WEBVTT 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:22.179 Welcome back to No Manual, a momcast where we're 00:00:22.179 --> 00:00:24.000 just talking about the reality of motherhood, 00:00:24.019 --> 00:00:27.239 the fun parts, the hard parts. And this week, 00:00:27.260 --> 00:00:29.539 Laura actually couldn't make it because of some 00:00:29.539 --> 00:00:31.859 work commitments, and we weren't able to find 00:00:31.859 --> 00:00:34.920 a time to record. So my wonderful husband, Stuart, 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:38.000 decided he would help us out, and we're going 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:42.520 to do a couple episodes, I guess. And we thought 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:44.340 it'd be fun to kind of just talk about some of 00:00:44.340 --> 00:00:46.740 the family traditions we've made, where they 00:00:46.740 --> 00:00:49.859 start, some of our favorites. So do you want 00:00:49.859 --> 00:00:52.340 to start with your mom moment of the week? Yes. 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:57.020 So my mom moment of the week is... On Saturday, 00:00:57.100 --> 00:01:00.259 we were picking Lloyd up from an overnight with 00:01:00.259 --> 00:01:03.740 my parents, which we do once a month, and he 00:01:03.740 --> 00:01:06.060 was swimming. So we went and saw him at the pool. 00:01:06.140 --> 00:01:08.920 He was so stoked to see us. He was even happier 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:11.400 to keep swimming. So we let him run around for 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:13.900 a while, and when it was time to go, I grabbed 00:01:13.900 --> 00:01:16.500 him, and I noticed that his swim diaper was completely 00:01:16.500 --> 00:01:19.840 full and, like, going up his back. I was like, 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.299 okay, I guess I got to change him before we go. 00:01:23.849 --> 00:01:26.310 So I asked my mom if there was another diaper 00:01:26.310 --> 00:01:30.450 and she said, nope. So I took him to the family 00:01:30.450 --> 00:01:32.370 locker room, but in order to open the door, I 00:01:32.370 --> 00:01:36.129 had to adjust him onto my arm. And as I sat his 00:01:36.129 --> 00:01:39.689 butt on my elbow, just gushed the wet diaper, 00:01:39.769 --> 00:01:43.390 swim diaper poop all down my arm, down my pants 00:01:43.390 --> 00:01:46.489 and my sock. And it was an absolute disaster. 00:01:46.730 --> 00:01:49.650 So I rushed into a shower and just got him naked 00:01:49.650 --> 00:01:52.269 and cleaned him off real good and did a little. 00:01:52.730 --> 00:01:56.909 waffle stomp and threw the diaper away. But just 00:01:56.909 --> 00:02:00.170 being covered in swim diaper poop was my mom 00:02:00.170 --> 00:02:02.450 moment this week. That sounds about right. Yeah, 00:02:02.510 --> 00:02:05.730 it was absolutely wonderful. Well, my mom moment 00:02:05.730 --> 00:02:09.430 is from last night. I woke up in the middle of 00:02:09.430 --> 00:02:12.330 the night throwing up for, I don't know, no reason. 00:02:12.469 --> 00:02:15.909 But then because I was not within like six inches 00:02:15.909 --> 00:02:19.629 of Zeta, she woke up and absolutely freaked out 00:02:19.629 --> 00:02:22.530 because... That's what she does when she can't 00:02:22.530 --> 00:02:25.330 touch me. And you tried to wake up or like you 00:02:25.330 --> 00:02:28.810 were half awake and you like kept trying to calm 00:02:28.810 --> 00:02:31.250 her down. But obviously you had the audacity 00:02:31.250 --> 00:02:34.330 to not be me. So I mean her. Exactly. How dare 00:02:34.330 --> 00:02:37.349 me? Yeah. So her being upset was pretty reasonable. 00:02:37.610 --> 00:02:41.349 But so I I'm in the bathroom throwing up, clean 00:02:41.349 --> 00:02:44.430 myself up, whatever. And within like less than 00:02:44.430 --> 00:02:46.689 90 seconds of having thrown up, I am nursing 00:02:46.689 --> 00:02:51.020 a baby. Yep. And. I think it was like midnight 00:02:51.020 --> 00:02:53.860 or 1 a .m., something like that. Yep, for a little 00:02:53.860 --> 00:02:55.819 bit I was like, she's going to hear Zeta scream 00:02:55.819 --> 00:02:57.800 crying in my ear in the middle of the night and 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:00.000 know that I can't do anything. And then I heard 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.240 you throwing up. And I thought, oh, this is your 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.599 worst nightmare. And then, well, and then to 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:06.319 make things worse, so I was like, okay, I'm going 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:09.659 to call in sick to work. Yeah, Zeta, she's here 00:03:09.659 --> 00:03:12.319 with us. And supposed to be sleeping. Yeah, so 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:13.780 I was like, okay, I'm going to call in sick to 00:03:13.780 --> 00:03:15.340 work. Like, obviously today's not going to go 00:03:15.340 --> 00:03:19.280 well. And then she... was up at like 6 .30 in 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:22.280 the morning on the day that Lloyd was still sleeping. 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:24.259 So I was like, we all could have slept in, Zeta. 00:03:24.860 --> 00:03:27.240 And then finally, her and I get out of bed, and 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.219 she had a blowout in our bed on our sheets. And 00:03:30.219 --> 00:03:33.659 so on my sick day, I also had to clean our sheets 00:03:33.659 --> 00:03:37.979 and redo our bed because that's how today went. 00:03:38.060 --> 00:03:41.400 At 6 .30 in the morning. Yep. Yeah. It was a 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.460 great time. Mm -hmm. Well, do you want to start 00:03:44.460 --> 00:03:47.009 with your first? Family tradition that we do. 00:03:47.069 --> 00:03:51.169 Yeah. Mine's kind of an obvious one for me is 00:03:51.169 --> 00:03:53.629 my one of my favorites is dadder day breakfast 00:03:53.629 --> 00:03:58.009 is every Saturday I make breakfast because you 00:03:58.009 --> 00:03:59.770 make breakfast every other day of the week for 00:03:59.770 --> 00:04:03.689 for Lloyd and you. So sometimes I get kind of 00:04:03.689 --> 00:04:08.110 crazy with it and do like avocado toast or waffles 00:04:08.110 --> 00:04:10.830 or biscuits and