WEBVTT 00:00:13.339 --> 00:00:15.500 motherhood where sleep is a rumor and laundry 00:00:15.500 --> 00:00:18.280 is eternal and somehow we're supposed to be raising 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:20.899 tiny humans through it all we're here to laugh 00:00:20.899 --> 00:00:23.859 at the chaos cry when necessary and remind you 00:00:23.859 --> 00:00:25.940 that none of us actually know what we're doing 00:00:25.940 --> 00:00:29.100 this is no manual a mom cast your mom friend 00:00:29.100 --> 00:00:31.739 group chat but with microphones welcome back 00:00:31.739 --> 00:00:36.100 to no manual a mom cast this week we Kind of 00:00:36.100 --> 00:00:38.240 just decided to do, like, honestly, this is a 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:39.939 little bit of a just thrown together episode. 00:00:40.820 --> 00:00:42.899 But we thought it'd be fun to share some of the 00:00:42.899 --> 00:00:46.179 mom moments that we've had that we haven't actually 00:00:46.179 --> 00:00:50.899 shared in an episode. So I think we mostly have 00:00:50.899 --> 00:00:53.380 some kind of just like funny stuff. Yep. Maybe. 00:00:53.539 --> 00:00:55.700 Mine's mostly funny. Yeah. That's mostly where 00:00:55.700 --> 00:00:57.880 I'm at too. Yeah. So do you want to start with 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:01.259 your first mom moment? Sure. So this is actually 00:01:01.259 --> 00:01:05.549 from yesterday. showed Colt the movie, The Sandlot, 00:01:05.730 --> 00:01:09.269 which is just like a classic. That's a great 00:01:09.269 --> 00:01:11.329 movie. Yeah. My husband grew up playing baseball 00:01:11.329 --> 00:01:14.969 and so loved, like both of us love that movie 00:01:14.969 --> 00:01:18.349 in general and just think it's just like a classic 00:01:18.349 --> 00:01:22.790 childhood movie. And Colt, like I've literally 00:01:22.790 --> 00:01:27.109 never seen him so into a movie, like so fixated 00:01:27.109 --> 00:01:29.870 on it. That's great. Especially for not a cartoon. 00:01:30.189 --> 00:01:33.890 For not a cartoon. Yeah. And he just like, throughout 00:01:33.890 --> 00:01:35.909 the movie was like mom what what's happening 00:01:35.909 --> 00:01:38.329 and he like wanted me to tell him what was happening 00:01:38.329 --> 00:01:42.530 he would like point out random things and so 00:01:42.530 --> 00:01:44.989 we don't usually like sit and watch a whole movie 00:01:44.989 --> 00:01:47.969 usually i mean not necessarily because we're 00:01:47.969 --> 00:01:51.469 like we can't watch a whole movie but colt's 00:01:51.469 --> 00:01:54.510 like attention span is not there but he was like 00:01:54.510 --> 00:01:57.510 so into it we literally sat and watched the whole 00:01:57.510 --> 00:02:00.329 movie and i was like i kind of appreciated that 00:02:00.750 --> 00:02:03.989 But he was just super into it. And so today, 00:02:04.150 --> 00:02:08.169 before I came over here, he asked to watch the 00:02:08.169 --> 00:02:13.090 doggy movie. The Sandlot? Yeah. And so he has 00:02:13.090 --> 00:02:16.490 not associated the Sandlot with baseball. It's 00:02:16.490 --> 00:02:18.590 with Hercules. It's with the dog, with Hercules, 00:02:18.689 --> 00:02:22.990 the dog. And so we proceeded to watch it again 00:02:22.990 --> 00:02:25.409 this morning. Yeah. And we didn't watch the whole 00:02:25.409 --> 00:02:28.539 thing again. But I'm like, I told Michael, I 00:02:28.539 --> 00:02:30.759 was like, get ready to watch this movie 47 ,000 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:33.319 times. I mean, there are way worse movies that 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:36.520 could be. Yeah. And Michael looked it up on Rotten 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.719 Tomatoes. It only has a 66 % on Rotten Tomatoes. 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:41.060 Rotten Tomatoes doesn't know what they're talking 00:02:41.060 --> 00:02:43.120 about. Which I'm like, no. There are so many 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.280 movies that, like, if you look at the Rotten 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:47.699 Tomatoes rating, are so low. Yeah. I'm like, 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:51.180 no. Yeah. Like, unbelievable. Who watched that 00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:55.210 from your... corporation yeah so i just it was 00:02:55.210 --> 00:02:57.330 super fun and michael's like this is a really 00:02:57.330 --> 00:03:01.030 proud dad moment for me i love it so yeah that's 00:03:01.030 --> 00:03:04.330 my mom moment from yesterday okay what share 00:03:04.330 --> 00:03:08.669 one of yours okay my first one is i've had multiple 00:03:08.669 --> 00:03:10.569 nights i don't know if i talked about this on 00:03:10.569 --> 00:03:13.169 mike i know i told you that this happened on 00:03:13.169 --> 00:03:16.930 christmas eve where The kids gave us a gift of 00:03:16.930 --> 00:03:18.669 both of them slept like through the night or 00:03:18.669 --> 00:03:21.189 almost fully through the night. And I just could 00:03:21.189 --> 00:03:23.129 not sleep that night. But that has happened to 00:03:23.129 --> 00:03:25.449 me multiple times. Even in this last week, I 00:03:25.449 --> 00:03:28.370 got like a knot in my back that was so painful 00:03:28.370 --> 00:03:31.509 that I couldn't sleep. And every night that I 00:03:31.509 --> 00:03:34.229 wasn't able to sleep, the kids slept great. Like 00:03:34.229 --> 00:03:36.409 they were, you know, Zeta maybe woke up like 00:03:36.409 --> 00:03:41.150 once to eat. Yeah. And then with that, anytime 00:03:41.150 --> 00:03:45.639 we have. Like we have to get up to do something, 00:03:45.740 --> 00:03:48.599 whether that's go to church, grandparents are 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:51.099 picking up, whatever. Those are the days the 00:03:51.099 --> 00:03:53.180 kids sleep in and I have to like actively wake 00:03:53.180 --> 00:03:56.180 them up. Like this week on Wednesday, I'm pretty 00:03:56.180 --> 00:03:58.479 sure the kids would have slept till like 8 a 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:01.199 .m. Gosh. And grandparents were picking them 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:05.599 up at 7 .30. Ugh. So next day, wide awake at 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:10.259 like 6 .45, 7. Like what is this curse? What 00:04:10.259 --> 00:04:12.580 is happening? Because I would let them sleep 00:04:12.580 --> 00:04:14.500 as late as they wanted on days that they don't 00:04:14.500 --> 00:04:16.720 have anywhere to go. Like, want to sleep till 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.800 9? That sounds delightful. Yeah, for real. But, 00:04:19.860 --> 00:04:23.579 yeah, it's just that those two is just consistently, 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:25.600 if the kids sleep through the night, for some 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.959 reason I can't. Like, wired, in pain, whatever 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:32.500 it is. Like, had caffeine too late in the day, 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.459 I don't know. And then the days that they could 00:04:35.459 --> 00:04:37.620 sleep in are the days that they can't actually 00:04:37.620 --> 00:04:41.259 sleep in. So frustrating. Yeah. So, so frustrating. 00:04:41.939 --> 00:04:45.339 Okay. My next one. So Michael and I were talking 00:04:45.339 --> 00:04:48.040 about this a couple of days ago that both of 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:50.839 us just hate this, like this phase of eating 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:54.939 with, so Cruz just turned 10 months old and he's 00:04:54.939 --> 00:04:58.259 finally eating. Yeah. He's finally decided he 00:04:58.259 --> 00:05:01.769 likes food. like in the last week which i was 00:05:01.769 --> 00:05:03.529 like i've talked about it before on the podcast 00:05:03.529 --> 00:05:05.949 i've super i was gonna tell you this super nervous 00:05:05.949 --> 00:05:07.930 off mic but i'll just tell you this yeah i actually 00:05:07.930 --> 00:05:09.910 had a friend text me she's like i was listening 00:05:09.910 --> 00:05:14.389 to your episode and tell laura yes so her first 00:05:14.389 --> 00:05:16.769 thing she said is that two of her kids one of 00:05:16.769 --> 00:05:20.029 her kids who i think is three or four now okay 00:05:20.029 --> 00:05:22.310 she didn't like anything till she was like 11 00:05:22.310 --> 00:05:24.639 months she just like uninterested in food and 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:28.139 she is turning out okay yes okay and then i think 00:05:28.139 --> 00:05:30.980 she had her youngest who's still a baby he is 00:05:30.980 --> 00:05:32.939 like not super interested in food so she's like 00:05:32.939 --> 00:05:35.279 not worried because because it's that first experience 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:38.620 yeah she's like she's okay and the other um that 00:05:38.620 --> 00:05:40.899 she's like i don't have research behind this 00:05:40.899 --> 00:05:44.199 but have heard that cutting teeth or like having 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:46.899 teeth produces an enzyme that allows interest 00:05:46.899 --> 00:05:50.240 in food or like something along those lines so 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:52.319 which i know cruz does have teeth but maybe like 00:05:52.970 --> 00:05:55.949 Maybe he didn't get the enzyme. He just all of 00:05:55.949 --> 00:05:59.449 a sudden started actively chewing. I think his 00:05:59.449 --> 00:06:01.230 mind is connecting to it a little bit more. Maybe 00:06:01.230 --> 00:06:05.009 there is something like that. Just in the past 00:06:05.009 --> 00:06:08.149 week, he was super into ground beef the other 00:06:08.149 --> 00:06:10.990 day. We know this kid's a meat eater. Chicken. 