what's that smell?

i know i just posted something, but this was too good to not tell. i wish i'd taken pictures though. why is it that you only think of that afterwards, and not when it's still there?

it's sunday, i'm sitting here in my bedroom indexing cause it's the best room in the house to get an internet signal. the baby is asleep in the crib and the kids are playing in their bedroom, or so i thought. shannon woke up and i went to go feed her in the front room. as i'm walking out, i smell something funny. i notice that the kids are in the front room, and i ask them what they've been into. taylor tells me "nothing," i tell him that's a lie cause i can smell it. then i start looking a little closer. there are large black spots on the carpet in front of the door. it hits me then what the smell was, shoe polish. they had gotten into a thing of shoe polish and proceeded to paint with it on the carpet. not a good thing. (oh, and this is after i've already cleaned up sugar once today.)

i put shannon in the swing and got to work cleaning the floor. i found the shopvac, emptied it, took the dry vac sleeve off, and got the prespot and the sol-u-mel. i sprayed the carpet with the presot, let it sit for a few minutes, dumped some water on the spots and then vaccumed it all up. i was shocked and amazed that it took it all out. i didn't have to use the sol-u-mel, the prespot did the job. WOW!! since the carpet is so old, and has very little padding underneath it, it looks spotty from the cleaning, and still looks filthy, but at least the shoe polish is out.