All signs point to Sophia growing up. Yesterday along with my bra shopping pleasure, I also bought Sophia her first pair of shoes with a more protective rubber sole. Up until this point her only shoes have been her leather bottom Robeez which will now serve as indoor shoes so she doesn’t slip on our hardwood floors. I bought her a pair of Stride Rite shoes designed for early walkers with a very flexible sole. I was going to get her a regular pair of not so bendy shoes that were actually on sale but she started crying and walking around like a tiptoeing Frankenstein. Doctors say that it’s best to let kids walk around barefoot, which Robeez essentially does, until they get better balance. But it makes getting her into real shoes a multi step process. The girl versions of these early walker shoes look like a case of Pepto-Bismol exploded in the store so I bought a pair of white and blue “boy’s shoes”.

When we got home from shopping, I noticed that Sophia’s big girl Old Navy jeans were torn. I swear I didn’t tie her up and drag her behind the car. Seriously, though, how the hell does a pair of toddler’s pants get torn like this? I noticed that all the light areas of her pants are where the fabric is actually getting thinner. It sucks cause these were one of my favorite pairs of big girl pants. The really cool part about these pants were inside the waist band there is a stretchy band with button holes that when pulled with cinch up the pants thereby allowing me to skip a pant size and put my one year old in one and a half year old clothes. I guess thin fabric is there way of getting back at cheap parents. They must engineer their fabric to only last as long as it would take the average toddler to outgrow them, so don’t buy a size ahead with the eternal, “She’ll grow into them” cheap mommy logic. Clothing stores are onto us with our cinched up waistline and rolled cuffed toddlers.

The last sign of Sophia’s constant maturing is her switch to a pseudo sippy cup. I was being stubborn and only offering Sophia the AVENT sippy cups that I had already bought. I didn’t want to have to buy a thousand different sippy in order to get her to switch, but in Target I saw the Nuby No Spill 10 oz Gripper Cup with Soft Silicone Spout. The spout is shaped like a sippy cup spout but it’s soft and is made from the same silicone as a bottle nipple. It’s the happy undecided cup. It works when the baby clams down on the spout thereby opening two slits that let the fluids flow and closes again with a lack of pressure. If you shake it upside-down as if you’re mixing formula droplets will escape and if you have a mischievous toddler *glaring at Sophia* that likes to hold the cup upside-down while squeezing the spout fluids will flow. So if you still have pristine carpet or furniture that you cherish avoid adding staining juices to this cup. Other than that it’s spill proof and Sophia took to it as if there were no difference between it and her bottle. I couldn’t find it on Target’s online store but it was about $4.50 for two Gripper cups at our local store and they can also be found on Amazon.

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