00:06:11.769 --> 00:06:15.310 He started chewing up yesterday. Even avocado. 00:06:16.689 --> 00:06:21.410 Some cottage cheese. Random things. Still not 00:06:21.410 --> 00:06:24.199 everything. interested in which like i'm not 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.319 interested in every every food for sure but like 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:29.620 he's actually like when he sits in his high chair 00:06:29.620 --> 00:06:31.899 he like will actually physically put things in 00:06:31.899 --> 00:06:35.399 his mouth now and that's great it's like total 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:38.500 win in itself i've been super nervous about that 00:06:38.500 --> 00:06:40.579 because colt was totally opposite where at six 00:06:40.579 --> 00:06:44.259 months he was like wanting everything so michael 00:06:44.259 --> 00:06:46.120 and i were talking about this the other day but 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.819 we were like we hate this phase of eat like learning 00:06:48.819 --> 00:06:52.209 to eat it's rough because Cruz is literally like 00:06:52.209 --> 00:06:54.930 choking and gagging on everything. And we do 00:06:54.930 --> 00:06:57.709 like a mix kind of of like baby led weaning and 00:06:57.709 --> 00:07:00.529 not like, yes, we'll give him like chunks of 00:07:00.529 --> 00:07:03.069 things, like a chunk of broccoli. He loves broccoli. 00:07:03.189 --> 00:07:05.829 My kids love broccoli too. Colt doesn't like 00:07:05.829 --> 00:07:08.189 really like broccoli, but Cruz is like super 00:07:08.189 --> 00:07:10.930 into it. But like we'll give him like a whole 00:07:10.930 --> 00:07:13.430 chunk of broccoli. But then I'm also like trying 00:07:13.430 --> 00:07:15.490 to get the chicken as teeny tiny as possible. 00:07:15.649 --> 00:07:19.310 Kind of like a mix of baby led weaning and not. 00:07:20.110 --> 00:07:22.410 But both of us have decided we hate this phase 00:07:22.410 --> 00:07:25.490 because it's like literally I'm just like staring 00:07:25.490 --> 00:07:28.589 at him eating. Yes. Because I'm like, are you 00:07:28.589 --> 00:07:31.800 choking? Are you fine? Oh, you're gagging? Okay. 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.279 I'm trying not to, like, stick my fingers in 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:36.699 his mouth to, like, shove the food farther into 00:07:36.699 --> 00:07:39.300 his throat. Yeah, because then all the information 00:07:39.300 --> 00:07:41.819 I've heard and, like, because I tried to do, 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.259 like, a good amount of research on baby led weaning 00:07:44.259 --> 00:07:46.720 before we started. Yeah. And it's, like, you 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:50.139 want them to gag. Yes. Because it, like, helps 00:07:50.139 --> 00:07:52.120 them learn to, like, basically save themselves 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:53.899 more or less. Like, obviously, if they're actively 00:07:53.899 --> 00:07:56.399 choking, that's different. But, like, as adults, 00:07:56.519 --> 00:08:00.180 like, we know how to. You start to choke. You 00:08:00.180 --> 00:08:02.040 get something stuck and you know how to get it 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:03.839 up. Kids need to learn that because they've never 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.699 done that before. With our kids, they're both 00:08:07.699 --> 00:08:11.399 the least dramatic gaggers ever. They're really 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:15.620 quiet about it. If you read something that's 00:08:15.620 --> 00:08:19.199 gagging versus choking, choking is quiet. That's 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:20.699 when you need to be scared is when they're quiet. 00:08:21.220 --> 00:08:25.360 Both of our kids, they'll just like, so you're 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:28.560 dying right now. Then they're just like, Yeah. 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.459 And they're fine. Yeah. So both of our kids have 00:08:31.459 --> 00:08:33.659 done that, which is terrifying. And yes, then 00:08:33.659 --> 00:08:35.259 you're just like sitting there staring the whole 00:08:35.259 --> 00:08:37.940 time. And it's hard with two kids because I'm 00:08:37.940 --> 00:08:41.080 like, look at you. Look at you. Like trying to 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:43.519 watch both of them. And Colt has now found it. 00:08:43.539 --> 00:08:46.200 Like if I'm giving Cruz attention, like, oh, 00:08:46.259 --> 00:08:48.960 are you okay, buddy? Then Colt wants to mimic 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.559 what Cruz has done. So he fakes gagging. So he 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:55.450 fakes gagging or starts coughing. To then have 00:08:55.450 --> 00:08:58.409 me go, oh, buddy, are you okay? And so then it's 00:08:58.409 --> 00:09:01.429 like I haven't eaten any of my food by the time 00:09:01.429 --> 00:09:04.549 they're done with dinner because I've just focused 00:09:04.549 --> 00:09:08.210 on their gagging and choking the whole time. 00:09:08.850 --> 00:09:11.649 Yeah. Well, we just entered the phase with Zeta 00:09:11.649 --> 00:09:13.750 where she just wants to throw things, which I'm 00:09:13.750 --> 00:09:18.309 like, I kind of forgot about this. Yeah. I knew 00:09:18.309 --> 00:09:20.409 lots of food ended up on the floor. I forgot 00:09:20.409 --> 00:09:23.529 about the intentional like chucking it. And I 00:09:23.529 --> 00:09:26.350 don't like that. And of course Lloyd thinks it's 00:09:26.350 --> 00:09:29.269 funny. And we're like trying to find this balance 00:09:29.269 --> 00:09:31.230 because of course Zeta doesn't know better yet. 00:09:31.389 --> 00:09:34.970 Lloyd does know better. So then I'm like I need 00:09:34.970 --> 00:09:37.049 to correct her. But she doesn't know better and 00:09:37.049 --> 00:09:40.029 then Lloyd thinks it's funny. We're also getting 00:09:40.029 --> 00:09:42.610 to the phase with eating where Lloyd's kind of 00:09:42.610 --> 00:09:45.169 picky right now. And he's, like, finding ways 00:09:45.169 --> 00:09:48.070 to skirt around eating, just, like, in general. 00:09:48.409 --> 00:09:51.289 And one of them is if he can get Zeta to laugh 00:09:51.289 --> 00:09:53.769 at the dinner table. So he'll, like, put sour 00:09:53.769 --> 00:09:55.549 cream in his hair, which she thinks is funny. 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:58.299 It kind of is. It is funny. Except for that I 00:09:58.299 --> 00:10:01.120 have to deal with that later. Yes. But then he's 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:03.519 getting rid of so that he doesn't have to eat 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:05.899 it. I don't know if it's so he doesn't have to 00:10:05.899 --> 00:10:07.539 eat it or if it's just like I'm doing something 00:10:07.539 --> 00:10:09.620 in the table so you can't be mad at me. Like 00:10:09.620 --> 00:10:13.480 I'm doing something with my food. Yeah. That's 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:15.539 funny. This phase of eating. What a smart kid. 00:10:16.500 --> 00:10:18.399 Too smart. These kids will get you. They're little 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:22.019 manipulators. Yeah. I know. The best little manipulators. 00:10:23.289 --> 00:10:26.250 Okay, what is your next mom moment? Okay, my 00:10:26.250 --> 00:10:30.269 next one is Zeta is climbing on everything right 00:10:30.269 --> 00:10:32.269 now. So she's crawling, she's climbing, and we 00:10:32.269 --> 00:10:36.009 have a helper stand that I now can't just keep 00:10:36.009 --> 00:10:38.070 in the kitchen set up because she knows how to 00:10:38.070 --> 00:10:40.389 climb up on it, and she does know how to climb 00:10:40.389 --> 00:10:43.149 down as well, but she'll climb up and she'll 00:10:43.149 --> 00:10:46.649 sit perfectly balanced on the edge, which... 