Some Might Call it Failure; I'm Calling it Reassigning the Goal Date

At 1:30 I was awakened by the sound of a door slamming shut.  Subtlety, thy name is not AJ.

I got up and led him to our bed to try and get him to settle down, but he was very agitated.  Wringing his hands, tense, trembling a little bit.  I brought him downstairs and tried to sit down in the lazy-boy with him, but he had other intentions.  He went into the kitchen and he hesitated, and this is why perhaps my kids are slow to talk -- because they don't have to.  I knew exactly what he wanted.  I knew from the moment I heard that door slam.  But I waited for him to tell me.

He glanced at the refrigerator and I know he wanted to point at it, indicating he wanted juice or milk, but yesterday all day long, pointing at the fridge just got him a sippy cup, and that wasn't what he wanted.  So finally he looked at me and said "bot-l" more clearly than I've ever heard him say it.

I caved.

He drank two full bottles of milk, and then went right back to sleep.

So my new goal to be a 100% sippy cup house is next week Friday.