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Motherhood, where sleep is a rumor and laundry

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is eternal. And somehow, we're supposed to be

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raising tiny humans through it all. We're here

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to laugh at the chaos, cry when necessary, and

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remind you that none of us actually know what

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we're doing. This is No Manual, a momcast. Your

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mom friend group chat, but with microphones.

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Well, welcome back to No Manual. This week, we

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actually have a first. We fully recorded this

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episode, like, over a month ago. Yeah. And then

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when we went to edit it, or when Stuart went

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to edit it, the audio was not good enough quality

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to use. And so we had to scrap it. But we were

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like, this was a fun episode. Let's just rerecord

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it. We already have all of our prep done. It

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was fun. Yeah, we've never had that happen. Like,

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we've never lost an episode before. This is the

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first time we've lost an episode. Which is surprising

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because we've had some, like, some audio difficulties.

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Yeah. That Stuart has recovered and he just has,

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like, been a boss with that. Yeah. And this one

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just, we just had too many technical difficulties.

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Yeah, he was like, there's, we're not fixing

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that. Yeah. Yeah, but so our episode today is

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the ABCs according to our toddlers. Yes. Which

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actually as I'm a little bit glad that we had

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to re -record this because I feel like Lloyd

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has been like saying some new things in the time.

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Yeah, I definitely updated some of my things

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a little bit. Some of it's like a little bit

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funnier, but also. as we were getting ready today

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and I was trying to think if there was anything

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else, I was going through it with Lloyd. I was

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like, Lloyd, what is A for? He's like, A is for

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Bappa. And just every letter of the alphabet,

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except for a handful, is for Bappa. I was about

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to be so impressed if he was going to be like,

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A is for Apple. And I'm like, dang. He has a

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couple that he actually got right. I was like,

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okay, what is A for? A is for Bappa. Okay. What

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is B for? B is for Boppa. Like, well, that's

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true. What is C for? C is for car or cat. Like,

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well, that's right. And then the next one that

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he got right is F, which is for Free Fallen by

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Tom Petty. But we'll get there. Amazing. He's

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a smart kid. Okay. Well, before we hop in, do

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you want to share your mom moment of the week?

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Sure. I have. I feel like I have so many right

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now. I know. The one I'll share. So a couple

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weeks ago, we all went to the playground and

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Lloyd just like took a massive fall, smacked

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his face into the playground and got like a gnarly

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black eye. Yes. Kid looked like he was in a bar

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fight. It was swollen. It took probably a full

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two weeks for it to like completely recover.

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Like went through all the stages of like a good

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bruise, like the purple, the green, everything.

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So that finally healed. And then last night,

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Zeta just like was cruising around the coffee

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table and just slipped and smacked her forehead

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into the coffee table and now has this like gnarly

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gash bruise. I was like, so as soon as one of

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my kids does not look like, yeah, looks okay.

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The other one, she just got, looks like she got

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beat up this week. So that's just. It's just

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never ending. I feel that 100%. I also feel like,

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I don't know if this is how it is for you, but

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whenever my kids get like massively hurt, I mean

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not that either of them have had like super serious,

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but stuff like this where it's like a very obvious

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injury in some capacity. It's never like, oh,

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that was the moment that I like went into the

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other room. Like at the playground, Stuart was

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following him. He just tripped. Like that's what

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happened. And then last night with Zeta, we were

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literally sitting on the couch right next to

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her, like within arm's reach. But it just like

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happened so fast. She just like. Feet came out

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from under her. Can't avoid it. It just happened.

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Yeah. And so I'm like, okay, it's not like, it's

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not that I'm neglectful. It's not like I wasn't

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in the other room or anything. Like maybe I should

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have stopped this. I couldn't have it happen

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too fast. Yeah, I know. And you probably feel

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like you have to like explain yourself to everyone

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around you. For sure. Yeah. Like I promise I

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watch my children. I don't leave them alone.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yep. I'm a good mom, I swear. OK,

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my mom moment. So I found like this new thing

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that works for Colt because he's like he's totally

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at that like rebellion stage. I feel like where

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it's really hard. To get him to do anything that

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we need him to do. So. No. Specifically brushing

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his teeth is like. We struggle with brushing

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teeth too. And so now and like our house is a

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split level. So like our living area is on the

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main level. And then downstairs is like the playroom

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and a guest room. And upstairs is all the bedrooms

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and two bathrooms. So we have to go up the stairs

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to go brush our teeth. And now it's become like

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if I tell Colt I'm going to beat him like to

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that. Wow, that sounded really bad. Beat him

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to the bathroom. Like race him. Race him. Not

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beat him. OK, everybody. That I'm going to race

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him to the bathroom and that I'm going to win.

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He like he's all about the competition right

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now. And so everything is like if I say like,

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oh, we're going to race to. climb into bed like

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he will he will actually listen like on the first

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try rather than like come on buddy let's go to

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bed no it's like cole i'm gonna race you to bed

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right now and he's like he'll like drop whatever

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he's doing and just run and i'm like hey i'm

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gonna i'm gonna use that as long as it works

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yeah we'll have to give that a try because we

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definitely uh have a lot of that too like like

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okay it's time to go to bed no yeah Well, it

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is whether you like it or not. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

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So it works for us for now. I'm sure one day

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it won't work and he'll catch on. But and then

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you'll figure something else out. Mm hmm. Yes.

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Yeah. OK, well, let's just hop right in, too.

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So we're going to basically go through like each

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letter and share what our toddler is saying the

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most of in that letter. Yeah. That makes sense.

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So do you want to go first with your letter A?

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Sure. For A, we have Apop, which is Stuart's

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dad. So neither of our dads are like a normal

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grandpa name. I love it. Stuart's dad is Apop.

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And everything at their house is Apop's. So it's

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like, it's not G -Mon Apop's house. It's Apop's

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house. Oh, yeah. Just Apop. Just Op -Op. There's

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like a few things that are also GMOs. Mostly

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it's Op -Ops. And then he has a Porsche. So Op

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-Op's Porsche is obviously a very big deal. Yeah.

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Specifically because Op -Op's Porsche is like

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Sally from Cars. Yes. So Op -Op and Op -Op's

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Porsche. What color is this Porsche? It's brown.

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So it's not actually... It's funny because it's...

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It's brown and it's not the same make as Sally.

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Sally is a Carrera. And Op Op's Porsche is a

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Cayman S. But hey. But they do look similar.

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They're probably like the closest models of Porsche.

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At least to my knowledge. But it does look enough

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like it that I'm like, okay, that's fair. Op

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Op's Porsche is like Sally is a big phrase that

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we're saying a lot right now. That's fun. Okay,

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my A is Colt says. A little bit the same. And

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so anytime, I don't know specifically where he

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got this from, but anytime like something is

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similar or even exactly the same, he'll be like,

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mom, a little bit the same. And I'm like, yeah,

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buddy, it is a little bit the same. I think I

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want to say it was like a scenario where like

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he pointed out something and said like the same

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as. I don't know, the same as that. And it wasn't.

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So I'm like, oh, it's it's a little bit the same.

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I didn't want to like totally let him down, you

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know. Right. Like, oh, it's kind of the same

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color or whatever. And so now he's just picked

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up on that phrase is like anything that's the

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same or like similar is a little bit the same.

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I love it. Yeah. We have a few of those right

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now where it's like we said at one time. And

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there's just this concept that he's latched on

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to. Yeah, I love it. Okay, what about for B?

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So for B, the other grandpa, we have Bapa. So

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like I was saying at the beginning, when we were

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going through the alphabet, everything was Bapa.

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But that's my dad. He loves his grandpas and

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he talks about his grandpas all the time. He

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always wants to go to Grandma and Papa's house

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or G -Mama and Pop's house. And then again, most

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things at my parents' house are not my mom's.

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They are Papa's. Yeah. You know, Papa's car and...

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I think it's so cute. I feel like it's so common

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for little boys to like latch on to like their

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grandpas. And like for male figures specifically.

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Yeah. Because it's kind of the same on our end

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with Colt and his grandpas. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely.

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I mean, like he loves his grandmas, but there's

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an attachment to his grandpas that's definitely

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different. Yeah. So cute. Which is fun. All right.

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What's your B? Okay. Mine is be brave. Be brave.

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And so on Sundays for church, we always drop

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off crews first. And Michael's like already working,

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so he can't go with me to drop the kids off on

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Sunday mornings. And so we always drop. I always

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ask him, who do you want to drop off first? Do

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you want to go first or do you want to drop off

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Cruz? He always picks Cruz. So we go to Cruz's

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classroom and he always gives Cruz a hug and

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says, be brave. And then I give Cruz to the kidsman

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worker. And Cruz just like doesn't care. He's

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like, meh. I don't know. But that has become

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like part of our routine. And there's been a

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few times where I like forget to let him hug

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Cruz and say be brave. And we have to go back

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into the classroom. Of course. Have the worker

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bring Cruz back over, which makes it harder on

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Cruz because he's like already. It's this back

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and forth. And then he has to like hug Cruz and

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say be brave. And it's so cute. That's so sweet.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, C. What do you have for

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C? C, we have cars and cats. Nice. Those are

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maybe his two favorite things right now. I love

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it. We have our two cats who he's obsessed with.

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He also has started saying this thing where he'll

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say, like, Ricky, well, actually, we'll get to

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their names at the end, but he'll say, like,

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Ricky likes. And then he'll like, Ricky likes

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Lloyd. Ricky likes mom. Ricky likes dad. And

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it's super cute. And then cars, both like actual

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cars that he gets to play with and cars on the

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street. And then also the movie, because that

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is the most important movie ever made. Yeah,

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obviously. But one of the frequent things is,

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like, if he goes to a grandparent's house and

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he comes home, we're like, oh, what'd you do,

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buddy? Play Cars. Like, oh, you played Cars.

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Always play Cars. Always plays Cars. That's cute.

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So, Cat and Cars are C. Nice. Okay, mine for

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C is, can I watch something? Can I watch a little

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bit of TV? A little bit of TV? A little bit of

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TV? It's always like, a little bit. I mean, it's

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easier to say. He knows that, right? You're like,

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just a little bit. I don't know your law. Just

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a little bit. And that's how he gets me. He's

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like, he knows. He can manipulate me so much.

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And it's so cute and also so hard to tell him

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no because he says it so nicely. A little bit?

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Can I watch a little bit of TV? Like right in

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the morning, we go downstairs and he grabs the

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TV remote because I can never find the right

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hiding spot for it. And he hands it to me and

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says, can I watch a little bit of TV while you

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make breakfast? And sometimes I'm like, sure,

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buddy, we can. Or sometimes I'm like, no, we

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can't right now. It depends on how I slept. But

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it's so, yeah, it's so cute. And I'm like. Yeah,

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he just, he knows how to get me because the tone

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of voice is like, please, mommy dearest, may

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I? That's so cute. Yeah. I love that. Okay, what

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about for D? D, we have, I have two for D. We

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have dad's car. So for some reason, he's obsessed

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with Stuart's car. And what kind of car is it?

