Josie's 1st Birthday: Dog's, Crawlers & Gen X Dad Humor on Raising Kids at 56! : Episode 35 Part 1

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Right around then, as we had talked about from the cruise, there was no forward crawling.

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There was some somersaults, Spider-Man poses, backing up, scooching, but there wasn't any forward movement.

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But then, what do you think was the thing that got her to crawl forward?

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Is it an obvious thing, like mommy's in front of her, or is it something?

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It was not me, it wasn't me or Kelly.

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A book?

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No.

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It was not a book.

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Had to be some food, maybe?

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I don't know then.

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It was Watson.

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Really, the doggie?

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Now, since she came home, Watson has been very...

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He kind of stays up, because a couple of times early on, he got close, and those little baby fingers, and his coat is long enough that she pulled a couple of tufts of Watson out, and he does not like that.

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No, he shouldn't.

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So, he has kept a very healthy distance.

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So, yeah, all of a sudden, I think I was working, I was doing some work, and I hear Kelly say, she just crawled forward toward Watson, and yep, that was it.

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She wanted to get to him, and she started going forward, and then it kind of took off.

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Now, he can't stop her.

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Took off from there, yeah.

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She really has gotten good at getting around, crawling.

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She has her little sense of agency.

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She moves around.

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I hate to say this now, but there might have to be a rematch or a match at the cruise.

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The next cruise.

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Yeah, I mean, now I know she's going to...

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We will see.

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This is the Gray Hair and Day Care Podcast.

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With a combined age of 111 years and a combined IQ rate in that same range.

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Your hosts, Frank Serio and Carlo Russo.

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Welcome back.

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Here we are.

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This is a very important day.

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It is very important.

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It is a very important day because it is the day that baby Josie turns one year old.

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How it...

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Yeah.

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I am completely...

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I can't believe it has gone by in the...

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Just, I can't believe it.

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It seems like we just started talking about how...

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She wasn't pregnant.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Kelly was pregnant, and now it's a year later.

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So, now that it's a year later, when I said, God, time's going to just fly on by.

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And you said, yeah, but you really didn't know how fast.

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How does it...

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How fast was that?

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What's strange about it is, it is both sides of the same coin.

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Thinking about it now, it feels like we just came home from the hospital.

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Right.

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But when I think about everything that has happened, as much as I know Kelly really tries to do this, and I really try to do just to take those moments when they happen and just soak them up.

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Yeah.

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Because...

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Slow everything down.

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Because it's so awesome that there's so many moments.

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There's so many...

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The pictures, it's comical.

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It's like every year at Christmas time, I will go through our pictures that we took that year, and I'll make an album on Google Photos and print it up, and it's one of my presents for Kelly.

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Nice.

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This year, it had to be like two and a half volumes because there were so many pictures.

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So, there's all these wonderful moments and stuff, but yeah, it has gone by so incredibly quickly, like bam, bam, bam, bam, over and over and over again.

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And it doesn't stop.

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No, it does not stop.

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Which is great.

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Yeah.

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You need it to go forward.

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Sometimes you want it to move forward, and then there are a lot of times though, every little thing.

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The other day, Ashley was telling me how she just holds the bottle on her own now.

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Yeah.

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And every time there's one of those things that she does, I'm a little sad because it's like...

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It takes away from...

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From me doing it or the baby.

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It's like I'm one step closer to that.

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The thing of how people say, you never know the last time you're going to pick your kid up.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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I'm just another inch closer.

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You know what I started doing?

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Because you can't...

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You want to slow everything down.

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Yeah.

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But you want to slow down holidays.

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You want to slow down vacations.

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Yeah.

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You want to really take...

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The big stuff.

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Because every day to life thing, okay, I'm feeding, I'm cleaning the house.

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Okay, let that go.

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But those special moments, the Easter coming up, Christmas, birthdays, vacation, that's when you go...

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Now, is it physically possible to slow it down?

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Probably not.

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But maybe slow your head down.

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Slow like, oh, let's do this or packing a day in with so many things where you're just not sitting there enjoying the present.

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You can't slow it down, but you can push all the other stuff that gets in the way out.

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Yeah.

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So that's what I learned as I became more into parenthood as they were getting older.

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I can't slow everything down.

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I can't...

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There's some stuff you need to keep going at that pace.

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But when you're in special moments...

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And sometimes that special moment would be all the kids or how many kids you have sitting on a couch watching a movie.

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That's the moment.

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Yep.

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Slow that down.

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Yep.

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Enjoy it.

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Don't let that movie...

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Pause it as much as you can so you can make that two-hour movie a five-hour movie.

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That's true.

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So here we are.

