Because she was holding her stool in so long, Adelaida was getting a little constipated. To combat this, we added prunes to her diet this weekend. She loves prunes, but we limit her to four a day, because we don't want the opposite problem either!
This morning, four days after starting prunes, Adelaida had a bowel movement in her diaper before I got her out of bed. That was fine with me, because at least she is getting it out. It was a pretty large volume, so I assumed she would wait at least another day or two before having another bowel movement.
Fast-forward to naptime today. She sat on the toilet and peed just before naptime, and I put her down for her nap by reading her a book, tucking her into her toddler bed, and closing the door behind me as I left the room. Adelaida often talks, sings, and plays by herself before nap, so when I heard her singing and walking throughout her room for the first hour of her naptime, I didn't think much of it. Eventually she crawled back in her bed and went to sleep, and slept almost two hours.
When she woke up, I opened the door to her room and found Adelaida, naked from the waist down, sitting on her bed. The room was littered with clothes, blankets, and stuffed animals that she had been playing with for the first hour of naptime. I asked Adelaida where her pants were, she pointed to them across the room and said "pants wet." I thought she might have peed in her pants before nap and taken them off, but they were completely dry. I then looked for her underwear, but as I looked across the floor for her underwear I noticed several brown spots on the carpet that I'm certain hadn't been there before her nap. I finally found her underwear, right next to the door, and next to several more brown spots on the carpet ... and that's when I realized what had happened.
She must have decided, sometime during the first hour of naptime, that she needed to poop. She removed her pants, removed her underwear, and went to the door (headed to the toilet, maybe?). Adelaida can't open the door to her bedroom, so naturally she just squatted down on the floor in front of the door and relieved herself there. At this point she was apparently not yet tired, so continued playing at various places throughout the room -- I could clearly see a poopy butt-print next to her bookcase, another by her closet, and a third by her dresser, as well as several smaller prints that may have been left later. Eventually she was tired, so crawled into bed -- wearing only her shirt -- and slept for two hours. When I opened the door to her room after naptime, the door scooted the poop back, so fortunately I didn't step in it myself!
Of course there was a lot of cleaning up to do this afternoon: Adelaida, her bedroom floor, her bed, every piece of furniture she could touch in her room, and after all of those things were cleaned, me!
This is yet another way I never imagined I'd spend an afternoon! But such is the life of a toddler's parent.
I was so intent on cleaning up the various messes this afternoon that I didn't take any pictures of the mess (fortunately!). Instead, I'll leave you with a picture of Adelaida from last week, when she wanted not only her pants and panties, but also her shirt, off to use the toilet. When she was done on the toilet, she painstakingly put her panties back on and put her shoes on, but wasn't interested in either the pants or the shirt, so she ran around mostly naked for a while -- and quite happy to be mostly naked!
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