Bottle v. Sippy Cup

We are making headway toward the sippy cup.

The last few days (really, this past week), Ivan has stop protesting the sippy cup when I laid him to bed for the night. Last weekend, he even went to sleep a two nights without any props. (Then he spent a few days at my parents'.) But now the last two nights, I put him to bed with the sippy cup without any protests.

I've even tried giving him the sippy cup in the morning when he wakes up for his early morning milk (about 5 a.m.). The few times I tried that, he took it, but then was fully awake after he drank the milk. The bottle nurses him back to sleep a bit more in the morning, it would seem, which is very important at 5 a.m.

However, I've decided that for now, if he wakes up during the night, which happens occasionally, to give him the bottle not the sippy cup, simply to cut down on crying and ensure everyone gets back to sleep fast.

On Wednesday, before he went to my parents' house for two days, even my dad (the biggest sippy cup offender and resister), witnessed Ivan nonchalantly taking a sippy cup in the car to drink his milk (my dad put the cup in the cup container, and Ivan reached for it). I was shocked myself, as that way the first time he had actually done that; however, I didn't share that observation with my dad.

I'm glad for this because on Tuesday, I was rather livid because while I was cleaning up Ivan's room and preparing him for bed, I realized that for an afternoon nap my dad not only gave him the bottle to drink from, but also put oj in it not milk. I was really upset because I think we were going backwards and creating more problematic habits. Drinking juice and water from a sippy cup has never been a problem, only milk. I feared my dad started introducing another, completely unnecessary habit of drinking juice from the bottle. But apparently, after I calmed down in my phone shit-fit, it appeared it was only a one time occurence. But that's why I was even more happy when the following day my dad saw Ivan drink milk from a sippy cup without any problems.

So sippy cup adoption is slowly underway.....