Diaper Diet Failure & Baby Chaos: Older Dads Can't Keep Up! : Episode 32 Part 2

0:00 Sometimes I will do protein shake for lunch. Okay. And then have a meal for dinner with my wife. Yeah. And all through that time only drinking water and black coffee. Oh, okay. I haven't had cream or soda. Oh wow, that's big. Yeah, so and then exercising. Good for you. So, because I was getting to a point where it's like, okay we got a problem. I physically have never seen 200 on a scale. Okay. I've never seen it in my whole life. I haven't in a long time. Well, you're on the other side of that. I would be thrilled.

0:41 This is the gray hair and daycare podcast with a combined age of 111 years and a combined IQ right in that same range. Your hosts Frank Cereo and Carlo Russo. Welcome back to episode 32 part two. So we have a few stories that we didn't have time to get into last week. So we're back to finish up the job and get you all caught up. So here is the rest of episode 32. Now we're going to move on to check, please. So now it's been since August 20th and today is what like the 22nd or 23rd?

1:24 23rd I think. So it's been two months but not really any major purchases. Okay. So mostly just yeah, well a lot of we're not counting food. I don't think that's fair. No we weren't. So no food, but there was a carrying case. We're planning some travel. So we've talked about the we talked about the cruise and to bring her stroller. There's a case. We got a case made by the UPPAbaby people for the stroller. Okay. Because then they warranty it if the stroller gets hurt and I carry on. So you're talking about like when. So when you put it in. Yeah. So there was that. That's a purchase. But that's about the only major purchase.

2:05 And we were at. Last time we were at $7537. $7,537 so far. Best investment I ever made. 75. That was two months ago. And she has not. Now interestingly enough with all the food it has slowed up on some of the poopy diapers. She'll go a couple days sometimes without a. She's always you know. All right. I'm gonna say $8190. This is you. This is the closest you've ever been. That's fantastic. $8263. 70 bucks. Wow. That was excellent.

2:45 $8263. Wow. You're getting better and better. You're tracking closer and closer. That's good. It has not been. Yeah. It hasn't been bad. That's good money though. Yeah. Yeah. That's good money. Well $700 bucks over a couple months. No. No. No. I'm talking about the whole money. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's good money. When you. When you get to see it. Oh yeah. When it starts. Yeah. Yeah. It's gonna keep. That's real money. Oh yeah. And I'm not. I'm not always 100% convinced that. That Kelly is accounting for everything. Right. Because I see things. I'm like. I don't remember this on our. That's not on the check. Yeah. It's like. Oh what's that? It's just from a Montessori toy. Okay. So we're probably closer to 10 grand. I don't know.

3:25 We're at least. I would. I think we're definitely closer to nine than eight. Yeah. Alright. But still. Yeah. That's it. So that was it. Check please. We're tracking. I wonder. Do you think we're gonna hit 10 grand before the end of the year? Well $700 in two months. That's not really. So. Not really. You wouldn't. How many more months we got? We only got the rest. Two more months. Yeah. Month. Yeah. Two and a half months. So if you go on average you're not gonna hit it. Yeah. But then. But I guess. Christmas. But. What do we can count for Christmas? I don't know if we can count Christmas presents. Oh yes or not. This is just stuff that you need to have. This is just keeping our lives. Christmas is gifts. Okay. Yeah. I don't know. I would feel bad. I think you're gonna go short.

4:07 If it's not about. I think you're. Yeah. I'll be surprised if we get to. Yeah. It's gonna come short. If we keep. Yeah. If we keep Christmas out of it. Because even if you go up to a grand in the next two months. It's still short. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think we're probably gonna be under 10 grand. Let's try. We'll definitely hit. We'll definitely hit 10 grand by their. By her birthday. Oh yeah. That's another three months. Yeah. So we'll see. Oh my god. Birthday. We were just talking about. Not only the birth and. Yeah. Baptisms and. Yep. Whatever. It goes. It is. Yeah. Well we'll. We'll talk. We'll talk about that. Because stuff coming up too. So that is. Check please. And now.

4:47 Something we have not done in a long time. Like probably four months. What is that? And. And it's not. We haven't made a lot. It's not good. Let's get into it. The diaper diet. Diaper diet. Now remind me of diaper diet. The diaper diet was. As. Oh I remember. As. Somebody was growing up. Kelly was starting to gain weight for the baby. I was trying to lose more weight than her. I forgot about this. And then when she lost again. So the goal was. Like take whatever she gained. Plus whatever she lost when she lost it. And I would try to lose more than that. Because I have a lot of weight to lose.

