10.4.10: Bottles no more

(left to right: stella, daphne, fiona, brant)

I am THRILLED to report that we are finally done with bottles. Daphne weaned herself from bottles back in July mainly because she wanted to be able to walk around the nursery and drink. Why lay still and drink milk when you can wander about the room? Fiona and Stella really had no interest in drinking milk through a sippy cup. Of course they would happily drink water from a sippy cup, no problem - but milk, no way.

Well after weeks of slowly transitioning from water to watery milk to milky water and finally straight milk during the day we finally decided to eliminate the bottles. We knew that the girls in fact COULD drink milk from a sippy cup and were just electing not to. After several nights of bringing up every possible sippy cup type we have (yes, I bought almost every one recommended by friends) in addition to bottles, Fiona seemed to realize the perks of a cup over a bottle as well. From there, no turning back. Fiona was off the bottle. Now for the hold out. We made Stella try the sippy cup for a couple nights and just before bed after refusing to drink anything, we caved and took her in the other room to drink a bottle (no way we were showing Fiona that Stella was getting a bottle). After two nights of that we decided Stella too, was done with bottles. This photo is from the morning after our first night with no bottles. Yayyyyy!