How are you? How was yesterday? It was good.
I'm tired, but it was good. It's fun. The game
is silly and fun, but it's fun because there
were literally hundreds of us at the park walking
around for literally eight hours just playing
and talking and just having a good time together,
which is nice, you know? and you're at bear creek
park yeah so we went to bear creek and keller
and just played there for literally was there
from just before 10 o 'clock until just after
six o 'clock so a little over eight hours of
play it was a beautiful day it was a really good
day for it i need today when i go back i need
to put on sunscreen i was about to ask if you
did that My neck is pink. Oh, yeah. So I need
to do a better job of that. But it was it was
it was really nice out. It was nice to just get
some fresh air, especially after this week where
like, yeah, I was with Book Fair. I was in the
library all day with like until like I got home
each night, most nights after seven o 'clock.
So like Very little like outside sunlight fresh
air time. And so yeah, it was it was really nice
And it was fun. We got I got to see a lot of
people and we just got to have fun playing and
You know Yeah, it's nice to have like a community
Like outside of like the work stuff. Yeah that
you could just get together and just relax and
have fun and goof off and That's great. I'm glad
you got to do that. Yeah. And today is day two,
so I get to go back and do it again. Yeah. Nice.
Yeah. And like I'm, it's weird because it's also
like, it's not work, but it's, there are some
like work -like aspects to it because I - I don't
know how I always get thrust into these positions,
but I'm like a community ambassador for the area.
Like me and one other person, like we like set
up like the get togethers and stuff like that,
which doesn't entail a ton, but it does mean
that like, I'm the person that people ask questions
to and like. random stuff like that. And so it's
like doing that kind of stuff, too. And so it's
weird. Why do I always get put into leadership
positions? I don't get it. Because you're good
at it. That's cool. It's that or because I don't
say no, I can't remember. I don't know which
of those two like maybe it's a little bit of
both. Maybe that doesn't have to be one thing.
But no, it was a yeah, it was. a beautiful day
yesterday, and I think today's supposed to be
pretty similar, which will be nice, because,
you know, it starts out in, like, the 60s, but
gets up to, like, the 80s, like, low 80s, so
it's not, like, overwhelmingly hot, but just
nice out. Yeah. Did you get to do anything fun
yesterday? Well, I took the girls to Six Flags.
Yes with our friends. Yeah, yes true. So it's
weekday and oh, yeah, we got Season passes for
them for Christmas so Yeah, we only went fun.
Yeah, we just did like three or four hours. It
was busy, but it was beautiful So that was okay
And what the season passes it you don't feel
like you have to stay all day cuz you're like,
I won't come back. Yeah Yeah, this is just what
we do. We're just theme park people Guess awesome,
which is weird because I'm so introverted and
I don't like humans, but that's okay. I Don't
know as long as I don't have to interact with
the humans. I don't mind it as much I can watch
them. It's fine Yeah Yeah Yeah, it was good.
It was fun good And Brandon's out running the
cow town this morning half marathon running is
not anything that I ever got into. I tried. I
tried to do the running. It's not my thing. I've
done a couple of half marathons with him. And
then I just decided, I still run every day. Like
before work and stuff, I do like a 5K every day.
But I don't like doing it in a race. I don't
know. That is too many people for me. It's too
crowded. Have you ever done anything like that?
It's so crowded. I mean, I've done some 5Ks and
stuff, and it's very much, especially at the
start where you're just shoulder to shoulder
trying to run and stuff. It's not. Yeah. I don't
like the people around me when I'm running. I
don't know. I like to be alone. I like it in
the morning because I'm alone and I can listen
to my audio book and start the day without anyone.
my favorite i don't like to run in a big group
i don't know so during the summer i will get
up and i'll go and like i do like like half run
half walk 5k like every morning with my like
audiobook or whatever play in and that especially
like early in the morning when it's like just
starting to become dawn and like yeah that's
the time i love that but yeah Like running just
to run. Yeah. Really just someone needs to be
chasing me to make it so that I have to go. Brandon
needs it though for his to stay in shape. Like
he needs some kind of inspiration. Yeah. Well,
that's good that he's found something that works
for him. So he does this every year. We do the
cow town every year. That's cool. Hello, I'm
Patrick Adams. And I'm Caroline Legere. And this
is Librarians of Littles, a podcast where we
share books, makerspace activities, and tips
and tricks for working with our students, our
youngest students in the library setting. And
this week we have two books from the 2026 Texas
2x2 list. The Texas 2x2 list is a list of 20
books. curated by the Texas Library Association.
