You Peed Where?

Last week I noticed that Wyatt's room smelled like pee. Strange I thought.

But Shane sleeps in Wyatt's room and so I thought that the smell was coming from Shane's diaper in the morning. You know how even when a diaper doesn't leak but it is full, it smells like pee?

So last Saturday John took the kids shopping and I decided to give the upstairs a good deep cleaning. Dusting. Vacuuming. Wiping the baseboards and light switches. The fun stuff.

Then I decided to tackle Wyatt's room. I pulled the sheets off his and Shane's bed and as I carried them down to the laundry room I was surprised that they didn't smell like pee. If it wasn't the bed then where was the pee smell coming from?

So I figured that maybe one of the kids had left a dirty diaper somewhere in the room. I crawled around on the floor looking for diapers and when I got to one corner of the room the smell of pee was overwhelming.


I moved Wyatt's chair away from the wall and was shocked to see pee stains all over the floor!!!

I called Wyatt upstairs and said "Have you been peeing in your room behind your chair?". Just then John walked in the door from grocery shopping and he was as shocked as I was when Wyatt answered "Yes."

We grilled him. "How many times did you do this?" "Why didn't you go in the potty?" "Were you scared to leave your room?" "When did this happen?" "Did you do this because you were mad at us about something?"

We didn't get much in the way of answers. "I don't know" was pretty much it.

The punishment was pretty severe. Wyatt lost his cell phone privileges (my old phone with no services btw) and dessert for one week. It was brutal, but we wanted to make sure that there was not going to be a repeat pee fest going on in his bedroom ever again.

I told him that if he wanted to pee on the floor he would have to sleep outside with the animals. Because animals pee on the floor and then sleep next to it.


After retelling that story to friends it is amazing how many people have similar stories about their own kids. One girl said that whenever her daughter got in trouble she would go behind their couch and pee on the floor. Another girl told me that her son did the same thing in his bedroom behind his bed. My own mother told me that her girls peed in a potted tree in her living room when they were little. She has been known to make stuff up though.....

So I did a lot of carpet cleaning last week. And a lot of furniture moving and smelling the floor. I don't think that Wyatt's room smells anymore, but every time that I go in there I subconsciously smell pee.

My Mom thought that I shouldn't post that story because Wyatt would be embarrassed. When he learns to read and can read this blog, he will probably already know how to crack my password and delete any posts that he feels are inappropriate. By next year my blog will probably say things like "Mom sucks" and "My Mom is mean".

So enjoy the pee story. It might not be here for long.....