gravy. But a lot of times it's 00:04:10.830 --> 00:04:14.770 just fried eggs. We made M &M pancakes one time. 00:04:15.310 --> 00:04:17.910 Yep, mini M &M pancakes. Those were great. Those 00:04:17.910 --> 00:04:19.910 were pretty good, and I think Lloyd was a bigger 00:04:19.910 --> 00:04:22.029 fan. Yeah, he was a big fan of those for sure. 00:04:22.290 --> 00:04:24.569 But just every Saturday, me making breakfast 00:04:24.569 --> 00:04:27.170 while you actually get a chance to shower and 00:04:27.170 --> 00:04:30.089 wash your hair, and I make sure both kids are 00:04:30.089 --> 00:04:33.329 alive, so obviously cooking takes an hour and 00:04:33.329 --> 00:04:36.490 a half instead of half an hour. But it seems 00:04:36.490 --> 00:04:39.410 to work out every Saturday that everyone's alive 00:04:39.410 --> 00:04:42.329 and at their breakfast table, usually before 00:04:42.329 --> 00:04:45.459 10 a .m. Yeah. I mean, sometimes we sleep in 00:04:45.459 --> 00:04:47.240 and then we have a later breakfast. Yeah, like 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:50.040 1030. So it's like a dadder day brunch. That's 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:51.939 one of my favorites. And for those of you who 00:04:51.939 --> 00:04:54.279 don't know Stuart, he will make a pun out of 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:58.199 not everything, but most things having to do 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:02.199 with your name. Yep. And like that kind of genre. 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:05.620 Yeah. So like dad. I think I was born to be a 00:05:05.620 --> 00:05:08.319 dad. Yeah. Because I've been making Stuart puns. 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:13.579 Yeah. It's almost too easy. How long do we make 00:05:13.579 --> 00:05:15.480 this silence last? I'll just leave that silence 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:19.699 in there. Okay, my first one, this was your idea. 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:22.480 And actually a little bit of the origin of this 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:26.800 podcast is Baby Podcast. So when I was pregnant 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:29.259 with Lloyd, you had this idea. And actually I 00:05:29.259 --> 00:05:32.360 remember when you didn't tell me about it, we 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:34.980 had like a shared note for our phones of things 00:05:34.980 --> 00:05:37.279 that we wanted to do before the baby got here. 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:41.209 So it was like, set up the crib and... clean 00:05:41.209 --> 00:05:43.709 out this closet or whatever you know a lot of 00:05:43.709 --> 00:05:46.370 nesting things and then a few just like logistical 00:05:46.370 --> 00:05:48.689 things in our life or whatever and I remember 00:05:48.689 --> 00:05:52.069 I think you were at work and you just added baby 00:05:52.069 --> 00:05:54.889 podcasts and I got notification that just said 00:05:54.889 --> 00:05:57.670 Stuart added baby podcasts to things to do before 00:05:57.670 --> 00:05:59.610 the baby gets here and I had no idea what that 00:05:59.610 --> 00:06:03.800 meant and I even asked Rebecca and Hooli because 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:05.579 I was working I was like what do you guys think 00:06:05.579 --> 00:06:08.240 that he means by this but basically and we were 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.060 supposed to do it before Lloyd was born and that 00:06:10.060 --> 00:06:12.079 didn't work out because he was early but I think 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:14.180 it worked out better where really we just sat 00:06:14.180 --> 00:06:18.420 down the two of us with some questions and recorded 00:06:18.420 --> 00:06:20.980 it and talked about like what we're excited about 00:06:20.980 --> 00:06:24.040 for at that time it was like becoming parents 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:26.620 and then we did it again for Zeta it's like okay 00:06:26.620 --> 00:06:29.279 what are we excited about to have a second baby 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:32.959 and what are we nervous about And just some of 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:36.019 that stuff. And it was super fun. And I'm really 00:06:36.019 --> 00:06:38.300 excited to, I think we want to continue. I mean, 00:06:38.300 --> 00:06:40.259 we'll definitely continue doing it for each kid. 00:06:40.420 --> 00:06:43.500 Yep. And then I know we keep talking about like, 00:06:43.579 --> 00:06:45.180 oh, we should do it like throughout the years 00:06:45.180 --> 00:06:47.899 too. Like this is what we're proud of Lloyd for 00:06:47.899 --> 00:06:50.899 this year or whatever. So almost like a baby 00:06:50.899 --> 00:06:53.839 book in some senses. Yep. But I think it's way 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.379 more personal. And I know I think it would be 00:06:56.379 --> 00:07:00.139 really fun to like hear my parents when I was. 00:07:00.779 --> 00:07:02.639 young right just because you don't have memories 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:06.459 and I know Roman our brother -in -law he brought 00:07:06.459 --> 00:07:09.339 up when we mentioned it that you just like you 00:07:09.339 --> 00:07:11.839 don't have memories of how your parents interacted 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:14.519 as when you were a little kid and so I think 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:17.079 that's a fun thing to gift our kids like oh here's 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.259 a recording of like how we interacted when you 00:07:20.259 --> 00:07:23.959 were first born and when you were two and yep 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.459 growing up yeah it's it was intended to give 00:07:27.459 --> 00:07:30.209 to our kids when they turn like 16. Like this 00:07:30.209 --> 00:07:32.709 is what we were like and what we were nervous 00:07:32.709 --> 00:07:35.829 about. And look, we were still just kids figuring 00:07:35.829 --> 00:07:38.730 it out when you were born. So that's how we came 00:07:38.730 --> 00:07:43.089 to be where we are now. Yeah. And actually, I 00:07:43.089 --> 00:07:45.529 don't know if I told you this. I ended up taking 