo!

Knowing that his doctor, like every other pediatrician I know, recommends kicking the bottle habit by baby's first birthday, I've agonized about this for months. I've asked every mom I know for advice on the sippy. I've even tried different brands, shapes, styles. Ones with pictures. Ones without. Nothing has worked.

We've also tried just teaching him how to use a cup. We bought him his own baby-sized cup to help him learn. Let's just say there is a very good reason sippy cups were created... He's got the drinking part down. It was trying to convince him that it's not a good idea to turn a half-full (half-empty?) cup upside down that was the challenge.

You have NO idea how freaking HAPPY I am to have bypassed the sippy cup stage completely. Sippy cups are retarded... especially since you have to break them of that habit too and at an age when they tend to be a lot more willful. In "grown-up world" that would be like replacing cigarettes with cocaine.

So, what do you think I should do with the hoard of sippy cups I've bought?

Oh wait! Here's a brilliant suggestion by Laura Jones