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:49.919 is the worst like legs out or like no legs in 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:52.460 so she's like so her back could just fall down 00:10:52.460 --> 00:10:54.860 so she like leans back she just like falls from 00:10:54.860 --> 00:10:57.019 the helper stand onto her back onto her head 00:10:57.019 --> 00:11:00.220 yeah and it's like perfectly balanced and of 00:11:00.220 --> 00:11:02.649 course I think the day that I was like, okay, 00:11:02.730 --> 00:11:05.490 we can't just like leave this out anymore. She 00:11:05.490 --> 00:11:06.929 like kept doing that. She would like climb up 00:11:06.929 --> 00:11:08.610 and sit perfectly balanced on the edge. And I'm 00:11:08.610 --> 00:11:10.529 like ready to catch her, ready to catch her. 00:11:10.570 --> 00:11:12.289 And then she just like sits there like, mom, 00:11:12.409 --> 00:11:14.330 what are you? What's the problem? Yeah, like 00:11:14.330 --> 00:11:17.389 we're fine. And then the like second I turned 00:11:17.389 --> 00:11:19.669 around to just like wipe down the counter. It's 00:11:19.669 --> 00:11:22.149 not like I was, you know, running a marathon 00:11:22.149 --> 00:11:24.509 while she was sitting. Like I'm going to wipe 00:11:24.509 --> 00:11:26.470 this really quick. Right. Like the two seconds 00:11:26.470 --> 00:11:30.070 I turn around, that's when she falls. yeah so 00:11:30.070 --> 00:11:32.789 i was like and of course with working with having 00:11:32.789 --> 00:11:34.789 two kids i was like i can't just like constantly 00:11:34.789 --> 00:11:37.909 watch her no and like obviously i want her to 00:11:37.909 --> 00:11:40.129 like kind of do like semi -dangerous things to 00:11:40.129 --> 00:11:42.929 like learn but also like i need to keep you safe 00:11:42.929 --> 00:11:45.110 and i can't just like put you in a position where 00:11:45.110 --> 00:11:48.750 you're going to get hurt yeah so yep yeah it's 00:11:48.750 --> 00:11:50.769 a hard balance of like yeah you're gonna learn 00:11:50.769 --> 00:11:54.169 but yeah also need to keep them safe yes for 00:11:54.169 --> 00:11:58.029 sure okay my next one okay this is just kind 00:11:58.029 --> 00:12:03.220 of like personal mom moment so last weekend i 00:12:03.220 --> 00:12:08.480 finally went and got my hair done so i we talked 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:11.159 about this in another episode about needing to 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.379 find time for self -care. And I actually did 00:12:13.379 --> 00:12:17.019 find time for self -care. My plan was to get 00:12:17.019 --> 00:12:19.700 my hair done in California, but then Poopmageddon, 00:12:19.740 --> 00:12:22.419 as I've talked about on our Christmas episode, 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:25.360 hit. So I had to cancel my hair appointment in 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.279 California. Made a hair appointment here in Colorado. 00:12:29.230 --> 00:12:32.370 did that last weekend and spent, it took like 00:12:32.370 --> 00:12:34.970 four hours. So went and got my hair done for 00:12:34.970 --> 00:12:37.750 like four hours and it was just glorious. It 00:12:37.750 --> 00:12:40.710 was so nice. It was so nice. I felt so good after 00:12:40.710 --> 00:12:43.889 it was like one of those. Yes. I like, I'm just 00:12:43.889 --> 00:12:46.490 like laying in the chair and just, I think I 00:12:46.490 --> 00:12:48.889 fell asleep for a second because it just felt 00:12:48.889 --> 00:12:51.570 so nice. And I just didn't have to think about 00:12:51.570 --> 00:12:55.149 it. I just washed it for the first time since 00:12:55.149 --> 00:12:58.919 getting my hair done yesterday. And. It just 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:00.919 doesn't feel the same anymore. But it's like 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:03.360 all the nice products they put in it and they 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:05.559 style it. Yeah, I didn't have to like do anything 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:08.899 to my hair for a week. And it was so great. And 00:13:08.899 --> 00:13:12.179 now I need to do stuff to it again. But all that 00:13:12.179 --> 00:13:15.340 to say, it just was like I need to do more of 00:13:15.340 --> 00:13:18.460 that. It's just finding the time for it. It's 00:13:18.460 --> 00:13:21.679 so hard. I know there was a day. It must've been 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:23.700 like over the summer or something like that where 00:13:23.700 --> 00:13:25.899 I had a gift certificate to get my nails done. 00:13:26.259 --> 00:13:28.240 And so, and I think it must've been a rough week. 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:30.080 And so Stuart was like, Hey, I think it was a 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.120 Saturday or Sunday. He's like, just like. You 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:34.600 go get your nails done. And the whole process, 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:36.600 like from when I left the house to when I got 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:38.679 back home, was probably about two hours with 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:40.820 driving and everything. And I just like went 00:13:40.820 --> 00:13:42.419 with my book and, you know, got my pedicure, 00:13:42.419 --> 00:13:44.960 whatever. And when I got back, I was in such 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:47.139 a good mood. And Stuart was like, maybe I need 00:13:47.139 --> 00:13:50.179 to send you to do this more often. Yeah. Yeah, 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.799 actually, that would be quite nice. If we had 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:54.980 the budget for me to get my nails done like twice 00:13:54.980 --> 00:13:57.840 a month. Oh, I would do that. Life would be so 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:00.639 much different for sure. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:04.279 it just like it revived me. And it was kind of 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:07.299 nice because by the time I got home, it was nap 00:14:07.299 --> 00:14:10.259 time for the kids. So then put the kids down 00:14:10.259 --> 00:14:12.600 for naps. And then I had a little bit more time. 00:14:13.299 --> 00:14:17.059 And it was great. That's nice. Where do you go? 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:20.399 Someone from church recommended her to me. Her 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:24.080 name is Sam Larson at Image Studios just across 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:26.769 the street from church in Lafayette. Oh, okay. 00:14:26.870 --> 00:14:29.169 Yeah, I know where that is. Yeah. So she was 00:14:29.169 --> 00:14:31.970 super great. Great conversation. I like had an 00:14:31.970 --> 00:14:35.190 adult conversation. That's crazy. I know. And 00:14:35.190 --> 00:14:37.669 not interrupted by like, oh, sorry, I have to 00:14:37.669 --> 00:14:40.470 take him potty. Yes. Yeah. Which like sometimes 00:14:40.470 --> 00:14:42.590 in adult conversations, I don't know if you feel 00:14:42.590 --> 00:14:45.269 this way. I feel so awkward in adult conversation 00:14:45.269 --> 00:14:48.529 even more now that I have kids. Because a lot 00:14:48.529 --> 00:14:51.690 of the times if I'm like having an adult conversation 00:14:51.690 --> 00:14:54.549 and my kids are with me, they're like a good, 00:14:54.590 --> 00:14:58.379 easy. out for me like oh sorry the baby needs 00:14:58.379 --> 00:15:01.679 to eat that's not true at all yeah or like someone 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.039 needs me so I'm like oh I'm so sorry I have to 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.899 go but like this actually was genuine I felt 00:15:07.899 --> 00:15:10.759 like not awkward adult conversation and we had 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:14.460 like moments of silence and moments of conversation 00:15:14.460 --> 00:15:17.740 it just like flowed naturally and I didn't feel 00:15:17.740 --> 00:15:20.820 like an awkward adult and that's so great yeah 00:15:20.820 --> 00:15:24.559 so I felt good after that. That's so nice. Yeah. 00:15:24.620 --> 00:15:26.299 Now I need to go get my hair done. You should. 00:15:26.659 --> 00:15:30.480 Feels good. Okay. What's your next one? Okay. 00:15:30.580 --> 00:15:34.399 My next one is Lloyd learning to negotiate. So 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.500 this was completely unprompted. Last night we 00:15:37.500 --> 00:15:41.379 took Lloyd to my in -laws for an overnight and 00:15:41.379 --> 00:15:45.360 usually we let him like take a toy. So like a 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:47.490 car or something like that. We try not to let 00:15:47.490 --> 00:15:50.490 him take it in places because usually the thing 00:15:50.490 --> 00:15:52.590 he wants to take, I'm like, I know if you lose 00:15:52.590 --> 00:15:55.029 Lightning McQueen. Oh, yeah. It's going to be 00:15:55.029 --> 00:15:57.009 devastating. Yeah, we're going to be going to 00:15:57.009 --> 00:16:00.169 Target at 10 .30 p .m. to get a new one for tomorrow. 