Bottle Fairy

My sweet little boy who will be three in February was still drinking milk from a bottle. We went to the store quite a while ago and had him pick out a cup that he would drink his milk from. That lasted about two days and then he wanted nothing to do with it. I hadn't hid the bottles so bad on my part, but I honestly didn't care so I let him drink from the bottles again. He isn't a great eater so I was just glad he was getting some calories and if the bottle was the only way to do it, then so be it.  After talking to neighbors though, I decided we needed to just do it and stick to it this time. 

My sister-in-law, July had the idea of having the bottle fairy come and leave a gift in place of the bottles. The bottles would be gone and would go to another child who needed bottles.  Jackson and I went to Walmart and were looking at cups and I started telling him about the bottle fairy and she gives bottles to other kids, but will leave you a fun present in their place. I told him that she might bring him a cool car and he was not liking any of it. "I just want my ba-ba!"  We walked over to the toys and of course he found some things he wanted. I told him the bottle fairy might bring that. Finally he settled on a Cars Race track and said he wanted that. I talked to him for a few minutes about the bottle fairy again to make sure he really understood what would happen and he said he was okay with it. He said he wanted his bottles back though. He makes me laugh. 

CJ went to Walmart and got the track and I wrapped it and put it on the counter. In the morning Jackson asked for a bottle and I carried him to the counter and he got so excited when he saw the present. He was very excited to open it and when he saw what it was he said,"I'm so happy!" That just made the ridiculously priced track totally worth it. 

Despite his face in the last picture, he was very excited. He likes to do sad faces when I take pictures. The whole day was great. We played with the track all day long. That night he did ask for a bottle and cried for a good ten minutes. It has now been three days and all is well.