00:07:45.529 --> 00:07:49.569 a video of our apartment because in the baby 00:07:49.569 --> 00:07:52.589 podcast with Lloyd, we mentioned our apartment 00:07:52.589 --> 00:07:57.420 a bunch. I think it must have been when we realized 00:07:57.420 --> 00:07:59.259 we were going to move. I was like, oh, I should 00:07:59.259 --> 00:08:02.579 take a video of this because you don't take pictures 00:08:02.579 --> 00:08:06.240 of your rental. It's not like our house where 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:08.180 it's like, oh, we've put a lot of work into different 00:08:08.180 --> 00:08:10.699 areas and stuff like that. I was like, oh, I 00:08:10.699 --> 00:08:14.319 want him to know what the house that we brought 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:19.199 him home to looks like. We moved out of it before 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:20.959 he turned a year old, so he's going to have zero 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:22.959 memories, but I do have a video of that for him. 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:27.800 My next one is bonus bath time. And you told 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.759 me that the first time I did this, you thought, 00:08:30.860 --> 00:08:34.539 oh my God, if he plays that song every time, 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:38.799 then I'm going to lose it. But anytime we have 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:41.799 a bath on a night that isn't a normal bath night, 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.600 we call it a bonus bath time. And there's a song 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:49.299 called Barbra Streisand Mixed by Duck Sauce. 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:53.059 and the only words are barbra streisand but we 00:08:53.059 --> 00:08:56.340 replace it with bonus bath time and i mean we're 00:08:56.340 --> 00:08:59.759 not monetized so we can play it without the copyright 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:02.860 infringement but the second like within the first 00:09:02.860 --> 00:09:06.080 three seconds of the song starting lloyd will 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:09.360 just look at one of us and smile huge and just 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:12.919 start squatting and dancing and bump into it 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:16.539 his little white boy dance yeah it's like a like 00:09:16.539 --> 00:09:18.299 it's like a dance song like what you'd hear in 00:09:18.299 --> 00:09:22.429 a club Yeah, for context. But I have that, too. 00:09:22.509 --> 00:09:24.149 Because, yeah, the first time you did it, I was 00:09:24.149 --> 00:09:26.289 like, oh, no. He's going to make this a tradition. 00:09:26.409 --> 00:09:28.970 I know it. And I'm going to get so mad every 00:09:28.970 --> 00:09:32.149 time that he plays this. But no, it's so fun. 00:09:32.289 --> 00:09:35.289 And, like, it's so, so exciting. And it only 00:09:35.289 --> 00:09:38.090 happens, like, once or twice a month. Yeah. Sometimes 00:09:38.090 --> 00:09:40.610 we'll play it for normal bath time if it's, like, 00:09:40.629 --> 00:09:43.289 a rough night. Because he does get so excited 00:09:43.289 --> 00:09:46.309 and it gets him in a better mood. Yep, in the 00:09:46.309 --> 00:09:49.500 bath time mood. Yep. Yeah, and he clearly knows 00:09:49.500 --> 00:09:51.399 at this point that, like, it means bath time. 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:55.759 All right, my next one is morning pictures. So 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:59.320 one of the things I do when I get Lloyd up for 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:02.159 the day is I put Zeta in his crib for just, like, 00:10:02.220 --> 00:10:04.919 a few minutes. And they both love it. They both 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:06.399 get so excited to see each other first thing 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:08.340 in the morning. And so I've started taking pictures 00:10:08.340 --> 00:10:12.960 every day. I started that in, like, May, so Zeta 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:17.129 was almost three months old. I mean, there's 00:10:17.129 --> 00:10:20.429 some days that we've skipped for whatever reason. 00:10:20.789 --> 00:10:23.610 But for the most part, I have one for almost 00:10:23.610 --> 00:10:25.470 every single day since the beginning of May. 00:10:26.049 --> 00:10:28.669 And it's just super fun. One, because they're 00:10:28.669 --> 00:10:31.450 almost always excited in every picture, but then 00:10:31.450 --> 00:10:33.210 there are some where it's like, Lloyd's still 00:10:33.210 --> 00:10:35.549 grumpy because he's half asleep or something 00:10:35.549 --> 00:10:39.490 like that. But then also just to see the daily 00:10:39.490 --> 00:10:43.850 growth and what they look like and be able to 00:10:43.850 --> 00:10:46.509 just swipe through and see. How much they've 00:10:46.509 --> 00:10:49.529 grown in the last three months. Yep. That's a 00:10:49.529 --> 00:10:52.009 snap that I love getting every day because I 00:10:52.009 --> 00:10:55.429 get to see what kind of mood they're in or it 00:10:55.429 --> 00:10:58.509 even tells me like when they woke up. So I know 00:10:58.509 --> 00:11:02.149 if I need to like hurry home before I like go 00:11:02.149 --> 00:11:05.110 to Sonic or something because you woke up at 00:11:05.110 --> 00:11:08.850 seven instead of eight. Right. No, I love getting 00:11:08.850 --> 00:11:10.809 those pictures. And anytime I take one, I try 00:11:10.809 --> 00:11:12.769 to make sure I share it with you so we can add 00:11:12.769 --> 00:11:16.799 it to the album. My next tradition is kind of 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:19.879 something we don't do is we don't play kids' 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:24.139 music. Our kids just listen to normal rock and 00:11:24.139 --> 00:11:28.559 punk and country and jazz and real music. Do 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.580 you like jazz? We have never shown our kids Wheels 00:11:31.580 --> 00:11:36.720 on the Bus or I can't name all that many kids' 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:39.750 songs because we don't play them. I think I told 00:11:39.750 --> 00:11:42.610 you this. We had a pest control guy come to our 00:11:42.610 --> 00:11:44.730 door the other day, and I was wearing my Beach 00:11:44.730 --> 00:11:47.250 Boys t -shirt, and he was like, Beach Boys, and 00:11:47.250 --> 00:11:49.590 was asking me about it. I was like, oh, yeah, 00:11:49.610 --> 00:11:52.090 well, my two -year -old son, he loves the Beach 00:11:52.090 --> 00:11:55.049 Boys, so that's why I have this shirt. He was 00:11:55.049 --> 00:11:57.029 like, your two -year -old son loves the Beach 00:11:57.029 --> 00:12:00.149 Boys? Yeah. He was just so stoked. I was like, 00:12:00.169 --> 00:12:03.629 yeah, Barbara Ann all the time. He'll request 00:12:03.629 --> 00:12:06.730 it by saying, ba -ba -ba. Now he says, ba -ban. 00:12:07.289 --> 00:12:10.169 Oh, I have not heard that one yet. Yeah, he started 00:12:10.169 --> 00:12:13.009 that, like, this week, I think. Because, yeah, 00:12:13.049 --> 00:12:14.710 he started saying, like, are you asking for Barbara 00:12:14.710 --> 00:12:18.210 Ann? He's like, appa, appa. Mm -hmm. Okay. So 00:12:18.210 --> 00:12:21.529 now instead of our kids calming down to Itsy 00:12:21.529 --> 00:12:24.809 Bitsy Spider or something, it's We Will Rock 00:12:24.809 --> 00:12:29.409 You. Or when they're having a crying fit, we'll 00:12:29.409 --> 00:12:33.289 try Wildflowers by Tom Petty. And then when you're 00:12:33.289 --> 00:12:35.929 not around, I play them Cannibal Corpse and Knocked 00:12:35.929 --> 00:12:38.750 Loose, and they both love it just so much better 00:12:38.750 --> 00:12:42.009 than our kids listening to nursery rhymes. Yeah. 00:12:42.549 --> 00:12:45.090 And your listeners may or may not know that I'm 00:12:45.090 --> 00:12:47.889 a musician, so it's very important to me. Yes, 00:12:47.889 --> 00:12:52.029 yeah. So far, our kids like all the same music 00:12:52.029 --> 00:12:54.370 we do, and Zeta's trying to knock down my mic, 00:12:54.509 --> 00:12:59.100 and it is fun. I think it gives us more of an 00:12:59.100 --> 00:13:00.860 insight of like who they're going to be to, to 00:13:00.860 --> 00:13:04.320 see what they like naturally gravitate towards. 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:08.100 My next one, we don't do this as much this year, 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:11.659 but after dinner walks, we have like a nice path 00:13:11.659 --> 00:13:14.559 right by our neighborhood. And it's like, it 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:17.679 gets beautiful in the evening, especially with 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:21.519 like sunsetting time and everything. And we just 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:23.940 like to go, like if we're trying to get some 00:13:23.940 --> 00:13:27.009 energy out or find something to do. We'll just 00:13:27.009 --> 00:13:29.529 go on a walk as a family. And now Lloyd is learning 00:13:29.529 --> 00:13:33.029 his little like strider bike, balance bike. And 00:13:33.029 --> 00:13:36.149 so it takes the same amount of time and we go 00:13:36.149 --> 00:13:38.490 like a quarter of the distance that we used to 00:13:38.490 --> 00:13:41.330 because Lloyd's on his bike. But it's just like 00:13:41.330 --> 00:13:43.669 a fun, nice thing to get out of the house and 00:13:43.669 --> 00:13:45.669 get fresh air and everyone gets exercise. And 00:13:45.669 --> 00:13:48.549 Lloyd points out all the lights and all the dogs. 00:13:48.950 --> 00:13:52.970 And all the dog poop. Yeah. It's very important 00:13:52.970 --> 00:13:55.870 that we know where the... The dot -dot poppies 00:13:55.870 --> 00:13:58.129 are. Yeah. He's really helpful that way. Yeah. 00:13:58.169 --> 00:14:00.830 We don't have a dog, just to be clear. No. My 00:14:00.830 --> 00:14:03.669 next one that I have down is the steak dinner 00:14:03.669 --> 00:14:08.809 at six months. We do, is it baby -led weaning? 00:14:08.850 --> 00:14:11.350 Mm -hmm. Where you start just handing them food 00:14:11.350 --> 00:14:13.990 at six months and letting them figure it out, 00:14:14.049 --> 00:14:16.789 but it's got to be big enough that they can't 00:14:16.789 --> 00:14:19.940 actually... like chew it and swallow it or like 00:14:19.940 --> 00:14:23.840 yeah choke on it yeah and you you know all the 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.019 details more than I do but a great way to start 00:14:27.019 --> 00:14:30.759 that is just hand them a slab of steak what we 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.059 did for Lloyd it's what we did for Lloyd and 00:14:33.059 --> 00:14:35.940 now Zeta's coming up on six months so we have 00:14:35.940 --> 00:14:38.879 a whole steak dinner plan we're like oh it's 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:41.820 gonna be her six month birthday so we're gonna 00:14:41.820 --> 00:14:44.240 have a steak dinner with mashed potatoes and 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:47.730 it's gonna be like a fancy occasion And I just 00:14:47.730 --> 00:14:49.789 think that's so funny to... Did we all get dressed 00:14:49.789 --> 00:14:53.889 up? Yeah, I do still have some suits. And Lloyd 00:14:53.889 --> 00:14:56.570 still probably fits in his Easter outfits. So 00:14:56.570 --> 00:14:58.809 yeah, we can get dressed up for a fancy steak 00:14:58.809 --> 00:15:02.450 dinner for Zeta's first real food meal. What 00:15:02.450 --> 00:15:04.330 do you think, Zeta? She thinks your headphones 00:15:04.330 --> 00:15:07.409 are just awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited for 00:15:07.409 --> 00:15:10.309 steak dinner and to continue that with other 00:15:10.309 --> 00:15:15.169 kids. This is like kind of a cliche family tradition 00:15:15.169 --> 00:15:17.679 that I think lots of people have. But matching 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:21.480 Christmas pajamas. We go to Old Navy, so like 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:24.419 half of America has the same pajamas we have, 00:15:24.500 --> 00:15:26.740 I'm sure. Last year I couldn't even get the ones 00:15:26.740 --> 00:15:28.279 that I wanted because they were sold out because 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:30.259 everyone in America bought the pajamas that I 00:15:30.259 --> 00:15:33.000 wanted to get us for Christmas. So definitely 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:36.200 not a unique thing at all. It was a great plaid 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:39.840 print. Yeah, it was. So yeah, definitely not 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.200 unique, but it's fun. We always have a picture 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:45.720 of, well, it'll now be the four of us in our 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:49.539 matching pajamas. And neither, I mean, you don't 00:15:49.539 --> 00:15:51.980 really wear pajama pants. So you just like keep 00:15:51.980 --> 00:15:53.840 getting pajama pants that you wear for like two 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:56.039 days a year and then get put in a drawer somewhere. 