Bye-Bye Sippies

Yes.... at 4, we still relied HEAVILY on sippy cups in this house.

Yes.... I know, bad.
Don't judge.

Its not that the kids COULDN'T drink from "big kid cups."
They do at school, we do at home for meals.

It was just that, well, it was easier.  Pure parental laziness.  I'll admit it.

A sippy full of milk & a snuggle on the couch in the morning.  Who doesn't love that?

Plus, what are you to do with drinks in the car?  I'm not cleaning that mess up every time we go somewhere!


For Christmas, the kids got a variety of different non-sippy thermos cups.  As a pre-cursor to me getting brave enough to ditch the sippies.


A few weeks back, after cleaning up milk from a dripping sippy tossed on the kitchen floor, washing my bedding from a dripping sippy being snuck into my bed while I showered, cleaning up the kids' bathroom counter from a sippy left on its side dripping & THEN dodging a flying {thankfully empty} sippy being tossed down an entire flight of stairs..... it happened.

Sippies went bye-bye forever.

Just like that I said, "time to grow up."
{Which Olivia told Jeff immediately upon him walking in the door after work that day.  "Mom said we have to grow up today.}

We packed away the sippies.  {Read:  I chickened out on totally throwing them in the trash incase in 48 hours & was wishing for their return.}

And you know what, its been great.

A few times a not quite empty thermos has hit the floor & spilled.  But for the most part, they have adapted & caught on to the rule of putting cups on a table quite well.  {Which trust me, we tried & tried & tried to preach this with sippies, but they never caught on.}

I just said to Jeff last night, this has gone so much easier than I anticipated & had I known it would be such a mess-less transition, I'd of done it long ago.

And just like that, seemingly the last remnant of babyhood is gone from our abode.  And it makes me kind of sad :(