Ivy isn't at the daycare today. Leah is furious to find that her friend is gone when she's placed in the play area after her morning change and breakfast. Adding to her ire is the fact that it's raining. She can't go outside. She's stuck inside. She also doesn't know why she was put in a dress without a diaper cover, but chalks it up to running out of clean clothes.
Leah toddles around the play area, sucking on her pacifier. She's waiting for her morning poop, but it never comes. With a sigh, she joins a couple toddlers in front of the TV. She gets quickly caught up in the show, not noticing the two times she wets herself. By the time everyone is gathered for naps, her diaper is soaked.
Long used to diaper changes at this point, Leah doesn't even register any aspect of it. But when she's put only in a T-shirt to sleep, not a onesie, she speaks up.
"Why haven't you guys been covering up my diapy today?" she asks around her pacifier.
"Since you pooped during the night last night, we decided it would be best if there was easy access to your diaper," Penny, the person changing her diaper, replies. Leah's mouth falls open.
"I pooped last night?"
"Yep. Big one. Willy changed you when he did the hourly check." Penny laughs. "You must have been out cold, since you slept through both messing yourself and the change."
"Heh. Yeah," Leah mumbles. Penny puts her in her crib. Leah obediently curls up for her nap and silently prays she wakes up with a clean diaper.
She does. The first time. During the afternoon nap, however, Penny catches Leah grunting forcefully, filling her diaper with a massive load. Leah wakes up during the change and barely avoids bursting into tears, sucking on her pacifier for comfort.
The rest of the day goes by in a blur, as Leah tries to convince herself that she's okay, she hasn't lost her potty training. But each time she realizes her diapy is wet without her even knowing she peed, it becomes harder to tell herself that.
Leah forces herself to have a number two right before bed, in the hopes that it keeps her from going in the night. But she's not sure it will work. The food the daycare gives her has made her bowel movements more frequent. As she curls up in her crib for the night, she feels comfort in the softness and cushion of her diaper, falling asleep easily.