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He has a Honda Fit. which Lloyd has also decided

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is like Sally from Cars. Okay, great. Yeah, so

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at least Op Op's Porsche is in fact a Porsche

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and does look similar to Sally from Cars. Stewart's

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Honda Fit, not as much. Not so much, but hey,

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it's a car. But he loves Stewart's car, so every

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time we like... stewart usually parks on the

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street so when we get in the family car and leave

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he always wants to drive by dad's car or when

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we see stewart getting home from work we'll like

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go to the window and dad's car so you so that's

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you ever get to ride in dad's car or no because

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there's no we don't have a car seat for him yeah

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yeah i mean he has in the past because for a

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while it was our only car um but Yeah, we don't

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have a car seat for him in there, but Stuart

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will every once in a while let him just like

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sit in the front seat and, you know, turn on

00:14:02.750 --> 00:14:05.470
the lights and, you know, do the little kid thing.

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And then my other for D is dump truck. So one,

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we love road builders in general and all construction

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vehicles. But also if you have ever read Little

00:14:16.370 --> 00:14:19.289
Blue Truck. Yes. If you've ever read the book

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Little Blue Truck, you know that the pivotal

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plot line is that a dump truck comes through

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and gets stuck down deep in the muck and mire.

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And he has the entire, not the entire book memorized.

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I mean, maybe he does, but he always starts like

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we'll be just sitting at dinner or driving someplace

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and he will. start from when it's like honk dump

00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:42.879
truck coming through he'll go through that entire

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section until the dump truck gets unstuck like

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the whole thing just recite it out of nowhere

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just recite it he has the whole thing memorized

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and actually the saddest part of it's like so

00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:58.139
cute and so sad for those of you who are not

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current boy moms and don't know little blue truck

00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.399
by heart the dump truck comes and gets stuck

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in mud and little blue truck tries to help him

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But before little blue truck tries to help him,

00:15:09.250 --> 00:15:13.090
dump truck says honk and he sounded scared, but

00:15:13.090 --> 00:15:15.830
nobody heard and nobody cared. And Lloyd says

00:15:15.830 --> 00:15:18.570
that every single time. And in his little two

00:15:18.570 --> 00:15:21.009
and a half year old voice, it's maybe the saddest

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thing I've ever heard. Nobody cared. You're like,

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I do care. Maybe I'll try to get a voice or like

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a recording of him saying it because it's so

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cute. Nobody heard. Nobody cared. Oh, buddy.

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So, D is for dump trucks. But it's not real life,

00:15:46.139 --> 00:15:48.480
buddy. It's not real life. The dump truck's okay.

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Yeah, that's so cute. Okay, I also have two for

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D. So, first one is, don't talk to me, mama.

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Don't talk to me. Cole is such a sassy guy. I

00:16:04.019 --> 00:16:07.899
love him so much. But this one, so he, like,

00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:11.179
anytime he's, like, mad at me for me saying no,

00:16:11.259 --> 00:16:14.059
specifically, usually when it's no to, can I

00:16:14.059 --> 00:16:17.279
watch something? And I say no. It's, don't talk

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to me, Mom. And he'll, like, fall on the ground.

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So dramatic. Go dramatically. And I'll be like,

00:16:22.700 --> 00:16:24.659
it's okay, buddy. Like, we can watch something

00:16:24.659 --> 00:16:27.899
later. Don't talk to me, Mom. And I'm like, okay,

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I'll give you a minute. I won't talk to you.

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And then he'll yeah, then he just needs a needs

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a few minutes. My other one is Danny Go. So that's

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I've talked to you. I think I've talked about

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it on the podcast. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. That's

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like our favorite thing to watch right now is

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Danny Go. And if you don't know who Danny Go

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is, he's like this guy on YouTube that like makes

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these music videos about anything from like.

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From flamingos to dump trucks or garbage trucks

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and or like Halloween videos like he just has

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like a plethora of music videos. And I swear,

00:17:07.690 --> 00:17:10.049
well, I have all of them memorized now, but Cole

00:17:10.049 --> 00:17:12.210
also has all of them memorized. And it's super

00:17:12.210 --> 00:17:14.869
cute because he will like he'll like sing the

00:17:14.869 --> 00:17:17.910
songs out of nowhere. He will. There's one specifically

00:17:17.910 --> 00:17:20.750
a superhero one that is like his favorite thing.

00:17:21.089 --> 00:17:25.089
And he. Likes to go get one of his blankets and

00:17:25.089 --> 00:17:28.390
I like tie it around him as a cape. And his great

00:17:28.390 --> 00:17:31.089
grandma just made him a cape, like sewed him

00:17:31.089 --> 00:17:34.490
a cape and sent it to us. So cute. And then he

00:17:34.490 --> 00:17:37.049
wears gloves. So he like has gardening gloves

00:17:37.049 --> 00:17:40.769
that he puts on and he always puts his cowboy

00:17:40.769 --> 00:17:43.369
boots on. So anytime he like wants to be Danny

00:17:43.369 --> 00:17:46.970
Go, he like finds all the all the items to make

00:17:46.970 --> 00:17:49.720
himself Danny Go. Perfect. And it's super cute.

00:17:49.859 --> 00:17:51.839
Yeah. I love that we're, like, starting to get

00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.000
to the phase of, like, imagination and doing

00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:57.099
stuff like that. Like, getting dressed up in

00:17:57.099 --> 00:18:00.779
the Danny Go superhero costume. Yeah. Just, like,

00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:03.099
that's so fun. I love it. I'm going to be so

00:18:03.099 --> 00:18:05.920
sad. talked to michael about this multiple times

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i'm gonna be sad like when this obsession is

00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:10.559
over because it's so cute to watch him just like

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like in the grocery store he'll just start singing

00:18:13.180 --> 00:18:16.720
the songs and i'm like i just want him to always

00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:19.539
be like that and i know there's like a moment

00:18:19.539 --> 00:18:22.079
where it kicks in where you you just don't do

00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.440
that anymore yep i'm like i'm gonna take all

00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.039
the videos of it now so that i can just hold

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that in my heart forever For sure. Yeah, we have

00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:32.380
a few things like that, too, that I'm like, I

00:18:32.380 --> 00:18:34.079
know someday he's not going to do this anymore.

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Yeah. And I'm going to be devastated. Huh. Okay,

00:18:37.500 --> 00:18:41.880
what about for E? For E, we have emails. Specifically,

00:18:42.019 --> 00:18:46.220
doing emails. So, with mom's job is doing emails.

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And sometimes if he's like over me working, he'll

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say, Mom, all done doing emails. I'm like, I

00:18:54.539 --> 00:18:58.319
wish, buddy. It's 2 p .m. He's napping at 2 p

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.m. It's 10 a .m. usually when he says, Mom's

00:19:00.380 --> 00:19:03.240
all done doing emails. We got a while to go.

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But then also he has, it's funny because we don't

00:19:06.819 --> 00:19:09.500
actually have a toy laptop for him. We have an

00:19:09.500 --> 00:19:11.519
old laptop that doesn't hold charge anymore.

00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:14.759
Perfect. I don't even know what I'm supposed

00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:17.509
to do with. old technology like that that like

00:19:17.509 --> 00:19:19.190
do you just i don't know just like throw it in

00:19:19.190 --> 00:19:21.529
the regular trash i guess i don't know but in

00:19:21.529 --> 00:19:23.609
our case since it's just been sitting collecting

00:19:23.609 --> 00:19:27.569
dust for years now it's just lloyd's toy laptop

00:19:27.569 --> 00:19:30.569
and he opens it and then he'll say that he lloyd's

00:19:30.569 --> 00:19:35.190
doing emails um so doing emails you're like hey

00:19:35.190 --> 00:19:38.730
you do emails while i do emails yes great we'll

00:19:38.730 --> 00:19:40.630
get them done at the same time for sure nice

00:19:40.630 --> 00:19:43.470
it's so cute because he probably has like zero

00:19:43.470 --> 00:19:47.680
actuality of what emails are yeah he has no idea

00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:51.700
he just knows the word emails yeah yeah yep so

00:19:51.700 --> 00:19:56.839
cute um okay mine is egg bites and that is like

00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.450
our go -to breakfast right now Whether it's from

00:20:00.450 --> 00:20:02.529
Starbucks or we purchased the egg bites, we've

00:20:02.529 --> 00:20:04.309
tried to make egg bites before and they just

00:20:04.309 --> 00:20:06.690
never turn out the same. Yeah, I've tried them.

00:20:06.730 --> 00:20:08.869
I've never been able to figure it out. And so

00:20:08.869 --> 00:20:11.809
we've spent an astronomical amount on like Costco

00:20:11.809 --> 00:20:15.970
egg bites or Target egg bites. But every morning

00:20:15.970 --> 00:20:19.029
when Colt wakes up and he says, I'd like to go

00:20:19.029 --> 00:20:21.589
downstairs for breakfast. And I'm like, OK, buddy,

00:20:21.730 --> 00:20:23.849
what do you want for breakfast? It's always egg

00:20:23.849 --> 00:20:26.789
bites. I'm like. Okay, we can have egg bites.

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Or if we don't have them, we have to settle for

00:20:29.009 --> 00:20:33.650
scrambled eggs, which is a very far second. Yeah.

00:20:33.910 --> 00:20:37.309
Yeah. But egg bites, we'll see how long that's

00:20:37.309 --> 00:20:40.650
our breakfast. I mean, if it makes him eat, that's

00:20:40.650 --> 00:20:42.269
great. I know, it's good protein. Good protein.

00:20:42.690 --> 00:20:46.430
And he, yeah, he's obsessed with, well, I'll

00:20:46.430 --> 00:20:50.690
talk about protein later. Oh, excited for that.

00:20:50.809 --> 00:20:56.089
Yeah, right. Okay, F. F is? Free Fallin' by Tom

00:20:56.089 --> 00:20:59.990
Petty. Yes. Very sophisticated in his music choices.

00:21:00.509 --> 00:21:03.529
He is. Yeah. So usually if he wants to listen

00:21:03.529 --> 00:21:07.369
to music, the order in which he requests is first

00:21:07.369 --> 00:21:09.930
it's We Will Rock You by Queen. Then it is Free

00:21:09.930 --> 00:21:11.789
Fallin' by Tom Petty. Then it is Wildflower.

00:21:12.069 --> 00:21:16.589
We're out of Barbara Ann. So are we. Yeah. So

00:21:16.589 --> 00:21:19.829
then we get to Wildflowers by Tom Petty and then

00:21:19.829 --> 00:21:22.970
we've added Radio Gaga by Queen. Nice. Sometimes

00:21:22.970 --> 00:21:25.549
he will ask for Spider -Man by the Ramones. That's

00:21:25.549 --> 00:21:29.369
a new one that we showed it to him once and he

00:21:29.369 --> 00:21:32.329
picked it up and loves it. So cute. But yes,

00:21:32.470 --> 00:21:35.069
Free Fallin' is one of his go -to and he says

00:21:35.069 --> 00:21:38.049
the whole thing every time. Free Fallin' by Tom

00:21:38.049 --> 00:21:41.470
Petty. Yes. Okay, buddy. You got it. You got

00:21:41.470 --> 00:21:43.940
it. And then usually as soon as we like, play

00:21:43.940 --> 00:21:47.099
it he says turn it up which is and sometimes

00:21:47.099 --> 00:21:49.440
we're like it's it's already loud enough we do

00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:51.920
not need to turn it up but if it's quiet then

00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:55.460
we will turn it up that's that is that's our

00:21:55.460 --> 00:21:58.180
life right now which i love it not that man no

00:21:58.180 --> 00:22:01.599
honestly that's so smart to like get your kids

00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:04.160
to like the music that you like it is the move

00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.299
we are so far deep into danny go that every time

00:22:07.299 --> 00:22:09.559
i'm in the car now with him we have to listen

00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:11.920
to danny now you're like this is the music i

00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:15.059
like yeah this is On my Spotify wrapped this

00:22:15.059 --> 00:22:18.880
next year, Danny go will be number one. Unfortunately.

