state of the undies address: an update on incontinence

Citizens of the internet, we are a great nation. We have accomplished great things in recent months, and yet we still have much work to do. So much work.

First, the good news. One of my older three was still in pull-ups at night, until one night about two weeks ago when we realized at bedtime that we were out of them. The child managed to pull out a win and stay dry, and has every night since. We don't even need to awaken the child for a last pee before we go to bed. This progress represents a savings of about $25/month in pull-ups, not to mention the additional water, power and detergent costs from our many overflows. This is awesome!

Now, the bad news. Haney, who is 4 [pictured below],

age 4

...has decided she is too good for toilets. She has been pooping her pants with reckless abandon for the last week or two. Jason thinks it is because of school starting -- she holds it at school, gets constipated, then there is the disgusting leakage problem... Enjoy your afternoon snack, by the way.

Anyway, Jason is able to be gracious about this but I am not. I am so tired of poop. And we are running out of underwear. 

Haney is also still solidly in pull-ups at night. I know this because I tried to make her go without one last night, and apparently she wet the bed and woke Jason up and he helped her change and she spent the rest of the night in bed with us. I slept through this flurry of activity in the wee hours. Wee hours. Heh. Get it?