Change

For the past 6 months, our pediatrician has been telling us to get James prepared for when he turns a year because at a year, he is supposed to be off the bottle and formula and completely on sippy cups and milk. Well he is a year and we are having a hard time making the switch. For the past week, he has refused to drink milk, use a sippy cup (even when its filled with juice *cough cough*) or even go back to his bottle. He's just simply refusing anything. His poor babysitter is besides herself because she has never had such a stubborn kid go a whole week without drinking. When we picked him up today, she told me that she caved and spoon fed him his milk. I'm not kidding. She spoon fed him milk.

He had his one year check up yesterday and during the entire appointment James walked around the room babbling and pointing and demanding the doctor pay attention to him. When the doctor would turn towards me and talk, James would point to him and then start babbling at an even louder voice (which his normal voice is already louder than the acceptable indoor voice so this was borderline yelling) just to get the attention back on him. The doctor just laughed and called James adventurous and said that he had a great personality. When I told him how hard of a time James was having with getting rid of his bottle and the issues it was causing, he said he was not surprised at all given his courageous personality (at this time James was alternating between trying to rip the blinds off the windows and unrolling the table paper). I think I would call him more headstrong, but I guess the doctor was trying to be nice. Anyways, he said that hes a big boy and will learn to accept the change and that he will be ok. Its good to teach them how to adjust now and introduce them to new things at an early age... Which is all fine and dandy but the kid still needs to drink something now and then.

And then I remembered it was bath night. And he always drinks half of his bath water.

So maybe we will just start filling his bath with milk - might be better than spoon feeding him! Just kidding... kinda

Yes change is good, but some things I never want to change. Do not tell me that next thing you know he will be ignoring my calls and make fun of my crazy jewelry behind my back with his friends. I know it's coming like a derailed freight train. Because when I get frustrated with him now, I'm juggling that feeling plus the guilt of that feeling plus the knowledge that one day I will long to feel that frustration just one more time.