Drinking

I'm so glad we're down to only 4 bottles a day now. If you do the math, they've gone through ~3,000 bottles since birth. That's a lot of handwashing, especially since they're Dr. Brown's!! Next on the list is cutting out the morning bottle, then the bedtime bottle, then we're bottle free and get to tackle diapers this summer.



[This is really boring unless you're a parent. Feel free to skip to pictures below.] We have a decent-sized training cup collection in our house. I forget who, but someone called soft-spouted sippies "glorified bottles" which is true. Why bother? So we went to straw cups because they're supposed to be better for speech development and they're slightly less messy. We really like the Take & Toss cups. The spillproof ones are very hard to drink from because the straw is closed with only a small slit. The T&T sippies are good too, but it's hard to drink from one that isn't more than half full. The Tilty is pretty awesome because it's very easy to learn the concept of tilting a cup. Now the Zoli is my cup of choice for water. The bottom of the straw is weighted, so you can drink this lying down and it won't spill. The Doidy is also very cool, but doesn't have a lid so we'll be saving that for later.

In dental news, Tilly officially has her two central mandibular incisors, but you can't see them yet. Elsie surprisingly popped up 4 teeth this week and has all her incisors, save for the left lateral maxillary. I'm very fortunate that they've been taking it like champs, and haven't been making a fuss of it at all. We also have started brushing.


Elsie loves loves LOVES watermelon and pommelo. Tilly still prefers socks.