00:16:00.350 --> 00:16:02.669 So usually it's like, okay, you can take it in 00:16:02.669 --> 00:16:04.070 the car, but we have to leave it in the car. 00:16:04.529 --> 00:16:06.509 And there's a few exceptions to that. One is 00:16:06.509 --> 00:16:08.950 usually like my parents' house. Partially because 00:16:08.950 --> 00:16:10.850 my parents are really good at knowing what toys 00:16:10.850 --> 00:16:13.669 definitely need to come home with us. And at 00:16:13.669 --> 00:16:16.139 least once they've... driven something back to 00:16:16.139 --> 00:16:19.340 our house um but then with my in -laws they have 00:16:19.340 --> 00:16:21.159 lots of toys it's also an overnight so i'm like 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:23.899 that's gonna be easier to forget so i asked to 00:16:23.899 --> 00:16:25.940 take lightning mcqueen and i was like oh buddy 00:16:25.940 --> 00:16:29.139 i think we're gonna leave him here and he like 00:16:29.139 --> 00:16:33.379 gets a little bit upset and he goes take lightning 00:16:33.379 --> 00:16:39.539 in a car not to gma not pops i was like okay 00:16:39.539 --> 00:16:41.720 yeah that's fine yeah you can take him in the 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:43.419 car and then he'll be like just for a little 00:16:43.419 --> 00:16:50.059 bit though just a little bit yeah so clearly 00:16:50.059 --> 00:16:52.000 like he knows that like we take things in the 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.019 car but not usually to like to church or to people's 00:16:55.019 --> 00:16:57.100 houses or whatever but that's just the first 00:16:57.100 --> 00:16:59.639 time that like i just said no to something and 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:03.690 instead of him just getting upset he like tried 00:17:03.690 --> 00:17:06.329 to find a middle ground which was so funny and 00:17:06.329 --> 00:17:08.809 i'm like honestly i'm not mad like no that was 00:17:08.809 --> 00:17:12.829 a reasonable reasonable request and all power 00:17:12.829 --> 00:17:14.829 to you buddy the funny thing is he didn't even 00:17:14.829 --> 00:17:17.269 remember to take lightning mcqueen into the car 00:17:17.269 --> 00:17:21.509 so he stayed home anyways but yeah that's so 00:17:21.509 --> 00:17:24.269 funny learning to negotiate oh i love it that's 00:17:24.269 --> 00:17:29.210 so cute um okay my next one so i think i've also 00:17:29.210 --> 00:17:31.940 talked about like our house is a is a split level. 00:17:32.019 --> 00:17:34.619 So we have stairs going up and stairs going down 00:17:34.619 --> 00:17:38.400 and we don't have any baby gates because if we 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:41.039 do buy baby gates, we need to buy like literally 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:44.380 four sets of them for baby gates. And that just 00:17:44.380 --> 00:17:47.160 seems expensive. I don't know. We have four baby 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.039 gates and I can tell you it was expensive. Yeah. 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:52.200 And I, so we've just, we have no baby gates right 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.099 now. You also have like your houses, the way 00:17:55.099 --> 00:17:58.220 your stairs are. are not like conductive to installing 00:17:58.220 --> 00:18:01.000 a baby gate easily. There's not like an easy 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:03.259 way to install them. And also it's just like 00:18:03.259 --> 00:18:05.440 you literally would go through the baby gate 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:08.559 up like five stairs, through a baby gate, turn, 00:18:08.859 --> 00:18:11.259 through another baby gate, up five stairs. Yeah, 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:13.539 it's just like not ideal. So we've just done 00:18:13.539 --> 00:18:15.779 no baby gates and we're like, okay, we're just 00:18:15.779 --> 00:18:17.880 going to teach our kids. Like Colt is really, 00:18:17.980 --> 00:18:21.339 really good on the stairs. Cruz is like my mom 00:18:21.339 --> 00:18:24.500 moment I want to share is like Cruz thinks it's 00:18:24.500 --> 00:18:29.980 a game. Now to go over to the stairs. So our 00:18:29.980 --> 00:18:33.720 playroom is like our bottom floor. And his favorite 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.819 thing to do in the playroom is to crawl to the 00:18:36.819 --> 00:18:40.420 stairs. Gotcha. So our playroom is like all carpeted. 00:18:40.420 --> 00:18:42.480 And so we hang out there a lot just because it's 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:45.480 like it's really chilly right now. And so the 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.339 carpet is the warmest for their little hands 00:18:48.339 --> 00:18:51.279 and feet to be on. And so Colt loves to play 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:54.380 in the playroom. We go down there. I'll like 00:18:54.380 --> 00:18:57.180 set crews in the playroom with some toys to play 00:18:57.180 --> 00:19:00.400 with. And he literally just turns and just right 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.440 to the stairs. And I think that it's partially 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:05.359 my fault because I'll like, I'll be like, I'm 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:08.380 going to get you. And then he thinks it's a game. 00:19:08.420 --> 00:19:10.279 Of course. And so then he crawls faster over 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:12.819 the stairs and starts just climbing. And he's 00:19:12.819 --> 00:19:15.740 like pretty fast now. Yeah. He doesn't know how 00:19:15.740 --> 00:19:18.099 to go down the stairs yet. And we taught Colt 00:19:18.099 --> 00:19:20.220 to like, Colt obviously walks down the stairs 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:22.720 now, but like we taught him to slide backwards 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:25.220 down the stairs. down the stairs and so we want 00:19:25.220 --> 00:19:28.039 to teach Cruz that too but he's just I feel like 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:31.079 he's a little too little still he doesn't quite 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:33.680 get it yeah Zeta she can climb up the stairs 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:36.339 like nobody's business and then I keep like trying 00:19:36.339 --> 00:19:39.259 to like do it for her I get like have her on 00:19:39.259 --> 00:19:41.480 the stairs and like kind of like move her body 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:43.779 so she understands how to go down because that 00:19:43.779 --> 00:19:46.140 will be one thing that's significantly less stressful 00:19:46.140 --> 00:19:48.640 is when I know she can go down the stairs yes 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:51.329 but Anytime we try to, she either climbs right 00:19:51.329 --> 00:19:54.089 back up the stairs or she just like turns and 00:19:54.089 --> 00:19:55.990 puts her arms up and is like, carry me. Yeah. 00:19:56.170 --> 00:20:00.349 So yeah, we're definitely down the stairs. It's 00:20:00.349 --> 00:20:03.190 tough. It's tough to teach him. But yeah, Cruz 00:20:03.190 --> 00:20:05.369 will like climb up half the stairs and then he'll 00:20:05.369 --> 00:20:07.750 just like turn and sit. Similar to what you're 00:20:07.750 --> 00:20:10.430 talking about with the helper stand. And sometimes 00:20:10.430 --> 00:20:13.670 he'll lean. I mean, I always try to be right 00:20:13.670 --> 00:20:17.789 there. But I'm like, he thinks it's funny. Because 00:20:17.789 --> 00:20:19.609 I'll look at him and I'll be like, no, Cruz. 00:20:20.150 --> 00:20:23.809 And he just smiles or smirks at me and laughs 00:20:23.809 --> 00:20:27.769 at me. And I'm like, it's not funny. The stairs 00:20:27.769 --> 00:20:31.470 are dangerous. And so I'm like, how do I have 00:20:31.470 --> 00:20:33.150 a tone of voice? So I know with Lloyd, one of 00:20:33.150 --> 00:20:34.970 the things that I finally had to start doing 00:20:34.970 --> 00:20:38.410 is like, letting him fall so like obviously i 00:20:38.410 --> 00:20:39.970 would be there and i'd catch him i wouldn't just 00:20:39.970 --> 00:20:42.250 like let him tumble down the stairs but like 00:20:42.250 --> 00:20:44.009 when he because he would do that like teetering 00:20:44.009 --> 00:20:46.529 on the edge thing a lot so i finally started 00:20:46.529 --> 00:20:50.269 like letting him fall just enough and like and 00:20:50.269 --> 00:20:52.769 get his belly to drop or like right to kind of 00:20:52.769 --> 00:20:55.069 understand like this is the consequences and 00:20:55.069 --> 00:20:57.650 then catch him before like any damage could be 00:20:57.650 --> 00:21:00.990 done so I don't know if like maybe someday in 00:21:00.990 --> 00:21:02.769 therapy he'll be like, this is what happened 00:21:02.769 --> 00:21:04.509 to me when I was a child. My mom let me fall 00:21:04.509 --> 00:21:06.650 down the stairs. I mean, I don't think. Yeah. 00:21:06.789 --> 00:21:08.890 But I mean, again, it is just like this. I mean, 00:21:08.910 --> 00:21:11.170 you got your guys staircases are long. They're 00:21:11.170 --> 00:21:13.750 long. Yeah. We don't have falling down the stairs 00:21:13.750 --> 00:21:17.269 here. We have 14 stairs on each set of staircases. 00:21:17.289 --> 00:21:20.470 Yeah. So it's like six or seven or something. 00:21:20.549 --> 00:21:24.230 So he has fallen down the stairs once. All like 00:21:24.230 --> 00:21:27.589 14. All the stairs. And that was. Oh, buddy. 00:21:27.769 --> 00:21:30.519 I cried. way longer than he did yeah but he did 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:33.059 like barrel roll and i think honestly did you 00:21:33.059 --> 00:21:35.539 just like watch it happen i like kept trying 00:21:35.539 --> 00:21:38.220 to catch him and he was just rolling faster so 00:21:38.220 --> 00:21:41.000 fast than you could run this story this is like 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:43.259 a total random side tangent now this happened 00:21:43.259 --> 00:21:46.759 so stewart has never gone out of town during 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:50.339 our marriage except for one time he went to his 00:21:50.339 --> 00:21:54.170 best friend's bachelor party in maine so he flew 00:21:54.170 --> 00:21:57.150 five hours to boston four or five hours and then 00:21:57.150 --> 00:22:00.809 they drove another four hours and that happened 00:22:00.809 --> 00:22:04.430 to the weekend classic yeah that was like he 00:22:04.430 --> 00:22:07.230 i mean lloyd obviously was fine but it was like 00:22:07.230 --> 00:22:10.869 if something were to happen The soonest possible 00:22:10.869 --> 00:22:13.390 Stuart could be home is eight hours. Oh, yeah. 00:22:13.470 --> 00:22:16.049 And that's like if a flight is immediately when 00:22:16.049 --> 00:22:17.750 he arrives at the airport. That's assuming everything 00:22:17.750 --> 00:22:20.130 is like perfectly timed. So like he's probably, 00:22:20.230 --> 00:22:22.250 if something were to happen, it's probably like 00:22:22.250 --> 00:22:24.769 realistically 12 to 24 hours before he's getting 00:22:24.769 --> 00:22:28.089 home. And I was like eight or 10 weeks pregnant 00:22:28.089 --> 00:22:31.230 with Zeta. So I think I cried for 20 minutes 00:22:31.230 --> 00:22:33.369 after Lloyd fell down the stairs. Oh, yeah. But 00:22:33.369 --> 00:22:36.019 all that to say, yes. Like that could have easily 00:22:36.019 --> 00:22:39.460 been like broken arm. