Cold Turkey

After a couple of months now struggling with Diana to get rid of her bottle, (yes, she won last time...she is far more stubborn than her mother), I am happy to report that it is GONE!  I couldn't take the bottle anymore and I really didn't want to travel with it on all of our upcoming trips.  On Monday and Tuesday, I let her have it first thing in the morning and right before bed.  During the day, I miked the Danimals (yogurt smoothie) with milk in a sippy cup and she drank it.  Wednesday she didn't get it at all and then that was it.  She still will fuss for it or go to where it used to be in the cupboard but I am NOT giving in this time.  She definitely doesn't drink nearly the amount of milk that she used to but I am not going to worry about it.  She eats plenty of cheese, yogurt and ice cream to get her calcium.    She wants her pacifier a lot more since we got rid of the bottle but I decided one thing at a time and I definitely am not ready to travel on a plane with her without the pacifier (we have trips scheduled for Nov, Dec & Jan).  We did cut a slit in one of her pacifiers last weekend though and she doesn't like that one, obviously, so I think we will start using that pacifier more and eventually phase that out too.   Diana is growing up!