00:15:56.299 --> 00:15:58.440 Well, when it's cold out, I'll wear them around 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.600 the house. That is true. And then Lloyd outgrows 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.299 them in 30 seconds because that's where we're 00:16:04.299 --> 00:16:08.759 at. But it is fun. Makes Christmas just like 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:11.039 a little bit more magical to be like, okay, you 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.299 get to open your pajamas on Christmas Eve and 00:16:14.299 --> 00:16:16.960 then wear them tonight. And speaking of Christmas, 00:16:17.059 --> 00:16:19.340 I just have Christmas, our Christmas traditions 00:16:19.340 --> 00:16:23.600 in general is we always do our family Christmas 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:26.179 on Christmas Eve. And I think we've done that 00:16:26.179 --> 00:16:29.720 since before we had kids. Yeah. And. Because 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.559 it just worked out with like. Our bigger family 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:34.919 situation. People might not know your parents 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:38.259 and my parents are best friends. So every holiday 00:16:38.259 --> 00:16:43.179 is your parents and my parents and my brother 00:16:43.179 --> 00:16:46.940 and your sister and the whole big family. So 00:16:46.940 --> 00:16:49.820 we wanted to have like a moment for us to have 00:16:49.820 --> 00:16:52.779 our Christmas. So we do Christmas on Christmas 00:16:52.779 --> 00:16:57.120 Eve, which means open PJs the night before that 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:02.809 on Festivus. Yep. And then your sister and brother 00:17:02.809 --> 00:17:04.710 -in -law come over and we have sushi and watch 00:17:04.710 --> 00:17:08.829 one of the Diehards, either one or two. And then... 00:17:08.829 --> 00:17:11.410 We also play Mario Party. Oh, we do? No. Yeah, 00:17:11.490 --> 00:17:13.990 I can't forget Mole Time. Yeah. Shout out to 00:17:13.990 --> 00:17:17.769 Roman. So, yeah, we play Mario Party. We wake 00:17:17.769 --> 00:17:19.529 up, go to your parents and have monkey bread. 00:17:20.150 --> 00:17:24.650 And that side of the family's Christmas. Everyone 00:17:24.650 --> 00:17:27.829 takes a nap. We go to my family's house and have... 00:17:28.029 --> 00:17:30.049 Our family Christmas, and then everyone gets 00:17:30.049 --> 00:17:33.269 together, and it's a big thing. Usually for dinner, 00:17:33.329 --> 00:17:36.509 everyone's together. Yeah. Usually you have three 00:17:36.509 --> 00:17:39.329 times as much caffeine as you should and have 00:17:39.329 --> 00:17:41.630 anxiety at some point during the day because 00:17:41.630 --> 00:17:44.950 you've only had monkey bread and caffeine. Yes. 00:17:45.109 --> 00:17:48.130 Until like 5 p .m. when we have dinner. Yes. 00:17:48.490 --> 00:17:50.650 So that's another part of our family tradition. 00:17:50.910 --> 00:17:54.150 That is a tradition. So I just, I love... Christmas 00:17:54.150 --> 00:17:56.210 in general and I love that we kind of span it 00:17:56.210 --> 00:17:59.029 out over three days yeah and we all get we get 00:17:59.029 --> 00:18:01.190 to like section it out into different moments 00:18:01.190 --> 00:18:03.630 with different people and make it a huge thing 00:18:03.630 --> 00:18:08.170 yeah and then it's been fun to like see all of 00:18:08.170 --> 00:18:10.730 that started pretty much just when we got married 00:18:10.730 --> 00:18:13.190 I think so it's been fun to start including the 00:18:13.190 --> 00:18:16.089 kids in that like this last year Lloyd got to 00:18:16.089 --> 00:18:19.180 try sushi for the first time and He kind of didn't 00:18:19.180 --> 00:18:21.019 really care about it. He watched Die Hard for 00:18:21.019 --> 00:18:22.259 the first time. He watched Die Hard for the first 00:18:22.259 --> 00:18:23.980 time. Did we watch one or two this year? I think 00:18:23.980 --> 00:18:26.019 we watched two. I think it was at the Stapleton 00:18:26.019 --> 00:18:30.579 Airport. And, I mean, right now he has zero interest 00:18:30.579 --> 00:18:33.319 in video games. Well, he has interest in video 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:35.559 games. He doesn't understand them. But I know 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:37.460 that, like, in the future we'll find a way to, 00:18:37.500 --> 00:18:40.859 like, include the kids in Mario Party. We'll 00:18:40.859 --> 00:18:42.339 have to figure out which one of the four of us 00:18:42.339 --> 00:18:44.680 is willing to sacrifice their spot, though. Yeah. 00:18:45.049 --> 00:18:47.069 Or do we just have to buy a second Switch and 00:18:47.069 --> 00:18:49.829 a second TV? Can you have more than four in a 00:18:49.829 --> 00:18:52.609 Mario Party? I don't know. Okay. We'll call Nintendo 00:18:52.609 --> 00:18:56.109 now. We have some time. Okay. My next one is 00:18:56.109 --> 00:18:59.170 also Christmas related, which is our advent calendar. 00:18:59.809 --> 00:19:04.150 We take a Polaroid every day and have come up 00:19:04.150 --> 00:19:06.569 with prompts. I think this year we did better. 00:19:06.650 --> 00:19:08.410 The first year we had some prompts that we were 00:19:08.410 --> 00:19:10.630 like, why did I think that was a good idea? I 00:19:10.630 --> 00:19:12.470 think you just found a list online. I think so, 00:19:12.529 --> 00:19:14.920 yeah. We don't always get them all done every 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:17.400 day. Sometimes we do have like catch -up days. 