NO more bottle!

Well, after about a week I think we can say we have progressed off the bottle. Dr. Anderson wanted us off it by the time we returned for her next check up ( 12.27.10) and I was getting fearful that we weren't going to make it. She LOVES her AM and PM bottle and it was very routine for her. But, I think it was last Monday or so that we literally ran out of bottle liners and I thought that was a perfect opportunity to go ahead and try switching her over. It was like temper tantrum city that first morning ( and really the entire first day or so) we brought her downstairs, put her on her usual pink pillow, turned on the Disney channel and handed her THE CUP instead of the BOTTLE. She threw a fit....kicking her legs, throwin' her arms up and screaming out. Madder than hops! We had to really coax her to take the cup with the milk the first few days but slowly she has become accustomed to it. Eric said this AM she took the entire thing by herself holding it up and everything. So phew...I think we made it. So she just gets kind of a combo of milk and water throughout the day with her meals and with snacks. Lately she has been EXTREMELY interested in all the cupboards so we finally broke down and got some locks. Much to my dismay she figured out how to get them off the handles literally 10 seconds after I got them on. So for now we are going the old fashioned route just using rubber bands around the handles till I can get back to the store to get a different style. She LOVES the baking cabinet playing with the cupcake papers and pulling down the vanilla bottle and the canola oil bottle.....that is short lived though because one of these days she is going to spill something....so I"m constantly re directing her to the Tupperware cabinet which is much safer. She is doing well with her walking. I got a bit of a video. She'll walk all the way across our office and across the living room into the kitchen but do you think she'll do it when I have the camera ready...NOPE. I am typing this blog incognito....she loves the computer and loves to look at pictures of herself on the computer. So anytime it is out she throws a fit to see it....hard to get anything done. We have a busy rest of the week. Tonight we are going to the IWireless center with Nash and Nolan and their family to see Disney on Ice. Tomorrow night we have The Planning Center open house. I'm going to bring Maddox over for the open house this year. Last year she was too young. But, she'll go along to meet some of Eric's clients. We got a pretty dress to wear! Then Friday night we have The Planning Center Christmas party so Maddox is staying home with Jennifer, one of our great sitters! Busy...busy...! I"ll hopefully post pictures of Disney on Ice.