And these books are supposed to be the best books
of the year for children between the ages of
two and second grade. And so the first book from
the 2026 list that we will be looking at is called
Bear and the Three Goldilocks. It is written
by Patrick Horn. and illustrated by Dan Iaccarino.
It is published by Holiday House, which is an
imprint of Penguin Random House, in 2025. It
is on two lists, so it's on the Texas 2x2 list
for 2026. It's also, it was on the Junior Library
Guild selection list for 2025. And our author,
Patrick Horn has been a tennis coach, a teacher,
and most recently an author. He has three children
that keep him inspired. And when he's writing,
he works at a desk that his grandmother bought
for his grandfather in the seventies, which I
thought was just kind of a cool little thing.
He's using his grandfather's desk. He lives in
Texas with his wife and children, and he's at
a charter school teaching Basically, he teaches
fitness and the charter school is trilingual,
which I thought was kind of cool, too. Oh, that
is cool. Yeah. This is his very first book. Good
for him. Yeah. And the illustrator, Dan Iaccarino,
his history is, in addition to his own stories,
Dan's bold, stylized illustrations add wit and
energy to the work of such distinguished authors
as Margaret Wise -Brown, Jack Proletsky, and
Kevin Henkes. He's also the creator and producer
of several animated series based on his books,
Doug Unplugs on Apple TV, Oswald on Nickelodeon,
Will Is Wildlife on NBC and... is that Cubo?
Cubo. Yeah. I don't know. I don't watch TV. I
don't know networks. Hmm. As well as the character
designer behind the backyardigans from Nickelodeon.
I love the backyardigans. I didn't know that.
Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Animation Magazine hails him
as an American Original. Dance internationally
recognized art style has earned him a large following
in Japan exhibits in New York Los Angeles, Tokyo
and Do you say that? And a visit to the White
House He is also a contributing children's book
reviewer for the New York Times. Dan's books
have been translated into many languages, and
in addition to animated series, his work has
inspired toys, ebooks, children's musicals, and
video adaptations. I knew about him, but I didn't
know all of that about him. Isn't that cool?
Yeah, I had no idea. But his art style is very,
very, like, I don't know, like... You can tell
it's his work every time. Yeah, it's unique.
It's very cool. And so when I was reading about
him, I was like, this guy, I didn't like, I didn't
even realize that he had his own, like his books
had become TV shows, because now that my kids
older, we don't really watch as much of the that
kind of stuff. But yeah, like, yeah, the backyard
again, I'm familiar with and the fact that he
was a character designer for that. And like,
that's just some really cool. Cool credits to
him. So yeah So he is also He's done many many
books like a ton of books some of the books that
he has written and illustrated include the fantastic
undersea life of Jacques Cousteau all the way
to America the story of a big Italian family
and a little shovel five little pumpkins I am
a story Doug unplugged Morris Mole, Giant Tess,
The Birthday Fish, and Unlovable, plus a ton
of other books. But he's also done the illustrations
for many other authors and their books, including
Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha.
That's what I would say. Clemesha, yeah. Goodnight
Songs by Margaret Wise Brown, Melissa Sweet,
and Sophia Blackall. Circle Dogs by Kevin Henkes,
One, Two, Grandpa Loves You by Shelley Becker,
Firefighter Flow by Andrea Zimmerman, Boy Plus
Bot by Amy Dyckman, and a lot of other books
as well. So his list of books is very long that
he's participated in, which is awesome. And I
really do love his art style. It's just so cool.