5:30 So. So far. Last time we did this. It was. There was a 29.8 pound gap. Meaning she had gained and lost. Okay. 29.8 pounds more than I had been able to lose. But. Now. It's been a couple months. Sure. Up and down. I have. I have gotten back on a. Until I got this last. This cold that you can probably still hear in my voice. I was on a really good rhythm. Sure. Working out in the morning. Getting some. Some resistance training. Two. Three times a week. And I.

6:11 And I was back on it. You know. Starting to lose a little bit. But. There's always a but. Where do you think we are. At this point. I will tell you this. Both Kelly and I went up. A little. So the number. The number was 29. So. She was 29.8 pounds ahead of me. She is now. 27 pounds. Ahead. 25.6. She gained. So. There's about a. I think there's like a four or five pounds up. I was up one.

6:53 So that's. Well. The bag of cookies probably explains a little. It is. It's like I live with. From a dietary standpoint. It's like I live with a different woman now. That's so. Because. She was never. Yeah. I don't remember. Yeah. I don't remember even. Didn't care. When we got to dinner and desserts and stuff. We would have to kind of like. No. She'd have to fake it. Yeah. So we could get some. Yeah. Like it was always like. Oh what do you want me to get. And oh you can have it. Yeah. No. Look. We all did. I used to do this all the time when I worked in retail. And you work late. Yeah. You you eat to stay awake. Sure. And she is not still getting the amount of sleep that she used to. And she comes home from work. She's right into it with the baby doing everything.

7:33 Baby starts her nightly routine at like seven thirty seven seven thirty nine thirty nine o'clock by the time she's all settled in bed. Then she's doing stuff that she needs to do for the next day for work. So she's tired and she's got to do sometimes she has to do some work to get some social. She'll have a cookie or this or that. So I I'm down 20 plus. Good for you. Yeah. That's fantastic. Yeah. I went back to the where me and you were doing many many years ago the intermittent fasting. OK. So what do you do. I do the twelve to eight window of eating.

8:15 So you hours of not eating. OK. So twelve to eight you eat. And that's it. And I generally I generally don't start at twelve. And I generally stop eating before eight. OK. So you it's tight. It's very tight. That's good for you. And I've been doing when I did that. The problem was I would pack all three meals into that eight. No I eliminate noon breakfast. Actually eliminated meals. Right. I only do two. Sometimes I will do protein shake for lunch. OK. And then have a meal for dinner with my wife. Yeah. And all through that time only drinking water and black coffee. Oh I haven't had I haven't had cream or soda. Oh wow. That's big.

8:56 Yeah. So and then exercising. Good for you. So because I was getting to a point where it's like OK we got a problem. I physically have never seen 200 on a scale. OK. I've never seen in my whole life. I haven't in a long time. Well you're on the other side of that. I would be thrilled. I've never seen 200 on my scale. Yeah. It's always been in the hundreds as long as right now. Yeah. I know I was over 200. Right. Because my body was telling me. Yeah. But you waited you waited to weigh yourself. I waited two weeks to see it to look.

9:38 I waited two weeks. And you were and I was at 190 something. So I know I was at 200. Yeah. Yeah. But my body told me I was. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean I would get tired doing this that and the other. So right now I'm hitting the 20 pound. Good for you. And since when did you. I started it two weeks into July. OK. The only time I took off which I really didn't take off I still try to do don't eat after eight. Yeah. And I really controlled myself was the cruise. Yeah. That's hard. The only thing I gained I get I not get the only thing I put back was I would eat breakfast but I ate it sensible. Yeah. Egg whites.

10:18 Yeah. I didn't something else. I wasn't eating bacon burgers. I wasn't doing that stuff. I was eating my dinner at the cruise. No. That was my last meal. We had dinner at six o'clock. Right. Whenever that ended that was the last time I ate. There you go. So if it ended at seven and seven fifteen. No snack. Forty five. Nothing. Till the next day for breakfast. Right. So I kept that going because come on I'm on a cruise. I'm not going to give up everything. No. I just was smart. I wasn't drinking as much. Yeah. So that was the week there and then nothing no breaks. Right. At this point. Good for you. So yeah. So good job. So that was our that was our diaper diet. We lost a little ground.