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And 00:22:39.460 --> 00:22:42.559 he turned out okay. The first few times Colt 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:44.380 fell down the stairs, because Colt's fallen down 00:22:44.380 --> 00:22:46.839 the stairs probably four or five times now, but 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:49.799 ours are a lot. Right. Yeah. I think it was like 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:52.160 the first three times. It always happened on 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:54.500 my watch. And so Michael would give me the hardest 00:22:54.500 --> 00:22:57.779 time. And like in a joking, lovingly way. But 00:22:57.779 --> 00:22:59.140 then you're also like, do you know how guilty 00:22:59.140 --> 00:23:01.380 I feel right now? Yeah. I don't need anything 00:23:01.380 --> 00:23:05.720 else. Yes. Then the first time it happened under 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:07.859 Michael's watch, you know, like, oh my gosh, 00:23:07.960 --> 00:23:10.460 I gave them the hardest time because I was like, 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:14.339 see, it can happen to everybody. It's not just 00:23:14.339 --> 00:23:17.039 me. And it's not like I'm not watching. It's 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:19.819 that our child is two years old and he's clumsy. 00:23:19.980 --> 00:23:22.380 Yeah. And it's always like a split second thing. 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:24.380 Oh, yeah. Because with that, when Lloyd did fall 00:23:24.380 --> 00:23:28.240 down the stairs, I knew the baby gate was open. 00:23:28.539 --> 00:23:32.569 So it wasn't like. i you know forgot or anything 00:23:32.569 --> 00:23:34.950 like that we were about to go down the stairs 00:23:34.950 --> 00:23:37.769 and he knew how to crawl down the stairs at that 00:23:37.769 --> 00:23:39.430 point in time so i was just like right behind 00:23:39.430 --> 00:23:41.329 him to crawl down the stairs and it was just 00:23:41.329 --> 00:23:44.630 like one little misstep oh and he started rolling 00:23:44.630 --> 00:23:47.710 and can't catch him can't catch him he can't 00:23:47.710 --> 00:23:49.990 catch himself and that was it and so yeah he 00:23:49.990 --> 00:23:52.950 didn't get hurt he was fine um i mean he was 00:23:52.950 --> 00:23:54.390 obviously really scared and i was really scared 00:23:54.829 --> 00:23:58.269 but the crawling up and down the stairs is so 00:23:58.269 --> 00:24:00.890 stressful. Yeah. I'm like, I wish we just had 00:24:00.890 --> 00:24:05.950 a, just no stairs. Yeah. For reals. Okay. My 00:24:05.950 --> 00:24:10.690 next one. So my next one is we have one of those 00:24:10.690 --> 00:24:13.369 like Montessori climbing arches. And then this 00:24:13.369 --> 00:24:15.109 year for Christmas, Stuart made a slide to go 00:24:15.109 --> 00:24:17.579 on it. So it's pretty short. It's like. maybe 00:24:17.579 --> 00:24:20.380 three feet long great and zeta knows how to climb 00:24:20.380 --> 00:24:25.940 up the slide cute so the other day i just i turned 00:24:25.940 --> 00:24:28.279 around i'm in the kitchen she the slide is like 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:30.720 maybe 15 feet away from me something like that 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:32.900 and i turn around and she's just she has climbed 00:24:32.900 --> 00:24:35.359 to the top of the slide and then she just like 00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:38.240 let go oh slid down right as i turned around 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:42.720 you're like nice yeah i'm like i'm glad that 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:44.640 you know how to do that yourself that's cute 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:48.109 but it was just such a like like sitcom -esque 00:24:48.109 --> 00:24:51.210 like timing where i had no idea she was even 00:24:51.210 --> 00:24:54.690 like even like near the slide nevertheless climbing 00:24:54.690 --> 00:24:58.390 it up and yeah so just like turn around she like 00:24:58.390 --> 00:25:00.769 is holding on to the very top looks at me and 00:25:00.769 --> 00:25:03.450 then just like let's go and slides down did she 00:25:03.450 --> 00:25:06.269 love it she loves it yeah that's so cute yeah 00:25:06.269 --> 00:25:08.769 at this point like if she's sitting on her butt 00:25:08.769 --> 00:25:10.930 we like still kind of hold her because it's pretty 00:25:10.930 --> 00:25:14.809 slick and it can't i mean she can like yeah um 00:25:14.809 --> 00:25:16.990 but if she's on her belly we just like Let her 00:25:16.990 --> 00:25:19.309 go and she has a great time. She also knows how 00:25:19.309 --> 00:25:21.390 to climb the arch, but not to the point to get 00:25:21.390 --> 00:25:23.089 down the slide yet. Oh, okay. So, you know, we'll 00:25:23.089 --> 00:25:25.049 get there soon, I'm sure. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. 00:25:25.049 --> 00:25:27.089 That's so cute. It is so cute. I love it. I wish 00:25:27.089 --> 00:25:30.410 I had a video of that one. Yes. Oh, I bet. Okay. 00:25:30.549 --> 00:25:33.710 My last one that I have. So, yesterday we went 00:25:33.710 --> 00:25:35.869 to Chick -fil -A. I was telling you this, I think, 00:25:35.869 --> 00:25:38.589 off mic. And it's very cold here in Colorado 00:25:38.589 --> 00:25:41.230 right now. Yes. So, the activity is going to 00:25:41.230 --> 00:25:43.720 Chick -fil -A. going to play on the play place 00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:47.559 so we went after nap time for a late lunch and 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:51.740 uh yeah went to chick -fil -a had lunch there 00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:54.759 and then let colt play in the play place and 00:25:54.759 --> 00:25:56.799 there was like a few other kids there and he 00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:59.740 was the youngest like littlest kid on the play 00:25:59.740 --> 00:26:02.900 place and he is a great time so he's like running 00:26:02.900 --> 00:26:04.839 around screaming playing with all these kids 00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:08.339 like not afraid to like just insert himself into 00:26:08.339 --> 00:26:10.559 whatever they're playing and there was this other 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:13.349 little girl Probably like three years old is 00:26:13.349 --> 00:26:15.690 my guess. Definitely a little bit bigger and 00:26:15.690 --> 00:26:18.710 a little bit older than Colt. And she, so I went 00:26:18.710 --> 00:26:21.410 into the play place too with Cruz and let Cruz 00:26:21.410 --> 00:26:23.690 like, he was just kind of crawling around trying 00:26:23.690 --> 00:26:26.390 to climb up on the slide. And she comes over 00:26:26.390 --> 00:26:28.769 and she goes up to Cruz's face and goes, Oh, 00:26:28.930 --> 00:26:31.730 what a cute baby. And then kisses him on the 00:26:31.730 --> 00:26:36.049 cheek. And I said, Oh, we don't kiss other, other 00:26:36.049 --> 00:26:39.849 babies on the face. And she's like, Oh, okay. 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:43.539 And then like a few minutes later, I'm like on 00:26:43.539 --> 00:26:46.039 the ground with Cruz and she comes over again 00:26:46.039 --> 00:26:48.900 and she goes, oh, you're such a cute baby and 00:26:48.900 --> 00:26:51.539 tries to kiss him on the lips. And I like block 00:26:51.539 --> 00:26:56.559 her and literally, yeah, she like kisses, ends 00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:59.900 up kissing my hand. And I said, oh, just a reminder, 00:27:00.059 --> 00:27:02.380 we don't kiss other babies on the face. You could 00:27:02.380 --> 00:27:04.099 kiss, I think she had like a little brother, 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:06.299 like little baby brother. I was like, you can 00:27:06.299 --> 00:27:09.160 kiss your baby, but you can't kiss other babies. 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:11.190 And I'm like. I don't know. I don't know what 00:27:11.190 --> 00:27:13.369 I'm saying here. But, like, I also don't want 00:27:13.369 --> 00:27:17.910 you to necessarily kiss my son on the face. And 00:27:17.910 --> 00:27:21.190 so we are, like, driving home later. And I'm 00:27:21.190 --> 00:27:23.470 like, oh, Cole, did you have fun with that little 00:27:23.470 --> 00:27:26.869 girl at the play place? And he goes, yeah, she 00:27:26.869 --> 00:27:32.789 kissed me. And I said, oh, she kissed you? And 00:27:32.789 --> 00:27:34.990 he said, yeah. And I said, where? And he goes, 00:27:35.089 --> 00:27:38.609 on my mouth. So Cole has had his first kiss. 00:27:38.609 --> 00:27:42.710 Yeah. Yes. In the play place. And so I was like, 00:27:42.750 --> 00:27:45.549 oh, buddy, we don't let other people kiss us 00:27:45.549 --> 00:27:47.589 on the mouth other than mommy, daddy, and Cruz. 00:27:48.150 --> 00:27:51.910 And he goes, oh, okay. And I said, how many times 00:27:51.910 --> 00:27:56.400 did she kiss you? He goes, five. Does he actually 00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:58.160 know how to count? He does know how to count. 