So long, sippy cups!

We have had sippy cup issues lately. First, Oliver was biting through part of the spout in the sippy cups he had used for the last few months (they had a harder spout than the ones he used the first few months that he used a sippy cup). This meant they were more likely to leak (extra holes), and we were worried that he might be ingesting some plastic. So I bought two new ones and threw those away. It was hard transitioning him to a different cup, but eventually he figured it out. Even though these were guaranteed not to spill, they were the worst sippy cups we've owned over the past 5 years. Yesterday I put away the sippy cups and only let him drink out of an open cup. I started him on the small plastic shot glasses that we bought in April 2012 for Ian (at the recommendation of the feeding clinic in Hershey). He got better over the course of the day as far as drinking from it, but he has no concept of being careful with it when he's holding it so we had a LOT of water spilled over the floor yesterday.

I only let him have water if he was out of his booster seat, and if he was drinking milk I insisted that he wear a bib. I was thinking I'd need to buy one more sippy cup (not that same brand!) to use when traveling in the van or stroller (or in the church nursery), but today at the horse farm for Nadia and Ian's first horseback riding lesson he had no trouble drinking water from a sports bottle. Problem solved! These new sippy cups are going in the garbage, and when it isn't practical for Oliver to drink from an open cup, I will give him water in a sports bottle. Hopefully he'll figure out that he needs to keep an open cup level in the very near future because when he spills water  in the kitchen he then usually slips and falls on his bottom. Thankfully his bottom is still padded as I'm not going to start potty training him until the middle of July.