Stinky!

Luke has an ability to do the strangest things.  I’m sure he isn’t the only kid out there to put things in strange places or hide things from his/her parents.  It just seems like once I figure out where he usually puts things, he decides to hide his stuff somewhere else.

This morning I went to get Luke’s shoes and SMOs (braces), I looked in the usual place underneath a small table in his room….I found two SMOs and one shoe.   The other shoe was MIA.  I looked in all the usual places that he stashes things in his room, under his bed, in his laundry basket, behind the door, in the drawers where I keep diapers, burp clothes and other misc items.  The shoe was nowhere to be found.

Then I had a thought…and it was one of those thoughts that you think “surely not, he wouldn’t do that”.  Then you think about it for a while, and wonder if he would really do that.  Well in this case, I was thinking “I wonder if he put it in the diaper champ, like he did with his juice cup that one time”.  I figured I looked everywhere else, so I decided to go ahead and look…and sure enough….I open up the diaper champ and find the missing shoe with one of the shoe strings attached to part of the champ that flips over….leaving the shoe kind of hanging above all the dirty diapers. 

The worst part was that the shoe smelled like the diaper pail, this also meant the shoe had to have been in there since yesterday some time. Yuck!   Since these are the only pair of shoes we have that Luke can wear with his SMOs I couldn’t just put another pair of shoes on Luke.  Since I was down to just 10 minutes till time to leave for preschool, I took the shoe and put it in the bathroom and sprayed it with air freshener.  When I went back to get the shoe 5 minutes later, it still smelled. 

Oh well, if Luke’s aide says something about smelling something on Luke…I’ll tell her all about it.  When he gets home from school I’ll scrub and scrub those shoes maybe even try to put them in the wash.