10:59 I lost a little. I think that by the next time we do this my goal is to pick up another five pounds on her. Okay. Now. But that could be hard because I know I know fasting or you got something different. I think I'm going to do the Monday through Friday that stuff and then getting on the treadmill. I was doing basically 10 minutes on the bike and some stretching every morning. Then a half hour on the treadmill later in the day and then three days a week doing some kind of some kind of weights. Yeah. And I feel really good when I get that all in. Like right now the energy I have bro. Yeah. I bet. Yeah. You probably feel a big difference. I'm running up and down. I mean I'm doing two hour workouts.

11:41 Good for you. Crazy. That's awesome. Yeah. But we'll see. We'll see what happens. Yeah. So that is the diaper diet. Don't miss any of the fun. Subscribe on YouTube. Follow us on Facebook Instagram and Tick Tock. And now and now we move on to the Silver Fox mailbox. So Silver Fox mailbox. We had some interesting ones. Yeah. Again for a little while we had a dry spell. There weren't as many aggressive former Nigerian princes trying to become our podcast producers. That's true. But they have started to come around sniffing around their backs. We get a lot of that.

12:21 We had a lot of happy birthday wishes with our birthdays in September which was very nice. Thank you for the birthday wishes. Thank you. Surprisingly though I'm a little disappointed. I'm going to share with you that I made a point of asking for baby proofing the house tips from from you lovely viewers and listeners and really only got from one person really a friend of a friend of the podcast Laurie was talking about hers was a message of moderation. She's like yeah put some bumpers on the hearth and the hard edge of the coffee table.

13:01 But she was basically a lot of not mean or loud but just some very direct no ma'am kind of if she's reaching for something gotcha kind of redirecting and coaching her through it so she learns there are things I can touch and there are things I can't touch. All right. Now that could work. I know it hasn't worked with the dogs. I was just gonna say my cat needs some of that lesson. We have rubber bands everywhere. Rubber bands? Holding up yeah because he gets in there. Oh he just walks in there and just chills. That's funny. Hey this is my new house. That's it. So there is so again challenge any other tips that you have because I am looking now and she's already like if I'm holding her I'm in the kitchen I'll look away and I'll look back and she's got the cabinet open.

13:50 Yeah it gets scary when they start doing stuff. Yeah because she want and she's going for it. She's going for the remote. She's going for the phone. All that stuff. So yeah please write us in some comments. Any suggestions it's going to be helpful because we're very soon going to be at that point. But yeah so I don't remember what we did so long ago but I mean I just celebrated my son Nick's 19th birthday the other day. That's right. So you went to Brockport. I went to his college. Very nice. SUNY Brockport. I have not seen his dorm yet because when they moved in I was on the road. We got to see his dorm. Is he in with a roommate? He has a roommate. They have like a suite.

14:30 So they have a common area where they have the tv and couch where they all hang and then they have their own bathroom so they're not sharing it with the hall and then they have their room that is shared with his best friend. Nice. So I got to see that and that was cool. I was like college does not look like this when we were. I mean our dorm people were three to a dorm room on top of each other. Then we went to dinner and then we went and took a little walk on campus. Then we headed back home but it was nice. We got to spend. You feel like he's adjusting to college life well? Yeah, yeah. So he's got it down. He's got his friends and all that but I did ask him as we were walking through campus. I said do you see yourself here four years? Yeah. You know and he goes I don't think so.

15:12 Yeah. Not because I don't. He goes um I just one part of it goes I'm trying to imagine this in the winter which is going to be really bad. Yeah. You know I would love to be in like a school in Florida or something like that and we've always said to him he should go to Florida because we have family here there. Yeah. So who knows. I mean it's not because he's not adjusting to it. He just I think it's like I don't know four years in the same place. Yeah. With in you know I'd rather be somewhere where I'm going to enjoy the campus all year round and so we'll see. But he's doing good. Yeah. That's good. That's awesome. Yeah. So 19 it goes fast. Yeah it does. Yeah. So there was there was that but we had lots of other lots of other stuff.

