A great day at the Sillito home.....

This will be great news to those of you who have been so kind to let me share my frustration with Broden's sippy cup drama. For those of you who haven't heard the whole story, here it is: Broden took a bottle when he was 3 days old. Confident that he would both nurse and take a bottle, I was feeling very good about the whole situation. Until.... I got called to serve in Young Womens. When I went to my first Wednesday night activity, I came home to find that he would not take a bottle, and went to bed hungry. Poor kid! After months of trying to get him to take a bottle again, I finally decided it was pointless. I thought he was just going to have to go straight to a sippy cup. He was about 6-7 months old, and (surprise, surprise) didn't like the first sippy cup I gave him. (Or second, or third, or fourth.....) Here's just a sample of the many sippy cups that now spill out of my cupboard every time I open it. At the time I bought each one, I was sure it was going to be "the one".

Nope, it didn't matter. Soft spout, hard spout, straw....he pushed them all away. We finally discovered that he would drink out of a regular cup. So, for a couple of months he tried our patience by drinking out of a cup we were holding, and pushing it away (therefore making it spill) when he decided he was done. Finally, last Sunday (at 15 months old!).......

Belle saves the day!!!

We found one he liked! We used to buy Jacey the "Tummy Ticklers" juice that came in these bottles when we went on plane trips, because they were easier. Then we saved the bottles because they made great water bottles to take to the park. Who would have thought that the ONLY cup Broden will drink out of would be Jacey's Belle cup. She actually has a Cinderella and an Ariel one that he likes too. I'm sure it has more to do with the fact that it's more like a water bottle than the fact that it actually has princesses on it. My next assignment from Dan is to go to the store and see if they still make these in other characters. Until then, I am proud to let Broden tote this cup around whereever he wants to. We proudly took it to church on Sunday, and I didn't even mind all the funny looks!

Look how happy his Belle cup makes him!