I thought, great! We’ll get a cup in the mail, C will use the cup, I’ll write about the cup, maybe we’ll really like it …
… until she rushed back to me a minute later, mad because she’d shut the top — leaving the straw trapped inside!
The cup was a little stiff from being brand-new, I think, because I had to work it a bit to get it to open up again. I opened it for C, handed it back, and she returned about 20 seconds later having done the same thing again. Oh dear, I thought, what shall I tell the interwebz about our cup?
But you know what? It all worked out within the morning. She figured out that maaaaaybe it wasn’t a good idea to shut her cup every two seconds. And the cup loosened up and figured that maaaaaaybe it was OK to let the crazy one-year-old open and close it. And since then, it’s been a beautiful friendship.
From a mom’s perspective, it’s been a VAST improvement over our cheap regular cups. It doesn’t leak, even if it’s lying on its side and the lid isn’t closed. I watched it tip over on D’s bed during storytime, and it didn’t drip at all.
It’s been four days since C was introduced to her new cups, and she’s in love with them. You can often find her toting them both around, actually. D has sneaked a drink from them here and there — because, let’s face it, glasses are totally boring — and C shrieked indignantly at him.
In the name of true brand ambassadorship — or whatever it is when you review a sippy cup on the internet? — I took a sip from it myself. I was pleasantly surprised by how the water had stayed cold (it’s insulated!) and that’s as far as I got in my observations before C grabbed it back.
Tantrums, shrieking, grabbing. My, this post is making her sound like a peach, isn’t it? Good thing she’s a marketing genius.
xoxo
*** Tommee Tippee provided us with two Explora Truly Spill Proof Straw Cups to review, but all opinions (and grabbing/shrieking issues) are our own. ***
The only thing worse than when your kid keeps locking down the straw is when your kid learns to reopen their straw cup, but the straw pops up and splashes a drop of milk in their eye. Every. Friggin. Time. Does yours do that?