Right now I really have nothing new to share or post about. Since I can't seem to think of anything new and exciting I will share some good news that happened last month but I never found the time to post about it.
As you all remember my husband and I took our weekend trip to Nashville, TN.
(Side note: I still owe you all pictures for that but can't find my adapter to get the pictures out of my old camera. This is why I don't like to use that camera but we did so until I find the adapter they are stuck inside my camera.)
Anyway we took our trip and my parents watched my boys. My wonderful mother decided she was going to try and break my son of his bottle habit. This was one of those things that I needed to do but I was so afraid to do. His habit was strong and I wasn' t up for that all night fight, the crying and the saying no.
Well my mom took a bottle to her house but hid it and anytime Thomas asked she said it had gone bye-bye. He went for three days and had no bottle. I was so impressed and thrilled but I also new that he would push me harder for it when I came home.
Sunday night we return home and he instantly asks me for his ba-ba. I tell him it went bye-bye and we had a 45 minute melt down but I new I had to hold strong.
He still asks me almost every day for a ba-ba and I have to tell him it went bye-bye. He has come to accept this and the ba-ba is no long in the picture thanks to my mom. The best part was we actually broke him of the bottle before he turned two. I thought for sure I was going to have a two year old walking around with a bottle.
My biggest issue with taking it away is he will not drink milk from a cup for me. He still refused to drink milk for me in a cup. The good news is he will drink milk in a cup at the sitters and at grandma's houses.
Have you had a hard time breaking your kids of something?
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November 09, 2009
Bye-Bye Bottle
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About Me
- Nina
- Hi I am Nina! OK Nina is a nickname but I doubt you really care. I am 35 years old, married, two wonderful boys. Luke is my sweet gentile 6 year old and Thomas is my wild and crazy 2 year old. The two of them wear me out but I love everything about them. I hope you enjoy all our crazy adventures as much as we do.
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Good job on getting rid of the bottle. Poor Thomas he must be sad. At least he will drink milk. T Rex won't drink milk period.
And trouble breaking him of something...me. He has mommy addiction right now. A bit exhausting...I'm waiting for daddy addiction to kick in!
trinity eats stuff for my dad that she won't eat for me. why are they so stubborned??
this is really good news! yay for your mom!!
That is so great. Those little guys want to hang onto stuff for so long, but he will get over it much sooner than you think. Good job, Mommy.
oh I remember the bottle saga... damn near killed me.
Kudos for being strong during the meltdown. Your dentist will thank you (or not, cause then he won't get the $$)
That is great!! When my two older kids were 3 & 2, their pediatrician suggested that I throw the bottles away in front of them so this way they knew that they were totally gone. It really worked!
Congrats! We are having a rough time with the binky- he wants it all day long! (and mommy wants him to be quiet so... :) )
I hope he drinks from his cup soon!!!
Yeah! Moms are too cool sometimes. My Mom broke my one child's habit of biting his nails in one weekend, too:) Good for you, standing firm when you got home. Sounds like the little guy will be ok:)
I'm still trying to get rid of the baba. Sometimes he'll take the sippy with milk and sometimes he won't. Ahhhhhhhhh
Yea for getting rid of the bottle, always such a nice feeling!
We are having trouble now getting rid of the sippy cup of milk at bed time, kind of like the bottle revisited!!
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