00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:00.740 Five is like his number. He chooses for everything 00:28:00.740 --> 00:28:03.839 right now. It's either two or five. And sometimes 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:07.920 he goes not two, but five. That's like his, yeah. 00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:12.859 And I said, oh, she kissed you five times? He 00:28:12.859 --> 00:28:16.759 said, yes, five times. And I said. Oh, buddy. 00:28:16.920 --> 00:28:18.859 I was like, did you kiss her back? And he said, 00:28:18.900 --> 00:28:22.259 no. I'm like, oh, so she just kissed him like 00:28:22.259 --> 00:28:24.319 a bunch of times on the play place. Because you 00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:27.720 can't see up in the play place necessarily. And 00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:29.920 they for sure were like hanging up there, talking, 00:28:30.339 --> 00:28:31.940 like playing. And like, what are you going to 00:28:31.940 --> 00:28:34.380 think? You're like there too. Yeah. And in my 00:28:34.380 --> 00:28:37.359 head, I was like, oh, she's like a lovey -dovey 00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:41.559 child, which is so cute. Yeah. But also in my 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:43.160 head, I'm like, oh, I bet she's going to kiss 00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:46.640 my son up there. Yeah. You didn't think you were 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:48.259 going to have to start worrying about this. No. 00:28:48.259 --> 00:28:51.039 This soon. So my two year old has had his first 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:55.660 kiss and there it is. Yeah. We thought it was 00:28:55.660 --> 00:28:59.059 hilarious. Yeah. But also I'm like, if he's sick 00:28:59.059 --> 00:29:02.920 in two business days, I know where to relate 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:05.960 it to. Yeah. Part of it, like, I mean, I guess 00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:08.059 this is judgmental. I was going to say no judgment, 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:09.960 but it's a little judgmental. Part of it is I 00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:12.000 just don't understand, like as a parent, like 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.670 how my kid would get there. Yeah. Like, thinking 00:29:15.670 --> 00:29:17.769 that, like, kissing strangers is okay. Yeah. 00:29:18.190 --> 00:29:20.750 Again, I don't know. I don't have a three -year 00:29:20.750 --> 00:29:23.869 -old girl yet, so. No. You know, maybe. Maybe 00:29:23.869 --> 00:29:25.990 it's not. Maybe it's just ingrained in her. Because 00:29:25.990 --> 00:29:28.349 she was totally that kid that, like, right when 00:29:28.349 --> 00:29:29.849 someone walked into the play area, she goes, 00:29:29.950 --> 00:29:32.769 hi, my name is. What's your name? Yeah, and then, 00:29:32.809 --> 00:29:36.569 like, Lloyd is really shy. So, and, like, he 00:29:36.569 --> 00:29:39.609 would never do that because he's shy. So, I don't 00:29:39.609 --> 00:29:41.630 know. Like, is that just, like, ingrained in 00:29:41.630 --> 00:29:44.089 her? But then also these parents that she was 00:29:44.089 --> 00:29:46.569 with. We're just not even paying attention at 00:29:46.569 --> 00:29:50.109 all. Just like totally out in the eating area, 00:29:50.250 --> 00:29:52.230 which is fine. Like she's old enough to be in 00:29:52.230 --> 00:29:54.630 there. But like, yeah, later in the time we were 00:29:54.630 --> 00:29:56.269 there, we like went out and ate ice cream. She 00:29:56.269 --> 00:29:58.549 came over and tried to just like eat Colt's ice 00:29:58.549 --> 00:30:01.910 cream right away. And I was like, oh, that's 00:30:01.910 --> 00:30:04.029 his ice cream. Do you have your own? And she 00:30:04.029 --> 00:30:06.150 said, yes, over there. And I was like, okay, 00:30:06.210 --> 00:30:09.220 why don't you go eat your ice cream? Like, oh 00:30:09.220 --> 00:30:11.759 gosh. One of the weird things about being a parent 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:14.299 is other people's kids. Yeah. Like, what are 00:30:14.299 --> 00:30:16.079 the boundaries? You know, because there's... 00:30:16.349 --> 00:30:18.029 I would feel different with like telling your 00:30:18.029 --> 00:30:20.150 kids what to do versus a stranger. Right. So 00:30:20.150 --> 00:30:22.089 it's like, I know generally how you parent. We 00:30:22.089 --> 00:30:23.809 have a relationship. I have a relationship with 00:30:23.809 --> 00:30:26.470 your kids. Yeah. I would feel okay being like, 00:30:26.529 --> 00:30:28.349 Hey Lloyd, like that's, we don't do that. That's 00:30:28.349 --> 00:30:31.250 cold size cream. Yeah. Yeah. Or like with my 00:30:31.250 --> 00:30:33.069 nephews, it's the same thing where it's like, 00:30:33.250 --> 00:30:35.289 you know, I know generally, I also know that 00:30:35.289 --> 00:30:37.390 like you or my sister -in -law would correct 00:30:37.390 --> 00:30:39.650 me if it was like, Hey, I don't want you to tell 00:30:39.650 --> 00:30:42.759 my kid to. do x y or z yeah but when it's a stranger 00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:45.539 like that's so hard because like i need to protect 00:30:45.539 --> 00:30:49.220 my kid but like but how are you i don't know 00:30:49.220 --> 00:30:51.880 what you're teaching your kid yeah yeah it's 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:54.839 yeah it's such a weird balance yep okay what 00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:59.460 is your last one okay my last one is this week 00:30:59.460 --> 00:31:03.519 actually starting last week i had a team meeting 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:06.730 scheduled for the worst possible time for me 00:31:06.730 --> 00:31:10.130 so on a day that i don't have child care during 00:31:10.130 --> 00:31:14.309 my normal lunch hour which is usually when i 00:31:14.309 --> 00:31:16.430 feed the kids lunch and also leading up to nap 00:31:16.430 --> 00:31:19.269 time so everyone is hungry getting tired and 00:31:19.269 --> 00:31:23.930 cranky yeah so last week it was a disaster like 00:31:23.930 --> 00:31:26.190 kids were and i'm expected to have my camera 00:31:26.190 --> 00:31:29.789 on on top of all that i love that so and how 00:31:29.789 --> 00:31:32.640 many people are on this call is it like a huge 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:36.240 group where it's not no it's there is nine of 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:38.720 us on the call okay so it would be obvious it's 00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:40.400 noticeable when i didn't have your camera on 00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:43.779 or if your kids are eating exactly so i like 00:31:43.779 --> 00:31:48.119 got them settled turned my camera on was hoping 00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:49.599 like okay they're just gonna eat their lunch 00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:51.880 yeah i'll do this we'll figure everything else 00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:54.960 out and it was a disaster like both kids cried 00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:57.930 almost the whole time like thankfully i didn't 00:31:57.930 --> 00:31:59.750 have to say a whole lot in this meeting but just 00:31:59.750 --> 00:32:02.210 mute yourself yeah it was rough so then this 00:32:02.210 --> 00:32:04.869 week i was like okay doing something different 00:32:04.869 --> 00:32:06.890 we're not going to eat lunch during this meeting 00:32:06.890 --> 00:32:09.630 uh i will have snacks at the ready to just hand 00:32:09.630 --> 00:32:11.210 kids so that they can you know when they come 00:32:11.210 --> 00:32:14.390 up to me and then is this like a new weekly time 00:32:14.390 --> 00:32:18.089 for this so it is i have a new boss that started 00:32:18.089 --> 00:32:20.789 in december yeah so he was trying to find a time 00:32:20.789 --> 00:32:22.670 and so he scheduled a reoccurring meeting for 00:32:22.670 --> 00:32:25.920 this time and so i finally i was like hey If 00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:27.640 this is what works best for the rest of the team, 00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.299 I can make it work. Is there a chance that we 00:32:30.299 --> 00:32:31.799 could change it, though? Because this isn't ideal 00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:34.220 for me. Partially because it would mean my lunch 00:32:34.220 --> 00:32:36.839 hour is at 10 a .m. Oh, yeah. Based on the rest 00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:39.119 of my schedule. And I'm like, that's not good. 