We had a fun weekend. We had a playdate with a friend and his son on Sat. and the boys actually played together a little.  They are about 6 months apart, Brenden being the younger. I don’t want to rush a minute of Brenden’s growing up, but I did start to get excited about some of the changes that may be coming soon!

Sun was a birthday party for 5 year old in Patrick’s family. It was fun and loud and Brenden enjoyed it until he got too sleepy at the end.

We’ve been working hard over the course of the weekend to try and eliminate the bottle completely. I know I know, he should be off it by now! I’ve been going back and forth between feeling bad that he’s not and feeling like I know my child better than everyone that has picked some arbitrary age kids should suddenly not need a bottle. But his pediatrician said by 18 months was the hard deadline and that is at the end of Oct, so I gotta get crackin’. Plus, his bottles are starting to become hard to get really clean and we are going to travel mid month so it would just be easier. He’s taken a cup with meals for a long time, but the rest of the day has always wanted the bottle. It’s gone fairly well and I know any difficulties we are having are because of bad habits we allowed. He’s getting much better about taking the cup even when it isn’t meal time. I got him a set of cups with straws and lids and that seems to be helping him.
I do remember that I promised to have a video soon, and just as soon as I get time to edit it, I’ll get it posted.

The boys hard at play on Sat.

Brenden getting in on the birthday party action.

Sleepy boy about to crash.