The Phantom Poop

Today was a fun day!  They boys spent the night at Grandma Deb and Grandpa John's house last night and Adam and I got to go on a great date night with two other couples. The church we go to had a fair today and so we loaded up the boys and went.  We met the McIntires over there.  Spencer did a great job at all the stations and Elliott ran around terrorizing everyone's balloons! :) I think he succeeded in popping two kids' balloon animals...crazy kid!  When we got home, Elliott was exhausted and off to bed he went. Spencer and I played a few board games and put up Halloween decorations (finally) while Dad watched football.  When Elliott got up we went out to play in the backyard. Elliott eventually got a dirty diaper, so I took him in to change him. All afternoon, I smelled poop. I looked my clothes over a few times to make sure I didn't get any on me, and I don't know how many times I gave my hands a good scrubbing. Then, Adam said he smelled poop also and he thought that it might be coming from Spencer. Maybe he didn't wipe well enough? No, that wasn't it...we were both smelling it, but we couldn't figure out where it was coming from! Well, all evening, same story, poop smell, no evidence of poop anywhere.  Finally when Adam was reading Spencer his bedtime story he figured it out.  The smell was radiating off of Minnie, our dachshund poodle mix, who thinks she is our little princess child.  Evidently she had rolled in some poop outside. Adam proceeded to give her a stern talking-to as he gave her a bath. Mystery solved. Yuck!