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:42.279 And he was so kind. Again, he's been my boss 00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:44.640 for like maybe six weeks right now. Yeah. But 00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:46.700 he was so kind. He's like, yeah, I didn't know. 00:32:46.779 --> 00:32:48.740 Hopefully this wasn't causing you too much stress. 00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:51.779 Like almost cried. Yes, it was supposed to be 00:32:51.779 --> 00:32:54.359 a reoccurring thing. Thankfully, we changed it. 00:32:54.420 --> 00:32:56.640 So now it's during nap time. Oh, good. Okay. 00:32:57.539 --> 00:32:59.980 As long as nap time goes well, we're golden. 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.339 I mean, and usually even if I can get like one 00:33:02.339 --> 00:33:05.609 of the kids down. and no one's hungry yeah or 00:33:05.609 --> 00:33:07.609 whatever um but so this week i was like okay 00:33:07.609 --> 00:33:10.750 i'm gonna do something different and i put on 00:33:10.750 --> 00:33:15.869 cars lloyd just was sucked in sat down nice the 00:33:15.869 --> 00:33:18.230 sound bar wasn't our sound bar for our tv wasn't 00:33:18.230 --> 00:33:20.970 working so he watched cars without sound but 00:33:20.970 --> 00:33:24.029 he was still very he was still into it hey that's 00:33:24.029 --> 00:33:27.309 not a bad idea i had like snacks and activities 00:33:27.309 --> 00:33:30.220 like right next to my computer so as soon as 00:33:30.220 --> 00:33:32.579 like Zeta crawled up to me or anything like that 00:33:32.579 --> 00:33:36.079 I would just like hand it off but the like best 00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:39.539 part of it was Lloyd is sitting like I'm sitting 00:33:39.539 --> 00:33:41.819 at our kitchen table and I can see the couch 00:33:41.819 --> 00:33:43.680 from where I'm sitting and so Lloyd's sitting 00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:46.420 on the couch watching cars just like zoned in 00:33:46.420 --> 00:33:49.099 and Mater comes on the screen for the first time 00:33:49.099 --> 00:33:52.740 no he's watched this movie countless times I 00:33:52.740 --> 00:33:54.059 don't even know how many times we watched this 00:33:54.059 --> 00:33:56.390 movie at this point but mater comes on the screen 00:33:56.390 --> 00:34:00.509 for the first time and he just lit up so he was 00:34:00.509 --> 00:34:04.349 so excited and just like looked over at me mater 00:34:04.349 --> 00:34:09.409 mater mater yeah i'm trying not to like be distracting 00:34:09.409 --> 00:34:11.670 in my meeting but he was just so excited to see 00:34:11.670 --> 00:34:14.389 mater on the screen for the first time and i 00:34:14.389 --> 00:34:16.050 feel like there were just so many aspects of 00:34:16.050 --> 00:34:19.420 like that situation that is like The epitome 00:34:19.420 --> 00:34:21.639 of being a mom. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You're going 00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:22.960 to watch a movie because I need you to be as 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:26.059 distracted as possible. Yeah. And it's your favorite 00:34:26.059 --> 00:34:28.380 movie. So you're happy. You probably felt like 00:34:28.380 --> 00:34:31.079 pretty awesome after being like, OK, we tackled 00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:33.519 that. We did. Yes. And then in that meeting, 00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:35.980 we actually was when like the team talked about 00:34:35.980 --> 00:34:37.679 like, what's a better time for this? And I was 00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:39.519 like, this is not a great time for me. Anytime 00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:43.059 but right now. Pretty much. Yeah. And yeah, so 00:34:43.059 --> 00:34:45.840 we rescheduled it. But I was like, OK, I'm glad 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:50.480 like that one better. than before and also like 00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:52.900 i think we've talked about this before like we're 00:34:52.900 --> 00:34:55.800 both pretty like this is our routine yeah so 00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:59.239 i think like for me to have the like okay this 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:01.840 is our routine but it doesn't work right now 00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:03.659 so we just have to like try something different 00:35:03.659 --> 00:35:06.000 like so instead of lunch literally they just 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:08.539 both had snacks yeah all morning until nap time 00:35:08.539 --> 00:35:11.860 and and it was that's what we did and you made 00:35:11.860 --> 00:35:13.539 it where everyone napped that afternoon we're 00:35:13.539 --> 00:35:17.710 fine so yeah Yeah. So tough. It is so tough when 00:35:17.710 --> 00:35:20.570 you're navigating all those things at the same 00:35:20.570 --> 00:35:23.449 time. It's that decision fatigue again. Yeah. 00:35:23.530 --> 00:35:26.250 Okay, great. Well, that's kind of all we had 00:35:26.250 --> 00:35:28.690 for this episode, but we could share our wins 00:35:28.690 --> 00:35:31.650 of the week. Yeah. Great. I can go first. Yeah, 00:35:31.650 --> 00:35:35.469 go for it. So we've been doing a potty chart 00:35:35.469 --> 00:35:38.349 with Cole. We haven't fully potty trained. I 00:35:38.349 --> 00:35:41.070 feel like we're really kind of at a crossroads. 00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:45.599 We're like, we've got to just decide. Yeah, we 00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:48.840 just need to set a date and be like, okay, the 00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:52.300 second weekend in February, we're going to just 00:35:52.300 --> 00:35:55.420 go for it. But we've been doing a potty chart 00:35:55.420 --> 00:36:00.039 with him, and it has like 25 little stickers 00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:04.070 that he needs to fill up. And every time he fills 00:36:04.070 --> 00:36:06.389 up his potty chart, we get to go for ice cream. 00:36:06.969 --> 00:36:09.829 And so he filled up his potty chart again. That's 00:36:09.829 --> 00:36:13.110 when we went to Chick -fil -A yesterday and went 00:36:13.110 --> 00:36:17.090 and got ice cream. And I think this is like his 00:36:17.090 --> 00:36:20.750 maybe his second time having like an ice cream 00:36:20.750 --> 00:36:24.250 cone. Okay. And so like on the cake cone, usually 00:36:24.250 --> 00:36:26.489 we'll just get him like a bowl. And yeah, this 00:36:26.489 --> 00:36:28.289 was his third time filling up his potty chart. 00:36:29.189 --> 00:36:31.650 And, like, second time having a cake cone. And 00:36:31.650 --> 00:36:34.449 he, like, was super confused by it. And he, like, 00:36:34.469 --> 00:36:37.090 kept asking me if he could eat the cone. And 00:36:37.090 --> 00:36:38.730 I was like, oh, yeah, buddy, you can eat that. 00:36:38.849 --> 00:36:40.429 I mean, to be fair, this is probably one of the 00:36:40.429 --> 00:36:44.210 first times he's experienced food that's, like, 00:36:44.349 --> 00:36:46.889 being served food that you can eat the serving 00:36:46.889 --> 00:36:49.070 utensil. Yeah, what it's in. Yeah. Yeah, what 00:36:49.070 --> 00:36:52.750 you're holding. And so he, like, eats all the 00:36:52.750 --> 00:36:55.380 ice cream. out of the top of it and then goes 00:36:55.380 --> 00:36:58.360 for the cone. And this is also like more sugar 00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:01.079 than I give my child. Yeah. In a, in a helping 00:37:01.079 --> 00:37:04.559 for sure. And he like takes a bite of the cone 00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:08.039 and he's like, so just confused by it and is 00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:10.360 like chewing it. Like, am I supposed to be eating 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:12.500 this? Those cake cones are like kind of a weird 00:37:12.500 --> 00:37:15.099 consistency. Yeah. Like kind of like. they don't 00:37:15.099 --> 00:37:16.980 have a ton of flavor. It's a little bit like 00:37:16.980 --> 00:37:19.119 eating cardboard. I mean, I like them, but it's 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:20.940 a little bit like eating cardboard. Yeah, but 00:37:20.940 --> 00:37:24.320 he loved it and it just was super fun. And that 00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:26.199 little girl from the playground tried to eat 00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:28.360 his ice cream, like all these things. But we 00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.539 ended up like bringing the cake cone home because 00:37:30.539 --> 00:37:34.159 he didn't finish it. And it like at this point 00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:37.519 is super soggy and nasty, but he continued to 00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:39.800 eat it. He doesn't care. Yeah, he doesn't care. 00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:42.639 And it just was, he just was thriving and it 00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:46.570 was so fun. Um, yeah, I feel like we're definitely 00:37:46.570 --> 00:37:49.230 at a crossroads though of like, we've got to, 00:37:49.230 --> 00:37:52.690 I think just go for it and I'm scared cause I'm 00:37:52.690 --> 00:37:54.530 like, I don't want to clean up all the accidents. 