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I am Frank Sirio.

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I am 56 years old and my daughter is one year old today.

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So we have a little...

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We'll talk about it, but we have a little party planned for this weekend.

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We're looking forward to, but it has been not quite as long in between recording sessions this time, but it's been a while.

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So we've got lots to cover, lots of fun things.

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Let's do it.

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And we are going to start right off with our book report.

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As usual, it's not a book.

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Nope.

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It's an article.

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The book report has really become...

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We'll have to come up with a new name.

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This article, I think, was a really interesting article, especially for parents like Kelly and me that have very high expectations for our children, which I'm sure everybody does.

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But this was a Wall Street Journal article written by a writer named Aylan Woodward, and it was most top-achieving adults weren't elite specialists in childhood.

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So basically, the whole premise is, you know, Tiger Woods is really the exception, not just the fact that he was great and played from when he was a little...

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He was a prodigy.

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He was a prodigy.

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That is absolutely not it.

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So if your kids are eating glue, they still might invent something that's going to cure diseases.

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What I liked about the article is it's looked at 30,000 people in sports, in music, entertainment, and sciences.

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All because it's like, who are the real kind of luminaries in their field?

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And it kind of defined the top achievers, like for athletes in their 20s and 30s, for like sciences and stuff, they peak later, like in their 40s and 50s, but only one in 10 kids that were like the prodigy when they're a kid end up excelling in that field down the road.

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One in 10.

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One in 10.

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But what I liked about it was it kind of gave this at the end of the article, it gave a bunch of examples of how that specialization, it sometimes leads to burnout or it leads to these other kind of things that can be problematic when their whole life becomes about that one thing.

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And I can see that.

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And I always thought that was kind of...

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It's great if a kid loves something, but what they said was it is the sweet spot, the highly successful people, the nine out of 10...

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The prodigy.

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Nine out of 10 that were not all had that thing that they are doing and two other things.

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The sweet spot is three things, no more, no less.

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To have the one thing and two other things that competed with...

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Which makes sense because you're not burning yourself on that one thing that you're great at and everybody's telling you you're great at and you need to do.

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You don't have so much that you're distracted and everything loses focus, but you have three different things you can look at.

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Yeah.

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And I thought that was interesting.

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And now you can already see things that she is interested in.

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Like she just absolutely gravitates to books.

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She loves...

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She'll go with books before toys.

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Wow.

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All the time.

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Like loves books, always trying to figure out how things work.

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She loves...

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So that has to be DNA.

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I mean, because she's not reading.

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She doesn't know what book from a...

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There has to be something that draws...

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She's already at the point now where she knows books and makes the same, reacts to stuff.

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Like she gets to the page in the nursery rhyme book for Patty Cake, Patty Cake.

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She does it because she's constantly...

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We're very lucky.

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That little girl has never had less than the undivided focus of one adult every minute she's been awake her whole life.

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It's either Kelly or me or Carrie or Ashley or more of us at the same time, right?

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It's always...

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Right, right.

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So she's constantly got somebody facilitating.

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She points at a book, she gets the book.

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Bam.

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And we go through it and constantly with the music and the developmental toys and all that stuff.

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So you do see...

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You see things already kind of shaping, but it's just like...

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And I try to think about...

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Because I know, I love music.

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I hope she loves music.

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I think she...

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For the first time the other day, I heard her and she's singing a real crude version of Frere Jacques.

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I hear...

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Oh my God.

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I'm like, oh, there it is.

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There it is.

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It's a little pitchy.

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Keep working.

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But...

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All right, Simon.

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So I would love that.

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Well, you and your wife have that in them.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And so what do I do?

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I don't want to like, okay, it's music time.

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It's all music, yeah.

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But every time she goes near my...

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I have a guitar in our family room.

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Every time she looks at that guitar, touches it, I don't care what I am doing.

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I'm on the floor with the guitar with her and we play.

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I remember growing up, I would have our guitars displayed through the house and my kids would crawl up there and start playing.

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I would let them.

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And music is such a big part of their lives, both of my sons.

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And I know it's because we've always had that in the house.

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We've always had importance of it.

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And at the same time, the same thing is you're allowing them to...

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Like that article, having three different things or four different, not just pinpointing just music.

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You're going to be this person.

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Because we all had...

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I had a friend.

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I remember a friend growing up.

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He's known as the smart kid.

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Oh, he's going to do something.

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And then he just never...

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And he went the opposite way.

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He was so dedicated in this one thing, school, art, whatever it was.

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He didn't have the other things to go, you know, I'm a balanced person as well.

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Right.

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So all of a sudden when something else went into his life, he didn't know what to do with it.