00:22:19.220 --> 00:22:24.500
Yeah. Okay. Mine for F is I'm fine, mommy. Anytime

00:22:24.500 --> 00:22:28.960
like I want, I offer to help him right now. It's

00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.859
he's in that phase of he wants to do everything

00:22:31.859 --> 00:22:34.160
himself, which is great. I want him to learn.

00:22:34.220 --> 00:22:37.440
I want him to try, but he'll be, I'm fine, mommy.

00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:41.319
Do you want help with building that puzzle? I'm

00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:44.960
fine, mommy. I'm like, okay, great. You let me

00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:47.460
know when you want help. And usually like five

00:22:47.460 --> 00:22:50.140
seconds later, mom, I need help. I need help,

00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:53.640
mom. Okay, at least he knows how to ask as well.

00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:57.819
Yeah. That's great communication. Yep. Love the

00:22:57.819 --> 00:23:00.960
confidence that he has. Yeah, it's so funny.

00:23:01.059 --> 00:23:06.000
I'm fine, mommy. Love it. Okay, what about for

00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:10.400
G? G, we have G -Ma and Gam -Ma. So we got both

00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:13.680
the grandmas there. Again, he loves it. He loves

00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:15.799
his family, like in general. Well, you'll see.

00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:18.559
We have a few more. Yeah, so he talks about them

00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:20.519
all the time and always wants to go to their

00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:23.240
houses. Yeah, I love it. And he knows what days

00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:25.640
of the week he goes to their houses too. Nice.

00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:29.519
So he'll like say that. Yeah. Okay, yeah. You're

00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:31.819
going to go on that day. That's great. That's

00:23:31.819 --> 00:23:35.359
cute. So G -Ma and Gam -Ma. Cute. Okay, mine

00:23:35.359 --> 00:23:39.869
is. Go see daddy. So on Wednesdays, Michael has

00:23:39.869 --> 00:23:42.529
youth group because he's a youth pastor. And

00:23:42.529 --> 00:23:45.029
so it's a super long day for him at work. So

00:23:45.029 --> 00:23:48.930
he's usually he is like a 12 hour plus day on

00:23:48.930 --> 00:23:53.089
Wednesdays. And so I'm solo parenting on Wednesdays.

00:23:53.089 --> 00:23:56.369
And we try to break up the day by going to visit

00:23:56.369 --> 00:23:59.710
Michael at work, usually around like three -ish

00:23:59.710 --> 00:24:02.289
or even five while they're setting up for youth

00:24:02.289 --> 00:24:05.829
group. Usually on Wednesdays. I'll like before

00:24:05.829 --> 00:24:08.369
Colt's nap, we'll be like, hey, after nap, we're

00:24:08.369 --> 00:24:10.490
going to like hang out for a little bit and then

00:24:10.490 --> 00:24:13.250
we'll go see daddy. And so after nap time, he'll

00:24:13.250 --> 00:24:16.789
usually wake up and say, go see daddy. And I'm

00:24:16.789 --> 00:24:19.190
like, yeah, buddy, in a little bit. So he just

00:24:19.190 --> 00:24:21.309
he looks forward to that. And it's super cute.

00:24:21.430 --> 00:24:25.109
That is so cute. Yeah. OK. What letter is after

00:24:25.109 --> 00:24:29.930
G? H. H. H. We have honk. Only he doesn't actually

00:24:29.930 --> 00:24:35.349
he can't say it right yet. So it's chonk. That's

00:24:35.349 --> 00:24:37.349
another one maybe I'll try to get a recording

00:24:37.349 --> 00:24:41.069
of him saying because it's so funny. Chonk. So

00:24:41.069 --> 00:24:43.769
that does go back to the dump truck. The dump

00:24:43.769 --> 00:24:47.210
truck says chonk. Also Mater from Cars. This

00:24:47.210 --> 00:24:49.150
is another thing that he has just like memorized

00:24:49.150 --> 00:24:53.990
and we go through at least once a day is Mater

00:24:53.990 --> 00:24:56.549
goes chonk, lightning goes room, tractor goes

00:24:56.549 --> 00:25:01.549
up, tractor toot. So in that order, at least

00:25:01.549 --> 00:25:05.069
once a day, every time. Amazing. Just like out

00:25:05.069 --> 00:25:08.589
of nowhere. Yeah. I love it. I love the randomness.

00:25:08.609 --> 00:25:11.109
It's the best. I like wish I knew what was going

00:25:11.109 --> 00:25:13.470
on in their brains to get there. Cause you know,

00:25:13.509 --> 00:25:16.029
it's not random for them. No. Or like maybe,

00:25:16.049 --> 00:25:18.049
maybe it is. I guess there are times when I have

00:25:18.049 --> 00:25:20.069
random thoughts. I just don't like necessarily

00:25:20.069 --> 00:25:23.609
say them out loud. Yeah. Like we randomly get

00:25:23.609 --> 00:25:26.069
songs stuck in our head or whatever, but. But

00:25:26.069 --> 00:25:28.490
it's them just vocalizing it right then. Yeah.

00:25:28.509 --> 00:25:30.170
Cause they're saying everything all the time

00:25:30.170 --> 00:25:33.089
and that's how they process. Yeah. I wonder what.

00:25:33.710 --> 00:25:36.990
I would be super like schizophrenic sounding

00:25:36.990 --> 00:25:40.049
almost if I just was like. If you said every

00:25:40.049 --> 00:25:42.869
thought that came into your head. Yeah. Yeah,

00:25:42.869 --> 00:25:44.650
that's probably not a good idea. No, I'll keep

00:25:44.650 --> 00:25:50.490
it to myself. OK, mine for H is honeywawa. Honeywawa.

00:25:50.890 --> 00:25:55.569
So we started this a while ago, like one time

00:25:55.569 --> 00:25:59.630
when Colt was sick and he gets croup often. He's

00:25:59.630 --> 00:26:02.900
like got we think he has asthma. So we started

00:26:02.900 --> 00:26:05.839
doing, like, before he goes to bed, when he's

00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:08.779
reading books, he, like, gets some warm honey

00:26:08.779 --> 00:26:11.420
water just to, like, soothe his throat. He coughs

00:26:11.420 --> 00:26:14.799
a lot, so we try to, like, minimize that at nighttime.

00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.559
So now every night, no matter if he's sick or

00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:22.000
not, he goes, Honey Wawa? I have my Honey Wawa?

00:26:22.299 --> 00:26:24.799
And so every night we make him his honey water,

00:26:24.900 --> 00:26:28.859
and he drinks his warm water while we read books.

00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:32.740
It's so cute. And honey costs a lot of money.

00:26:32.779 --> 00:26:35.680
So we're going through honey like no other. It

00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:38.799
is expensive. Yeah. Yeah. But it's cute. And

00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:41.779
also I'm like, after he brushes his teeth, I'm

00:26:41.779 --> 00:26:43.799
like, it's probably not good to like. Probably

00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:46.519
not. Put all that sugar back on there. If you

00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:49.220
get local honey, it will help him with seasonal

00:26:49.220 --> 00:26:51.880
allergies. Yes. That's what I need to do. Once

00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:54.900
farmers markets start back up again. Even honestly,

00:26:55.220 --> 00:26:57.759
King Soopers has local honey. Really? Okay, great.

00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:00.500
Yeah, I need to do that because right now it's

00:27:00.500 --> 00:27:03.160
just the, I don't know, Target brand. But yeah,

00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:09.759
that's H for us. Okay, I. I is for Ice Cream

00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:14.019
Face, which is a book that if you don't know

00:27:14.019 --> 00:27:16.480
about Ice Cream Face, don't introduce it to your

00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:19.440
kids. It's the worst book. Yeah, it's awful.

00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:22.420
I hate it. Stuart hates it. Did you get it from

00:27:22.420 --> 00:27:26.920
Imagination Library? We did. Yes, do not recommend

00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:31.160
it. It was actually funny because over Christmas,

00:27:31.259 --> 00:27:33.960
my sister and her husband were in town, and Lloyd

00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:35.640
was talking about Ice Cream Face, and they were

00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:39.660
like, oh, what is that? And I just had such disdain,

00:27:39.660 --> 00:27:42.640
and I was like, it's one of his favorite books.

00:27:43.019 --> 00:27:45.970
But also the worst book of all time. Shout out

00:27:45.970 --> 00:27:48.789
Dolly Parton. Not your best choice, Dolly. No,

00:27:48.829 --> 00:27:51.309
sorry, Dolly. Almost all the other books we've

00:27:51.309 --> 00:27:54.750
gotten from her were like big fans. Green Tractor,

00:27:54.890 --> 00:27:58.230
great. Clearly Lloyd is a big fan, though, of

00:27:58.230 --> 00:28:00.690
Ice Cream Face. And I guess that's the audience

00:28:00.690 --> 00:28:04.490
she's going for. I guess, yeah. He has stopped

00:28:04.490 --> 00:28:07.630
requesting it as often, which is kind of nice.

00:28:07.890 --> 00:28:10.460
But it is one of his favorites. But yeah, it's

00:28:10.460 --> 00:28:12.420
like, it's not, I feel like this poor author,

00:28:12.500 --> 00:28:16.079
I'm just like ripping this book to shreds. I

00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:18.980
feel like there's not like a good moral, like

00:28:18.980 --> 00:28:21.140
not that there always has to be like this like

00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:23.380
super positive, but it's kind of just like this

00:28:23.380 --> 00:28:25.299
kid throws a fit because he doesn't get ice cream

00:28:25.299 --> 00:28:27.279
at some point. Like that's kind of what it boils

00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:29.880
down to. There's some holes in the story. I feel

00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:33.059
like. Yeah. everyone's sharing their ice cream

00:28:33.059 --> 00:28:36.019
and i'm like that's a lot of germs yeah yeah

00:28:36.019 --> 00:28:38.900
that's not really a dish that you share i don't

00:28:38.900 --> 00:28:42.640
know no yeah so but it's ice cream face the book

00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:44.779
stewart and i've been trying to like it might

00:28:44.779 --> 00:28:47.140
be one of those things that just like disappears

00:28:47.140 --> 00:28:49.440
at some point in time yeah i don't know you know

00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:52.180
i don't know where it went so but that's i for

00:28:52.180 --> 00:28:55.519
us what do you have um i have i like a mommy

00:28:55.519 --> 00:29:01.359
so colts often will if michael has him And he

00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:04.779
doesn't want Michael to have him or hold him.

00:29:04.900 --> 00:29:08.519
He goes, I like a mommy. I'd like a mommy to

00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:10.720
hold me instead. Especially in the nighttime,

00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:13.339
which is not like a possible thing right now.