Like they're like the black lines that he uses
and everything just always great. Yeah. I like
how many, um, like it's very geometric and I
think that makes it a little bit more accessible
for kids. Like if they want to imitate it, it's
great. I love it. Yes. And so Again, our book
is Bear and the Three Goldilocks. And the summary
for that book is that basically this is a twist
on the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears
story. This story has the Goldilocks family,
mother, father, and daughter, going camping.
And as they're going camping, they set up their
tents. They prep their instruments so that they
can sing campfire songs together. They begin
making s'mores. And then the family decides that
they're going to go on a hike. So they quickly
leave their campsite and very quickly after they
leave, a little bear comes into the campsite
and begins to Try out everything just like Goldilocks
in the original story So he tries the s'mores
and one is too gooey and one is too chocolatey,
but the third one is just right he tries the
instruments, but the guitar is too stringy the
banjo is too plucky and the tambourine is just
right and so on until when the Goldilocks family
returns they find their campsite in shambles
with the baby bear inside the Goldilocks daughter's
tent sleeping and when the mama and papa bear
who have been looking for their baby bear show
up at the campsite it's funny they invite the
Goldilocks family back to their home for porridge
but the Goldilocks family doesn't speak bear
and so all they hear is growling and so they
jump in their car and quickly leave. It's a cute
story. It's a lot of fun. I think the kids will
really enjoy the kind of silliness of it. And
there's definitely that familiarity from the
Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. And so
the kids will already have that background knowledge.
And I think that the silly little twist on it
will definitely be something that's enjoyable
for these kids. It was a lot of fun to read and
I look forward to reading it with my students.
I haven't read it with them yet, but this is
one I'm going to add to my list to read, especially
when we're talking about like fairy tales and
fractured fairy tales and that kind of stuff,
because it's a really cute story. The pictures
are awesome. And so it'll be very engaging for
the students. I definitely say that this is a
five out of five book. I really, really like
it. For sure. I agree. I mean, Dean Iaccarino.
illustrated it, which means it's very bright,
very vivid, but not overwhelming, somewhat simplistic
and accessible pictures. But the text is still
very visible. And I do like that element of familiarity
it has with it being a Goldilocks book, because
it very much is a Goldilocks book. But it was
fantastic. I loved it. My favorite was definitely
when the bears tried very nicely to explain the
misunderstanding and I am so sorry and then but
they only heard roar roar roar so they ran away.
That was the best for me. I loved it. I agree.
This one's a five out of five for sure. Yeah
and like that just that little bit of humor in
it you know like the kids are gonna think all
of it's funny but even for the adults like that
little bit of humor of like they don't speak
bear so you know like yeah but it's a lot of
fun yeah super cute and so for a makerspace activity
i kind of struggled because i at first i was
thinking like what could the kids build or make
or something and so what i came up with is i
think it would be fun to kind of like assign
the kids to have them make different props from
this story and then have them like retell the
story. So like have one kid that's that their
job is they hand them everybody have plenty of
like card stock or paper and some colored pencils
and crayons and markers and have them each make
a part. So like one kid makes the s'mores that
were too gooey and one kid makes the s'more that's
too chocolatey and one kid makes the s'more that's
just right and somebody else makes the guitar
and somebody else makes the banjo and somebody
else makes the tambourine and just go through
and have them like make all the different things
and then have each of those kids retell that
part of the story and so you could have the entire
class like be able to retell the story after
they created their little props to to remind
them of what part they're doing. which I think
covers a bunch of different skills that pre -K
should be working on for sure. There's going
to be that creativity part so they're actually
getting to do some artwork to create, but then
to the retelling of the story and getting them
in the right order so that they can retell it
and all that kind of stuff. I think it would
take a little bit of work, but I think that would
be what I would end up doing with this story
just because I think with the familiarity of
the story. I think that would help them making
sure that they're in the right order and able
to retell the story a little bit easier than
some other stories for sure. And so I think this
would just be kind of a fun activity to have
them do that might take more than one library
session. Like you might, it might be that after
you read the story, they make the props and then
the next week they come back and retell it. But
I think, with that familiarity, I think it would
be possible for them to do that still. I think
that you're right. And I think that would be
great. And I think it's kind of funny that you
said that because that was exactly what I was
thinking that I would do with this book, if I
was going to make a lesson afterward. Uh huh.
