car seats and sippy cups

We upgraded Callie to a big girl seat.

She has been in her infant seat until now. That seat went to 22 lbs or 29 inches. She just weights 20 lbs now but she is about to outgrow it in height. So, we went ahead and got the bigger seat. The new recommendations say to have a child rear facing until they are 2. So, she is still rear facing in her big ole seat. She doesn’t seem to mind now. She did not enjoy the new seat at all right when we first made the change. But after a few trips where she screamed most of the way, she submitted and decided she might as well get used to it because apparently mommy is going to put her in there each day whether she cries or not. ;)

She is also off the bottle. I thought it was going to be such a hard transition. How would I ever get her to drink out of a sippy cup?? Because I started giving it to her just before she turned 11 months and she would have nothing to do with it. Maybe…MAYBE she would take one sip and then she would throw it down and never look at it again. If I gave it to her in the car, she would cry. I really really tried to push it in the car because she started to constantly turn her bottle upside down and it would spill everywhere. But she would have none of it.  

Then we went to the first football game this past Friday night. We stood on the fence with the other people who have kids about her age. There were sippy cups all around and so instead of handing her the bottle, I handed her the sippy cup while saying to the other mothers, “She won’t take a sippy cup, not sure why I’m even trying, but here goes nothing. How will I ever break her of the bottle?” And then (of course!) my baby popped that sucker in her mouth and drank and drank and drank. All night, she used only the sippy cup. AND it just had WATER in it. Woohoo! So, away went the bottles. I was afraid if she even saw them she would want one again. Out of sight, out of mind. Gone. That was easy.

Now breaking her of the middle of the night milk (in her new sippy cup) is proving to be a much bigger challenge. *sigh*