It Just Clicked

This is the most frustrating statement for me to hear. Examples: How did you get your child to drink from a sippy cup? Response from some wise soul who has accomplished this "one day, it just clicked." How did you get your child to sleep through the night? It just clicked. How did you lose 50lbs.? You get my drift. I am not these people. I like a formula, a manual of some sort on how to accomplish these things. My friends and family laugh at me because when it comes to parenting and many other subjects I am an avid reader and love to learn (not so much in elementary and high school but that is another story). I like answers. For instance, if you asked me how I got my children to sleep through the night I would have an actual response. I put them on a schedule and I think that is what did it. Anyways, today in the words of every seemingly arrogant parent before me.......it really did......it just clicked. I have been in sippy cup hell for months. I cannot exactly wean my boys off bottles if they can't tip the stinking cup in order to drink from it (frustrated? me? not at all, well yes, VERY). So after not even trying for weeks I went for it today. There 15 months appt. is coming up and I tenatively planned to wean them by 1 year corrected age which is in less than 2 wks so although my goal is not going to be accomplished I thought I should keep plugging away. My pediatrician advised me to use a sippy cup with a blocker thing (not the official term but you know what I mean) and remove the said blocker. I had recently switched to trying the soft spout since it seemed like this would be easier but her logic was that they have to then suck and tip requiring a coordination they may not have. I have to stop for a moment and laugh at how ridiculously complicated this all is. Anyways, I have tried the removed blocker method twice before and somehow today it clicked. So here are pics of the evolution from non-sippy cup drinkers to professionals. I should say that they only drank a small portion and then proceeded to make milk rivers on their highchair trays and splashed it on the walls and floor. Cleaning this mess up required some serious planning on my part. So maybe they're not exactly professionals :)

Eli @ 11 months (1st pic) Today (14 1/2 months)

Alex 11 months old (1st pic) Today

He picked it up immediately, tipped it up and drank from it, like "what's the big deal Mom?"

So, in reality, it was STILL not an "it just clicked" moment b/c I first tried in March (see first sippy post). Oh well, I am just glad they got it. Good job boys!!!!!