[Rachael1983]

Hi There!

I work from home as well, so I understand the challenges it sometimes faces with kids, animals, calls, computers etc. I think you should go back to square one with the puppies and do crate to puppy pad. The whining can be helped by putting a blanket over the crate and evetually the puppies will settle. Have the crates within eye sight of you and have the pads in accessible places where you can take the puppies right away. I'd suggest an hour schedule, example below:

Overnight: Puppies in crates
8am: Puppies wake up and to puppy pads
8:15-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-:845 play time
8:45: Potty time to pads, (when potty lots of praise with treats)
8:45-9 back in crate
I'd do this rotation until 7pm or so. I think you guys can get throug this period and puppies will be trained in no time.
To save any carpets, rugs, etc I'd also invest in a puppy gate to block the puppies from where you don't want them to go.

My Emma was gated off from going upstairs where our carpet is and she's learned that she can't go upstairs (even if the gate is down) unless she's with me or my daughter. She has gotten comfortable with even staying downstairs solo to people watch out the windows.

In a year shes gotten reliable with potty training granted our difference is that we go outside but the consistency I did with the crate to outdoors helped tremendously.