I woke up this morning thinking that it was going to be a wonderful day. I had a fairly good nights sleep. Lydia actually slept until 3:30 and didn't wake up again until 6:30. The sun was shining. In my mind I thought it would be a wonderful day to go to the Zoo or out and about. I turned on the news to check the weather and then went into Gabe's room to get him up. He asked my to open the blinds so he could see out the windows. The garbage man came and went. Gabe watched him collect all of the trash on the street. I sat and nursed Lydia and made wonderful plans for the day in my head.
Then it happened.
Gabe came into my room. His first words were, " there is poop in my room. poop on the floor in my room."
OH N O! Maybe it isn't that bad, I thought to myself. I put down my baby and went to inspect the damage. There was definitely poop on the floor, all smashed into the carpet. "What do I do now? What is the best way to get poop out of the carpet?" I put Gabe in the shower and immediately went to call my mom. When she wasn't available I called my cousin who has had numerous blog posts about poop. They both basically said the same thing. Get up as much as you can and then put some cleaner on it. I did this. My mom told me to go to this cleaning store in town that has something that should get it up. I decided to google "cleaning poop out of carpet" I found a blog of a mom that said to use peroxide.
As I type this at 10am there is still poop in my carpet. I am sure that we wont get to the Zoo today. I think that our first stop will be the cleaning supply store. Hopefully we will be able to get out and do something fun once this whole poop fiasco is all figured out. I am praying that it wont stain the carpet.
P.S. Some of you may be wondering how the poop got in the carpet exactly. Well, we have been using pull-ups to potty train Gabe the past few weeks. As of yesterday he decided that he doesn't really like sitting in a wet Pull-Up. He obviously is still working on figuring out the whole big boy potty thing.
2 comments:
Does it make you want to purchase a carpet cleaner? Potty training is no fun! We just finished with Karlie. Our whole downstairs is wood, with leather furniture, otherwise, I definitely would have bought a carpet cleaner before potty training. Good luck! I have complete empathy for you. I think cleaning up poop alone should be enough to get any parent into Heaven.
Yucky! I would have reacted the same way.
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