Walk to the lake and drink from a cup

Esme has been spitting her sippy cup water into lots of containers and trying to drink from them -- so we think maybe that is a sign she is ready to start learning a regular cup. She's also really interested in my coffee cups although she can't have them. She's had a sippy cup since about six months (Playtex ones from WM) and drinks really well from those.

We got a few unbreakable plastic cups with good handles she has already 'pretended' to drink out of. I brought her into our tile-floored bathroom and filled the cup up with cold water and my ceramic cup up with coffee. We practiced drinking although a lot of hers was either pretend 'air' drinks or full down-chest pours she got some in her mouth and was very proud of herself.

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She also walked almost all the way down to the lake and almost all the way back up with us yesterday. Mark says that is almost a half-mile. Wow what those little legs can do! After we got home we washed her hands, changed her clothes and gave her some water. Within minutes she was passed out asleep!