15:56 So after the last time we recorded we had Uncle David and Auntie Gabe. Yeah. Yeah. So they came out it was really nice. Yeah. They came out on the train picked them up at the train station. We decided we were going to take a drive. We drove out to skinny atlas. Oh nice. We went to the Sherwood Inn. You ever go there? Oh I have not but I know a lot about it. Nice place. Had a nice lunch there. Brunches or lunches or dinner. Yeah. The whole front of the place is kind of facing the lake across the street. You can go in there and and yeah. Real nice place. They had not been there. Walked around in the village a little bit. Get nice weather. It was a beautiful day. Beautiful little town.

16:36 Yep. So that was a very nice visit and they planned on they were we were talking about plans for the holiday. Oh. And they're going to come for Christmas. Nice. So it's I'm very excited for that. So I think we may have getting bigger. It'll be yeah at the very least it'll be us and and my sister and brother-in-law David and Gabe. I think maybe Kelly's sister as well. Oh yeah. Yep. So we'll see. Wow. Yeah it might be a little bit a bigger bigger group which will be nice. I've had to address I think I think my sister wasn't sure I was serious.

17:18 Yes. When I was saying before the baby was born that there will be no more holidays. You'll be coming to me. Anywhere but here. Right. And we that came up and she's like so if you're going to do Christmas then we'll do Thanksgiving. I'm like no. So she's trying to convince me to let her cook and bring the food here. I'm like I like to do it. I love making holiday dinner. This is what you dream dreamt of. Yeah. Having a family. Yeah. Having I want all those. Yeah. I want those memories. I want to be home. Honestly the older I'm getting. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yes it's nice to I want to wake up and know that I I don't want to go anywhere. I want to enjoy the evening. I want to I want to do the smell. I want that. Yeah. Yeah. That's it.

17:59 We've been running around. Oh my God. Being married for this long and then kids. You're probably always. I'm always. Yes. I'm always running around and this and that. And and then as they got older and we said you know let's do something at home and I remember the ones we do at home and I feel so relaxed knowing I don't have to go anywhere. The weather can be what it is. It's just yeah. You don't have to think about it. Yeah. Yeah. It's so much. If you got to do a little cooking to make that happen. Oh. Happy to do it. Yeah. I'm not afraid of you know we're not afraid of cooking. That's right. So we had Dave and Gabe come to visit. We picked some apples. We had our tree so we have Granny Smith apple trees and we had a bunch to pick. So we were out there and Kelly put out a little blanket and sat little baby Josie there under the tree and we were working around.

18:47 Oh my God. Working on apples to to at one point I did. So we have this thing it's like a I don't know 10 feet long pole with a little canvas sack and a clipper on the end. So it falls into the thing. So you can get up under the apple that's too high to reach and clip it with a trigger and it clips it and plops into the bag. Nobody gets hurt. And I see and Kelly's about to do this right above the baby's head. I'm like oh hold on and I'm like she's maybe work over there. Oh okay. So that was that was kind of funny. That's all you needed right? But she my my sister ended up coming over and kind of hanging out with the baby while we were picking apples.

19:31 So we've got we got a lot of apples we got to process. Well maybe like two two or three five gallon buckets. Now do you do apple cakes and pies and all that stuff? What do you do with that? What Kelly has usually done is we peel them, core them. She slices them up and we freeze them. Okay. And then she uses them for whatever pies or or that stuff. So right now we got to we got to get to work on it because it takes some it takes a little work. It's a work. Yeah it is. But as far as you don't have that machine to go we have a little crank thing to peel it. Yeah. But he's still got a cord. Yeah. So we'll see. So we did that. We did pick some apples. We had our last time out on the boat. I saw the boat when I drove up.

20:12 Yeah but it's in the driveway now. It's in the driveway. I got a lot of work to do to get it ready for the the cruel. And you're storing it here now. You don't have to worry about. Yeah I'm gonna winterize it and just park it over by the solar panels and that'll be it. So that's why when you came in you're like there's like a display of oil. That's all the stuff I'm gonna need to winterize the boat. Gotcha. So there's that. We have realized that some of her I think we talked about like when when Paula and Avi had come over for dinner how she was really hamming it up. She loves to do that now. And it's. There's no crying when they walk in. No. On both of them. But well.