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So he just dropped everything and he became, unfortunately, one of those stories like, wow, there was so much potential.

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Tons of potential.

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And then it goes around.

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And that happens probably all the time.

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I'm sure it does.

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So it's fun now.

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So they're trying to figure out and see what direction she's going to go in.

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I want her to find her thing.

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And I don't want to be heavy handed, but at the same time, I'm going to take every opportunity to put those things in front of her and give her every opportunity to explore it and all that stuff.

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But good article.

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It was the Wall Street Journal online.

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Ailyn Woodward, most top achieving adults, weren't elite specialists in childhood.

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It was a great article.

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So worth checking out.

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That was our book report.

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So now one we have not done since.

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When was this?

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October 22nd.

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October is that sweet spot, isn't it?

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This is when it all fell apart, ladies and gentlemen.

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It was just like the holidays.

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Bam.

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It's like we're recording once every four months.

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Where are we here?

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What are we doing now?

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So we have not done this one since October and we are going to do a version of or a new episode of The Diaper Diet.

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So it has been so long.

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I want to remind everyone how this is supposed to work.

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Yeah.

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So when we started the podcast way back in October of 2024, I wanted to lose weight, and I still do.

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And obviously we knew that Kelly would be gaining weight.

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So the whole idea was for as the score would be based on basically Kelly gets a point for every pound she gains and every pound she loses.

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I get a point for every pound I lose and only lose.

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So the idea is I wanted to lose weight as she gained weight.

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And then when she lost the weight, still keep losing because I have so much to lose.

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So the last time we did this in October, the gap was 25.6 pounds.

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So she had gained and lost 25.6 pounds more than I had been able to lose.

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So now you got to figure basically you're just figuring out, am I losing more than she is losing or is she losing more than me?

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Let me take a look at you.

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That's it.

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You look good.

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I've been doing a little better.

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I have through the podcast, I started to use Gemini AI, Google's AI very extensively to just to be able to do everything.

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And the other day I'm like, you know what?

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I put in all of my particulars, my age, my weight, my equipment that I have for fitness equipment, but what my goals were, I said, make me an exercise and diet plan to achieve these goals.

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And it came back with a great plan.

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And I'm like, I'm going to try this a little different with the workouts than I have done before.

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And I've been doing it now for a couple of three weeks and it works.

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And the biggest game changer I think for me is I've done low carb many times and has been successful, but I have never.

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It wants me to get 220 grams of protein a day.

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That's a lot of protein.

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That's a lot.

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That's protein in everything you eat.

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I have never had this much protein and I feel better than I have felt in a very long time.

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Or you don't have as much.

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What's weird is I have, I'm full, but I also have a better appetite than when I was doing like I was doing intermittent fasting where I wouldn't eat until noon and then I would have my last meal around seven.

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That's what I was doing.

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Stuff like that.

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Now I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and I'm getting like 40 grams of protein at every meal and I feel good and I'm losing weight.

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Well, right now the key word, the hot word is protein.

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Remember back in the day, fat-free was one of them, low-cal, then there was the carb, no carb.

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Right now everything protein, protein.

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When Pop-Tarts are making Pop-Tart protein that's out there, you know protein is the new fat.

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I'm stuck on the intermittent fasting because it worked for me that now I'm kind of scared to get off of it.

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It's very harmful.

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I'm like, I remember when we used to- Just fill your, shove your face full of eggs.

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And I always do protein anyway.

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Right.

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So even within my intermittent, I'm doing protein and it does work.

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So I'm going to say, so your numbers, we're looking at- So the gap was, she was 25.8 pounds ahead.

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So either that- Have you gotten closer?

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Okay.

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I believe you've gotten closer to that number.

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So you get a point for every pound?

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I get a point for every pound.

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Lost and she gets one pound.

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And she gets one for every pound.

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She loses too.

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Right.

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I think now she has a 22.7. That's very close.

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Really?

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I am at a 19.8. I have made, I have made progress.

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So I went, so I am officially right now, the lightest I've been since the baby was born.

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That's awesome.

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What I think is interesting is you can see, I lost a little bit before the baby came.

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And then the two weeks after the baby was born, I dropped 12 pounds.

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Really?

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Because you wouldn't even take care of, yeah, it wasn't about you.

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I was cooking.

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I was doing laundry.

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I was doing nothing but taking care of Kelly and the baby.

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So yeah, I dropped a lot.

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But right now, just this week, I got down below that number too.

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So I'm down like 20, I'm down 22.2 pounds.

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That's awesome.

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Since the contest started.

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But I have a feeling I'm going to continue to make progress.

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But Kelly is at the point right now where we're probably going to, she's probably going to start moving away from the breastfeeding.

