My Precious

I've been offering Benjamin a sippy cup for some time now in hopes that he would one day discover how to drink from it. Up until today I was getting a little concerned that when the time came to ween him he would have a hard time adjusting. My bottle-battling boy resists taking milk from anything other than me and we are getting pretty close to his cut-off date. He likes it straight from the tap so I wondered what I would do with him if he wouldn't take a bottle AND he didn't know how to drink from his little cup. But today was the day. Benjamin suddenly discovered that if he didn't just bite the sippy cup he could actually get something out of it. What a relief. The best part of it all was that after he realized that he was drinking from the cup he couldn't get enough of it. He held onto it like Gollum and it was almost as if he was saying "My Precious" with his eyes. Okay buddy, I'm excited you figured it out, but let's not go overboard here, okay?