00:29:13.799 --> 00:29:16.779
So anytime, which Colt still wakes up every single

00:29:16.779 --> 00:29:19.700
night, Michael will go in there. And most of

00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:22.299
the time, he's totally fine with Michael being

00:29:22.299 --> 00:29:28.389
there. Sometimes it's, no, I like a mommy. And

00:29:28.389 --> 00:29:30.569
that's a problem when I'm like, I'm feeding the

00:29:30.569 --> 00:29:35.490
baby or with Cruz and I can't help. And so we're

00:29:35.490 --> 00:29:37.809
working on it, working on it. It's one of those

00:29:37.809 --> 00:29:39.430
things that you're like, on one hand, this is

00:29:39.430 --> 00:29:41.609
so sweet. I love that you love me. And on the

00:29:41.609 --> 00:29:44.509
other hand, I need you to also be OK with dad

00:29:44.509 --> 00:29:48.630
because. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. OK, what about

00:29:48.630 --> 00:29:52.789
for Jay? For Jay, we have Jack and Jesse, which

00:29:52.789 --> 00:29:56.430
are his cousins. He talks about them all the

00:29:56.430 --> 00:29:59.890
time. And especially if we've seen them recently

00:29:59.890 --> 00:30:02.650
and like done something with them, then it's

00:30:02.650 --> 00:30:05.470
just like recapping. Like we did this with Jack

00:30:05.470 --> 00:30:07.450
and Jesse and Jack and Jesse and Jack and Jesse.

00:30:07.569 --> 00:30:11.170
So big fans of our cousins. Cute. Okay. Mine

00:30:11.170 --> 00:30:17.680
for Jay is just like that. So when. especially

00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:20.559
at nap time so cole i think is starting to become

00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:24.259
afraid of the dark a little bit okay um and so

00:30:24.259 --> 00:30:27.119
he has like his hatch sound machine which we

00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:30.299
put a little light like a red light on for him

00:30:30.299 --> 00:30:32.059
in the night so it like kind of lights up his

00:30:32.059 --> 00:30:34.880
room but uh when we put him to bed either at

00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:37.900
nap time or at night he wants to fall asleep

00:30:37.900 --> 00:30:40.599
with the door open and then we usually like sneak

00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:43.220
and close the door when he does fall asleep but

00:30:43.220 --> 00:30:45.740
anytime i'm walking out i'm like okay buddy do

00:30:45.740 --> 00:30:47.859
you want the door open or closed and usually

00:30:47.859 --> 00:30:50.420
he'll say open and then I like do it and I'm

00:30:50.420 --> 00:30:52.019
like do you want it just like that and he goes

00:30:52.019 --> 00:30:56.299
just like that I'm like okay I will not touch

00:30:56.299 --> 00:31:00.279
it you got it buddy and I'm like that's so cute

00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:04.339
and now when I usually sneak to shut the door

00:31:04.339 --> 00:31:07.799
if he wakes up and like is not in the best mood

00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:10.930
and he sees the that the door is shut, he gets

00:31:10.930 --> 00:31:12.990
mad at me because I shut the door. It's not just

00:31:12.990 --> 00:31:15.670
like that. Yeah, I didn't leave it open. But

00:31:15.670 --> 00:31:18.029
I close it because I'm like, if I'm awake or,

00:31:18.069 --> 00:31:21.009
you know, we have the TV on or whatever, it's...

00:31:21.009 --> 00:31:22.630
You're like, you're two. You don't understand

00:31:22.630 --> 00:31:24.769
the idea of a fire risk and that it's important

00:31:24.769 --> 00:31:26.210
to have your door closed at night because of

00:31:26.210 --> 00:31:29.650
fire risks. Yes, true. And if you're getting

00:31:29.650 --> 00:31:31.670
scared, telling you that isn't going to help.

00:31:31.869 --> 00:31:34.490
I know. And of course, he's picked up this thing

00:31:34.490 --> 00:31:37.230
from Curious George. There's like one single

00:31:37.230 --> 00:31:39.069
episode of Curious George where... george is

00:31:39.069 --> 00:31:42.250
afraid of the dark and he like is hiding in the

00:31:42.250 --> 00:31:45.009
corner and he goes i'm scared of the dark and

00:31:45.009 --> 00:31:48.130
uh obviously george is a monkey so he doesn't

00:31:48.130 --> 00:31:51.490
say that but colt has picked up on going and

00:31:51.490 --> 00:31:53.910
like shaking and saying i'm scared of the dark

00:31:53.910 --> 00:31:56.089
and i'm like i don't are you actually afraid

00:31:56.089 --> 00:31:59.230
of the dark or are you just picking up on that

00:31:59.230 --> 00:32:01.769
from that you should be even though you don't

00:32:01.769 --> 00:32:04.349
need to be yeah but you're two so it's natural

00:32:04.349 --> 00:32:08.180
yeah yeah so i have no idea but Just like that.

00:32:08.420 --> 00:32:12.799
Love it. Okay. K. For K, we have Aunt Caitlin,

00:32:13.019 --> 00:32:16.940
which she says Aunt Kaken. And that's my sister.

00:32:16.940 --> 00:32:22.079
So we FaceTime Aunt Kaken every week. And, yeah,

00:32:22.140 --> 00:32:25.680
Aunt Kaken. Nice. Cute. Mine for K is just K.

00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:30.859
Like him saying okay is just K. K. Love it. Yeah.

00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:33.099
And I'm like, is that proper English? No, but

00:32:33.099 --> 00:32:38.420
it sure is adorable. So, K. Yeah. You know, he's

00:32:38.420 --> 00:32:41.059
got years to figure out the grammar and proper

00:32:41.059 --> 00:32:43.579
and all that. They'll teach him that in school,

00:32:43.660 --> 00:32:48.400
right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. L. L is another one

00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:51.140
I have two for. So we have Lightning McQueen,

00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:56.980
obviously, and Little Blue Truck. So interestingly,

00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:01.640
he got like a vintage or like, yeah, like it's

00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:06.160
a 1955 Chevy 3100. truck toy like months and

00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:09.539
months ago and then we after that discovered

00:33:09.539 --> 00:33:12.359
the little blue truck book series oh yeah so

00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:15.900
it was just like serendipitous you know we were

00:33:15.900 --> 00:33:17.559
at costco and i was like i've never seen this

00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:19.960
book before but he has a little blue truck and

00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:22.019
he loves it so now we have so many of the little

00:33:22.019 --> 00:33:24.920
blue truck books there's so many there's so many

00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:27.119
we keep thinking we have like a lot and then

00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:29.799
we'll find out that there's even more yeah so

00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:31.940
he likes his little blue truck that he plays

00:33:31.940 --> 00:33:34.920
with And, like, today he was putting little pom

00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:36.680
-poms in the bed of the truck, which was adorable.

00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:40.859
So cute. And then he also likes to read Little

00:33:40.859 --> 00:33:42.759
Blue Truck. So his favorites are the original,

00:33:42.980 --> 00:33:45.140
which for some reason he started calling Little

00:33:45.140 --> 00:33:47.720
Blue Truck Friends. We don't know why. I mean,

00:33:47.740 --> 00:33:49.559
we've picked up on that, so now that's what we

00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:51.619
call it. But he started it, and I don't know

00:33:51.619 --> 00:33:54.119
where he picked that up. And then Little Blue

00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:56.640
Truck Halloween. Those are his, like, go -to.

00:33:56.859 --> 00:34:00.890
That one. Yeah. So those are our go -to. Ours

00:34:00.890 --> 00:34:03.950
are Little Blue Truck and Racer Red. We got that

00:34:03.950 --> 00:34:06.690
for Christmas. And then Little Blue Truck. It's

00:34:06.690 --> 00:34:08.869
the one. Little Blue Truck rolls into the city.

00:34:09.170 --> 00:34:11.670
Beep, beep, beep. Isn't it pretty? We haven't

00:34:11.670 --> 00:34:14.349
gotten that one yet. He goes to the city. Yeah.

00:34:14.389 --> 00:34:16.289
There's a Valentine's one. So we're like, maybe

00:34:16.289 --> 00:34:19.070
we'll get him. He'll have like a little Valentine's

00:34:19.070 --> 00:34:21.550
box or something. And that'll be what he gets

00:34:21.550 --> 00:34:24.909
this year. So cute. Okay. Mine for Elle is, I

00:34:24.909 --> 00:34:28.630
love you. And this is, yeah. And he says like,

00:34:28.690 --> 00:34:31.570
I wuff you. And he'll just, like, say it out

00:34:31.570 --> 00:34:34.150
of nowhere. And it's so cute. And he, like, tries

00:34:34.150 --> 00:34:36.570
to sign, I love you now. So rather than, like,

00:34:36.670 --> 00:34:39.670
this is the sign for I love you, he'll do, he

00:34:39.670 --> 00:34:43.010
does that. But it's so cute. So anytime we're

00:34:43.010 --> 00:34:45.650
FaceTiming family or anything, we'll say, they

00:34:45.650 --> 00:34:48.130
say, love you, Cole. And he goes, I love you.

00:34:48.449 --> 00:34:52.349
I love you. That's so sweet. So sweet. Like,

00:34:52.429 --> 00:34:56.190
you are just the sweetest boy. Love it. Okay,

00:34:56.309 --> 00:35:02.239
M. M, we have mom and mater. Obviously, he says

00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:04.639
mom all the time. Mostly, if he wants me to hold

00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:07.280
him, and then he'll say, mom hug, mom hug, mom

00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:10.099
hug. But he also gets a little bit demanding

00:35:10.099 --> 00:35:13.000
right now, so it'll be like, mom hug on couch.

00:35:13.300 --> 00:35:15.840
And that means he wants me to go sit on the couch

00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:19.179
and hold him. Or sometimes... We'll be like in

00:35:19.179 --> 00:35:20.900
the kitchen and I'll get down on his level to

00:35:20.900 --> 00:35:22.960
give him a hug. And then he'll say, mom, stand

00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.820
up. I don't know what the difference is, but

00:35:25.820 --> 00:35:27.719
apparently there is a difference for him on if

00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:29.619
I'm sitting on the floor giving him a hug or

00:35:29.619 --> 00:35:33.380
what. And then made her from cars, of course.

00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:37.019
Of course. Because again, cars is life right

00:35:37.019 --> 00:35:40.059
now. And actually he was watching cars today

00:35:40.059 --> 00:35:42.079
because I had a meeting and I needed him to be

00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:47.809
completely distracted. I like saw his face when

00:35:47.809 --> 00:35:49.590
Mater came on the screen for the first time.

00:35:50.530 --> 00:35:53.489
And you would think Mater was like in our house.

00:35:53.710 --> 00:35:57.469
He was so excited. And it was adorable. And you're

00:35:57.469 --> 00:35:59.750
like, this is not your first time seeing this,

00:35:59.750 --> 00:36:03.170
buddy. No, we've watched. All three cars, so

00:36:03.170 --> 00:36:05.369
many times. Also, there's rumors of a fourth

00:36:05.369 --> 00:36:08.489
one. I saw that. Just for all the boy moms out

00:36:08.489 --> 00:36:10.570
there, this is very important news. Yeah, right.

00:36:11.110 --> 00:36:13.110
Imagine when you get to take him to Disneyland

00:36:13.110 --> 00:36:15.269
for the first time, or I don't know if they have

00:36:15.269 --> 00:36:18.230
Cars Land in Disney World. But I don't know which

00:36:18.230 --> 00:36:21.289
one. They for sure have it in Disneyland. But

00:36:21.289 --> 00:36:23.250
I'm like, if you take him there when he's like

00:36:23.250 --> 00:36:25.369
obsessed with cars, that would be like literally

00:36:25.369 --> 00:36:27.909
the best day of his life. For sure. Yeah. Yeah.

00:36:28.010 --> 00:36:33.849
Okay. Main for M is Mimi coming. So Mimi is the

00:36:33.849 --> 00:36:37.010
woman that watches Colton Cruz for me on Tuesdays

00:36:37.010 --> 00:36:40.170
and Thursdays. And so any time on Tuesday and

00:36:40.170 --> 00:36:42.469
Thursday when. Colt gets out of bed and I'm like,

00:36:42.530 --> 00:36:45.010
OK, buddy, we got to like it's already eight

00:36:45.010 --> 00:36:47.389
o 'clock. We got to get ready to have breakfast.