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And I know she's going to start getting serious.

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And she's going to drop weight.

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Yeah, she's going to.

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It's going to fall off her.

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That's good though because you're on that path.

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The protein is great.

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It really is.

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And some of the stuff I was surprised at, like some of the recipes that came up with, I really like.

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Like I'm making them for dinner and Kelly likes them too.

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And you start seeing those things on TikTok.

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And let's make a protein whatever.

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I don't do a lot of that.

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I have two different powders.

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My favorite, we're going to talk a lot about food on this podcast.

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One breakfast that I really like, because it tastes like Crunch Berries.

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I do oatmeal.

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Right.

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But I have protein powder that is fruit punch flavor.

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I'll throw in a scoop of that fruit punch into the oatmeal and then a half a cup of blueberries.

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It's fantastic.

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The number one fruit of health.

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And it's like 40 gram of protein breakfast.

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Tonight for dinner, I do portobello mushroom grilled with bison burger and cheddar cheese.

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They're fantastic.

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You don't even miss that bread.

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Nope.

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Honestly, and the other big thing I have to admit too, it is also my faith that is helping with this because.

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Lent is here.

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I gave up sweets for Lent.

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So no cookies.

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No, for me, like I'm a sweet food.

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My wife is on that right now.

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Is she doing that?

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Last year I gave up bread.

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I don't know how I did that.

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That's the other thing that I noticed with this is with the really high protein.

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When I would do low carb, if I varied, if I had a pasta dish, I would gain four pounds with the really high protein.

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I can have carbs, but it does not stick.

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Well, just let you know, if you're going to have pasta, get the high protein pasta.

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Yeah, you know what?

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I try that.

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I got the burrito high protein spaghetti.

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I do that sometimes, but I like to cook with the, I made the other night sausage with peppers and onions and a little ricotta cheese on cavatel.

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It was so good.

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And the baby, the baby likes it.

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So anyway, so that's where, thank you very much.

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We're all on this journey.

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Obviously you're continuing on your.

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Yes, I am.

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I'm still fighting the good fight.

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Determined to have a shirtless summer.

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Yeah, it's a shirtless white boy summer with a tan.

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That's it.

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But I was, I was, I just played Florida and I was able to walk down the beach, no shirt on.

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I was walking, it was 80 something degrees.

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I was in Fort Lauderdale and I'm like, I, this is exactly why I struggled and woke up and went walking outside and went to the gym and didn't eat after eight and before 12 and I was enjoying it.

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So yes, we're, we're going to all be a little bit healthier this summer.

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So that was the diaper diet.

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And now we are at the meat and potatoes of every episode.

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What just happened?

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So lots of stuff, lots of stuff going on.

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So if you recall in part three of last, the last episode, because we had so much to cover, we were talking about some of the sleep training challenges that we were having and the spot of diaper rash and they gave us a prescription.

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It was at that time when we were going back and forth with that, that we kind of noted how her weight really wasn't headed in a great direction.

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So we started with a lot more high calorie food and focusing a lot more on getting her eating.

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So the, the good news was right after we recorded last time, we went back, they had given us a new prescription and that prescription worked like gangbusters.

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So took care of her, took care of her diaper rash, that got better.

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And then almost immediately when we started with focusing a little bit differently on the, on her eating, just more calories, the whole sleep progression that we were going through with the sleep training was clearly in retrospect, it wasn't a problem with her sleep.

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It was, she was hungry.

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She's waking up because she was hungry because she wasn't getting enough.

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So I think it was like a cascade effect because she had trouble with around that time with Kelly back to work, the boss, she wasn't taking as much of the bottles.

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Things change.

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So she wasn't getting that during the day.

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So she would, you know, Kelly would come home and they would feed, she would have dinner, but she was hungry.

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And so she was waking up as soon as she started to eat more, she started to sleep more, much more back to normal.

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Well, think about it.

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We were talking about weight loss when you stop eating, even for us and we're grown ass adults and know how to fix it.

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I can't sleep when I'm hungry.

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I'm like, Oh my God, you have a horrible sleep.

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That's so that's the trick they tell you for overseas flights.

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And when you're changing time zones to always just eat on the time of where you are and you will get onto that clock faster.

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If you eat at weird times, you're going to keep, you're going to keep sleeping at weird times, but yeah.

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So the, so that was, that was a great thing.

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And then right around then, as we had talked about from the cruise, there was not, there was no forward crawling.

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There was some, there was some somersaults, spider-man poses, backing up, scooching, but there wasn't, there wasn't any forward.

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But then, and you'll be interested.

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What do you think was the thing that got her to crawl forward?