20:52 Avi. He makes me cry. Yeah it's true. How does he get away with that? She's a little more tentative with him. But she sees my sister often. Pretty frequently. So yeah. So none of that. But what I with the hamming it up though I think may we may be at the point where that could start to become a problem. Because so at church we we ended up at one point I think it it was a Sunday that I didn't have a volunteer duty for anything. So I had we sat in a different place. So we're like there was a family with a young with maybe a year and a half old behind us.

21:39 And like and then five women kind of in the pew in front of us. Okay. And they're all like. Yeah. Paying attention. So she picks up on that and then it's like he's like putting on a show. Wow. Through that she's like looking lean and trying to get people's attention. And it's like okay this we may be creating a monster. Wow. We're gonna have to but it's funny because like as soon as mass ends everybody just turns around like oh my god. Oh my god what a beautiful baby. Yeah it's always nice. But yeah so we're gonna have to we're gonna have to manage her stage. Or she's just a little ham. She could be. A little hamburger. Yeah so she's gonna have a commanding stage presence. There's nothing wrong with that.

22:19 I'll bring her on the road with me. That's right. I'm all for it. Oh my god we'll be sold out in minutes. That'll be it. So yep she's he's hamming it up at church. We do have we do have coming up obviously in another week it's going to be Halloween. Yeah. So we have our a family Halloween costumes picked out. So for many so for. I want to see uh not video photos. I think it's funny because like where we live. Personal photos. We don't get trick-or-treaters because we're kind of in the country. Yeah you're. It'd be like. It would take you a week to get to your door. Half a mile for a kid to get to our house.

23:01 So there won't be any. So we're probably going to go to a Paul and Avi's. Sure. Neighborhood. Maybe we might stop. You guys give out candy. We're gonna run away. Are you gonna? Trina and I just just mentioned this two days ago. I thought you I thought we might surprise you. Because we're like we have no kids at the house. Right. And we used to love even when they were older they would give we would sit outside. Yeah. And we would give a hand. No one's there. Right. So we're like uh do you just want to go to dinner? Like yeah okay. That's it. Well. I'll let you know though. Yeah well maybe we'll go to dinner with you. And then. Oh that'll be fun. And then go trick-or-treat. The baby will just cry the whole time. Just love it. Just love it. Maybe if I put a mask on. It won't remember that's me.

23:43 We're gonna work this out. But no. So I think we just we're talking about different things we could do. And we wanted to come up with that. So we decided to do Star Trek. Star Trek? So we found the baby has. Oh my god. So I'm a very big. Yes. Both Kelly and I are Star Trek fans. That's actually something that we talked about on our very first date. And now he's showing you the picture of what he built. The model of the. Of the Enterprise. Show the Enterprise right now. Yeah. That was a interesting project. I have a 1 350th scale. That's so cool. Original series Enterprise. But so I'm an original series fan.

24:24 Kelly is a more of a next generation fan. Okay. Well she grew up. That was on when. I forget how young she is. She's actually watched more of it in totality than I have. Because I didn't get into all the other series. But she did. So she's watched all of it. Okay. And I haven't. And she thinks that makes her more of a fan. I said I am much more of a fan. Because I had to live for years with no new Star Trek. That's right. We just. Because it was canceled before I was born. And we just had reruns. Reruns. Yeah. Until Next Generation came along. So you like something that we didn't even exist. Right. When we were growing up. Right. She got to see the real life. Just kind of. Next Generation happening. Yeah.

25:04 She got to see it as it was. Yeah. All that stuff. So. But we decided. I found. We found online. There. For the baby. She has a Command Gold onesie. So it's the color of the Captain. Oh my God. So she has a onesie with her little Star Trek insignia. And then I have one that matches her. And then on the original series blue was for sciences. So Kelly will be in a blue. She has the blue tunic. Nice. I have the Command Gold with the baby. And then. Black pants. And the. I don't. We might do that. Right. Yeah. That's typically. Do they wear the black pants? The black pants. And then since we want to include the dogs too. They make neckerchiefs for the dogs.

25:46 And for those of you who are fans of the original series, there were always a couple of guys in red shirts that died before the first commercial. Absolutely. So they have red neckerchiefs. With the little. With the little. So they're security. And then we have that. So we're going to. We're going to do that for her first. That is so. It'll be fun. At the very least. We'll make an appearance over at. At Paul and Avi's. Because they give out candy. Yeah. It's funny because at one point. Not that my neighborhood is still a traditional neighborhood. Yeah. But for some reason, we were not getting a lot of people or there was something. You think in your neighborhood.

