Messy Situation

Ugh...Natalie has been digging poop out of her diaper during naps and at night and throwing it outside of her crib.  Disgusting!  She has done this 3 times now.  Each time it has gotten gradually worse. The thing about it is, she does not cry or make noises to let us know through the baby monitor that she needs changed. Instead, she digs it out, throws it out of her crib, smears it on her crib and today it was even on the wall. Then, she falls asleep...gross!

I looked up what to do about this problem and read several times that this is a major sign to start potty training. Other suggestions were to safety pin their clothes together (unsafe!), put their sleepers on backward (couldn't figure out how her feet would go in then), etc. It doesn't seem to matter if she has a sleeper or pants on because she knows how to get both off. So...I guess we will go to round 3 of potty training this weekend. Tonight, we went to the store to let Natalie pick out her own "big girl" underwear.  There were 4 we had her choose from, Bobby held up 2 and I held up the other 2: princesses, Dora, Elmo, Thomas (Natalie's pick from the cart so we held it up). 

And she chose...

 

Elmo did not surprise me at all, but Thomas was a shocker for both of us!  We do not watch Thomas, we don't have any Thomas books, we never ever see anything Thomas (nothing against Thomas, she just hasn't been exposed to it at home)...so, she must have picked that up at daycare either through books or another kid because they don't watch TV there either.

Anyhow, I guess we will see how this weekend goes with Elmo (girl) and Thomas (boy) underwear.