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Isn't an obvious thing like mommy's in front of her or is it something?

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It was not me or it wasn't me or Kelly.

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A book.

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No, it was not a book.

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It had to be some food.

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Maybe.

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No, I don't know.

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Then it was Watson.

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Really?

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The doggy.

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She now, since she came home, Watson has been very right.

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For kind of, he kind of stays up because a couple of times early on he got close and those little baby fingers and his, his coat is long enough that she pulled a couple of tufts of Watson out and he does not like that.

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No.

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So he has kept a very healthy distance.

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So yeah, all of a sudden I think I was, I was working.

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I was doing some work and I hear Kelly say, she just walked, she just crawled forward toward Watson and yep, that was it.

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She wanted to get to him and she started going forward and then it kind of took off from there.

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So she really has, has gotten good at getting around, crawling.

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She has her little sense of agency.

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She moves around.

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I hate to say this now, but there might have to be a rematch or a match at the cruise.

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The next, the next cruise.

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Yeah.

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I mean, now I know she's going to age herself out of it.

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Is there an age?

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Once, once they can walk.

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Yeah, obviously.

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So you got to keep her down.

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Just keep knocking her down.

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You don't need to stand up.

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Come on.

436
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We got a race to win, honey.

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Yeah.

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That's the whole, all the development markers.

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That's what they're shooting for now.

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But so yeah, I don't know if we're going to get on another busy cruise before though.

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She might grow herself out of that one.

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We might, she might've missed out.

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She might walk herself out of that one.

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That's it.

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But that's good.

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Yeah.

447
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No, it's, it's, it's fun to see her getting around and climbing.

448
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Now is Watson scared now that she can reach?

449
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It's interesting.

450
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So yeah, at first they were both like she would start moving and the dogs would look at us like, is this okay?

451
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Like what can we do?

452
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What's going on?

453
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And he definitely kept his distance.

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But over the last few weeks, it's been interesting.

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He now is much more friendly with her and is getting closer because we are trying to teach her to be gentle and do that stuff.

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And just the other day it was, I'm drinking my coffee.

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She's on the floor and I see Watson.

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And a lot of times in the morning I'll be on my laptop.

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I'll do an email and I'll have my coffee and Watson will come over and drop a tennis ball next to me because he wants me to throw the ball around.

460
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And I see out of the corner of my eye, Watson walks over to the baby and drops the ball in front of her.

461
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That's hilarious.

462
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Like an invitation.

463
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And, and, but then the thing that's scary is Rumpel has learned this game, but Rumpel is not good at fetching.

464
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So she just steals the ball and then wants you to try to take it from her.

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So I'm like, uh, because Rumpel swoops in.

466
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But so I, I kind of defused that, but yeah, you can tell he's starting to see her as somebody he can play with.

467
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Right.

468
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So it's kind of, it's kind of awesome to see that.

469
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So yeah, so she is, she's on her way.

470
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So that was, that was kind of neat.

471
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That was in the, like the middle of my middle of January that started.

472
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So she's been making progress with that.

473
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We went into Valentine's week.

474
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We had a very nice Valentine's week.

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I think we were both, you know, that time of year, it's like dark in Syracuse.

476
00:27:01,220 --> 00:27:01,760
It's dark.

477
00:27:01,820 --> 00:27:02,700
It's cold.

478
00:27:03,380 --> 00:27:07,400
You're not, and it wasn't one morning, like leading into it.

479
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:08,600
We're both, we're, we're tired.

480
00:27:09,380 --> 00:27:13,480
And Kelly goes, we don't have to get cards this year for Valentine's day.

481
00:27:13,540 --> 00:27:15,980
She's like, I'm like, really?

482
00:27:16,060 --> 00:27:16,760
Are you sure?

483
00:27:17,980 --> 00:27:21,340
And she's like, yeah, you know, she's like, I think we don't.

484
00:27:21,340 --> 00:27:22,100
Have to do that.

485
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,500
And I'm like, all right.

486
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:24,040
Okay.

487
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,220
If that's what, you know, if you want to sell into that, huh?

488
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,940
If you want to skip that, I thought, okay.

489
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,540
And then like a week later, she's like, this is our 10th Valentine's day together.

490
00:27:34,660 --> 00:27:35,200
Oh Jesus.

491
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,000
And I'm like, yeah, it is.

492
00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:38,500
That's our 10th Valentine's day.

493
00:27:39,420 --> 00:27:43,460
And, and then all of a sudden that all, all that changed the card.

494
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,940
We got to get the card thing changed, which I thought was cute.

495
00:27:46,940 --> 00:27:47,280
Yeah.

496
00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:56,040
As men, does it matter if they tell you let's not do buy something, do it anyway.