26:26 Yeah. Something was going on. And we like at the time, we're like, you know what? Let's go to my brother's neighborhood because my nephew and nieces were still old enough where they wanted to hang out with their younger cousins. And they would. You know, when you're like 15, 16, you still put mine and pretend you're too cool, but you walk with us. Right. That's what they were doing. So it ended up being like a we'll bring pizza, they'll make pasta, whatever, blah, blah, blah. We'll have dinner and then we go trick or treat. So for for the last, I think, five years of our trick or treating, it was at my brother's neighbor. Right. Yeah. Now we used to like in the old neighborhood where I was, I would get 300 kids every year.

27:08 Oh, it was crazy. Oh, your old house. Yeah. Yeah. Because they would, they would come in from other neighborhoods. We never had that minivan pull up at the end of the cul-de-sac. They'd get out like paratroopers, work the block and then get in and go. Yeah, we would get a lot less and less every year. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think everybody complains. There's fewer and fewer because their people are afraid. It's too bad that our church is doing secret heart does this thing called trunk or treat. Hmm. And apparently parking lot, they have it up at a parking lot up in, uh, at, uh, divine mercy and you're supposed to decorate your trunk with a biblical theme. It can be scary Halloween stuff, but it has to be a biblical theme.

27:48 So you can do like Jonah and the whale or whatever. Uh, but they, they're doing that. I thought that was cute for people to feel safe. And I mean for a long time when my kids were in the midst, I mean they were right age of, it was all about, uh, the malls. That's right. People were just going to the mall. We still do that with, with, uh, with five wits. Yeah. Yeah. Um, they do it. It was the safety part and where we live, the weather part. Yeah. The weather. Cause you never want to have to put on snowing, raining or whatever. It was always like you have to wear your costume over your winter jacket. Yeah. So the mall was huge for that 10 year span when my kids were really into it.

28:32 Yeah. No, there's a, yeah, the malls work. Yeah, it is. But so we'll see. We're, we're looking forward to looking forward to Halloween, maybe doing some decorating around the house for that stuff. Yeah. And then the other thing, getting ready for, as we get closer to Christmas, we went to Home Depot the other day and they've got all their Christmas stuff already out and they have these big, all the animatronic big things. And we brought her over to the big animatronic Mickey Mouse. And it's pretty cool. It's like you hit the button and it talks and you got to get her used to Mickey Mouse. That's what we were thinking. I was like, let's see if she freaks out. She was very, she seemed like she seemed to like Minnie more than Mickey, but she liked, she liked Mickey.

29:14 Anytime you take her to a store, especially now that we got the pink cloud, the Aikopuka thing, uh, we just bring that with us everywhere and pop her in the cart and it's fun. It's crazy. Cause they're looking at this stuff for the first time. All this new stuff. Yeah. Everything's new. Yep. You know, speaking about Disney. Yes. Is she training? Well, again, I know she's not at the right. Yeah. She's, she's got a lot of work to do between now and reverse. Remember you said she could go backwards. Yep. So we'll see. I'm, I'm going to give her right till 30 days. When is it happening? I think it's December 8th. Oh, that's creeping up. Oh yeah. So by November, by like the end of the first week of November, she's going to be, you're going to hear the, the, the trumpet in the bed.

30:00 You're going to hear it going and that'll be it. I'll be there wearing my jersey doing my Mick impersonation. But yeah, we're going to see. So we'll see. Hopefully she will be, I'm sure she's going to be fully prepared for, uh, for that. But you got a, you got a, uh, cruise coming up. Cruise is so awesome. I know you've always mentioned it to me when I'm ready. Yep. And I just did my second one in my whole life and I just realized, God, they're so good. It is what I wish it's for me because I'm just at the point now where we've been on all like every cruise we've been on with me and Kelly has been a Disney cruise.

30:43 Yes. And this is the first time we'll actually have a child with us. But it's, I'm also at the point where I look at the stuff and cruises are awesome and Disney cruises are really awesome. And then when you have a kid, this is the best possible situation, but they're so much more expensive. Oh yeah. It's literally like we could do two celebrity cruises for the cost of a Disney cruise. Because I think what we pay for ours is triple what you're, if I had told you. Oh yeah. Yeah. No, it's like this cruise for the three of us is like, and we're not going at a crazy time. We're going to like, uh, you know, first week of December.

