The bottle habit, that is. At Axel's 12 month check-up, his doctor told us now's a good time to get the boy off the bottle and on to the cup. Apparently, 12 - 15 months is a more flexible time in a child's life. There's no doubt Axel is physically a Gumby; he can touch his nose with his toes. His will and preferences, though, are less like a rubberband and more like Play-Do that's been left in an uncovered container for a few days. I guess this is only going to get worse, and soon he'll refuse to eat anything that isn't orange and insist on wearing a snorkeling mask as a hat.
During the day, it's all sippy cup, all the time. But he still has a bottle just before going to bed. Axel falls asleep on his own, after the bottle and speed-reading a few books by turning the pages faster than a speeding bullet. The extra calories of the post-bed milk do his body good, I think. He has another bottle when he wakes up at about 5 in the morning. After the 5 am bottle, he slips back off to dream of romping with a pack of friendly dogs in a room filled with empty cardboard boxes. He stays asleep until 6:30 or, from time to time, 7:00. This extra hour and a half is very, very precious to me. I do not want to disrupt the 90 minutes that let me sleep a little more or shower in peace.
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