497
00:27:56,260 --> 00:27:57,740
I don't care if it's something small.

498
00:27:58,180 --> 00:27:59,340
You got to come on.

499
00:27:59,560 --> 00:27:59,920
Let them.

500
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:00,360
Yeah.

501
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,240
I don't, I honestly don't care.

502
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:02,780
Yeah.

503
00:28:02,940 --> 00:28:03,400
For me.

504
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:08,060
I never cared about presents and, you know, like birthdays, but you.

505
00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:09,220
It's kind of fun.

506
00:28:09,260 --> 00:28:11,640
Like, it's kind of like, cause we've gotten into the habit of.

507
00:28:12,140 --> 00:28:15,820
Which I think we'll probably at least trim back a little.

508
00:28:15,820 --> 00:28:23,480
Cause having, being childless for a long time, a childless couple for a long time, we would always get like birthdays or holidays.

509
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:32,180
I would always get for Kelly and Kelly would get it for me, a card for that event from me and from each of the dogs.

510
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:32,540
Sure.

511
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:33,940
So she would get three cards.

512
00:28:33,940 --> 00:28:34,500
That was the family.

513
00:28:34,660 --> 00:28:34,880
Yeah.

514
00:28:34,940 --> 00:28:35,500
So that was it.

515
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,440
So now we can't do that.

516
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,680
It will become very complex and the dogs have a hard time signing.

517
00:28:41,860 --> 00:28:42,120
Yeah.

518
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:43,780
So we won't do that.

519
00:28:43,780 --> 00:28:45,700
But it's, it's, it's fun.

520
00:28:45,880 --> 00:29:07,640
So we ended up instead, we, we, we did end up going out to dinner for Valentine's day, but we did the Valentine's day dinner that a reasonable parent of a 11 month old does, which is you go out the night before for an early reservation at, we went to Delmonico's and so we've been there for now.

521
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,360
Like it is, you know what?

522
00:29:09,380 --> 00:29:13,500
I didn't get, I did not get the Delmonico this time.

523
00:29:13,780 --> 00:29:19,360
I got a steak that usually they recommend you don't get at a steakhouse, which is a strip, New York strip.

524
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:32,500
Because sometimes it has that, that, that thing in there that membrane kind of like, yeah, it's just a tough thing that kind of cuts through the, so, but I got one and it was fantastic.

525
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:32,760
Really?

526
00:29:32,820 --> 00:29:33,300
It was really good.

527
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:33,920
Yeah.

528
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,420
So, but we, so we went there, you know, we've been there like three times with her now.

529
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:43,360
And this time we were in a different dining room, kind of the one toward the front.

530
00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:46,500
And we were at one side so we could see everything.

531
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,540
And she was entertaining the troops.

532
00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:54,380
She was, she was waving and getting, you know, can make an eye contact with people and having fun.

533
00:29:54,820 --> 00:29:56,640
And we're just trying out different things.

534
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:57,600
So I'm, we're giving her stuff.

535
00:29:57,660 --> 00:30:01,180
So we, we had ordered some calamari, gave her some calamari.

536
00:30:01,260 --> 00:30:06,100
She ate the calamari and I'm like, I'm going to give her a piece of the, you know, how they do the banana peppers on top.

537
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,560
So I'm like, I'm going to give her, she loved, loved the banana.

538
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:15,580
She was like, people are looking like, did that little baby just eat a bad banana pepper?

539
00:30:16,260 --> 00:30:20,980
So yeah, she was, but we had a very nice meal, nice Valentine's day, had fun with the baby.

540
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:26,360
And then that weekend we had a visit from her cousin, Isla.

541
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,160
So this is on Kelly's side.

542
00:30:31,340 --> 00:30:38,600
Her mother, Kate and Isla came from the, they live in the Buffalo area and they came out to visit.

543
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,280
And it was fun because Isla is four, going to be five maybe.

544
00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:50,980
So she's still got that little kid thing and was very interested in the baby and wanted to play.

545
00:30:51,340 --> 00:30:54,460
And there was cousin interaction.

546
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,320
It was really nice to see.

547
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:57,400
She was great.

548
00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:03,240
And, and Kate is always very generous with almost every time I say to Kelly, Oh, that's a cute little outfit.

549
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,860
It's something that she, that she gave us.

550
00:31:06,540 --> 00:31:08,060
So very nice.

551
00:31:08,060 --> 00:31:09,520
We had a nice visit with her.

552
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,880
They came out on a Sunday and spent some time with us and we had a good time.

553
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:13,440
It was nice.

554
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:14,540
Family's important.

555
00:31:14,740 --> 00:31:15,140
Yeah.