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.640 But so it'll be like a picture of wrapping presents 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:24.019 and a picture of us looking at Christmas lights 00:19:24.019 --> 00:19:26.779 and... The cats. The cats. Decorating the tree. 00:19:27.579 --> 00:19:30.900 Eggnog. Lloyd had his first eggnog and his first 00:19:30.900 --> 00:19:33.759 hot chocolate this year because that's what we 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:36.759 were doing for our advent calendar. And then 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:40.099 you found little albums online that are just 00:19:40.099 --> 00:19:43.660 like... Somehow they have 25 pages, and then 00:19:43.660 --> 00:19:48.960 they're the perfect size for little Polaroid 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.319 pictures, the mini ones. And I'm really glad 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:55.079 we just happened to start that the first year 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:57.079 Lloyd was born because now we're just going to 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:00.339 have this really fun series of photo albums of 00:20:00.339 --> 00:20:02.880 seeing him get bigger and seeing our family grow. 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:05.579 And I think as the kids get older, it's going 00:20:05.579 --> 00:20:07.400 to be more fun too because we're not forcing 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:10.380 them to. Like, no, we have to take this picture. 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.460 Yeah, they'll be excited to come up with prompts. 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:14.059 Yeah, they'll be excited to come up with prompts 00:20:14.059 --> 00:20:16.380 or to like know what prompts we did and like 00:20:16.380 --> 00:20:18.660 come up with a picture themselves or whatever. 00:20:19.019 --> 00:20:21.940 So that's been really fun. And Lloyd, that's 00:20:21.940 --> 00:20:24.079 like his one of his favorite books to pick up 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:27.299 and ask to look through with one of us is the 00:20:27.299 --> 00:20:29.500 Advent album that's just sitting up on the credenza 00:20:29.500 --> 00:20:34.279 right now. Yep. My last one is just bath time 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:39.009 in general. Both the kids just love bath time, 00:20:39.089 --> 00:20:43.730 and I have found a pretty easy way to give them 00:20:43.730 --> 00:20:47.230 both a bath at the same time. And it's such a 00:20:47.230 --> 00:20:50.190 cool moment to just have both kids in front of 00:20:50.190 --> 00:20:54.930 me in close proximity, having such a great time 00:20:54.930 --> 00:20:58.329 in the bath, interacting with each other. Lloyd 00:20:58.329 --> 00:21:01.670 loves pointing and laughing at Zeta, and Zeta 00:21:01.670 --> 00:21:04.859 loves just smiling up at her brother. It's just 00:21:04.859 --> 00:21:07.680 such a fun moment to have like two or three times 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.640 a week, just me and my kids while you go and 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:13.579 tidy or relax or whatever you do. I don't actually 00:21:13.579 --> 00:21:17.960 know. And you said before that you think it's 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:20.259 like super dad that I can bathe the kids at the 00:21:20.259 --> 00:21:24.099 same time, but it's so easy and I clean them 00:21:24.099 --> 00:21:26.940 off so quick. And then it's just bath play time 00:21:26.940 --> 00:21:29.759 until you get back. You take Zeta and then Lloyd 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:31.299 and I just hang out for like five more minutes. 00:21:31.619 --> 00:21:34.180 Yeah, I mean, Thursdays when you're gone, at 00:21:34.180 --> 00:21:35.920 one point in time we said Thursdays was going 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:37.519 to be bath night, but then you're gone frequently 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:40.500 on Thursdays. And the thought of bathing them 00:21:40.500 --> 00:21:43.140 both by myself is so overwhelming that I just 00:21:43.140 --> 00:21:45.680 don't. So I think that's a big part of it for 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:47.980 me is I'm like, this is a task that's super overwhelming. 00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:52.000 Like I could do one bath time by myself, but 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:55.000 both of them is a lot. And you do it by yourself 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.700 all the time. Well, I also have you to bring 00:21:57.700 --> 00:22:01.420 Zeta in to take her out. Yeah, or if baby poop 00:22:01.420 --> 00:22:03.460 happens. Yeah, if there's duck poop. That is 00:22:03.460 --> 00:22:06.160 one thing. She pooped in the tub like a week 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:09.099 ago, and now Lloyd just, every time we're in 00:22:09.099 --> 00:22:12.740 his bathroom, he points the tub. Baby poop. Baby 00:22:12.740 --> 00:22:17.299 poop. Yep. Yep, she pooped in the tub. My next 00:22:17.299 --> 00:22:20.759 one is monthly pictures for the first year and 00:22:20.759 --> 00:22:24.819 then yearly pictures after that. So I take one 00:22:24.819 --> 00:22:27.720 on my phone and I usually do a burst to try to 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:29.519 get a good one. But I always take two. I take 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:32.000 one on my phone and then I take a Polaroid. And 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:35.559 partially, so the baby book I got for Lloyd and 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:38.519 then again for Zeta. Has like a spot for monthly 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:40.460 pictures for the first year and then yearly pictures 00:22:40.460 --> 00:22:43.420 after that. And I knew that I would never get 00:22:43.420 --> 00:22:45.779 them printed if I took them. I would say that 00:22:45.779 --> 00:22:48.059 I would and then it just wouldn't happen. But 00:22:48.059 --> 00:22:50.579 we have a Polaroid camera. So I was like, oh, 00:22:50.619 --> 00:22:52.299 this is an easy solution. It prints it right 00:22:52.299 --> 00:22:55.380 away. I have my Elmer's glue stick that I glue 00:22:55.380 --> 