[The Quick Spoon]

My wife and I have two little ones now, an 16 month old and a 5 month old. I'm in grad school and my wife works. We have moved three times since we got Ender the 16 month old because of school and none with the 5 month old Valentine.
I spent everyday for a month last Christmas "re-pottytraining" Ender after the move. I had some success. I prefer treat reward, so does Ender he usually lets me know with a scraping he has done his business.
We live in Phx so outside training is brutal during most of the year. Neither responds well to being outside in 115 degree heat in the middle of the day. So we have elected to try the peepads. Since the move Ender has now become hit or miss and Val is well, untrained would be the nice way to say it. I'm posting really late 'cause I obsessing about it.
My wife looks at them as her babies, but will more or less go with me on attempts to train.
We confine them to the kitchen most days, and they have access to water and peepads in the laundry room, which they seem to use with some success while we are gone. But once we come home its a nightmare.
If we completly sterilize the apartment with Nature's Miracle and just keep them in the kitchen how will they ever get to the rest of the house?
Should we confine them in the living room with us and put pads down out there?
What is a successful method? If I put them together in a larger crate during the day would that be successful crate training? Our schedules have unavoidably become hectic, and just seeking some advice to keep my sanity.
thanks.