00:36:47.650 --> 00:36:49.429
And he's like, where are we going? I'm like,

00:36:49.489 --> 00:36:51.510
oh, we're not going anywhere. And he goes, Mimi

00:36:51.510 --> 00:36:55.329
coming. I'm like, yes, Mimi's coming today. And

00:36:55.329 --> 00:36:59.369
he's like, oh, OK. He'll go, OK, OK, OK. Yeah.

00:36:59.670 --> 00:37:02.829
He loves his Mimi so much. That's so sweet. OK.

00:37:02.929 --> 00:37:07.849
And so we are entering the world of. learning

00:37:07.849 --> 00:37:10.989
about mutual exclusivity so right now everything

00:37:10.989 --> 00:37:16.449
is not so Lloyd's water not Zeta's or it's cold

00:37:16.449 --> 00:37:22.030
outside not hot or it's Zeta snack not Lloyd's

00:37:22.030 --> 00:37:25.489
so everything like almost anything that he could

00:37:25.489 --> 00:37:31.949
explain is explained as this not that The worst

00:37:31.949 --> 00:37:34.630
one for me, which like I know it's not personal,

00:37:34.730 --> 00:37:37.550
but a lot of times we'll like to get him to do

00:37:37.550 --> 00:37:38.769
something we'll offer. We'll be like, do you

00:37:38.769 --> 00:37:40.869
want mom or dad? Like to, you know, take you

00:37:40.869 --> 00:37:43.070
potty, take you to bed, whatever. And he'll say,

00:37:43.170 --> 00:37:48.670
dad, not mom. I'm like, I know he's just requesting

00:37:48.670 --> 00:37:50.969
dad. Like this isn't actually personal. He's

00:37:50.969 --> 00:37:54.230
like, I want dad, not mom. Right. But when you

00:37:54.230 --> 00:37:58.329
say specifically not mom, it's a little bit hurtful.

00:37:59.929 --> 00:38:02.869
hurts my feelings but also i am happy to sit

00:38:02.869 --> 00:38:05.690
here and let dad take you potty yeah dad can

00:38:05.690 --> 00:38:09.130
dad can do it for sure that's cute um okay mine

00:38:09.130 --> 00:38:12.449
for n is just the word no i feel like we're like

00:38:12.449 --> 00:38:16.869
totally in that phase of yeah ask him to do stuff

00:38:16.869 --> 00:38:20.650
and then he'll say no that's where i bring the

00:38:20.650 --> 00:38:24.949
races into into a into play yeah we've got lots

00:38:24.949 --> 00:38:28.010
of mill around here too yeah and he'll like he's

00:38:28.010 --> 00:38:30.530
at that point where he's got some some like oomph

00:38:30.530 --> 00:38:33.730
behind it too where he'll he'll like yell it

00:38:33.730 --> 00:38:37.610
at me no mom like what are you cool cool cool

00:38:37.610 --> 00:38:39.570
what are you where are you learning this yeah

00:38:39.570 --> 00:38:43.929
yeah i'm like in no fashion have i like shown

00:38:43.929 --> 00:38:46.989
him like modeled that for him right at least

00:38:46.989 --> 00:38:49.869
not that i remember i'm like are you learning

00:38:49.869 --> 00:38:53.340
this at church are you learning this uh i don't

00:38:53.340 --> 00:38:55.920
you don't really go anywhere else so yeah yeah

00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:59.360
but maybe it's just ingrained in him so no i

00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:01.199
feel like that's a toddler thing that they kind

00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:03.679
of just learn at some point i don't know for

00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:07.380
sure okay what about oh oh it's another one i

00:39:07.380 --> 00:39:09.820
have two four first he actually just started

00:39:09.820 --> 00:39:11.780
saying this and i don't really know where he

00:39:11.780 --> 00:39:15.969
picked it up but oh no And typically this happens

00:39:15.969 --> 00:39:18.530
when he does, like, a crash with his cars. And,

00:39:18.530 --> 00:39:21.170
of course, he does it on purpose, you know, because

00:39:21.170 --> 00:39:23.809
he's a little boy and so crashing cars is really

00:39:23.809 --> 00:39:25.309
fun. But so he'll be, like, playing with his

00:39:25.309 --> 00:39:27.289
cars or monster trucks and he'll, like, crash

00:39:27.289 --> 00:39:30.750
them. And then he goes, oh, no. Oh, no. And I

00:39:30.750 --> 00:39:33.030
don't know where he picked it up because I don't

00:39:33.030 --> 00:39:36.010
feel like we say that that often. But it's super

00:39:36.010 --> 00:39:39.349
cute. And then the other one is on purpose. So

00:39:39.349 --> 00:39:45.070
he knows the word uh -oh. But he doesn't really

00:39:45.070 --> 00:39:50.349
know like the difference between, I mean, maybe

00:39:50.349 --> 00:39:53.030
he does. But so it's like if he drops something

00:39:53.030 --> 00:39:55.429
on accident, then we'll be like, oh, uh -oh.

00:39:55.670 --> 00:39:57.969
And that's where he picked it up. But now he'll

00:39:57.969 --> 00:40:00.610
like throw something on purpose and he'll go,

00:40:00.730 --> 00:40:02.789
uh -oh. And so we're trying to explain. We're

00:40:02.789 --> 00:40:05.969
like, no, that's not an uh -oh. An uh -oh is

00:40:05.969 --> 00:40:08.909
like, right. That was on purpose. Like an uh

00:40:08.909 --> 00:40:10.329
-oh is when you didn't mean to do something.

00:40:10.389 --> 00:40:11.949
And we're like trying to explain this to our

00:40:11.949 --> 00:40:15.250
two -year -old. Sometimes he'll say, uh -oh,

00:40:15.329 --> 00:40:19.849
on purpose. Yeah, on purpose. No, I saw you throw

00:40:19.849 --> 00:40:23.449
that. I know that was on purpose. There in no

00:40:23.449 --> 00:40:25.769
way was that just like accidentally threw that

00:40:25.769 --> 00:40:28.590
across the room. Yeah, right. No, that was on

00:40:28.590 --> 00:40:32.710
purpose. So on purpose, yeah. Mine for O is open

00:40:32.710 --> 00:40:37.110
that. So he is such a snacker, which we're like

00:40:37.110 --> 00:40:40.389
trying to break. And it's so hard because I'm

00:40:40.389 --> 00:40:42.840
like. I don't if you're hungry like I want to

00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:46.019
let you eat but also it's like the snack choices

00:40:46.019 --> 00:40:48.860
I'm like we need to get some like other snacks

00:40:48.860 --> 00:40:52.440
and in the house but he has his own little we

00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:54.980
call it his helper stand like one of those things

00:40:54.980 --> 00:40:57.920
you can climb up up on and he'll like drag it

00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:01.380
over to the pantry grab whatever snack he wants

00:41:01.380 --> 00:41:04.679
and whether I say like yes or no he goes mommy

00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:08.800
open that I'm like either yes or no, but he's

00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:11.460
he's totally just in that snacking phase. So

00:41:11.460 --> 00:41:15.059
if anyone has any tip of like how to it's and

00:41:15.059 --> 00:41:17.360
it's not like he's not eating at mealtimes, though,

00:41:17.420 --> 00:41:19.760
either. He's like, I just think he's growing

00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:23.300
and he's so hungry. Oh, Lloyd will like not eat

00:41:23.300 --> 00:41:25.519
dinner. And then 10 minutes later, he'll be like

00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:30.039
snack. Yeah. So I don't know if this makes me

00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:32.940
a bad mom, but I just like, no, you we just had

00:41:32.940 --> 00:41:35.449
dinner. because usually it's that he didn't eat

00:41:35.449 --> 00:41:37.190
dinner and then he's asking for a snack so i'm

00:41:37.190 --> 00:41:39.730
like i'm not setting up that habit yep no for

00:41:39.730 --> 00:41:41.750
sure you're not gonna starve that sometimes too

00:41:41.750 --> 00:41:44.449
yeah yeah and it's so hard yeah because you're

00:41:44.449 --> 00:41:47.130
like if you're hungry like i don't want to not

00:41:47.130 --> 00:41:50.130
let you eat but also it's like you probably just

00:41:50.130 --> 00:41:52.130
didn't like what was in front of you and you

00:41:52.130 --> 00:41:54.909
want this like you want this granola bar instead

00:41:54.909 --> 00:41:59.510
or whatever yeah yeah um okay what about for

00:41:59.510 --> 00:42:06.280
p Speaking of snacks, we get those, like, I think

00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:10.199
the company is Bomba. And they have their, like,

00:42:10.219 --> 00:42:15.349
PBJ. bites or whatever they call them um so we

00:42:15.349 --> 00:42:19.150
just call them pbjs and he loves pbjs so that

00:42:19.150 --> 00:42:21.449
is one of the snacks that he requests all the

00:42:21.449 --> 00:42:24.409
time is nice pbjs and then the other thing for

00:42:24.409 --> 00:42:28.389
p is potty like i go potty nice that is a word

00:42:28.389 --> 00:42:29.989
that is said a lot in our house right now yeah

00:42:29.989 --> 00:42:33.400
that's great hey we are Still afraid to potty

00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:35.559
train over here. You'll get there. It's fine.

00:42:35.699 --> 00:42:40.300
Oh, gosh. OK, mine for pee is protein. So going

00:42:40.300 --> 00:42:43.179
back to gotta get that protein. Oh, my gosh.

00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.619
I don't know what like what was said at some

00:42:46.619 --> 00:42:50.239
point. But now every meal he said, Mama, this

00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:53.519
protein protein. And so I like tell him what

00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:57.599
what the protein is and his meal. And he'll even

00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:00.730
like point to his water. Mama protein. no that's

00:43:00.730 --> 00:43:02.889
not protein so I'll try to explain to him no

00:43:02.889 --> 00:43:06.070
that's just for hydration but I do make like

00:43:06.070 --> 00:43:09.730
a little protein drink like usually usually every

00:43:09.730 --> 00:43:12.530
afternoon just to like get me to dinner because

00:43:12.530 --> 00:43:15.050
I'm like yeah I'm breastfeeding I'm so hungry

00:43:15.050 --> 00:43:18.429
I'm trying not to just snack all the time and

00:43:18.429 --> 00:43:21.889
so he'll like help me make that and he's like

00:43:21.889 --> 00:43:24.530
so happy to help me make that and he gets to

00:43:24.530 --> 00:43:28.679
like taste it and so uh yeah protein obsessed

00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:30.840
with protein right now he's got no clue what

00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:33.679
it is but yeah everything you know he's on that

00:43:33.679 --> 00:43:36.860
trend the high protein diet he knows what what

00:43:36.860 --> 00:43:38.920
was the real i saw the other day it was like

00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:43.440
i feel more more pressure than i did in high

00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:46.860
school to smoke like weed to have a high protein

00:43:46.860 --> 00:43:48.820
diet or something like that no more pressure

00:43:48.820 --> 00:43:51.340
now to have a high protein diet than i did in

00:43:51.340 --> 00:43:53.900
high school to smoke weed like that is so true

00:43:53.900 --> 00:43:57.960
everything is protein right now so i feel that

00:43:57.960 --> 00:44:02.900
yes for sure q we have queen so i mean sometimes

00:44:02.900 --> 00:44:06.099
if i ask him he'll say q like lightning the queen

00:44:06.099 --> 00:44:08.539
which i'm like well it's in there for sure but

00:44:08.539 --> 00:44:11.679
like i said he loves the songs we will rock you

00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:13.679
and radio gaga and he knows they're by queen

00:44:13.679 --> 00:44:16.960
so he'll request we will rock you by queen or

00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:20.760
radio gaga by queen yeah it's great we love it

00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:24.019
I love it. I'm glad you could think of a Q word

00:44:24.019 --> 00:44:26.940
because I could not. So. That's fair. It is kind

00:44:26.940 --> 00:44:29.880
of a weird one. Like. Yeah. We have no other

00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:33.679
Q words that I could think of. Yeah. I don't

00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:35.659
even think. I don't know if he could pronounce

00:44:35.659 --> 00:44:38.139
like. He probably could, but. I'm sure he could.