00:22:58.700 it immediately. And that's just, again, I know 00:22:58.700 --> 00:23:01.740 that's not like a unique thing to do. But it's 00:23:01.740 --> 00:23:04.759 fun, and Lloyd just turned two, so we just took 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:08.880 his second birthday picture, and I try to keep 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:13.140 it in the same spot to kind of see height comparison, 00:23:13.259 --> 00:23:17.000 and you can see the growth more if it's in the 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:19.619 same spot almost. And so it was really cool to 00:23:19.619 --> 00:23:22.279 see this year his first birthday and his second 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:24.259 birthday, and he almost looks like a different 00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:27.759 kid just with how much he's grown up. Yeah, I 00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:29.920 swear after his second birthday, he just decided 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:33.019 to look like an adult with grown -up facial expressions. 00:23:33.019 --> 00:23:35.380 It's crazy, yeah. I mean, his second birthday 00:23:35.380 --> 00:23:37.799 picture, he looks like a frickin' model or something. 00:23:37.900 --> 00:23:40.960 He's just so suave, and I don't know where he 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:43.759 got it. It's his summer mohawk. He does have 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:47.880 a summer mohawk. I guess I can add that to, I 00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:49.420 don't know if this will be a tradition, but I 00:23:49.420 --> 00:23:51.380 hope it's a tradition, his summer mohawks for 00:23:51.380 --> 00:23:55.279 Lloyd. Maybe Zeta, if she decides to be punk 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:59.380 herself. I cut Lloyd's hair, so I kind of get 00:23:59.380 --> 00:24:02.599 to decide what style it is. And I did ask, and 00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:04.539 you said I could give him a mohawk. You were 00:24:04.539 --> 00:24:06.960 a little bit nervous, but the first time I did 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:08.799 it, you were like, no, that's so freaking cute. 00:24:09.279 --> 00:24:12.180 Go for it. And so I like buzzed it way down, 00:24:12.299 --> 00:24:15.660 styled it just right. And anytime we go anywhere, 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:18.799 people are like, his hair. Yep. That's usually 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:20.869 the first thing people say to me. All right, 00:24:20.910 --> 00:24:24.250 and then my last one is just our bedtime routine. 00:24:24.630 --> 00:24:26.869 And, I mean, to be fair, there are some nights 00:24:26.869 --> 00:24:28.410 where I'm just like, I'm so tired and I want 00:24:28.410 --> 00:24:30.630 this to be over. But I know that there's going 00:24:30.630 --> 00:24:33.269 to be a time when I'm like, oh, I miss sitting 00:24:33.269 --> 00:24:35.509 in the chair in their room and having both kids 00:24:35.509 --> 00:24:39.049 on my lap and you reading a book. And then part 00:24:39.049 --> 00:24:42.750 of our bedtime routine that Lloyd has added is 00:24:42.750 --> 00:24:45.650 he'll sit on my lap for a minute and drink his 00:24:45.650 --> 00:24:48.049 milk while Stuart reads a book. And then usually 00:24:48.049 --> 00:24:50.500 just like a couple minutes in. He hands me his 00:24:50.500 --> 00:24:53.819 milk and he climbs down. And then full speed, 00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:56.380 he runs from his room to our room down the hall. 00:24:56.619 --> 00:25:01.079 Screaming. Screaming, laughing. And then you 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:04.019 chase him. If you don't chase him fast enough, 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:06.579 then he like slowly walks back and looks back 00:25:06.579 --> 00:25:10.700 in his room like, are you coming? But then you 00:25:10.700 --> 00:25:13.319 chase him and he just like giggles and laughs 00:25:13.319 --> 00:25:17.500 and is screaming. He has so much fun. He does 00:25:17.500 --> 00:25:20.359 change up his routine nightly. At the end of 00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:23.940 the hallway, sometimes he'll go to dad -dad potty. 00:25:24.500 --> 00:25:27.220 Sometimes he'll go to our closet. Sometimes he 00:25:27.220 --> 00:25:29.779 just wants me to slam him on our bed. And sometimes 00:25:29.779 --> 00:25:32.039 he wants me to jump over him as he runs back 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:34.779 through the hallway. So there's a variety of 00:25:34.779 --> 00:25:37.740 options. Yep. Tonight was the absolute kicker, 00:25:37.740 --> 00:25:42.000 though. I was reading caps for sale and I said, 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:44.000 and he looked up into the tree and what do you 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:47.019 think he saw? And Lloyd just bolts out the door 00:25:47.019 --> 00:25:53.319 going, which means monkey. He had to answer. 00:25:53.740 --> 00:25:57.539 That was the absolute best. I lost it. But yeah, 00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:00.380 pretty much every night, even on nights that 00:26:00.380 --> 00:26:03.480 I'm like kind of over the day and just want bedtime 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:05.640 to be over so I can like have a moment to myself. 00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:08.460 which I still won't have because Zeta will be 00:26:08.460 --> 00:26:11.619 sleeping on me. I'm just like, this is the dream. 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:13.859 I have my kids on my lap and we're just reading 00:26:13.859 --> 00:26:16.900 a book together. And it's so sweet. And I know 00:26:16.900 --> 00:26:18.799 that someday I'm going to be devastated because 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:21.400 they don't want to read books with us anymore. 