Revenge of the Sippy Cup
Archer never cared for the sippy cup. He went straight from the bottle (heh) to the glass. He took swigs from my water and ONLY my water and until last night drank only out of a tall clear glass, sippy cups be damned.
I gave up on the sippy cup thing months ago after collecting dozens of them, thinking eventually one might catch his eye.
“Maybe a superman sippy cup would do the trick?”
“Aha! An insect sippy cup! Perfect!”
“A red sippy cup! To match his blankie! Why didn’t I think of this earlier?”
I was told I was lucky that Archer rejected sippy cups because “they’re just one more thing to become fixated with” and you have to “carry them around everywhere” and “they will spill and soak your purse.” But in my head I always fantasized about the sippy cup and how much easier it would be for me if Archer could drink by himself without me holding his glass for him every time he was thirsty.
So when last night Archer decided he (finally!) wanted to make out with drink out of his sippy cup, I was thrilled… for about thirteen minutes.
The sippy-cup as practical drinking mechanism soon turned into an obsession with drinking, spilling, sucking, biting and not going to bed. I suppose Archer thought it was a good idea to make up for lost time….?
And so… A year of denying ye olde sippy cup became hours (and hours) of this:
A real drinking problem, to say the least.
Three hours past bedtime and two pairs of soaked pajamas later, I changed my mind about sippy cups.
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Just fill it with a little gin and he’d take a nap for sure.
And sippy cups rock. I wish I could still drink out of one… so I just nurse on my Nalgene bottle instead!
I always wanted my kids to use a binkie, mainly because I like the word ‘binkie’, but they never would…
Hoo boy! We gotta be careful of what we wish for, eh?
Yes! HE’S OBSESSED! And soaked. Oy to the vey.
I was always obsessed with trying to get Aram to use the bink too. No go. He would either spit it out with disgust, or when he could, grab it out, look at it a moment, and then toss it away like it was on fire. Now the sippy cup is just about as interesting to him. Everyone says I am lucky about the bink sitch, so maybe Archer is proof I shouldn’t push the SC!
Avery won’t do the sippy cup either. He does, however, love water bottles. So i am forever changing his clothes too, because he loves to dribble water all down his chin.
Ah. My son is rebeling against the sippy cup to. what am i gonna do. I guess he will do as Archer and one day decide that they might not be so bad and then swim in it.
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Oh yes! We went through the exact same thing. Although now her fixation is all about sticking a straw into the glass and then putting in her mouth. Sort of makes me long for the days I could just put the damn glass up to her mouth.
My (otherwise quite bright) toddler is sippy cup challenged. She just can’t get the hang of the big tip required. I kind of have to agree with her…the mechanics involved are a bit awkward. It pisses her off to no end,that she can’t just hold the thing and suck. So, we use the kind of cup with a straw built in…these work great. No spilling and no ridiculous backwards tipping required.
Oh, the straw cups are the best! Baby Girl didn’t like any of the sippy cups but loved playing with straws. So we got the straw sippy cup and she figured it out pretty quick. Now she can drink out of any straw, making restaurant visits SO much easier. Although occasionally, she will let a whole mouthful dribble right down her chin. We call it her drinking problem.