Kids Water Bottles

I don't know about you moms, but the one thing that I've been restocking constantly is water bottle. We made it a habit for the kids to have their water bottles around with the hope that they'll stay dehydrated all the time. So far, it proves to be  a success. They do not only bring the water bottles to school, but to the park and the balik kampung trips.  We'll make sure that the water bottles are within reach especially through their midnight wakes.

Drinking lots of fluids tend to help the kids a lot especially AZ as she is less heat tolerant compared to AM. She gets really sweaty and red-faced when she has been playing outside and it doesn't help either as the sun can be really unforgiving in KL at the moment. Her lips will also be dry and chapped and it can be rather painful. So it is important that she has to get used to drinking water regularly.

These are just several water bottles that can't be used anymore. You'll notice that they have had their fair share of TLC, probably months before. Some of them are without lids, missing straws and broken spouts. I notice that although the straw spouts are less likely to cause injury to the child, its biggest disadvantage is the time and energy spent in cleaning the straws as well as the assembling and disassembling processes.
And just when you thought the hard spouts are sturdier, they too are not resistant to chewing and biting damaged especially when you have 'persistent' children like mine.

 

Some spouts are accumulated with dirt and debris and they are really impossible to be cleaned.

There are also a few water bottles which are not leak-proof, so I ended up using them instead. The thing with all these water bottles, you don't know whether they are leak-proof until you have bought and use them. Even when you thought that you have properly closed them, they'll end up leaking in the kids' backpacks, on the floor and worse, in the car. And no, the more expensive they are does not mean that they are not prone to leak either.

Still, I don't have the heart to throw away  all these unused water bottles yet. The kids and I have made plant pots out of these water bottles before so I am keeping some for further projects with the kids. You never know when all these might come in handy....says every hoarder.