Basic Mom Week in Review - 04/12/15

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

1. The kids and I enjoyed our first trip of the year to the playground:

Until disaster struck, and my toddler ended up in the emergency room with one of her front teeth pushed up into her top gum (read the whole story here):

Lesson: It may be time to invest in a helmet and mouth guard for my toddler.

2. My toddler decided to handle our Cinderella DVD after eating toast with Nutella: 

Lesson: Contrary to popular belief, not everything is better with Nutella.

3. This conversation:

6-year-old (holding out an M&M): Mom, I found this on the floor.

Me: What? Do you want to eat it?

6-year-old: Yes.

Me: [watches 6-year-old put M&M in her mouth before I have a chance to tell her not to]

Lesson: Eh, it's probably better than most of the things my toddler tries to eat. 

4. I made the mistake of hugging my toddler while wearing a new shirt without first making sure she wasn't holding a dry erase marker.

Lesson: While dry erase markers are very easy to wipe off dry erase boards, they are not so easily removed from white fabric. R.I.P. new shirt - we had a lovely 90 minutes.

5. I was working on my laptop in the bathroom while the kids were taking a bath. Suddenly, my 6-year-old nonchalantly said, "Mom, she pooped." 

I looked over and saw that my toddler had, indeed pooped, and set said poop on the ledge of the bath tub.

Lesson: Sometimes you just have to laugh. (And then start the disinfecting process.)