He's Learning

Yesterday was my crazy day, wherein I ran all over the place all day to various activities, including Trout's ballet class and Sunny's gymnastics class, both in the same location in the next town over but 7 hours apart.

Anyway, yesterday BigDaddyFish was home sick, due to this horrible fatigue virus that I seem to be coming down with now (you don't feel particularly awful, just tired enough to sleep for a week and mildly achy). At one point yesterday he went up to our loft to work for a while, and Sunny tried to go with him, but she was driving him crazy in the way that 3 year olds do, chattering away and flitting hither and yon, destroying as much as possible and leaving a trail of toys and trash in her wake.

Sunny came down the stairs, threw a pillow and an afghan on the floor, and proceeded to wail "This is my worst. day. ever."

"Whatsa matter, Sunny?"

"This is my worstest day ever."

"Well, what's wrong? Why is it your worst day?"

"Daddy won't let me be in the loft with him and He Shut THE DOOR! AAAAHHHHH!" Wail, sniffle, sob.

So I IM'd BigDaddyFish to let him know Sunny was having her Worstest Day Ever all because he shut the door. Soon after that he called Sunny up to be with him, and she immediately turned off the waterworks and skipped up the stairs. I left shortly thereafter to do the Pick Trout Up At Chess Club and Take Her To Ballet shuffle. (It's really not so bad. I get a quiet moment to read a book for a while, at least until the Belly Dancing class next door comes in and starts ajingling away.)

When I returned home, BigDaddyFish told me to close my eyes because he had something to show me. I figured he was feeling better and that I knew what he was going to show me, but decided to humor him. Instead of flashing me his Noodly Appendage he took me into the girls' room and told me to open my eyes.

In the middle of the room was a humongous puddle on the carpet, clearly covering more than two feet, and apparently created with a couple of gallons of liquid. In the middle of it was a saturated box from an American Girl doll, a pile of about 300 soggy Q-tips, the empty Q-tip box, the detritus of about 6 empty water bottles and their caps, and a soaked stuffed rabbit.

"What happened here?"

"I don't know. She left the loft and I didn't pay quick enough attention when she was quiet, I guess. But I swear, she was only gone about ten minutes. It's amazing how quickly she can make a mess."

Indeed.

Later on, I asked Sunny what happened there and she told me that she put water in the box and pee-peed in it. I asked her why and she said "Because there was water there and I had to go." We have since had a long talk about the difference between one's floor and the toilet, and that she's not to touch water bottles any more, unless there's a grown up standing right next to her.

Anyone got a good source for getting that awful pee smell out of the carpet?

Comments

[Summer]

There are good products for getting the pee smell out of carpets, check the pet aisle at Target or go to a pet store. I'm trying to remember the name of the one I just used to clear up Olga's last accidents... maybe OdorAway, or something? "Petsorb" is another name that just popped in my mind. Anyway, they work. If it could clean up what I had to clean up, it can clean up a bit of watery kiddie pee.

[angi]

I'd like to know this too only our stinky mess is the mattress. Reading the last comment made me remember a pet spray someone mentioned to me once called something Nature, Nature's Friend maybe? I was told it takes pet stains/smells out like no other. I'll let you know if I try it...

[Agincourtdb]

Haha... I love it how I was downstairs for all of this and still didn't know about the pee part.