All Done!

Right before we left on vacation we had started to ween the boys off of their bottles and get them to start using their sippy cups more.  Well, when we got to our room we discovered that I didn't pack any of the rings that screw on to the tops of the bottles.  I couldn't believe it!  I had my lists, and I checked them all off, but somehow I missed the rings for the bottles, so our plan to ween them got very accelerated.  It was a little rough since we had them off of all the bottles except for that first one in the morning.  When they wake up, they are STARVING and are not shy about letting you know it.  So we would give them a bottle to just hold them over until we were ready to give them breakfast.  Mornings in our house are a little crazy and it just made it easier if we could get them to wait.  Well being on vacation - we had to go cold turkey.  Now normally I would have been all for going to the store and buying some more, but since we are at the end of the bottle stage I just couldn't bring myself to go buy more when we were so close to the end.  what we had to start doing was leaving them in their cribs until we had their breakfast ready, cuz oh man you were in for a world of hurt if you brought them out and there was no food to be had straight away!  Pure meltdown - we are talking defcon 10.  But it is over and done with and now we are all weened off the bottles. 

Thing 1 had a harder time with it than Thing 2, which was a little surprising to me.  Thing 2 loved him some bottles.  Just the sight of one would have him clinging to your leg and whining and pointing and it would escalate from there if he didn't get one.  Oh man - if you happen to be unloading the dishwasher and he saw it you were toast!  But apparently it was just a vessel to him.  He just wanted the milk.  You give him the milk in a sippy cup now and he's just fine.  Thing 1 would have nothing to do with it.  We even tried to heat it up, he just wanted his bottle.  He would take water out of the cup, but not milk.  It was very strange.  But towards the end of the week, he just turned a corner and started drinking the milk and even asking for it with sign language. 

Again - twins - not always doing what you think they are going to do.  :)