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@ Joaquin & the ongoing saga of the sippy.
She's still not weaned fully (STILL, GOD STILL), but I have her down to just nursing after she wakes up (so, pretty much 2 nursing sessions every day, in the morning & after naps). She has 2 different types of sippies... the ones where the sippy part is one piece of silicone, and it's easy to drink from but fairly leaky, and the type with like 3-4 parts that go together to make it spillproof. She drinks water really well from the first kind, but not the second kind. She generally doesn't drink cow's milk (usually takes a sip and either spits it out or begrudgingly swallows it and then leaves the cup), but she really doesn't do well with the spillproof sippy at all.
Her new favorite game with the leaky type is to turn it upside down and drip out water, and then play with the water. I take the cup away immediately and tell her she has to help me clean up... and now she think that's part of the 'game', takes the towel and cleans up herself. And this happens on places like the couch, so I think part of the reason she's not receptive to cow's milk is because I'm not cleaning that sh*t out of my f*ckin couch, so I only give that to her in the spillproofs.
I've tried giving her only the spillproof sippies with water for weeks at a time, but she's not buying it. Does anybody have any suggestions for me?
Re: @ Joaquin & the ongoing saga of the sippy.
I never used the leak-proof types of cups. I just throw away the valves.
I weaned Baby Fuss from the bottle at just around a year old, and then only ever gave him milk in a cup in his high chair/at the table. Never anywhere else. Gross.
I know the game you're talking about, and all I can tell you is it took months of cheerfully reciting, "Cup stays UP!" while righting it back on its bottom for him on the tray/table. Then it's at least a fun/interactive game with a lasting message. He did get it after about a month or two and got bored of the spilling game and moved on to other things.
Now of course he's back to spilling on purpose every now and then, but only because he thinks cleaning up is great fun (don't even get me started on rice and his broom obsession). Again, I don't mind that too much, becuase the cleaning behavior will I hope be longer-lasting than the spilling behavior, but I have hardwood floors in our dining room that are easy to keep clean.
I wish I did. On Toddler Malibu's first birthday I handed her a sippy and she never took a bottle again. I kind of just didn't give her the option. However, I started giving her sippies around 8 or 9 months old in between bottles, so she mostly was ready for it when I just stopped giving her bottles.
One of her favorites though is the kind that doesn't really have a spout. Ugh, I'm trying to remember who makes it - Gerber, maybe? I think it was actually a Step 3 transition to a regular cup, the spout is just kind of a hole and the spout isn't very high like the plastic thing you're talking about (I know which ones, we had some too). It's spillproof, and for some reason she figured that one out really well.
Here's a link from Target (and yes, it was Gerber):
http://www.target.com/p/Gerber-Graduates-Learning-System-Hard-Spout-Sippy-Cup-2pk/-/A-13590837
As far as the dripping out the water part, no suggestions. TM just kind of got over that after a while, it wasn't fun anymore.
Bet you can't wait to start potty training, huh? We'll have to commiserate together for that since the kids aren't too far apart. Now that's the stage I'm dreading.
Please have Baby Fuss come over and teach Toddler Malibu a few things about this. Cleaning up is not her strong suit.
I think his obsession is owing to getting the idea that everything has its place. So once I showed him that floor raisins go in the dustpan, or trash goes in the trash can, or used paper towels go in the compost bag, he has to put everything where it "belongs." It would probably keep him up at night to think that things weren't put all in the right places.
Have you tried these? http://nuby.com/en/nuby/cups-spouts/9901/
I had both my kids drinking out of straws from like 6 months (of course neither would take a bottle). B loves pulling the straw out of those take and go cups and dumping water everywhere. My mom bought one of the nuby cups and the straw is awesome and it doesn't leak.
Thanks for the suggestions, all. I don't like limiting her to just drinking in her highchair because she's such a slow eater, but it looks like that's the next step. And yeah, fuss, it makes me feel kind of crazy, because she's almost looking at cleaning up as a fun reward. I may need to take her on Maury because I kind of doubt she's mine, heh.
If she learns that's the only time/place she can get milk, it might make her focus a little more (heh, right). I mean, it's always going to be something slowing her down with eating for a while, because at this age they have so many new skills to practice and experiences to contemplate during this period. And everything takes a lot of practice.