Yeah, I've I don't know if it's just because
it's goalie locks that I was thinking that and
you were thinking that as well. Because I don't
think you and I usually like think that much
alike with lessons but yeah maybe it's because
of that because that like you just were saying
this time right well it's just such a well -known
story but just slightly different enough to make
it novel but familiar enough that they could
possibly retell it with you know in a silly kind
of a way that's cute i like it i think they would
like it too and I do too really great on a lot
of levels yeah I think they would have a lot
of fun with it so yeah they would all right so
with that we get to our library of littles makerspace
spotlight and we've been going over some different
tech based activities that teach students coding
over the last couple episodes. And this week
we're going to spotlight another device. This
one is the learning resources code and go robot
mouse. And so this is one that a lot of people
have seen before. And it's a screen free STEM
toy designed to teach children basically from
ages four and up the basics of coding through
hands on play. Children use color -coded buttons
on the mouse's back to program a sequence of
up to 40 steps to guide the robot through a maze
so that they can find the plastic cheese wedge
that has a magnet in it so it'll pop to the robot
mouse's nose. This is a great product. It's very
similar to the... the bbots in the way it functions
anyway. The robot itself on the back, it has
colored arrows. So there's a forward arrow, a
backwards arrow, a left turn and a right turn
arrow, and then the go button. And so when the
robot is ready, you can, and I think there's
a clear button on it too. So that clears out
whatever code you have. And so the students can
push those buttons and tell it to go, and the
robot will move according to the order that the
buttons were pushed. This set, so I found a couple
different sets. The robot itself, basically,
if you just got the robot, it was looking, most
of the places I was looking, it seemed to be
about $39, but most of them, you wanna get the
set itself that comes with the square tiles that
interlock. They come with the purple little walls
to make a maze. They even come with some arches
and the mouse cheese. They also come with double
-sided cards that have the arrows for movement.
And that whole set tends to cost between $75
and $80 if you buy the set, which is much more
in the price range of a lot of libraries than
the Cubeto that we talked about yesterday in
the 300 to 400 price range. So much more cost
effective. I will say that these robots are pretty
durable. The biggest issue I've ever had with
the robots is that when you're working with Pre
-K, a lot of the kids, when they put in the code,
and have the robot move if it doesn't go the
way they want. A lot of times they want to grab
it and either pull it backwards or push it forwards
to where they want it to be. Yeah. And at first,
that's a natural thing for them to do. And so
I had to spend a lot of time with my students
teaching them, like, you can't do that because
by pushing and pulling on the robot, the wheels,
the gears will grind and actually not catch and
then it won't move anymore. After a while if
that's happening, so that's Like as far as durability
the mouse itself. I never had one break or crack
But the wheels stopped working because the gears
were shredded from some misuse so If you know
that in advance and work to teach the children
the proper use of the device This is this is
a very fine product that works really well. I
will say that What I found using all of the pieces
when you use the green tiles that connect in
the purple walls and that kind of thing what
I found Was that a lot of my pre -k students?
Struggled to design a maze. So if you were gonna
use that to do have them work on this Pre -build
the maze yourself and then have them try and
get the mouse to go through the maze. It's a
lot of pre -planning for a pre -K student to
try and build a maze for the mouse to then go
through. And I found that that was a struggle
for a lot of my students. So if you're gonna
do this with and have the mouse actually try
to go through a maze to get to the cheese. pre
-build that maze before the students come in
so that that doesn't become a headache. The other
option is, is this mouse will roll just on like
a table. So you could just teach them to start
practicing using the mouse without any of the
other pieces and just let them get used to how
the mouse moves and that kind of thing. The nice
thing about the green tiles is that the green
tiles are the same size as the coding for the
robot to move. So when you tell it to move left,
it's gonna move one tile to the left. If you
tell it to move forward, it moves one tile forward.
