Diaper Much

So, it's no secret that I love being with my boys. All the blood, sweat and tears is soooo worth it. The neverending fatigue that accompanies parenthood gets completely (well, maybe not quite completely) erased by those little arms giving you a big hug. I'd love to be a SAHM, but much to my chagrin, that's just not possible right now. Maybe in my next life...

The only aspect of raising 2 babies that I could really do without is changing diapers. Like, really! If I never changed another diaper... you know the rest.

When I got pregnant the first time, we got some GREAT items at the shower - one of which was the handy dandy Diaper Champ. We had our own personal diaper disposal system at our finger tips. It did a pretty good job of masking the (un)pleasant aroma di poopi, but I found myself getting lazier and lazier and we kinda stopped using it some months ago. The reason I don't particularly use it is because toddler poop smells so different from infant poop and in an effort to not waste garbage bags (we used regular kitchen size bags) - I wouldn't empty the Champ until the bag reached capacity. Uhhhh, that thing holds a lot of diapers - which caused for a very stinky nursery.

Anyway, we stopped using it. But we kept it next to our changing station, ya know, for a little ambiance...
sans trash bag.

Fast forward to today.
I come home from work today to an awful stench enveloping the ENTIRE house. I automatically new it was a diaper, but I had no idea where it was coming from. I searched high and low, near and far. Nothing.
I let it go but for a moment.

I take Aaron to the changing room (his old bedroom) and the odor in there could knock you out!!! It didn't smell like that this morning before I left for work - but then again, I was half asleep when I left. Let me just tell you - IT STUNK!!!! It didn't smell like a diaper that had been sitting for a day waiting to be tossed. It smelled more like a diaper that had been hibernating for months waiting for the right opportunity to smack us all in the face.... Boy, did it!

I once again searched the room high and low, near and far. Again, nothing. Something told me to open the Champ. I did. Ty immediately took it outside for further inspection.

So, here's what we found inside. Not sure how long they've been in there and truthfully, I don't care to know. I am positive this is the doing of a child - but it really makes me reconsider our diaper disposal regimen. It also makes me reeeeeaaaalllly want to come back home and embrace all of my control issues and just grab hold of this situation (another post for another day)..


Step one was acknowledging we had a problem. Check! Those diapers gave us no option.
Step two is hosing that sucker down!!! Check!



Step three will be bleaching and disinfecting the Champ tomorrow. No more poop today!

At least I can take some solace in the fact that I made some delish potato soup for dinner tonight. Small victories, right..