No More Bottle part 2 (Small blessings in disguise)

I figure since I can't turn my back on James for more than a few minutes at a time I will do several posts throughout the day and call them "parts"

     So far the no bottle hasn't really been much of an issue today. All I could think of as I was throwing them out was "Perfect timing" since I just bought a brand new bottle brush, nipples, and the drying rack was less than a couple of months old. We were spending so much on replacement nipples it was crazy! You pay something like $3.00 for 2 nipples and James loved to chew through the nipples so every week we were buying at least 2 to 3 packs of them (I had 7 bottles). When I would watch him just sit there and chew on them while drinking his milk I would thank the Lord that I wasn't nursing anymore. 

     I'm so thankful we are over the teething stage!!! Our furniture looks like we had a dog at one point. I would catch James chewing on the table legs and our computer chair arms. It was pointless to even look for new furniture cause James would make his many marks all over them. Even caught him chewing on baseboards. Teething rings and toys would not help. When he was real young we would put water in the nipples and freeze them and that seemed to ease his pain. That's another thing I'm thankful for he decided to give those up on his own. One time though I threw them out too soon thinking he was done with them, but not yet. Had to spend a bunch of money replacing those and not even a month later he was done with them for good.

     As I write James is currently sitting on the floor (under the dining room table) hiding from me so I wont take the bottle brush away. I keep forgetting he can reach onto the counters and open drawers to get stuff out. Every day is something new and not exciting cause I am waiting for the day that we rent a room in the ER because we'll be there every week. James' favorite thing to do is to push his firetruck toy  over to wherever he  knows he shouldn't be, hence the picture and use it to touch things. He used to need it to climb unto the couches, but today he learned he can do that all by himself. Thankfully we have carpet and it's not a long fall plus he can get down all by himself too. Well he opened the entertainment drawer and is dragging all the stuff that he found inside all around the house. He has a basket of toys just to his left as you can see in the picture that he can play with, but instead wants to play with mommy and daddy's stuff. Well I better go check my cookies. James wanted oatmeal cookies today so I said okay :)