Bye-bye bottles!

I am now proud to announce that bottles are a thing of history in our home! Over Christmas break, I started weaning Alexis from the bottle. I decided to start with the two bottles during the daytime. With multiple attempts and many a tear, we successfully got Alexis down to taking only one bottle a day right before bed. I was really scared to even tackle the bedtime bottle, because her bedtime routine is so successful. However, this weekend, I put a brave face on and attempted to give Alexis a very small amount of milk in her sippy before bed and laid her down to go to sleep. It worked like a charm. She was asleep in the same amount of time, if not less, than any other night. That was the first hurdle I wanted to jump, the second being if she'd still sleep through the night. She woke up at the same time as she usually does! So, I counted the attempt a success. However, I was slightly worried, because Saturday night was a very stressful night (it's a long story) and I was worried that Sunday night would not be as successful. Apparently, I have nothing to worry about; Alexis has had a very small amount of milk before bed and produced the same results for three days in a row! If this pattern continues, we will get to toss the bottles for good! It's hard to believe how much our baby girl is growing into a big girl! She'll be one year in just a few weeks! How time does fly :)