And so that visual helps. So even if you just
made a flat platform of just the green and told
them, here's where we're starting and here's
where we're going, and there were no walls, no
arches, nothing else, that might be a way to
do it too. It's a good product. It's a lot of
fun. The biggest flaw that I have with this device
is that you can push a bunch of buttons, but
you don't know where in the code you are. And
like, there's no indication of what the next
part of the code will be that it does. So like
in other robots, like on the Coda Pillar, you
could see it lit up when it was at a certain
segment of the code. In Cubeto, it lights up
with each tile that's placed so you know where
you are in the code. With this robot, when you
put it in, you put it in and then it just goes.
It doesn't show you where in the code you are
or what's happening next. And so that's a little
bit more challenging for the kids. to understand
why it's not doing what they wanted because they
can't see where they messed up unless you use
those cards and write in put them down in front
of the kid as they push the buttons and then
as the mouse moves you kind of go through it
that way with them but on the mouse itself it
doesn't tell you where it is in the code or what
it's doing next or anything like that so that's
one slight disadvantage. But like I said, if
you use the cards, like the little double -sided
cards and put those as to how they're putting
in the code, that might be a way to resolve that
issue. But these are a lot of fun. The kids really
do enjoy being able to see if the mouse can get
to the cheese and that kind of thing. And it
is a good way to get started with the Coding
and this is one of those things where you could
use these cards to have like we mentioned last
time You could use some of those cards to have
the kids like Because I've they've made they
make the cards the cards are relatively small
little squares But they also make a set that
are bigger and that you could use those to do
like a code the teacher Kind of thing like we
talked about where the kids put down Things and
that's how the teachers supposed to move and
do those things And so you could do something
like that with it before you ever get to the
robot But the robot itself is pretty fun. The
kids really do enjoy it It's a good product.
That's cool. I've had access to them, but I didn't
Use them a lot last year because I was on two
campuses and I was a little overwhelmed and I
did use other Like I did use Coda Pillar And
I think the bots because two campuses but yeah
this one sounds like a lot of fun and looks really
cool it looks like a great product it it is it's
a lot of fun and like i said it's very similar
to the b -box um that people are very familiar
with also um and like the hand to mind which
is one of the companies that does some of this
stuff they've got different activities and like
printable materials that you can get for the
students and there's a bunch of teacher pay teacher
sites that have activities for it and there's
like expansion packs where you can start like
for older kids where you can take these and then
do start practicing addition and subtraction
skills and sequencing and all sorts of other
things so like it's a really cool device because
well starting with like three and four year olds
to just learn some basic coding, it can be used
for multiple things as kids get older too. So
it's not something that they're gonna age out
of super fast. No, it's cool. I like it. So yeah.
Cool. It holds its value for a while. Nice. Yeah.
Maybe I'll try some soon. We'll see. All right.
The next book that we're gonna talk about today
is from the 2x2 list is called Big Enough. It
was published by Little Brown and Company in
2025. And the author and illustrator is Regina
Link. And this book is an ALSC Notable Children's
Book for 2026. And it's a El Dia de los Niños
book for 2026 and a Texas 2x2 for 2026. And Regina
Link is a Taiwanese -American author and illustrator,
and she combines East Asian philosophy with Chinese
brush painting. Although she is a professional
illustrator, she never went to art school. Instead,
she got marketing degrees from Washington State
University in St. Louis and Cornell University.
She was born and raised in Texas and she moved
to Taiwan with her family when she was in her
mid -30s. While she was there, that's when she
learned the traditional Chinese painting that
she uses in her art and began showing her work
on Instagram. And when she was on Instagram,
the work that she published was so popular that
she ended up publishing a whole book of it called
The Oxherd Boy, Parables of Love, Compassion,
and Community. And that book is written for adults
and that Oxford boy is the boy that we read about
in this book. So that's fun. And Big Enough is
her first children's book. And then she has a
sequel called Little Helper coming out in May
of 2026. So yeah. That's her. I thought she had
a fun story. I love that she didn't actually
go to art school. She might be the first one
that we've done this on that didn't like officially
do any of the things that she was intending to
with like writing or just kind of got her start
on Instagram just showing her artwork and stuff.
