Small Victories

Jeff, Brayden, and I have all been sick this week. It's been a rough time at our house, but amidst the runny noses, fevers, coughs, and watery eyes, there have been some small, yet exciting victories.  You may have to be a parent to get excited about things like this, but I'm sure every Mama understands =) The first came when Brayden finally drank from something other than a bottle.  I have been trying to win this battle for a couple of months now to no avail.  I tried small cups, tall cups, handles, no handles, soft spouts, hard spouts, straws, and everything else I could think of, but that boy wanted nothing to do with anything but a bottle.  It didn't matter what I put in it, milk, water, juice, he wasn't havin' it.

This week it was extremely important that I get him to drink liquids because his appetite was down and he wasn't eating as much as normal.  Again, I tried every kind of liquid in every kind of cup and the answer was always a cup pushed back at me or dropped to the floor...I heard a lot of thuds this week. I also tried giving him pedialyte in his bottle, which he didn't want either. The boy likes milk, in a bottle, period.  After a long, frustrating week of this, my prayers were finally answered on Friday when I got him to drink some orange Pedialyte in a sippy cup with a straw!  I had recently noticed him more closely watching me drink from my Parkview water mug that has a straw, so he must have learned how to do it by watching me. Needless to say, this was a huge victory in my eyes! Now to get rid of those bottles...

Victory number two came when I saw Brayden stack his wooden alphabet blocks by himself for the very first time.  He has always loved his blocks. Mommy would build them, and he would knock em down, typical boy, right? Then on Saturday I saw him stack one on top of another as he was playing. Such a cool moment, and so fun to watch him learn and marvel in his successes.  Jeff practiced with him again on Sunday and he was stacking them on top of Daddy's stacks as well...and then knocking them down of course!  It was a good week for BZ in spite of this nasty bug that we're all suffering from.  Can't wait to see what he will surprise us with next!