Basic Mom Week in Review - 03/05/17

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

1. My Monday afternoon included my 3-year-old being diagnosed with "Cellulitis of buttock."

Lesson: Two doctors attempting to get a culture from the abscess on a 3-year-old's "buttock" is as traumatic as it sounds.

2. This exchange with my 3-year-old while reading an alphabet book:

3-Year-Old: "O" for . . . What's that?

Me: Orangutan.

3-Year-Old (pointing to the small "o" in the corner): Also for Target.

Lesson: My daughter's animal- and letter-recognition may be lagging, but she sure knows how to spot a logo.

3. This conversation while my 3-year-old was brushing her teeth:

Me: How's your new toothpaste?

3-Year-Old: It kind of tastes minty.

Me: Yeah?

3-Year-Old (removes toothbrush from her mouth and holds it out to me): Here, try it.

Lesson: My daughter called my bluff on how interested I really was in the flavor of her new toothpaste.

4. I helped my 8-year-old with her science fair project.

Lesson: I really hope second grade science fair projects are more about the process than precision because, in all honesty, I have no idea how to accurately measure the absorbency of a paper towel. (But, for those interested, Viva won the three trials of our probably-not-very-accurate absorbency test).

5. As part of "Five Senses" week at my daughter's preschool, her teacher asked each student what his/her favorite things to touch, smell, hear, see, and taste are and wrote down the responses to send home. Here are my daughter's responses: