2 New Accomplishments!

Cooper's timing is always amazing to me. Always at times when I am struggling with his slow development, he suprises me. Last night consisted of 2 new firsts for Cooper.

The first was that he learned to drink from a cup. For some reason he has been afraid to drink from a cup, although he has no problem drinking from a sippy cup, water bottle, or a straw. But he just would not drink out of a cup. Peter decided that he was going to tackle this yesterday and while he held Cooper still, I tilted the cup. Cooper put up quite a fight, and then he realized that what was in the cup is the same apple juice that he always drinks. And that was it. Now he drinks like a big boy. We cheered and clapped for him and gave him gummy bears between sips, and he knew that he was doing something big. He had the sweetest proud smile on his face. In fact, he drank so much enjoying his new skill that Peter decided to move on to the next thing.

Peter put Cooper on the potty right after leaving the dinner table. Cooper has had much experience at this point sitting on the potty, but he has never done anything other than play. But with all the juice, Peter felt that something was bound to come out. And lo and behold, something came out. A great big stinky on the potty! We all cheered and clapped and made a big deal out of it. We talked all about the stinky and then let Cooper flush and wave "Bye, Bye" to the stinky. It was really funny. And earlier today, Peter got Cooper to go "tee tee" on the potty. Potty training will take quite a while with Cooper, but we were happy to have made this big step forward.

And who did it all? Papa did.