Basic Mom Week in Review - 03/06/16

5 Things That Actually Happened This Week and the Lessons I Learned

1. I took my 2-year-old to get her first real haircut (AKA, a haircut by someone other than me), and I told her that her new hairstyle is called a bob. So, she walked around all week fluffing her hair and saying, "Look at my new bobs!" to everyone we encountered.

Lesson: I wish I had the confidence of my 2-year-old.

2. My 2-year-old tried wearing underpants twice. She pooped in them both times. Which means that I unsuccessfully tried to remove her poop-filled underpants without spilling their contents and ended up having to clean poop off the bathroom floor twice. The second time, after having completely disinfected the bathroom floor, I realized that I had failed to clean it off her feet.

Lesson: Potty training can wait a couple months.

3. My 7-year-old had to make herself into a superhero for a school project. Meet, "Supper Isla":

Lesson: Apparently, my daughter's superpower is eating light evening meals. (I'm more of a heavy evening-meal eater, myself.)

4. My 7-year-old made a new friend on the bus. She told me that they talked to each other about their families. Here are a couple highlights from their conversation (as told to me by my 7-year-old):

"I said that my mom likes to clean the house and organize things and cook."
"She said her mom likes to sit around on the couch and play on her computer."

Lesson: My daughter thinks I am a 1950's stereotype. And my daughter's new friend thinks her mom is me.

5. My husband was out of town for the week, so, in an effort to keep him up to speed on what was going on at home, I snapped a picture of this epic double meltdown while my 7-year-old was trying to read her "book-in-a-bag" and her sister was not having it.