31:24 Um, normally we usually go like in the beginning of February, but yeah, it's a lot. It is, but it's worth it. So we're going to do a little, we're, we're going to do some practice travel overnight. Oh yeah. It's just because we don't want the very first time to be a big one, high stakes. So we're going to try to be ready to go up. She doesn't like it. Yeah. Okay. We're here. We're going to need, we're going to need, we're going to need Tinkerbell at a cabin 8523. Yeah. Uh, yeah. So Peter Pan flies away, but we just, we did just get in the mail. They send you the bag tags and then it's nice. Cause they basically, once you get to the airport, take everything, they take everything and it just shows up at your cabin and it's nice.

32:09 Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. But we'll see. So, but, and this is going to be nice too, cause this will be the second cruise now with David and Gabe, cause they went with us too. They had gone on the Alaskan cruise we went on last year with us and they'll, they'll be with us as well. So we are looking forward to that. Yeah. And, and, and very much looking forward to Christmas now. Like now I can start planning, planning the menu, figuring out what I'm going to do for, uh, for that. I think I'm going to do, I think I'm going to do brush all really brush all. And, and maybe you, the, we loved the manicotti you brought over so much, maybe manicotti, definitely a brush all, but then some other fill pasta, maybe shells.

32:51 Yeah. So we'll see, but I'm looking forward to that. Yeah. My, my wife is still talking about the meal I brought over. It was delicious. Yeah. I said, I said to get, I said to Kelly, I'm like, I got to ask Carla for that recipe. She's like, you think he used a recipe? I'm like, I didn't, I made all of that up. Yeah. But it was excellent. It was really, really good. That's why I said, I will never make that again. The same way. It was fantastic. Really good. But anyway, so that kind of brings us to fun. Yeah. The holidays are fun, man. Especially right now. Everything's going to be a new first, um, the baby's first thing. Yeah. Yeah. So we do our tradition with the Christmas trees.

33:31 We go buy a, a bald tree and then we plant it in the spring. So this will be the first time she'll get to go with us to pick the tree out over at Haveners, which will be fun. Now, I mean, not to push anything as we're talking about, I wish we could freeze frame life for a moment, but think of the delight next year when she realized when you actually have somebody that knows what you're doing and Oh, I'm looking forward to, you know what I mean? Like, like when Halloween really means something. Yeah. It's okay. Yeah. When they get excited, I mean, that's like, this will be okay. This will be fine. You're dressing her up. It'll be fun for us. It was basically, I look at it as, this is a, this is a dress rehearsal.

34:11 Right. And then one after that. And the one after that is going to be so like, Oh my God, their whole day is about Halloween and Oh yeah. Yeah. That'll be fun. Christmas or whatever. No, we just, it's fine. I did just put up one of the things for Christmas. I love doing the Christmas lights and I'm really excited to do the Christmas lights this year because she's always very focused on lights and so I'm, I'm, I'm hoping she's going to have fun. I just put up a flagpole and the actual, I decided in reaction to some of the political stuff that's happening that I'm going to put up a flag. Yeah. Uh, I think that's nice. I've always wanted to do that and we haven't, we didn't have, we talked about this before the idea that everybody should have the American flag flying over their head, their house.

34:57 I just, that's what I dreamt about my whole life. Yeah. Right. I mean, that's what I wanted. My whole life is now like, yeah, whatever. Okay. But one of the things that's cool is you can get those Christmas tree flagpole lights. So basically it turns the flagpole into a giant Christmas tree of lights. Oh my Lord. And I've been looking at those and some of them are really cool. You will have it. I will. I will have it. That's it. He'll build it or buy it or make it or create it. You'll be driving past that thing soon enough. But anyway, well thank you again for making it to the end. This was fun.

35:38 I, I'm glad, I'm glad we were able to get all caught up. Hopefully we can, we will be able to record in with a little bit less to talk about next time, but, uh, and do it a little sooner, but thank you for sticking with us and we will see you next time. Well folks, that's another episode of the gray hair and daycare podcast in the books. Thanks very much for tuning in and spending this time with us. We hope it was fun. If you enjoyed this week's descent into the madness of dadness, be sure to subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss any of our future adventures. And while you're at it, give us a like and share the cast with your friends on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, carrier pigeon, whatever you crazy kids are using.

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