Teething; sippy cup v. bottle continues

It seems that all of Ivan's remaining teeth are coming in all at once. On the bottom, all teeth between the front ones and the first molars are breaking through. On top, the third set of teeth on each side are coming in. He may have more teeth on his upper gums but I wouldn't know. He never lets us look into his mouth. I spied these new these because I was standing below him while he was laughing so I could look into his mouth.

But unlike other kids who are really bothered by teeth protrusion (super snotty noses, inability to sleep, irritability, serious drool, fever, etc.....), Ivan has had a really easy time. He gets just slightly drool-y, which is good for me, considering that snotty, drooly children were something I feared I'll end up with and something I'm not so sure how to handle because I've always found that too gross. It terms of disgusting kids issues, it ranks high up there with sticky fingers, seriously messy eating and vomit -- Ivan has yet to really vomit, thankfully. (Well, he did gag a bit and vomitted at a birthday party recently, but that was really just gaging and chocking on a big bite of food he took. It was not real continuous sick vomitting. Knock of wood!).

Also, teething doesn't seem to hurt him too much. In this round of teething, I've noticed that he seems to be putting his hands in his mouth, which he hasn't done in a long time. He also had a bit of a problem falling asleep tonight and two nights ago. I attribute all of this to teething.

For that same reason, I've back off the sippy cup for the last two days (not like my parents or Andy have ever enforced my sippy cup directives, meaning that they've been giving Ivan milk in a bottle all along. Ivan spent last week's Thursday and Friday at my parents house and then I was away for the weekend so Andy took care of him by himself, I know for a fact that the sippy cup was not used during the five days that I was away from Ivan.)

Back to the sippy cup and teething. Since he finds the nipple soothing and likes to chew on it, I figured I'd let him have the nipple while he's teething, if he finds it comforting. I'll resume the sippy cup training in a few days or weeks, once the teeth come in.