battle of the bottle.

I think most parents have to deal with a child that is attached to something for a longer period of time than they need to be, am I right? For Ethnie, it's her doll that she can't live without. Going into second grade, she will still sneak it into her backpack each morning.
For Emmett, it's the bottle. Sigh... I know he would still be nursing if I was still producing milk. He loves sucking on a bottle; it is so comforting to him and makes him perfectly content. We have tried several ways to ease him away from the dang thing and each time has failed. With his third birthday rapidly approaching, Matt and I have decided to go cold turkey on breaking him from the bottle.
We are now on day 5 of our no-bottle-until-bedtime rule. I made sure nothing major was planned this week in case he was a nightmare. We have about 6 different kinds of sippy cups; some as close to a bottle as you can get, some with straws, some all hard plastic. Emmett won't touch any of them. It doesn't matter if I poured liquid sugar into it; he will not drink out of it. He has been going hours with nothing to drink because he is that stubborn. Later in the afternoon he'll give in and take gulps of water from a glass, nothing more. It's pretty impressive how stubborn he is being about it. As far as meltdowns go, day 2 was worse than day 1, but he has been tolerable. Yesterday we snuggled a lot because he was having a hard time. The odd thing is he still carries the sippy cup around with him, but won't take a drink.

More updates to come. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!