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Despite our attempts to keep it on the QT, most of my daughter's friends know that despite being 12 years old she sometimes drinks out of a sippy cup:
The lids are long gone, replaced by fun straws. The spill-proof aspect is no longer (usually) the important part. We keep them around for the numbers down the side. They allow us to measure how many ounces of juice she is drinking when she is low.
On the go and at school, it's Elmo or Clifford juice boxes all the way. But my daughter really likes orange juice, so when she's low at home, that's her preference. Enter the sippy cup. We can measure varying amounts based on her blood sugar number right into the cup she'll drink it from.
It's strange to still have sippy cups around, and will be stranger still when she takes them to college with her, but measuring juice quickly and accurately is great when we're in hurry to bring that blood sugar up.