556
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,140
And it's not, it's nice to see her.

557
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:18,900
We were going to go.

558
00:31:19,100 --> 00:31:24,600
We've talked about baby Armand, Kelly's cousin's little boy.

559
00:31:24,780 --> 00:31:28,300
They had a birthday party in Buffalo that we were going to attend.

560
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,280
And we left, it was like on a Saturday and we left to go.

561
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:40,500
And it was like one of those Saturday mornings that was like, I think it was minus six.

562
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:41,020
God.

563
00:31:41,420 --> 00:31:43,600
And 90 was a whiteout.

564
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,580
And I have driven through almost anything.

565
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,020
And even I was like, this is a bad idea.

566
00:31:51,580 --> 00:31:51,680
Yeah.

567
00:31:51,780 --> 00:31:52,700
You got to take your, yeah.

568
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:53,420
We got it.

569
00:31:53,660 --> 00:31:55,360
Is it worth it or is it just cut it out?

570
00:31:55,540 --> 00:32:02,440
I remember like one Christmas, I had to go from Buffalo to Erie and back here to Syracuse.

571
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,380
And it was a whiteout.

572
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:05,460
It was on Christmas Eve.

573
00:32:05,780 --> 00:32:07,340
And I just literally, it was so bad.

574
00:32:07,460 --> 00:32:10,400
I just found the rumble strip and stayed on.

575
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:11,440
You didn't see anything.

576
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,360
And I just stayed on the rumble strip.

577
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,800
And that's how I knew I was still on the road the whole way.

578
00:32:17,660 --> 00:32:20,480
But you got a little, you got a baby in the car.

579
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:20,940
No, no, no, no, no.

580
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:21,960
You got to be smart.

581
00:32:22,180 --> 00:32:28,360
So we got as far as like, uh, just past the outlets, Geneva, that area.

582
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,400
And we went to, it was nice.

583
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:37,160
Actually, we stopped and went to like a truck stop diner, like right off the exit off 90.

584
00:32:38,820 --> 00:32:43,500
And it was, we had a nice breakfast and, and had, had fun there.

585
00:32:43,660 --> 00:32:46,960
And she's, you know, Josie's looking around, having a good time.

586
00:32:47,180 --> 00:32:51,900
So it was good, but we didn't, didn't get to see, uh, baby Armand.

587
00:32:51,980 --> 00:32:54,860
And that was that we were kind of looking forward to that.

588
00:32:54,860 --> 00:32:56,900
So she could have that kind of interaction.

589
00:32:56,900 --> 00:32:59,840
Thanks to Kate and, and Isla coming to visit.

590
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,160
We had that as well.

591
00:33:01,340 --> 00:33:01,500
Nice.

592
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:02,400
So it was nice.

593
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,240
And then a couple of weekends ago, we went to the boat show.

594
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:07,660
We had a very nice weekend.

595
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:15,580
And, uh, yeah, it was not, we just went out because normally it's just like we go to church and she does her stick for, she does her stuff.

596
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,480
She does, she works the crowd during communion.

597
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:20,920
And so we got it.

598
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,340
We ended up going to the boat show and we saw, she really likes.

599
00:33:25,100 --> 00:33:26,560
The ranger tugs.

600
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:27,460
Very nice.

601
00:33:28,220 --> 00:33:31,680
That's a ranger tugs is a, is a, uh, yep.

602
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,460
It's a, a brand of trailerable.

603
00:33:34,860 --> 00:33:40,920
They look like a tugboat, but they're a planning hall and very, they're great boats.

604
00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:41,720
She likes that.

605
00:33:41,940 --> 00:33:46,740
She like, well, cause it's like, it's got, it's got all the stuff, right.

606
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,420
It's got, it's like a little house.

607
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,380
Like there's a little TV, there's a little, there's a little stove.

608
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,400
There's a little, a little bathroom.

609
00:33:54,960 --> 00:34:01,740
Because now I wonder how it's going to be this year on the boat, on your boat, her reaction is going to be so different.

610
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,200
I mean, you're older.

611
00:34:03,580 --> 00:34:04,640
Honestly, it is a concern.

612
00:34:04,860 --> 00:34:16,380
And I think we're, we're actually thinking about doing something different with the boat because the boat that we have is a bow rider and it's the right size, but we got it.

613
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:23,800
When we weren't sure if we were having, and the boat we had before had a cabin.

614
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:24,400
Sure did.

615
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:25,260
And had all that stuff.

616
00:34:25,460 --> 00:34:29,800
So the difficulty is with a little kid and you're out on the water all day.

617
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:30,860
You're just wide open now, right?

