There are these wonderful times in life where one thinks that potty training means all the diapers go in the trash and I am left with just a few messes to clean up. That is completely wrong, at least it has been for me. If anyone has found a tidy way to potty train, please teach me.
At first it can go either way, one might think my child is amazing and there have only been a couple of clean up times. Then there is the child who leaves mess after mess on the floor, even after being escorted to the potty every ten to fifteen minutes. Not to mention there are so many stages of potty training, it is hard to remember them all. It took over a year for me to stop worry about my first two kids having accidents. Even after that time I found out my daughter enjoyed using the heating vent as a chamber pot in the night. Um...yuck.
I thought poop was actually less work than pee. It tends to stay wadded up in a child's clothing instead of soaking the place. My latest potty training journey has taught me otherwise. I have a little boy who does not mind sitting in a mess and even playing in the poop if it happens to fall down his leg. This is challenging. The first two kids did not like to be dirty and hated being wet.
My third child has finally gotten to the point where it is less of a hassle to go in the potty most of the time. It is refreshing to go from, "NO POTTY" all the time to him asking to use the potty. This has taken months! I love the little guy, but it has been so frustrating.
When I finally thought we were getting somewhere I noticed the boys' bedroom smelling like a bathroom. My first thought was to check the heat vent. This was the last place a child decided to pee, so it had to be that again. I was only partly right. After days of spraying the heat vent with this great stuff the carpet cleaners gave my mom, I realized the smell was not going away.
Nope there was another spot in the room and I was going to have to sniff around the room like a puppy. Then I found it...near the heating vent, but also near the dresser. Yes, it was in the closet. What a great place to hide pee from mommy. I know that my son is not the first because this story has been told to me before.
The challenge is getting worse. I am cleaning the floor every day. The smell will not go away and I know he is still peeing in the closet. There has to be a way to make it stop. Why am I being a drama queen about something so silly? The truth is, I just got one room to smell nice again and now we are dealing with another one. I am so thankful we never got a pet!
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