00:37:54.630 --> 00:37:57.349 I don't like, that's the part that I'm like, 00:37:57.389 --> 00:38:00.340 I'd much rather just. clean a poopy diaper then 00:38:00.340 --> 00:38:03.139 poop off my floor you know we definitely had 00:38:03.139 --> 00:38:05.559 like blankets and towels on furniture when we 00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:08.079 potty trained and like for a couple weeks after 00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:11.860 really yeah just i mean just as like a yeah just 00:38:11.860 --> 00:38:14.280 as a precaution like i would much rather grab 00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:16.179 a blanket and throw it in the wash than have 00:38:16.179 --> 00:38:19.260 to i mean our couch a little bit less so because 00:38:19.260 --> 00:38:21.139 it's leather so it's pretty easy to clean but 00:38:21.139 --> 00:38:23.260 then anything with upholstery we kind of like 00:38:23.260 --> 00:38:25.940 put you know either a blanket or a towel because 00:38:25.940 --> 00:38:27.920 again it's much easier to just like grab a blanket 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:30.789 throw that in the wash that's it clean upholstery 00:38:30.789 --> 00:38:34.489 yeah so that's fair that's also but that is so 00:38:34.489 --> 00:38:36.289 sweet and i feel like like with the ice cream 00:38:36.289 --> 00:38:38.090 thing i don't know if you get caught up in this 00:38:38.090 --> 00:38:40.710 of like i don't want my kids to have too much 00:38:40.710 --> 00:38:42.690 sugar and all the things to the point where like 00:38:42.690 --> 00:38:45.590 oh but we need to have fun fun memories we can't 00:38:45.590 --> 00:38:49.329 just not like sometimes the sugar crash is worth 00:38:49.329 --> 00:38:52.900 yeah just like The memory of having fun and having 00:38:52.900 --> 00:38:55.239 an ice cream cone with my kid. Yeah. Exactly. 00:38:55.539 --> 00:38:57.820 I know I have to remind myself of that. Oh, all 00:38:57.820 --> 00:39:00.760 the time. I know. All the time. Yeah. I don't 00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:03.820 want them to be necessarily that kid in school 00:39:03.820 --> 00:39:06.440 that's like, my mom has never let me have ice 00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:09.900 cream before because she's been so stuck in her 00:39:09.900 --> 00:39:14.039 routine. And yeah. So I am totally that way. 00:39:14.219 --> 00:39:16.719 Yeah. Yeah. That's really easy. Yeah. Okay. What's 00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:20.480 your win of the week? Okay. Mine is. I've tried 00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:22.599 coloring with Lloyd before and just like, obviously 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:24.940 not like I expect him to like color perfectly, 00:39:25.019 --> 00:39:26.940 but giving him crayons. And for a long time he 00:39:26.940 --> 00:39:29.400 would just eat them. So we stopped that. But 00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:31.300 then he's been playing with crayons at my parents' 00:39:31.420 --> 00:39:33.760 house. So I was like, oh, okay. Like. this will 00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:35.559 be a good thing for when I'm working because 00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:37.659 he can sit next to me and it feels a little bit 00:39:37.659 --> 00:39:39.579 more like we're doing something together. So 00:39:39.579 --> 00:39:42.320 the other day I was like, I think Zeta was even 00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:44.139 napping. I was like, buddy, do you want to sit 00:39:44.139 --> 00:39:46.300 next to mom and play with crayons? He's like, 00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:49.280 play with crayons. I was like, okay, great. So, 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.539 you know, like the funny thing is the only coloring 00:39:51.539 --> 00:39:53.860 book I actually have is like an adult one, not 00:39:53.860 --> 00:39:56.360 like inappropriate, but like very intricate. 00:39:56.760 --> 00:39:59.179 It's like the Psalms or something like that. 00:39:59.900 --> 00:40:01.500 But I was like, you know what? He doesn't care. 00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:03.420 He just wants paper to draw on. I don't care. 00:40:03.500 --> 00:40:06.000 I'm not actually going to use this. So I gave 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:09.800 him that and put the crayons in honestly an old 00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:13.139 soup container. Not a can, but the plastic ones 00:40:13.139 --> 00:40:15.320 that have a lid. So I put the crayons in that 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:17.139 and I had left the lid on the kitchen counter. 00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:20.079 And at one point he just decided he was done 00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:22.280 and he put all the crayons in the container and 00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:25.579 closed the book. And then looked around and went 00:40:25.579 --> 00:40:28.159 over to the kitchen and grabbed the lid and then 00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:31.460 went and put it on. the grand container. I was 00:40:31.460 --> 00:40:33.800 like, zero prompting. I don't know where this 00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:36.699 comes from. Amazing. Like, I'm glad that this 00:40:36.699 --> 00:40:39.260 is something that you've done and that hopefully 00:40:39.260 --> 00:40:41.460 is a habit. I don't know. Seriously, you're like, 00:40:41.539 --> 00:40:43.400 you're cleaning up after yourself? Yeah. Okay. 00:40:43.460 --> 00:40:46.019 How do we make this? I don't clean up after myself. 00:40:46.139 --> 00:40:48.360 So how do we get this ingrained in you? Because 00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:50.159 I want you to be better than I am. Yeah, right. 00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:54.360 But it was just so cute because again, completely 00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:58.320 unprompted. Amazing. so cute so sweet how long 00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:00.519 was he do you think he was actually focused on 00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:03.639 coloring um maybe like five minutes that's awesome 00:41:03.639 --> 00:41:05.719 yeah it wasn't long um but then he did play with 00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:07.619 the container with his cars for a while so then 00:41:07.619 --> 00:41:10.780 asked me to take the lid off he dumped the crayons 00:41:10.780 --> 00:41:12.780 out and then you know would put the cars in the 00:41:12.780 --> 00:41:15.159 container and put it on and so cute that was 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:17.420 probably another 10 minutes love it but i did 00:41:17.420 --> 00:41:20.280 order a bunch of coloring books that are like 00:41:20.829 --> 00:41:23.789 for kids for him so we have like a cars one and 00:41:23.789 --> 00:41:26.469 we have a john deere one yes and you know a couple 00:41:26.469 --> 00:41:28.730 like that that i think You know, maybe it'll 00:41:28.730 --> 00:41:30.369 hold his attention a little bit longer because, 00:41:30.429 --> 00:41:32.989 you know, it's something he's interested in anyways. 00:41:33.329 --> 00:41:35.670 Yeah. And maybe I'm totally fooling myself. I 00:41:35.670 --> 00:41:37.789 love it. It'll still just be five minutes. Yeah, 00:41:37.789 --> 00:41:40.369 we have one coloring book. It's like farm stuff. 00:41:40.710 --> 00:41:43.070 And as you're talking about it, I realized I 00:41:43.070 --> 00:41:45.949 left it outside. So it's in the snow. So you 00:41:45.949 --> 00:41:47.610 no longer have a coloring book. Yeah, I'll probably 00:41:47.610 --> 00:41:51.349 need to order some more too. Yeah, I just. Because 00:41:51.349 --> 00:41:54.170 that happened yesterday or two days ago. And 00:41:54.170 --> 00:41:56.329 since this weekend, we're having like a major 00:41:56.329 --> 00:41:59.150 cold snap. I was like, oh, maybe that'll be a 00:41:59.150 --> 00:42:01.769 fun thing we do this weekend. Our big thing right 00:42:01.769 --> 00:42:03.690 now is kinetic sand. Has he ever played with 00:42:03.690 --> 00:42:07.110 kinetic sand? Yeah. That's the thing that Colt 00:42:07.110 --> 00:42:09.010 will sit down for like 20, 30 minutes and play 00:42:09.010 --> 00:42:11.090 with kinetic sand. Maybe that'll be something. 00:42:11.150 --> 00:42:13.289 And he has like little, yeah, he'll use his cars 00:42:13.289 --> 00:42:16.429 and like. My mom's really excited for this summer 00:42:16.429 --> 00:42:18.969 because she has, for the amount of property they 00:42:18.969 --> 00:42:22.090 have, she has a. good -sized vegetable garden. 00:42:22.190 --> 00:42:25.510 Oh, cool. And they have, they got Lloyd, like, 00:42:25.550 --> 00:42:27.769 construction vehicles, so she's like, there'll 00:42:27.769 --> 00:42:30.130 be a section in the garden just for you to, like... 00:42:30.489 --> 00:42:33.750 Scoop dirt into your dump truck. Oh, that's so 00:42:33.750 --> 00:42:36.510 cute. That'll be so fun for him. So fun. Let's 00:42:36.510 --> 00:42:39.610 just get through this stupid cold winter. Yes. 00:42:40.090 --> 00:42:43.190 Gosh. 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At least 00:43:17.260 --> 00:43:36.300 we can laugh about it together. That's so cute.