00:44:38.300 --> 00:44:40.840
I can't think of anything. So I skipped that

00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:45.659
one. Sorry. That's fine. Yeah. Okay. R. R. So

00:44:45.659 --> 00:44:49.119
we have a few. First, we have our cats who are

00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:51.960
Ricky Kitty and Red Guy. Their names are Ricky

00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:53.840
and Red, but we call them Ricky Kitty and Red

00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:55.480
Guy. And so that's what he calls them all the

00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:58.699
time. And he's obsessed with the cats. He usually

00:44:58.699 --> 00:45:02.179
wants Ricky in his bed when he wakes up. He'll

00:45:02.179 --> 00:45:04.579
get up and be like, Ricky in Lloyd's bed. And

00:45:04.579 --> 00:45:06.559
I'm like, well, we can try, but she's also a

00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:09.099
cat and she will do whatever she wants. And then

00:45:09.099 --> 00:45:11.119
the other thing he's saying right now that he

00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:12.940
just, I don't know where he picked this up, but

00:45:12.940 --> 00:45:17.420
it's so funny, is really, really. So everything

00:45:17.420 --> 00:45:21.500
is really, really. Like when he fell at the playground

00:45:21.500 --> 00:45:24.179
and got hurt, it was really, really sad and really,

00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:29.159
really scary, which is like so sad. Maybe from

00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:31.340
a book or something like that. Maybe. Yeah, because

00:45:31.340 --> 00:45:33.800
then also it's really, really cold. It's really,

00:45:33.860 --> 00:45:36.280
really hot. Again, it's everything. It all makes

00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:39.059
sense what he's saying. Yeah, he's using it correctly.

00:45:39.159 --> 00:45:42.039
So everything is not and really, really. So it's

00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:45.519
like really, really cold, not hot. Yeah. Really,

00:45:45.659 --> 00:45:47.920
really hot. not cold or something like that.

00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:51.619
So, but so many things just really, really, and

00:45:51.619 --> 00:45:54.360
it's really funny that he does it twice. Yeah.

00:45:54.500 --> 00:45:57.219
Again, I don't, I guess it's one of those things

00:45:57.219 --> 00:45:59.000
that maybe like, again, it's in a book. Maybe

00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:02.380
one of us said it one time and now, now he's

00:46:02.380 --> 00:46:05.739
latched onto it. Yep. Love it. Okay. Mine for

00:46:05.739 --> 00:46:10.059
R is run with me, mommy. So with his obsession

00:46:10.059 --> 00:46:13.579
with, with Danny go, like all the videos are

00:46:13.579 --> 00:46:16.809
like, for the most part, like adventure, One.

00:46:16.809 --> 00:46:20.010
So he's like on a mission to go like take a picture

00:46:20.010 --> 00:46:22.550
of the pink tiger. So that's one of them. And

00:46:22.550 --> 00:46:25.010
he's like running through the forest. And so

00:46:25.010 --> 00:46:28.489
when we're outside, often he's like acting out

00:46:28.489 --> 00:46:31.469
these videos. So he wants me to do them with

00:46:31.469 --> 00:46:35.329
him, of course. And Cruz is super like he just

00:46:35.329 --> 00:46:37.190
wants to be attached to me. So I'm like running

00:46:37.190 --> 00:46:40.750
with Cruz like on my hip. But he'll be run with

00:46:40.750 --> 00:46:43.650
me, mommy. I'm like, OK, buddy, let's do it.

00:46:44.139 --> 00:46:47.599
All right. Sometimes I don't want to, but someday

00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:50.579
I'm going to miss this, that you were even asking

00:46:50.579 --> 00:46:53.500
me to play with you. I know. Totally. Totally.

00:46:54.099 --> 00:46:58.199
Okay, S. S, I have another one I have two for.

00:46:58.500 --> 00:47:00.840
We have Sally, because again, the car's obsession

00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:03.719
continues. And Sally is a Porsche, and Sally

00:47:03.719 --> 00:47:05.679
has blue eyes, and Sally is like Pop -Pop's Porsche.

00:47:05.900 --> 00:47:08.159
Yes. And then the other one, going back to snacks,

00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:11.690
smoothie balls. big fan of smoothie balls so

00:47:11.690 --> 00:47:15.250
smoothie balls they i'm sure you know exactly

00:47:15.250 --> 00:47:18.090
what they are you know the like little smoothie

00:47:18.090 --> 00:47:20.949
melts well yeah like the ones that they have

00:47:20.949 --> 00:47:22.690
a weird texture that remind me of something that

00:47:22.690 --> 00:47:24.010
i can't figure out what but they kind of just

00:47:24.010 --> 00:47:26.469
like melt in your mouth and they're i think they're

00:47:26.469 --> 00:47:28.550
supposed to be like free of all the allergens

00:47:28.550 --> 00:47:30.590
they're like dairy free and gluten free and egg

00:47:30.590 --> 00:47:32.789
free and all that i don't know why he started

00:47:32.789 --> 00:47:35.369
calling them smoothie balls i think maybe it

00:47:35.369 --> 00:47:38.619
was when he like was just learning shapes and

00:47:38.619 --> 00:47:40.159
it's like they're round therefore they're balls

00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:42.199
yeah but again it was one of those things he

00:47:42.199 --> 00:47:44.719
started calling them smoothie balls and we just

00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:46.780
now went with it and now that's what everyone

00:47:46.780 --> 00:47:50.119
in our house calls them so he requests them and

00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:52.340
then because there are multiple flavors he will

00:47:52.340 --> 00:47:55.019
request them by color so yellow smoothie balls

00:47:55.019 --> 00:47:58.699
pink smoothie balls he gets blueberry ones at

00:47:58.699 --> 00:48:00.280
my parents house sometimes so sometimes he'll

00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:02.719
ask that and i'll be like Sorry, like we don't

00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:04.860
have, that's not the brand that we buy. Blueberry

00:48:04.860 --> 00:48:08.219
balls. We don't have blueberry smoothie balls.

00:48:10.179 --> 00:48:14.659
That's funny. Amazing. Okay, mine for us is Stop

00:48:14.659 --> 00:48:19.079
Cruise. Stop Cruise. So he, yeah, Cruise is like

00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:22.639
totally all up in Colt's business all the time,

00:48:22.659 --> 00:48:25.760
which I'm like, okay, buddy, we got to get, yeah,

00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:27.340
we're getting used to it. We're getting used

00:48:27.340 --> 00:48:31.409
to like. Trying to play together. And Colt is,

00:48:31.530 --> 00:48:33.889
like, obsessed with his magnetiles right now.

00:48:34.050 --> 00:48:37.469
And so, and Cruz is obsessed with knocking magnetiles

00:48:37.469 --> 00:48:40.050
over. Of course. Which is not a great combination.

00:48:40.230 --> 00:48:42.650
And so I have to, like, anytime Colt is, like,

00:48:42.670 --> 00:48:45.349
really into building his magnetiles, I have to

00:48:45.349 --> 00:48:49.170
face Cruz the other way or, like, build my own

00:48:49.170 --> 00:48:51.309
power that Cruz just keeps knocking over. Can

00:48:51.309 --> 00:48:54.869
knock down. Yeah. And so anytime, like, Cruz

00:48:54.869 --> 00:48:57.739
gets close to them, he goes, stop, Cruz! These

00:48:57.739 --> 00:49:02.239
are my magnetiles. My magnetiles. One thing I

00:49:02.239 --> 00:49:06.440
don't think I was prepared for having two kids

00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:09.340
is how early the sibling dynamic starts. Oh,

00:49:09.340 --> 00:49:11.780
for sure. We all know the sibling, especially,

00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:13.880
I mean, maybe if you're an only child, you like

00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:16.079
can't recognize it as much, but we all know like

00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:18.739
the sibling dynamic of like, I would kill for

00:49:18.739 --> 00:49:22.639
you, but also I would kill you. Yeah. At the

00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:26.110
same time. absolutely within like 30 seconds

00:49:26.110 --> 00:49:28.510
both those things are true and so it's like i

00:49:28.510 --> 00:49:30.550
know that exists and i know that was going to

00:49:30.550 --> 00:49:33.250
develop but i don't i wasn't prepared for it

00:49:33.250 --> 00:49:35.829
to be like oh zeta's under a year and they're

00:49:35.829 --> 00:49:38.989
already like picking on each other but also like

00:49:38.989 --> 00:49:42.949
if zeta said lloyd's sad and you know all of

00:49:42.949 --> 00:49:45.170
those things so i definitely wasn't prepared

00:49:45.170 --> 00:49:49.070
for it to happen this same for sure um okay what

00:49:49.070 --> 00:49:52.960
about t T, so we have two for this one. First,

00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:57.320
I have this guy's got jokes. So Lloyd likes to

00:49:57.320 --> 00:50:00.320
tell jokes sometimes. And it's one of those things

00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:01.579
as a parent where you're like, they're not that

00:50:01.579 --> 00:50:03.920
funny. Like sometimes he has his timing perfect

00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:06.219
and gets to it at night and we laugh really hard.

00:50:06.739 --> 00:50:11.260
But so there came a point where instead of laughing,

00:50:11.320 --> 00:50:13.719
we'd just be like, oh, this guy's got jokes.

00:50:14.079 --> 00:50:16.599
And so Lloyd has picked that up. And now if he

00:50:16.599 --> 00:50:19.639
tells a joke, he'll say, this guy's got jokes.

00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:23.880
cute then the other one i have for t is them

00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:29.159
so i don't know again i think i must actually

00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:32.920
i know so if he if we're i'm like explaining

00:50:32.920 --> 00:50:35.599
how our day's gonna go or something like that

00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:38.599
i'll say you know we're gonna get up and then

00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:41.739
we're gonna get ready for church and then we're

00:50:41.739 --> 00:50:43.219
gonna get in the car and then go to church whatever

00:50:43.219 --> 00:50:46.019
yeah so he has picked that up of like explaining

00:50:46.019 --> 00:50:48.369
like we're going to do this, then we're going

00:50:48.369 --> 00:50:51.449
to do this. But he also tries to use it to convince

00:50:51.449 --> 00:50:55.469
us to do things. So if it's like, can we watch

00:50:55.469 --> 00:50:58.210
Cars? I'll be like, oh, well, it's time for dinner.

00:50:58.389 --> 00:51:01.670
Then I'll be like, eat dinner, then watch Cars.

00:51:02.650 --> 00:51:06.389
Probably not, but I like the effort in trying

00:51:06.389 --> 00:51:09.150
to convince us. It's like his version of manipulation.

