Starbucks poster boy?

Wouldn't Starbucks love this picture? This is exactly what they want; kids to get addicted to starbucks early and come often for life!! Well, I must admit, we do visit the starbucks frequently. I guess their logo is Abhi's golden arches (since I don't go to macdonald's) since the advertising sinks in early. I would also like to say that we do support the local coffee shop (singular) when we can. Unfortunately, starbucks just happens to be within walking distance and on pretty much every corner in northern virginia. NoVa is not like Kansas City which has tons of awesome, independent coffee shops.

Enough about coffee shops, lets get to Abhi...The cup was in the bag of groceries that I had on the kitchen floor and he pulled it out because it was something new and different to carry around. He has a million toys and books but he generally prefers things like socks, shoes, cords, whatever mommy is reading, paper of any kind (likes to eat-yummy), looking in the pantry or dishwasher, and in this case a starbucks cup. You give them toys and all they want is everything else! That was exactly the same scenario with my cats. I bought them so many toys. What did they play with...rings from the milk jug. The next person who moves our refrigerator will find a ton of those things under there and wonder what the heck.

As you can see demonstrated in the picture, Abhi looks like he can drink out of a cup really well. Course, this cup is empty and if it did have anything in it he would be soaking wet and possibly choking soon after (not to mention burned if there was a very hot coffee item in it). But, he does have the concept of how to put a cup to his mouth. He gets this from the bath because he has cups to play with there and he is constantly drinking the bath water out of them. So, we don't play with the cups much anymore to try and prevent that - his answer - he just sticks his face in the water and drinks. What can I do? He is using a sippy cup now, although, not a lot. He can drink out of it but he mostly chews on the nipple part and throws it on the floor. He is also starting to hold his bottle but he generally prefers to sit back, relax and let us do the work. That's OK, I still love the frequent cuddling time and so does he. No hurry!

So, overall, Abhi is learning all the concepts of eating and drinking. He just needs to keep practicing.

It has been a busy week: mother's day, bdays for J and K, and Abhi with all his activities you have been reading about. We celebrated mothers day with Indian brunch with our friends (mentioned in earlier post) and then I left the boys at home and 'rocked' at the radiohead concert with my friend Lori (Lori and family had cake and sang happy bday for me before the concert). Well, more like, tried to stay a float at the concert since it was a crazy downpour. I got flowers and a stone massage at the spa from Abhi. K is training him well from the start! Not much bday celebrations during the week, just more flowers for me and some little goodies for K. He is working like a dog so he is in need of some R and R this weekend. More next week...have a great weekend!!