00:26:21.660 --> 00:26:25.359 But that'll never happen. No. Exactly. That's 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:27.680 my last one. Do you want to wrap up with your 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:31.500 mom win of the week? Yeah. So for Lloyd's birthday, 00:26:31.700 --> 00:26:35.000 we told everyone, like, we don't need toys. We... 00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:39.039 We have enough toys. Just books. Bring your favorite 00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:41.759 kid's book. Book that you loved growing up. Book 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:44.319 that you'd want him to have. But a couple people 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:47.420 knew us well enough and knew me well enough that 00:26:47.420 --> 00:26:50.420 they got Lloyd some musical instruments. And 00:26:50.420 --> 00:26:54.700 so he got a kalimba, which has some metal reeds 00:26:54.700 --> 00:26:56.980 that you pluck with your thumbs. And he got a 00:26:56.980 --> 00:27:00.240 steel tongue drum, which is like a big thing 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:02.240 of metal that you hit with a mallet. It sounds 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:04.579 like the drum you'd hear in a spa. Yeah, like 00:27:04.579 --> 00:27:08.079 a Jamaican steel drum. So I got each one out 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:11.299 as he was opening his presents, and he didn't 00:27:11.299 --> 00:27:13.700 really know what they were, so I showed him how 00:27:13.700 --> 00:27:16.740 to pluck each one, and he was just so gentle 00:27:16.740 --> 00:27:19.839 with each one. He didn't grab it and throw it 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:21.779 on the ground. He didn't try to slam his hand 00:27:21.779 --> 00:27:24.099 on them. He actually tried to use them properly 00:27:24.099 --> 00:27:26.180 the first time he handled each one of those, 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:29.400 and it was just such a proud dad moment of, my 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:33.240 son knows musical instruments. Take. some skill 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:36.160 and some care and you don't just smack them and 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:38.319 slam them to get them to do what you want and 00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:41.299 you don't use them as like a ball or you don't 00:27:41.299 --> 00:27:44.059 use them as just a brick to throw across the 00:27:44.059 --> 00:27:46.619 room and it was just such a proud moment for 00:27:46.619 --> 00:27:48.960 me i don't think i've actually told you this 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:52.920 because they both came with like not like a bag 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:55.539 that's kind of a case um which is usually what 00:27:55.539 --> 00:27:58.980 we keep them in and the steel tongue drum he's 00:27:58.980 --> 00:28:01.460 like brought to me a couple times to get it out 00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:05.960 He wants to play it. That's so great. Shockingly, 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:08.779 so this is the second drum he's gotten as a gift. 00:28:08.859 --> 00:28:12.079 And the first one was for my parents. And I was 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:15.220 terrified it was going to be the worst thing 00:28:15.220 --> 00:28:17.740 in the world. But it wasn't. And it, like, sounded 00:28:17.740 --> 00:28:19.799 really nice. And this is the same thing of, like, 00:28:19.900 --> 00:28:23.279 honestly, it's not that overstimulating when 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:26.700 he plays it. And it's not quiet for sure, but 00:28:26.700 --> 00:28:29.059 it's nice. That's so great. So my win of the 00:28:29.059 --> 00:28:31.430 week. I don't know if I've actually talked about 00:28:31.430 --> 00:28:34.309 this much on the podcast, but Zeta refuses a 00:28:34.309 --> 00:28:36.950 bottle. Actually, not entirely true. She'll take 00:28:36.950 --> 00:28:39.230 a bottle from me, which doesn't really matter 00:28:39.230 --> 00:28:41.849 because I'm just going to nurse her anyways. 00:28:42.289 --> 00:28:45.369 But it's been like kind of a struggle just because 00:28:45.369 --> 00:28:47.710 that means I can't be away from her for more 00:28:47.710 --> 00:28:51.069 than like two or three hours at a time. Which 00:28:51.069 --> 00:28:53.990 means like we can't go on dates. Or if we do, 00:28:54.109 --> 00:28:56.289 we're like trying to beat the clock to get back. 00:28:56.490 --> 00:28:59.420 And time the feed. When we drop her off and when 00:28:59.420 --> 00:29:03.140 we pick her up. Yep. But she took three bottles 00:29:03.140 --> 00:29:05.700 from my parents this week. None of them were 00:29:05.700 --> 00:29:08.819 a full feed, but it was enough that, like, she 00:29:08.819 --> 00:29:10.359 would take, like, two ounces and they would feed 00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:12.319 her a little bit later and she would take another 00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:15.440 two ounces. So she was able to be away from me 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:19.359 for, like, four or five hours, which, I mean, 00:29:19.380 --> 00:29:21.460 I love my kids and I like to be around them, 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:23.779 but also it's just, like, a relief to know, like, 00:29:23.859 --> 00:29:26.769 okay. She will take a bottle from someone else. 00:29:26.910 --> 00:29:29.470 In dire straits, yeah. Yeah. Now I don't have 00:29:29.470 --> 00:29:31.829 to, like, feel like Cinderella trying to get 00:29:31.829 --> 00:29:34.509 back to her by a certain time. And hopefully 00:29:34.509 --> 00:29:37.130 that continues to get better and she'll start 00:29:37.130 --> 00:29:40.089 to take full feeds from other people. And I reminded 00:29:40.089 --> 00:29:41.890 her that they still brought her back to me even 00:29:41.890 --> 00:29:44.690 if she ate for them. Yeah. Yeah, so that's just, 00:29:44.750 --> 00:29:48.250 like, a huge win to, one, I was honestly losing 00:29:48.250 --> 00:29:51.029 hope that she would ever take a bottle. And I 00:29:51.029 --> 00:29:54.009 would be doing that for the entire first year 00:29:54.009 --> 00:29:57.339 of her life. But it looks like we might actually 00:29:57.339 --> 00:29:59.900 have a couple date nights here. That would be 00:29:59.900 --> 00:30:02.700 so cool. That would be crazy. That's a win for 00:30:02.700 --> 00:30:06.250 me too. Yeah. 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