Basic Mom Week in Review - 07/12/15

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

1. My toddler got hold of my phone, and I found about a dozen selfies like this:

Lesson: I'm going to have to teach her about angles.

2. We removed the training wheels from my 6-year-old's bike.

Lesson: There are a lot of tears involved in attempting to teach a kid how to ride a bike.

3. I wasn't sure whether my toddler needed a diaper change, so I did the pull-the-back-of-her shorts-and peek-down-her-diaper check.

And stuck my finger directly in poop.

Lesson: She did, in fact, need a diaper change. And I need a new finger.

4. My daughters shared a bowl of popcorn during family movie night, and hilarity ensued . . .

My husband kept looking over at my toddler and telling her not to pick her nose (which is weird because she has never been a nose picker).

Then she started sneezing a lot.

That's when my husband said, "Does she maybe have a popcorn kernel up her nose?"

So I checked, and sure enough, she had a popcorn kernel up her nose.

After my initial mixed reaction of laughing and freaking out, we managed to successfully remove the popcorn kernel, only to find ANOTHER one behind it.

We carefully removed that one, and found ANOTHER one behind that one.

After my husband removed the third popcorn kernel while I uncontrollably giggled (because I have a problem where I giggle at inappropriate times), I did a check to make sure we got them all, and sure enough there was ANOTHER popcorn kernel up there.

That's right, somehow my daughter managed to shove FOUR popcorn kernels up a single nostril without anyone noticing.