Just to follow up on the "Toxic Bottle" post...I did throw away all my old bottles and I bought new BPA -Free ones. (big faux pax...I probably should have recycled those toxic time-bombs.) Target had Gerber and Evenflo bottles that are marked "BPA-Free" for $2.99 for 3. I figured peace of mind was worth it. Sorry, but there was no way in h#*% I was going to do glass bottles (even if I could find some). I'm not June Cleaver. More like a Meat Cleaver. And I wasn't about to pay $10 PER bottle for "BornFree". I spent $10 and got 9 bottles!
But here's the kicker...most of the sippy cups and plastic dishes (including real TUPPERWARE!) are NOT bpa free! So, I think I'm going to train Bailey to start drinking from a bottle again. j/k. Here's how you tell...look on the bottom of your plasticware, if it has any of the #'s 1-7 on it, it contains BPA. But not everything is marked. So the recommendation is not to heat anything in plastic. Heat it in a glass/ceramic dish. Oh, but wait? What about the trace levels of lead in those? Basically we're screwed.
I figure we've grown up on plastic, melamine, glass, and probably a lot of lead from those fancy Christmas dishes my mom bought in what was then Czechoslovakia. Aside from minor twitches, I'm okay. If I can find plastic ware that is BPA free and reasonably priced, and readily available, I'll go for it. I probably needed new bottles anyway, and I know I need new sippy cups. The teeth marks in mine are becoming very disturbing. But isn't an almost-5-year-old a little old for sippy cups? Who am I kidding? My mom made me drink out of a sippy cup until I graduated from High School. (No joke. If we had a drink in the family room, it was supposed to have a lid on it!)
Good luck, and Happy Sipping!
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Benson about his allergies:
"My mose is getting bigger. Probably meed a pink medicine to calm it down."
Me to Benson, who's carring around a bag of candy corn:
"Where did you get that?"
Benson: "Gwandmah gabe it to me."
Me: "you're not supposed to be eating that."
Benson: "But I YUB canny cwone."
Benson at the Post Office: "GET OUT OF THE WAY, PEOPLE!"
Mom: "Benson! That's not NICE!"
Benson: "GET OUT OF THE WAY, PEOPLE! THANKS YOU, PLEASE!"
Benson: 8:30AM- "I wan hanburger, cheese, BIG PICKLE!"
Brynley: "dadaddaabbbbdadddd" (just babbling)
Benson: "Dada not here. Dada WOKES, Brynney!"
Dr. Worrall: "This medicine will probably make her poop red."
Bailey: "RED?!?! I LOVE RED! It's my favorite color!!"
"Be a Big Boy. Be a BIG BOY!"
-Benson trying to comfort Bailey while she's whimpering at getting her hair combed.
"I wan roo-roo in fies" (I want root-beer and fries)
-Benson, hanging his head in his hand and crying when seeing something he didn't like for dinner.
"You see that fat thing on my mom's tummy? That's my sister."
-Bailey explaining to her friend how many siblings she has.
"That's way too much girlish for me!"
-Bailey, referring to why she doesn't want to do ballet.
-Bailey saying a prayer:
"Please bless Mom that she will feel good tomorrow, and not like crap."
"Mom, I'm SURELY not little."
(Because I said Bailey was my 'little girl')
"Look Mom. Look what Benson's doing! He looks like a human!" - Bailey
"I'm all flickery!" -Bailey referring to having static after jumping on the trampoline.
"Let's go to Texarlvania"- Bailey playing with her toys.
"My mose is getting bigger. Probably meed a pink medicine to calm it down."
Me to Benson, who's carring around a bag of candy corn:
"Where did you get that?"
Benson: "Gwandmah gabe it to me."
Me: "you're not supposed to be eating that."
Benson: "But I YUB canny cwone."
Benson at the Post Office: "GET OUT OF THE WAY, PEOPLE!"
Mom: "Benson! That's not NICE!"
Benson: "GET OUT OF THE WAY, PEOPLE! THANKS YOU, PLEASE!"
Benson: 8:30AM- "I wan hanburger, cheese, BIG PICKLE!"
Brynley: "dadaddaabbbbdadddd" (just babbling)
Benson: "Dada not here. Dada WOKES, Brynney!"
Dr. Worrall: "This medicine will probably make her poop red."
Bailey: "RED?!?! I LOVE RED! It's my favorite color!!"
"Be a Big Boy. Be a BIG BOY!"
-Benson trying to comfort Bailey while she's whimpering at getting her hair combed.
"I wan roo-roo in fies" (I want root-beer and fries)
-Benson, hanging his head in his hand and crying when seeing something he didn't like for dinner.
"You see that fat thing on my mom's tummy? That's my sister."
-Bailey explaining to her friend how many siblings she has.
"That's way too much girlish for me!"
-Bailey, referring to why she doesn't want to do ballet.
-Bailey saying a prayer:
"Please bless Mom that she will feel good tomorrow, and not like crap."
"Mom, I'm SURELY not little."
(Because I said Bailey was my 'little girl')
"Look Mom. Look what Benson's doing! He looks like a human!" - Bailey
"I'm all flickery!" -Bailey referring to having static after jumping on the trampoline.
"Let's go to Texarlvania"- Bailey playing with her toys.
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2 comments:
Is drinking from a sippy cup at 18 a BAD thing?! I figured we only used those Christmas dishes for a little while, once a year. We can hardly see the extra ear you grew.
This Guh will toss all her bottles (or recyle them) and get new ones for Benson and LaLa to have at my house.
As for Tupperware, mine is so OLD (circa 1975), I can't believe the BPA is worse than the bacteria that most likely thrives on the old, misshapen plastic. :)
I guess we can STEW about this more when I get there. I looked on the bottom of my TRUSTY NALGENE bottles that I have had for almost 5 years...and they are marked with a number 7!! Yup...isn't that great??? I saw some cool water bottles on Opera the other day, and I may invest in some of those...who knows :)
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