Hi Lisa, I'm in a similar situation with potty training...Don't even think I can successfully potty train him outside. What's working for me, Pepper sleeps in the kitchen as well. First I set up his xpen in one corner with pee pad (it was really small first), after a while I extended it and after I saw he went potty on the pee pad, I extended it even more. I didn't let him out until I could supervise him all the time, seemed he picked one spot to poop in each room so I put pee pads in each room in that spot. That was like a month ago. Right now I don't use the xpen anymore, it serves as a gate to prevent him from going to the bathroom and one room. I removed all pee pads but the one in the kitchen (that's where he stays when everybody's out and at night) and put his toys, one of his beds, his blanket and a pile of shoes in those spots where the other pee pads were. He gets the run of the kitchen and bedroom and has an accident maybe once in a while (poop though never pee). BUT he never goes potty outside, the longest I took him out was around 6 hours or so... he held it until we got back home
don't really know what to do about that... Try putting a pee pad in the spots he likes to potty, move his toys, bed or food bowls there. Good luck... I know how frustrating it can be