getting milk wasted.....with a CUP

FINALLY!!!

my computer has been messed up for a while now and it is finally fixed!

i have SO much catching up to do and hate to update backwards, but it is what it is.

but for now, we have had some big news over here!

wyatt has been drinking out of a cup!!!!

THIS IS HUGE.

i have about 45 minutes added to my day.

he can drink in the car, he can walk and drink, he can drink at school!! people, he can SUCK! 

last night, he sat in my lap and sucked applesauce through a squeeze pouch!!! i looked at jack and we just watched smiling our faces off! 

i have always (for 19 months now) had to squeeze these things in and he swallows. no handing a pouch to him in the car if he is hungry, no, we like things the hard way over here.

NO MORE BOTTLES. 

i won't lie. i shed a tear. not because he was growing up. not because i was sad to see the bottle go, but because this bottle, wyatt and i have been through a LOT. 

from day one, watching in awe how he gulped as i had to learn how to squeeze the right amount of milk into his mouth. how i had to twist the top so the right line (slow, med, fast) would be just right for him. how i had to show babysitters how to feed my baby once i finally let people other than nicu nurses feed him at my home....how i had to stare at him for 6 months and not have ANY distractions or i could choke him...how once he had his surgery to close his lip, he was a damn rockstar and hit the bottle THAT NIGHT. how after his next surgery to close the rest of his palate, he gnawed the bottle and got the milk out himself, so i didn't have to squeeze.

haberman, we have been through a lot. i kept all 4 bottles because i NEVER want to forget. i know i won't. those memories, fears and joys are all embedded in my heart forever.

BUT. we are moving on. we are growing up and moving on. 

it's a good thing ;)