00:51:09.869 --> 00:51:13.030
Yeah. And then we do this. If I say it, then

00:51:13.030 --> 00:51:16.409
it has to be true. Yeah. He's just reciting the

00:51:16.409 --> 00:51:19.170
schedule to you. Yeah. It's dinner, then watch

00:51:19.170 --> 00:51:21.769
cars. Yeah. You're like, no, dinner, then go

00:51:21.769 --> 00:51:25.210
take a bath and go to bed. Yes. Yeah. Exactly.

00:51:25.269 --> 00:51:28.369
All right. What do you got? Okay. Mine is turn

00:51:28.369 --> 00:51:31.469
it up a little bit. A little bit. So you talked

00:51:31.469 --> 00:51:34.610
about turning it up. Yes. Yeah. Anytime in the

00:51:34.610 --> 00:51:37.670
car, if the volume's a little too low for his

00:51:37.670 --> 00:51:40.269
liking. You got to turn it up. Turn it up a little

00:51:40.269 --> 00:51:45.639
bit. So. And then I do because he runs my life.

00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:49.699
And yes, I will turn it up a little bit. So I

00:51:49.699 --> 00:51:52.579
just love his like he always says, yeah, a little

00:51:52.579 --> 00:51:55.239
bit, a little like so many things with a little

00:51:55.239 --> 00:52:01.000
bit. That's so cute. Yeah. OK, you for you. We

00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:03.960
have another one. We have uh -oh, which I already

00:52:03.960 --> 00:52:07.039
kind of talked about. Uh -oh, but usually it's

00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:09.760
not actually an uh -oh. And then we also have

00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:12.719
Uncle Roman. That's my brother -in -law. But

00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:16.800
he said this one's funny because my brother -in

00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:20.420
-law is Hispanic. So he's also Teal Roman. We've

00:52:20.420 --> 00:52:21.599
kind of been trying to like, is he going to be

00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:23.840
Uncle Roman? Is he going to be Teal Roman? And

00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:27.460
so sometimes he'll say Uncle Teal Roman. And

00:52:27.460 --> 00:52:29.820
he's got the double title. But he goes back and

00:52:29.820 --> 00:52:33.820
forth. And then right now, for Christmas, Roman

00:52:33.820 --> 00:52:37.239
got him a dinosaur book. And he knows that came

00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:40.500
from Uncle Ronan. But he can't say Roman yet,

00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:43.599
so he says Uncle Ronan. And so he'll say, read

00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:46.840
Uncle Ronan's dinosaur book. And it's one of

00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:49.460
his favorites right now. So Uncle Roman slash

00:52:49.460 --> 00:52:51.400
Uncle Roman's dinosaur book. Shout out Uncle

00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:53.960
Roman for getting the best book. Yep, he knew

00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:57.539
what he was doing. Okay, mine, I feel like I

00:52:57.539 --> 00:52:59.820
don't need any explanation for this. It's just,

00:52:59.820 --> 00:53:02.860
up, please, daddy. Or, up, please, mommy. So,

00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:05.360
just wants us to pick him up. And, of course,

00:53:05.460 --> 00:53:08.519
going to pick you up. Yeah. Yeah. Again, that's

00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:10.820
going to be. I've seen that trend of, like, or

00:53:10.820 --> 00:53:13.000
the reels of, like, picking up your child for

00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:16.639
the last time. I hate it. Yeah. It's going to

00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:18.579
make me cry. Every one I've seen, yeah, makes

00:53:18.579 --> 00:53:21.179
me cry. I'm like, oh, there's going to be one

00:53:21.179 --> 00:53:23.340
day where it's literally the last time. You're

00:53:23.340 --> 00:53:25.679
like, I don't want to think about it. Nope. I'm

00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:27.800
going to pick up my child for as long as I have

00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:33.340
muscles. Yep. So, yeah. Yep. Okay. V? V. Yeah,

00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:37.219
there you go. All right. We have room. So, again,

00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:39.460
with Little Blue Truck, the dump truck goes room.

00:53:39.719 --> 00:53:42.800
But also, Lightning McQueen goes room. Mom's

00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:45.800
car goes room. If we pass by a car that's loud,

00:53:46.019 --> 00:53:50.239
that car goes room. So, everything is room. Yep.

00:53:50.559 --> 00:53:52.719
I think on Sunday at church when I was holding

00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:54.519
him, he just like said it out of nowhere. I'm

00:53:54.519 --> 00:53:57.099
sure he did. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, yeah, buddy.

00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:02.320
Nice. Yep. Okay. Mine for V is Vava. So that's

00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:06.260
how Colt says like water is Vava. So super cute.

00:54:06.360 --> 00:54:09.739
And I'm like, it'll be crazy when he says. water

00:54:09.739 --> 00:54:12.519
please it's gonna be devastating please yeah

00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:15.440
there's so many things that lloyd says incorrectly

00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:18.320
right now that i'm like obviously i want him

00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:20.780
to like not have a speech impediment and you

00:54:20.780 --> 00:54:24.039
know say things correctly someday and also the

00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:28.320
day that he does i'm gonna be devastated so we're

00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:30.500
taking lots of videos lots of recordings right

00:54:30.500 --> 00:54:32.659
now so that someday i can go back and be like

00:54:32.659 --> 00:54:36.460
oh yeah that's how you cry as you yeah yes oh

00:54:36.460 --> 00:54:42.670
for sure Okay, W. W, so I have two. One is watch

00:54:42.670 --> 00:54:46.510
whatever. So watch Cars. Watch Cars 2. Watch

00:54:46.510 --> 00:54:49.389
Cars 3. Watch Incredibles. Watch Incredibles

00:54:49.389 --> 00:54:53.789
2. Watch VeggieTales. So we've got, he'll go

00:54:53.789 --> 00:54:55.929
through the list. If I say no to one, he's like,

00:54:56.050 --> 00:54:58.750
surely she'll say yes to another one. Not Cars?

00:54:58.750 --> 00:55:01.230
What about Cars 2? Yeah, we've got to find the

00:55:01.230 --> 00:55:04.210
right one. And then the other, he's a two -year

00:55:04.210 --> 00:55:09.809
-old boy. So wiener. Yes. There are lots of conversations.

00:55:10.829 --> 00:55:12.610
He's also starting to get to the point where,

00:55:12.650 --> 00:55:15.349
like, we have to explain to him that, no, mom

00:55:15.349 --> 00:55:19.909
does not have a wiener. And he has a little sister.

00:55:19.949 --> 00:55:22.650
She does not have a wiener. And our girl cat,

00:55:22.789 --> 00:55:25.889
nope, Ricky doesn't have a wiener. So, you know,

00:55:25.909 --> 00:55:29.130
we're trying to get that. Valid questions. Valid

00:55:29.130 --> 00:55:30.909
questions. You know, I mean, I know this is an

00:55:30.909 --> 00:55:33.710
age where there's. starting to like connect by

00:55:33.710 --> 00:55:35.949
similarities and so like that is i know part

00:55:35.949 --> 00:55:39.230
of it but yes you know this is a conversation

00:55:39.230 --> 00:55:42.650
that we have frequently it's just anything surrounding

00:55:42.650 --> 00:55:46.469
wieners because you know that's being a boy mom

00:55:46.469 --> 00:55:50.690
yeah oh for sure okay mine is i have two for

00:55:50.690 --> 00:55:53.230
this one just two questions that he asks all

00:55:53.230 --> 00:55:56.110
the time what is that and he says it more like

00:55:56.110 --> 00:56:00.599
what What is that? And then I think I've got

00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:02.619
a recording of that one so we can maybe put it

00:56:02.619 --> 00:56:06.940
in. And then what's happening? And it's just

00:56:06.940 --> 00:56:09.840
everything is what is that? Or if he hears a

00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:12.579
sound outside, what's happening, mom? What's

00:56:12.579 --> 00:56:14.139
happening? And I'm like, I don't know, buddy.

00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:18.389
I think a loud car just drove by or. yeah there's

00:56:18.389 --> 00:56:22.150
an airplane outside or whatever and he's just

00:56:22.150 --> 00:56:25.030
questions everything and wants to is so like

00:56:25.030 --> 00:56:29.289
curious and i love it and just the way that his

00:56:29.289 --> 00:56:32.590
tone of voice and how he says it is just i just

00:56:32.590 --> 00:56:35.090
want to hold on to it forever that's so cute

00:56:35.090 --> 00:56:37.369
yeah and it's better than why i'm sure he'll

00:56:37.369 --> 00:56:41.150
get to his why face too why why what what is

00:56:41.150 --> 00:56:45.659
that is so cute that yeah Okay, X. X. So this

00:56:45.659 --> 00:56:49.139
isn't actually an X word, but he gets eczema

00:56:49.139 --> 00:56:51.320
and we have like a spray for him to take when

00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:55.599
it gets bad. And so he calls it X spray. X spray.

00:56:55.780 --> 00:56:58.800
X spray. Nice. That was a little bit of a stretch

00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:00.679
because eczema does not actually have an X in

00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:03.880
it at all. No, but it sure sounds like it. It

00:57:03.880 --> 00:57:06.880
sure does. Well, I think you did better than

00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:10.360
I did because mine's just excited face. Like

00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:14.119
his excited face. Honestly, anytime you go through,

00:57:14.159 --> 00:57:16.980
like, an alphabet book, I think I know, like,

00:57:17.059 --> 00:57:20.840
I think we have one, maybe two. No, I think we

00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:22.559
only have one. That's an x -ray, probably. Yeah,

00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:26.139
and it's x -ray. Yeah. So, all the others, it's,

00:57:26.139 --> 00:57:30.099
like, excited or expressed. We're like, that's

00:57:30.099 --> 00:57:33.079
not, like, it has x in it. So, you know, you're

00:57:33.079 --> 00:57:36.280
just on par with all of the ABC books that you

00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:41.960
have. Okay, why? Why? We have yogurt. We have

00:57:41.960 --> 00:57:45.320
like yogurt pouches and he loves them. Costco

00:57:45.320 --> 00:57:48.219
was out for like a couple weeks. So we were out

00:57:48.219 --> 00:57:50.659
of yogurt. With the Stonyfield brand. The Stonyfield

00:57:50.659 --> 00:57:53.500
brand. That's also so expensive. So expensive.

00:57:53.619 --> 00:57:55.719
If Costco's out, we're not buying it at King

00:57:55.719 --> 00:57:57.340
Soopers because it's like twice the price at

00:57:57.340 --> 00:57:59.739
King Soopers. So sorry, dude. If it's out at

00:57:59.739 --> 00:58:01.980
Costco, we're just. Out of luck for a couple

00:58:01.980 --> 00:58:05.800
weeks. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, he requests yogurt.

00:58:05.980 --> 00:58:09.960
Big fan. Yes. Okay. Mine for why is you okay?

00:58:11.349 --> 00:58:15.510
He, yeah, is super empathetic. And if, I don't

00:58:15.510 --> 00:58:17.670
know, I sneeze or cough or whatever, he'll go,

00:58:17.769 --> 00:58:21.170
mommy, you okay? You okay? That's so sweet. Yeah,

00:58:21.170 --> 00:58:24.869
buddy, I'm okay. Thank you. So always just asking,

00:58:25.070 --> 00:58:27.869
you okay? Or if I sound like frustrated about

00:58:27.869 --> 00:58:30.369
something, like, I don't know. Mommy, you okay?

00:58:30.550 --> 00:58:33.289
Mom, chill out. Yeah, come on. Chill out, mom.

