Basic Mom Week in Review - 02/14/16
/5 Things That Actually Happened This Week and the Lessons I Learned
1. I found my 2-year-old's previously-full milk cup in my bed. It was no longer full.
Lesson: I need a new mattress.
2. This conversation with my 2-year-old:
2-Year-Old: Mom?!
Me: What?
2-Year-Old: You change my diaper?
Me: Sure. Did you poop or pee?
2-Year-Old (matter-of-factly): Turds.
Lesson: I'm so proud of my 2-year-old's expanding vocabulary.
3. My 2-year-old refused to let me put her coat on, despite the fact that it was about 25 degrees outside. So, I desperately resorted to silliness and asked if she wanted to wear it backwards. It worked.
Actually, it worked too well (a.k.a. I created a backwards-coat-wearing monster):
Lesson: If you see a defeated/tired-looking lady with a kid wearing her coat backwards, don't assume she doesn't know how to dress her child, assume she's desperate (and also that it's probably me).
4. While I was cleaning out the kitchen, my 2-year-old took the opportunity to climb into one of the cupboards. When I asked what she was doing in there, she said, "I pooping!"
Lesson: The cereal cupboard is forever unclean.
5. My 7-year old wrote this at school:
"Write about a time you felt loved . . . when my sister was born and when I saw her I new it was love at frst site."
Lesson: My 7-year-old is far fonder of her little sister when my 7-year-old is at school and my 2-year-old is at home than when they are both at home together. (But, seriously, my heart almost burst when I read this.)
Happy Valentine's Day!