FWIW we use Tilty cups as well as Playtex (sans "spill-proof" valve, as I mentioned, so just with the top screwed on the bottom). Both types will leak a bit if you knock them over or turn them upside down, but they don't get milk trapped anywhere either and as such are easy to clean and keep clean.
we have similar issues.
(and we can't limit when she eats becasue she's underweight.)
Straws are better, but beware, the 'good' straw cups develop a siphon and suck up fluids and dump it all over. So she can't dump them out...but they can just empty themselves for fun. whee!
Lucky. My kid runs around behind me and yanks everything out/off/throws on floor anything that's put away. She apparently thrives on chaos and disorder. She hates beds being made, hates toys put away - even if she isn't playing with it, she has this desperate need to rip every single book off the shelf and throw it on the floor. Drives me nuts.
She's a few days shy of 17 months. A little tornado of chaos. She actually gets almost mad if there's, say, a pillow on our bed. Like how dare you place something on the bed! mad. And throws it on the floor with an angry glee. It's entertaining the first time, but after putting it back about fifty times and trying to reason with her that no, it does go there, it gets a little old.
We are getting a little taste of the terrible twos now though. She's got a little temper on her. Funny to watch though, she sits on the floor and kicks her feet while screaming if she can't figure something out. We just laugh cause it looks hilarious, and she stops and looks at us like, WHAT?
I think Baby Fuss was very annoying and frustrating right around that age. Really tiresome and incorrigible and emotional and needy. It's like toddler PMS or something. Plus he couldn't even walk yet so he was frustrated with that too. It's like he had only just started to get that things could be a certain "way," but not yet ready to understand why they couldn't ALWAYS be HIS "way."
Things started getting quite a bit easier and more calm a couple of months ago once he started learning how to deal with his emotions a little better, and saw through observation that things could still be OK even if it wasn't his way 100% of the time. We compromise somewhere around 80-90% of the time.
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We own about 4564865824658 different kinds of sippy cups. The only one I really hate is the huge Thermos one I bought for the long car trip we're about to make.
http://www.target.com/p/Thermos-Foogo-Vacuum-Insulated-Sippy-Cup-Blue-10-oz/-/A-13998658
Maybe try one like this?
http://www.target.com/p/Philips-AVENT-Natural-Drinking-Cup-9oz-Red/-/A-13956478
We have one of these, and have used it a few times, and I plan to buy a few more once Babydubs gets a bit older. I've found them at Wally World also. I really like the controlled flow, and we've had no problems with leakage at all with this one. But we really only give him milk at the table. I refuse to clean that crap off of every surface of my home.
Thankfully, he's pretty much down to one bottle a day, and that's a 4oz bottle of water at bedtime. Now that he's getting teeth, though, I'm working on cutting that out too.
We have a little table and chairs. She is completely uninterested in them, even for coloring (and I have to watch her ass like a hawk, because all she wants to do is crayons is hoard them alllll in her tiny fists and sprint around like a hobgoblin kleptomaniac).
Funnily enough, immediately after I posted this sh*t she started drinking from her foogo sippy KMW hates like a champ (the one with handles, though). So clearly, the answer to my parenting dilemmas is to air them on TIP and then her ass flies right all of a sudden. siiiigh.
Joaquin knows what's in the cards when you tell TIP about your problems...she doesn't wanna get shanked.
I think my only problem with the foogo cup is that my child apparently hasn't mastered keeping his mouth shut around it. He sucks milk in, then opens his mouth, dumping said milk all over himself.
We had a discussion about it (his argument: "DadadaBABABABAAAA ::blows raspberry::"), I tried reasoning with him, but he has no use for my logic, apparently.
This entire post made me about die laughing. And no sh*t on the crayons thing. We got TM a set of those color wonder markers and Daddy left her on her own with them to pee or something. He comes out and she'd bitten the tips off all of them. Good thing they're non-toxic, as he wasn't able to yank them all out of her mouth.
Where the hell did my post go nest?
Aenyhoo, Dogs like the tips of crayons too. She pooped a rainbow.