00:58:33.429 --> 00:58:37.130
So super cute. Love it. Okay, last letter, Z.

00:58:38.120 --> 00:58:40.880
zeta it's his little sister he loves her and

00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:43.539
it's super cute because now he's like actually

00:58:43.539 --> 00:58:46.260
saying it for a while it's more like ada but

00:58:46.260 --> 00:58:50.840
now it's zeta and again being two he's in a very

00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:54.139
descriptive like explaining everything so be

00:58:54.139 --> 00:58:58.500
like zeta fell zeta did this zeta zeta playing

00:58:58.500 --> 00:59:01.739
with lloyd's lightning mcqueen zeta playing with

00:59:01.739 --> 00:59:05.809
whatever zeta said ah that's a big one right

00:59:05.809 --> 00:59:08.550
now is just like whatever noise she makes it'll

00:59:08.550 --> 00:59:12.070
be zeta said and then zeta said whatever that

00:59:12.070 --> 00:59:15.530
noise was so but we talk about zeta a lot because

00:59:15.530 --> 00:59:18.929
love it he loves his baby sister yeah all right

00:59:18.929 --> 00:59:22.070
what do you have for z okay i have zucchini the

00:59:22.070 --> 00:59:26.150
cat so we have we have a neighborhood cat she

00:59:26.150 --> 00:59:29.010
lives like a couple houses down her name is actually

00:59:29.010 --> 00:59:33.679
tot and um I don't know. We didn't know her name

00:59:33.679 --> 00:59:37.420
for a while. And this was during, like, my maternity

00:59:37.420 --> 00:59:40.139
leave after Cruz was born. We, like, saw her

00:59:40.139 --> 00:59:42.000
around all the time because it was, like, nice

00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:44.900
out. And she just, like, wanders the neighborhood.

00:59:45.679 --> 00:59:49.539
And Michael had a garden and was growing zucchini.

00:59:50.039 --> 00:59:52.179
And for some reason I was like, oh, we should

00:59:52.179 --> 00:59:55.599
just say the cat's name is Zucchini. Because

00:59:55.599 --> 00:59:57.639
I was like, that's, like, kind of a cool cat's

00:59:57.639 --> 01:00:00.280
name. That is a great cat's name. Yeah. And so

01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:03.219
we call her Zucchini. And we see her all the

01:00:03.219 --> 01:00:06.920
time. And Colt will be like, Mom, Zucchini. There's

01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:09.219
Zucchini. And I'm like, yeah, her name is taught.

01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:12.380
But she will just forever be Zucchini. Yeah.

01:00:12.860 --> 01:00:16.960
Yeah. And super cute. And so my dad and stepmom

01:00:16.960 --> 01:00:19.579
have a cat back in California. And his name is

01:00:19.579 --> 01:00:22.380
Cooper. And so we'll talk about Cooper sometimes.

01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:26.420
And then he'll be like, Mom, Cooper, Zucchini.

01:00:26.480 --> 01:00:29.880
A little bit the same. I'm like, yeah. Yeah.

01:00:30.059 --> 01:00:32.420
That's right. They're both cats. They're a little

01:00:32.420 --> 01:00:39.159
bit the same. Yep. So that is all for ABCs of

01:00:39.159 --> 01:00:41.699
toddlerhood. But yeah, hopefully you guys enjoyed

01:00:41.699 --> 01:00:43.659
that. And hopefully if your kids are a little

01:00:43.659 --> 01:00:46.400
bit older, you can kind of reminisce and think

01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:49.780
about the fun. Or share what your big words are

01:00:49.780 --> 01:00:53.219
right now. Yeah. Yeah. It's just such a fun season.

01:00:53.519 --> 01:00:56.360
And I'm sure if we did this again in a year,

01:00:56.460 --> 01:00:58.960
it would be so different. So different. Yeah.

01:00:59.019 --> 01:01:02.760
Yeah. I think right now. So Zeta is about to

01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:06.460
turn one, which is crazy. But seeing Lloyd at

01:01:06.460 --> 01:01:08.880
this age at two and a half, I'm really, really

01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:11.860
excited to see Zeta at two and a half. Like not

01:01:11.860 --> 01:01:15.179
that I'm not having fun with her, you know, 11,

01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:19.400
almost 12 months. But as hard as the two year

01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:22.639
old age is with the tantrums and the big emotions

01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:27.559
and all that, it's also so fun. And so I'm like,

01:01:27.579 --> 01:01:30.650
I'm so excited to, you know. Hear what Zeta's

01:01:30.650 --> 01:01:33.829
alphabet is. Yes. You'll see her obsessions and

01:01:33.829 --> 01:01:37.510
stuff like that. Yeah. Totally agree. Okay. Well,

01:01:37.610 --> 01:01:40.469
should we hop into our wins of the week? Sure.

01:01:41.130 --> 01:01:45.329
Okay. I can go first. Okay. So you actually know

01:01:45.329 --> 01:01:50.469
about this. On Sunday, Zeta just randomly threw

01:01:50.469 --> 01:01:53.230
up on me, which was super, super fun. That was

01:01:53.230 --> 01:01:55.340
it. Like she was just. It was just that one time.

01:01:55.679 --> 01:01:58.039
But it was a situation where I was like getting

01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:00.019
her ready for her nap, nursing her to sleep.

01:02:00.059 --> 01:02:02.800
She like stopped nursing, threw up all over me

01:02:02.800 --> 01:02:05.800
and her and the chair and everything. So I was

01:02:05.800 --> 01:02:09.300
like, okay. Yep. I go take her to the bathroom,

01:02:09.380 --> 01:02:11.780
get us both stripped down, both cleaned up. But

01:02:11.780 --> 01:02:14.219
also she still needs to take a nap. Like at this

01:02:14.219 --> 01:02:16.880
point it's like 1 or 1 .30, something like that.

01:02:16.900 --> 01:02:19.519
I don't know. It's late. And we have evening

01:02:19.519 --> 01:02:21.059
plans. So, you know, we're going through like.

01:02:21.559 --> 01:02:25.239
do I take her? Do we stay home? Like all of that.

01:02:25.320 --> 01:02:27.559
But I finally got her to sleep, just like sleeping

01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:31.579
on me. And to be honest, like I kind of live

01:02:31.579 --> 01:02:33.519
for nap time, which like, not that I don't want

01:02:33.519 --> 01:02:35.659
to spend time with my kids, but just like having

01:02:35.659 --> 01:02:38.940
a break. Yeah. And then especially on weekends,

01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:41.559
because during the week, nap time means that

01:02:41.559 --> 01:02:45.559
I'm getting my work done. So then weekends, it's

01:02:45.559 --> 01:02:48.920
just like, that's the only time. other than like

01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:50.980
after bedtime there's only like daytime time

01:02:50.980 --> 01:02:53.659
i have to like myself whether that's i want to

01:02:53.659 --> 01:02:56.800
take a nap or whatever so like normally like

01:02:56.800 --> 01:02:59.920
i'm just as soon as she's down i like go put

01:02:59.920 --> 01:03:03.559
her in her crib and at this point i was like

01:03:03.559 --> 01:03:05.940
you know what she's sick and she like clearly

01:03:05.940 --> 01:03:09.739
needs mom right now and i don't know the next

01:03:09.739 --> 01:03:13.699
time we'll have a contact nap so like she's getting

01:03:13.699 --> 01:03:15.360
bigger and she's not gonna want that as often

01:03:16.110 --> 01:03:18.150
So, I mean, I did eventually put her in her crib,

01:03:18.269 --> 01:03:19.750
but it was one of those things where I was like,

01:03:19.809 --> 01:03:22.530
I'm just going to like sit here for longer than

01:03:22.530 --> 01:03:25.150
I normally would and just like let her sleep

01:03:25.150 --> 01:03:27.849
on me and just, I don't know, just enjoy this,

01:03:27.909 --> 01:03:30.349
which is not my natural instinct, I guess. Like

01:03:30.349 --> 01:03:32.050
my natural instinct is like, I'm going to put

01:03:32.050 --> 01:03:35.369
her down and go do my own thing. And yeah. And

01:03:35.369 --> 01:03:37.090
so I feel like it was just like a win to me to

01:03:37.090 --> 01:03:40.099
like reprioritize and know like. This is what

01:03:40.099 --> 01:03:42.679
she needs right now. And this is actually the

01:03:42.679 --> 01:03:45.059
most important thing right now. Not all the other

01:03:45.059 --> 01:03:47.139
things I could do or even me getting a nap right

01:03:47.139 --> 01:03:50.519
now. So, yeah, that was my win. Nice. What do

01:03:50.519 --> 01:03:53.440
you got? My win. So we're really working on trying

01:03:53.440 --> 01:03:56.300
to get Cruz used to his crib because we've co

01:03:56.300 --> 01:04:00.519
-slept for the past 10 months almost. And so

01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:03.639
just like the past couple of weeks, like. At

01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:06.760
naptimes, I'm putting him in his crib and for

01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:09.239
like at least the first little stretch at night,

01:04:09.340 --> 01:04:12.360
he goes in his crib. And the other night, I don't

01:04:12.360 --> 01:04:14.559
know what we did differently. I don't know. He

01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:17.179
gave me a four hour stretch in his crib, which

01:04:17.179 --> 01:04:19.239
was like, yeah, that doesn't seem like a lot

01:04:19.239 --> 01:04:21.559
to some people. But like this kid wakes up every

01:04:21.559 --> 01:04:25.360
single hour of the night right now. And so that

01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:28.230
four hour stretch like. I was not asleep for

01:04:28.230 --> 01:04:29.889
that whole time. I was asleep for probably like

01:04:29.889 --> 01:04:32.429
two hours of that. But just to like be able to

01:04:32.429 --> 01:04:35.590
put him down and like I literally slept in my

01:04:35.590 --> 01:04:39.090
bed like with my husband and no child in between

01:04:39.090 --> 01:04:42.090
us for like for two hours. And that was crazy.

01:04:42.570 --> 01:04:45.590
Yeah. For the last 10 months, it has not been

01:04:45.590 --> 01:04:48.670
like that. And so, yeah, we're really working

01:04:48.670 --> 01:04:51.980
on trying to get that like. I don't know, more

01:04:51.980 --> 01:04:54.380
dialed in. How can we make that more frequent?

01:04:54.579 --> 01:04:58.039
And so that was a win in my book. No, that's

01:04:58.039 --> 01:05:00.320
huge for sure. Yeah. Getting used to the crib

01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:03.300
stuff is rough. It really is. And I'm like, yeah,

01:05:03.340 --> 01:05:05.739
of course he wants to be right next to me. But

01:05:05.739 --> 01:05:09.280
like I need like he's just so big now and like

01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:11.960
move so much. And so we just we got to get used

01:05:11.960 --> 01:05:16.579
to it. So, yeah. Yeah. Well. Thanks for tuning

01:05:16.579 --> 01:05:19.179
in, guys. Hopefully, yeah, hopefully you guys

01:05:19.179 --> 01:05:22.500
enjoyed today's episode. Would love to hear what

01:05:22.500 --> 01:05:24.780
your kids are saying right now that are standing

01:05:24.780 --> 01:05:27.519
out to you and would love, yeah, just your feedback

01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:29.519
and what you guys want to hear in the future.

01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:31.940
Yeah. Okay. Well, hope you guys have a great

01:05:31.940 --> 01:05:35.340
week and we will see you next week. See you next

01:05:35.340 --> 01:05:38.260
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