Yesterday, St Patrick’s day my baby turned 18 months old. She is my first kid to take a bottle, so I set 18 months as the cut off for bottles. Here she is, clinging to her last bottle.
This was more traumatic for me than it was for her, maybe. I took a tip from Suppernanny and got a treasure box from Ikea
Before bedtime, I had Hannie help me collect all the bottles and put them in the treasure box. I told her the bottle fairy was coming to get all the bottles to give to little babies because she was too big for them.
Then, I went out with the girls and BJay dealt with a sad, sad little girl. He said she whined about “Ba-ba” for 3 hours before zonking out at 10:00
When I got back I replaced all the bottles with these prizes
I got 2 packs of those tummy tickler things because I’m going to recycle them as our permanent sippy’s. And then I got her big girl things, like tiny water goblets from Ikea and little silverware, a purse, keys, and a cell phone.
She loved the cell phone
She carried her purse, keys and phone around all day.
And I am going to be okay, eventually. 
I just wish they didn’t have to grow up so fast.
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What a great idea! You are such good parents! We still cave for James once or twice a month when he won’t fall asleep. I really like that treasure box idea. Maybe we’ll do that with diapers. Anyway, very cute pix, and I agree that these kids are growing up WAY too fast…I can’t even THINK about James turning three already (they sent me his application for Heidi’s preschool last week and I almost cried: PRESCHOOL? HE’S A BABY!)…it’s terrible.