That's really cool. I know, right? And that's
one thing I have to say about this book is like
the art. It's beautiful. It is incredible. It's
breathtaking, really. It's amazing. And so I
was enthralled just by the art on the page. Yeah.
It's beautiful. Yeah. The whole story is... It's
great. And the art really is what sucks you in,
though. I guess I should just do the book summary
now since I'm already talking about the book.
So for the book summary, a young boy is charged
with bringing the family's ox home from the fields.
He's warned by his grandfather not to ride him
because he isn't big enough just yet. On his
way to go get the ox, he meets some other animals
who give advice and tell him not to pull him
by the horn or lead him from behind because he's
not big enough to do those things yet either.
Once he does get to the ox, he finds that the
ox is even more reluctant to find his way home
than the boy. And the boy ends up riding him,
pulling him by the horn and leading him from
behind to get the ox safely home. And in the
end, he learns that he is, in fact, big enough
after all. This was just a really sweet story.
It's I think this one's a five out of five as
well. There's a reason it's on the two by two.
These are great books. And it definitely has
that element of... I don't know if this is like
an actual parable or not, or if she just like
created this one. I have no idea. But it feels
very much like a parable. Well, I mean, it is
a parable. I just don't know if it's like a traditional
one or not. But I love that it's very relatable
for the kids, that it's, you know... Ultimately,
it's a story about, like, building confidence
and, you know, perseverance and just not giving
up in general. And, you know, trying to do the
hard thing even though you know you may not be
able to do it. Like, you're still gonna try anyway.
We're still gonna, you know, this is my responsibility.
I'm going to accept it. We're gonna get it done.
I can't do these things yet because I'm not big
enough, but we'll find a way to do it anyway.
and the boy just doesn't give up and he just
keeps going and that artwork really is so beautiful.
I love it. It's so good. It's stunning. It truly
is. I wouldn't, I'm kind of surprised it didn't
end up on a Caldecott list actually. Maybe the
next book will. I don't know. Yeah, this I loved
the whole story and it's very relatable to the
kids that they're just like I'm not big enough
yet kind of you know that attitude is something
that all of these kids can relate to as far as
And so it was a it was a very sweet story and
I love that like the big giant ox is afraid of
the dark kind of you know, like doesn't want
to be alone and is uncertain just because size,
you know, like it's a nice way to just explain
that, you know, size isn't everything and they're
like, we all have some of those fears and issues
that need to be dealt with and with someone taking
care of us and being there for us, we can kind
of make it through together. So it's a really
sweet story that. The pictures just amplify so
much because the artwork is just so incredible.
Mm -hmm It really is Yeah, it was a great book
and I love like it's a great kind of multicultural
book to like it was just great It's a great one
to show at the beginning of the year I think
I would do this one at the beginning of the year
when kids are still getting used to all of the
routines and everything and when they're still
getting used to school in general and being away
from their parents and their safe spaces for
longer periods of time and like learning that
school is a safe space. That's definitely when
I would do this book because a lot of them are
probably thinking that they're not big enough
for school yet either and they should probably
just go home. I know not all of them are thinking
that but I think the majority do like that's
a big change. Going to school for the first time
is a huge change. And I think this is a great
one for the beginning of the year for that one.
They're all feeling that change. It's even more
relatable right then. And for a makerspace lesson,
I kind of had a hard time thinking of exactly
what I would do because I don't know, just the
way the parable is written. I don't know. But
I think I would do it at the beginning of the
year and then have the kids draw a picture of
them doing something that they think they're
not big enough to do yet. And I think my the
biggest examples that I would use with the kids
is probably learning to read because a lot of
the kids when they first start in pre -k and
in kindergarten like I always have like a space
in the library where like during our maker space
time or whatever like reading is always a choice
in the library. Always. I always have a little
reading nook. They can always go and get from
a selected, you know, a limited amount of books
because I'm not going to let them go roam the
entire library, like pulling stuff off shelves
because that would be a headache. But there's
always books for them to read in the library
and they can always go sit down and read. But
at the beginning of the year, those pre -king
and kinder kids are like, I, but I don't know
how you have to sit with me. And I'm like, no,
no, no, no, no. You can read the pictures. You
can look over here. You can tell me the things
that you see happening in the book. You know
the pages turn this way. You know the book is
right side up over here. You can do this. You
can be independent. And I would go with it from
that angle of like you are big enough to read
on your own. You may not be able to read every
single word on the page and you might not know
all the letters yet. that's okay. You will be
big enough. You're not big enough for that yet.
