The Holy Grail (a.k.a. The Sippy that Saved My Sanity)

Well, friends, I'm happy to report that we have found some success with a sippy!  Oh happy day!  (I may have even done a little jig when announcing the news to Marshall one day last week when he came home from work!)  After sending tens of - ok, well maybe ten - different varieties of cups to the sippy cemetery, we finally discovered one that worked.  Well, either that, or the timing coincided with the moment that Colin finally gave in.  And, as an added bonus, it just happens to be a straw cup!  This is a bonus because evidently the straw is better for oral language development and for teeth, etc.  At least that's what "they" say.  "THEY" know an awful lot, don't "they"?  This discovery came about shortly after my last post, when I decided to call one of my very best mom friends.  Tori and I have been friends since college, and she's helped to talk me off the ledge of a few parenting meltdowns.  She encouraged me to hang in there, and to stand my ground.  She also said that her little one seemed to really like the straw cup, but just the plain take-n-toss kind.  I had already bought a fancy straw cup for Colin, but - if I'm being honest - even I had a hard time sucking any liquid out of it because of a valve in the straw.  Apparently, you can either have a cup that leaks, or risk breaking a rib trying to suck juice through it's impermeable straw.  So that didn't work.  I decided to try out a regular straw in a regular cup, and Colin figured it out after only a few tries!  It only took a moment to realize that the take-n-toss straw cups weren't going to work because our little piranha could pry the lid off with his teeth.  So we needed a sippy cup with a regular-type straw and a screw on lid.  And then we discovered "The Holy Grail" of sippy cups...The Munchkin Weighted Straw Sippy Cup.  A weighted straw!  So he can actually hold it from any angle and get the last drop of milk from the cup.  It even has a flip-top lid that covers the straw while on the go!  I was ecstatic when Colin drank from it for the first time.  Hoping the novelty wouldn't wear off, I followed him around with his new straw sippy, and eventually he finished the whole cup!  I still have to add a bit of chocolate Nesquick, but he's now drinking it cold and almost up to the full amount of milk he should have per day.  I haven't figured out how to get the milk to stop rising out of the straw, even as it sits upright on the table...it has something to do with the pressure inside, but this is not my area of expertise.  I'm just thrilled that the battle is over, and that I actually won...well, this time at least.