618
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:31,580
You have no bottom.

619
00:34:31,580 --> 00:34:41,840
You've got a bimini top that you're, there's no, you want to be out on a beautiful day, but on a beautiful day, you got no place to get her out of the sun.

620
00:34:41,940 --> 00:34:42,060
Right.

621
00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:42,380
Yeah.

622
00:34:42,460 --> 00:34:43,120
You're in it.

623
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:58,120
So I'm actually looking at the, um, the dealer who had that particular boat, that Ranger tug that was at the, at the boat show is in like Canada or something close enough.

624
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:02,120
So we're, we're looking at maybe, maybe doing something like that.

625
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,200
And honestly, that's the boat I've always wanted.

626
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:33,080
But now Kelly is like, you know, having her, because a lot of times we would go out and I would, I could tell Kelly was kind of stressed out, but, and it's, but it's because not only is it, you can't get the kid out of the sun, but that boat with an 85 pound dog and a 32 pound dog with, with us and the baby, it makes it very hard.

627
00:35:33,180 --> 00:35:41,720
And now she, we would have her most of the time in her, in her baby carrier car seat, which she's too big for now.

628
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:42,080
Right.

629
00:35:42,180 --> 00:35:44,500
So unless we're going to like lash her to the seat.

630
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:44,880
Yeah.

631
00:35:45,180 --> 00:35:47,040
It's, it's going to be, it's going to be different.

632
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,400
If you're continuing to boating life.

633
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:49,680
Yeah.

634
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,000
You're going to have to look in.

635
00:35:51,140 --> 00:35:51,260
Yeah.

636
00:35:51,380 --> 00:35:55,180
I think we either need to set that aside for a while or.

637
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:56,480
Or get something that's going to work.

638
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:57,720
Or get one of these things.

639
00:35:58,100 --> 00:35:58,200
Absolutely.

640
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,240
And that's it.

641
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,020
So we'll see, we'll see what happens there.

642
00:36:02,020 --> 00:36:06,400
But it was a nice, we had a nice afternoon and she was very interested in looking at stuff.

643
00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:08,100
We took her on a couple of different little boats.

644
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,340
And then we, and then on the way home, we went to the Ikea at Destiny.

645
00:36:12,460 --> 00:36:12,740
Oh yeah.

646
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:13,620
I just went there myself.

647
00:36:13,780 --> 00:36:15,880
I had not been in an Ikea in a while.

648
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,240
I've never been, my first time.

649
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:18,980
Now this is not the best one.

650
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,140
They tell me to have the first one.

651
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,340
Because there's ones that are huge and beautiful.

652
00:36:23,540 --> 00:36:26,400
This is about maybe a quarter of the size of a real one.

653
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:27,240
Which I realize, yeah.

654
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,820
And what, what I really did not like.

655
00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:31,480
Because I have been in the other, in others.

656
00:36:32,540 --> 00:36:34,900
Is the other ones, it's a straight shot.

657
00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:36,840
You see everything.

658
00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:38,060
This was a maze.

659
00:36:38,180 --> 00:36:39,020
I couldn't figure anything.

660
00:36:39,020 --> 00:36:39,340
That's the thing.

661
00:36:39,420 --> 00:36:41,860
I, I, I don't know if I saw all of it or not.

662
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:42,200
Me either.

663
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,840
Because it's smaller, it's, it's a much more meandering.

664
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,160
It's not just the racetrack all the way through.

665
00:36:48,420 --> 00:36:51,360
I was at places going, did we just walk through here again?

666
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,700
Or did, is this, there's like little, yeah, I, I, yeah.

667
00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:55,420
I had no idea.

668
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:56,720
The checkouts are in a weird way.

669
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,560
And then, yeah, confused.

670
00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:00,860
Even the cafe up front is a little weird.

671
00:37:01,060 --> 00:37:02,360
But we hadn't been there.

672
00:37:02,660 --> 00:37:04,300
But they're usually like a double decker, right?

673
00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:07,740
They're usually like the big ones have like a upstairs and downstairs.

674
00:37:07,940 --> 00:37:08,640
Well, we just had the upstairs.

675
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:09,200
Yeah.

676
00:37:09,220 --> 00:37:11,220
Sometimes they will have a multiple level.

677
00:37:11,740 --> 00:37:13,420
But that was a good trip.

678
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:21,020
And then, well, we've covered a lot of ground and we have even more to share with you about baby Josie's adventures, but we're going to close for now.

679
00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:27,120
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680
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:30,920
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681
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,160
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682
00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:45,100
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683
00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:46,320
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684
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:53,420
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685
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687
00:38:15,060 --> 00:38:16,320
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688
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:18,660
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