You are big enough to turn the pages. You are
big enough to orient it the right way. You are
big enough to sit on your own. You're big enough
to enjoy this. You can do it. So I think that
would be my big example for the kids. And like,
I would probably draw a picture of myself for
them. Like, because I think at the beginning,
they would still need a lot of modeling with
things like that. So I would probably draw a
picture of myself reading a book. And that would
be my example. But then encouraging them as well
to come up with their own examples and drawing
other things that they will someday be able to
do. Maybe pair it with the magical yet. We will
do these things. It'll happen. Give it time,
children. It's hard to wait, but you can do it.
You'll do it. Yeah. I love that idea. I think
that would be a lot of fun for the kids. to imagine
themselves being able to do some of those things,
so. Yeah, especially at the beginning when they
think. When everything's been done for them.
There's so many kids that come in and they're
like, I can't do anything. Yes, you can. Yes,
you can, child. You're big enough for a lot,
don't worry. Yes. Yeah, that's the big thing
is at the beginning of the year, I have so many
that they've had so much done for them that...
You ask them to do anything that I can't do that.
Well, yes, you can. I promise, but you gotta
try. Like you gotta try. Yeah. Yeah, I've had
four -year -olds start a school, more than one
four -year -old has started school on the first
day and like have literally had their parents
spoon feed them still at four years old and things
like that. Like, oh, oh boy. You are big enough.
You can do these things. Yes. Anyway. Well, thank
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.com. So I don't know how many different payment
plans I've set up for medical bills, but that's
a lot so far. Yeah. Throw in my ER visit a month
ago for my kidney stone and yeah. Did you tell
me about that? I don't know maybe maybe I don't
know. Yeah, so I spent I woke up well, I did
I did wake up I It was like a Monday and I felt
fine just not the best and then that night I
got home and I was like something's wrong and
I ended up like in the fetal position on our
living room floor just like oh My god, it hurts
so much And, and I knew what it was, but I was
like, we need to go get this dealt with. And
so we ended up in the ER at like nine, nine o
'clock at night. We were there until like 12
31 o 'clock because they made me like, first
they were like pee in this cup and I bring it
out and it's like very red. So, you know, not
a good sign to start. And I knew, like I said,
I knew what it was because of where it was hurting,
but then they make you sit through. them doing
tests and different things. And then finally
they're like, yep, it's that. And they gave me
some medicine, gave me a prescription, sent me
home. And I texted my team and I was like, here's
the deal. I'm here. I don't know how long I'm
going to be here. I sent it at like nine o 'clock
at night. Um, I went to work the next day and
every, like the number of people that like were
checking on me, like every 20 minutes. And I
was finally like, guys, just leave me. although
it's fine. They're like, why are you even here?
And I was like, here's the two choices, either
I'm here miserable, or I'm at home miserable
and worrying about work. But it was fine. I probably
would have gone into. Because the other thing
was I wasn't getting a sub that day. There was
no sub. So they were going to have to split my
groups. And I was like, I'm not. Like I'd rather
just be here and just work through it. Yeah.
Then sit at home on the couch and be anxious
about not being at work, you know? The movement
and stuff hurts, but it helps to get it out.
But the medicine and stuff was fine. Like it
made it so it cut the edge at least. So it wasn't
like unbearable. And I just worked through it
and it was fine. That was right. That was the
week of the ice storm. Like that was like Monday
into Tuesday and Friday was when the ice storm
came in that night. So, yeah.