It was bitterly cold despite strong sunshine. Emily spent half an hour sitting in the park collecting pods from a sycamore tree, and it took a lot of encouragement to get her to move and use some energy up before lunch. Meeting Julia and Charlize at Arisugawa late afternoon, it was so cold that I wished I had a scarf and hat, and poor Emily's hands were red raw, not that she seems to notice, mind you.
I've been thinking for a long time about getting her off the bottle but I couldn't pluck up courage to try something new. In the supermarket I saw that they sold packs of 100ml cartons with a straw and decided to go for it. I gave her one for lunch and one for tea, thereby replacing her usual 200ml bottle before bed. It took a lot of work to get her to drink both of them, but she didn't bat an eyelid at bedtime when we went straight to tooth-brushing without the usual drink first. I repeated several times that she was not a baby but a big girl now and it was time to leave the teat behind. Seemed to do the trick.
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