Diaperless

If you’ve been following this blog, you know that we are potty training baby M.  Well, it’s been a few weeks and the potty training is still going.  Much of the slow progress is attributed to M and me… we’ve just been too tired (or have had too much happening) on the weekends to dedicate a lot of time to it; it’s been easier leaving him in a diaper.  Baby M does okay for the most part, but still has an accident here and there at daycare a few times a week.  They put him in underwear during the day, but by pickup time, they put the kids back in a diaper for the ride home.  I always just take it for granted that this is automatically done, and I never bother checking if baby M is in a diaper or not when I pick him up.

Our town’s library is having a book sale all week long at the local mall and last night, they had a puppet show for the kids.  I thought it would be fun, so we deviated from our normal going-home routine and went to the mall after school.  The puppet show was at 7:00pm and lasted for about 20 minutes.  We decided to have dinner at Panera Bread afterwards.  I was holding baby M on my lap while we were eating, and all of a sudden, I felt a warm sensation on one side of my lap.  A second later, the warm sensation trickled over to my other leg.  I put baby M down and realized he had peed on me.  I initially thought it was just an overfilled diaper, but then baby M said he had to go poopy.  I looked in his pants to see if he pooped already, and to my horror, he was only wearing underwear!  I could not believe his teacher forgot to put a diaper on him!  And of course, this had to happen on a day when we did not go straight home.  Fortunately no poop in his pants yet, so I rushed to the bathroom for him to do his deed.  Seeing how his pants and underwear were soaked in urine, I was torn between hurrying home to give him a bath and buying new clothes for him at the mall (yes, as luck would have it, I did not bring an extra change of clothes with me).  Since it was getting late, we decided to just head home.  I used a blanket that baby M had in the car to cover the car seat so that he wouldn’t get pee all over it.  Oddly enough, baby M didn’t seem bothered by the fact that he was drenched in wet pee-stained clothing. Oh the fun!