Must Have Baby Stuff, Time's Flying By and Baby Josie Scares the Dog : Episode 22

0:00 So I can do it pretty good now if it's the right size one But the sleep sack thing if you got the halo, you don't need it was that that thing is fantastic They're very cozy lots of room easy makes sense. I mean they had to come up with something that was just from from so easy Yeah, I mean, yeah, cuz otherwise like when you're trying to do it tough It's them in the middle of the night was tough and you're trying to and there's no like You got a really you got to be good at How how long do they say that goes for it is a swaddle, yeah like Until the baby doesn't until they're 12. Yeah. Yeah, it's like calm down 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 Syrio and Carlo Russo Welcome back.

1:05 We're back buddy. We are here and it's episode 22 22 I don't know the math anymore. It's with my hands 22 episode 22 goodness. We are two episodes into Little baby Josie actually being around. That's right And last week or the last podcast we did episode 21 It was the first episode that you started with a little different Introduction than you usually do. That's true because the introduction is now no more produce My name is Frank Syrio. I am 55 years old and my daughter is 27 days old almost a month old already Wow.

1:52 Yeah almost a month I know it's it's everybody says it's Cliche where but time flies man You're waiting all nine months forever and then like a month goes by like that and you're like what's going on? It is going incredible how fast she's changing and then obviously you're so busy, too Depending on what is going on that? Yeah, you just you're you it just goes by in the blink of an eye I got like I will talk a little bit about it later on. I'm already back to work I've never had I haven't had a month off since I was 12 years old and a Month. Yeah and gone.

2:32 I was here last week and you when you told me I have to go back to work next week I was like what? What do you mean? Yeah, aren't you all like? Oh, yeah, it's gonna be a month Yeah, one just one to just one day a week And I know it was nice to get back. But yeah, it is it just it is absolutely Flying just flying by and and now because you're gonna see such Big difference of of the baby the size and the things that she's gonna be doing so rapidly, you know Like oh my god, like just now I saw her last week and then I came in today and totally I'm like, oh my gosh She's full. She's got a little size to it. It's it's it's so cool.

3:13 She's adorable She really she really is And the more and more we get to the it is an absolute like a drug It's like a high getting a reaction when I say my patented line of Hello, I'm daddy. I'm the favorites. I'm the thing and I get a smile that I know is not gas It is a real smile. It is just there's nothing like it just gets better. Yeah Yeah, I was talking to my sister in Texas yesterday and and she's like wait until she says your name Yeah, wait, Josie Like there's none of that. So yeah, it is And then when they get a little bit more, I love the part where they get where they're sturdy Well, you know, you can hold that baby play with it.

4:02 You know, it's not like right now You're still kind of like, okay, you kind of yeah be good Don't get too crazy, but there's gonna be that time down that line a couple or three four or five months Oh, yeah, and that's just gonna be like a little more solid. Yeah, and that's when you start having fun Yeah, you know, you know, it's you know, it's a little more safer. And yeah. Yeah, cuz you are Waiting for the head Fragile yeah, you're like that and eventually in and it's gonna come quickly Yeah, just like this has already been a month. Yeah, it's gonna come quickly where you're just you know You're actually gonna be playing and moving around and stuff like that. So yeah, it's so it's such a good time.

4:42 It is Yeah, it's been a lot of fun and to to have to have Kelly feeling better Yes, and more like more like herself. Yeah, that's a that's huge too So it was funny because I was back to work for the first time on today had a couple video calls with my team and of course as a treat like Kelly walks in and with the baby and immediately I hear from my assistant. She doesn't even look like she was pregnant She looks fantastic. And I like and I know she's right back She's doing great. And she the main thing is she feels she feels better But if you say that to her, she's like, I don't look like I'm not done. But no, it's been it's been really good.

5:22 So last last episode was Long and a very detailed account of which everything that happened I feel like I wanted to give everybody the whole experience of what we did But I think now we're gonna be able to get back to much more our regular Format and do a bunch of our segments that we usually do. Yeah, and the first one we're gonna do What is it? Although it's gonna be a little bit different this time because usually I've used your good nature I'm making you do a bunch of stuff. That's crazy. That's right. So you don't need a helmet this time We'll go into crash test daddy Now crash test daddy, yeah this time what I wanted to do is Just talk with us.

6:06 So this is you know, she's almost a month old. We've been through a lot. We're adjusting We're adapting on the fly and there have been Really five or six products that we have relied on that We have picked up in the last either had and we're using heavily now Or we picked up since since we got home from the hospital that have been absolute game changer Like gotta have it wonderful things. They've saved the day. They have saved the day So I'm gonna try when I edit this thing to put up links and pictures because I'm not gonna have all this stuff But we'll at least talk about we're gonna get fancy guys. We're gonna get fancy. So now the first thing was When we got home when we got home the pacifier The first pacifier we used was gifted to us by your son, right?

6:56 Girlfriend, they left a little gift basket for us, but it was a big it was a pacifier for a bigger kid So and I was like I'd try it anyway like See if this will work, but immediately went on Amazon ordered like the top five most popular For an infant because there's all kinds of different ones one one made by Phillips one baby I liked all these different the one that she likes out of I we tried all of them. It's called the ma'am ma'am original start newborn baby pacifier Four point seven out of five stars with 18,000 ratings, okay, it was like eight Dollars and fifty cents for a two-pack.

7:37 Oh, so but that's that was the one that is the one She that's the only one she really likes. We don't use it a lot, but every once in a while and it works. I Remember when we had to chill our kids both of them. The hospital sent us home with what they Recommended they didn't do that. I for a pacifier. Yeah, absolutely No, the only thing they sent us home with is another is one of the things on this list is a manual breast pump That was the only that was the only thing this could be a segment next week or I'm gonna be was wrong But I believe we we were sent home. They gave you a big. I believe so.

8:17 Yeah. Yeah, what did you call it? Do you call it a binky Some sometimes I say binky sometimes I say knocker never said I don't know why knocker I do call my wife that don't you Think it's called and I don't believe that. No, I never heard that word in my life. Yeah Yeah, I think my my sister I think my nephew They called it a knocker people say Baba or maybe I don't know. There's all kinds of crazy names Let us know what you guys say. What is your name? I just said for a pacifier I typically say binky or binky or knocker But so the ma'am original start newborn baby pacifier on Amazon Was it was a winner it that's the winner.

9:01 Perfect. The next thing is that this is really good Now, do you remember swaddling? Yes, do you remember how to do it? I would fail It was it's there's an art to make a burrito It's kind of like a burrito. So when they're you know, you're at the hospital and first of all at that point I'm sleep-deprived, but I'm trying to write your mind, but I'm like, this is like I'm not a Boy Scout I don't know like I feel like I was lost the physics behind it Like I can't and then and then the ones they have in the hospital They have all the same ones you get home and we'll get a swaddle and it's like three times bigger I'm like, how do I make this train down this like I could wrap Watson and yeah, they're huge So I know so but I got kind of you know, I'm look of course you can go online You're looking to stop but the hot setup.

9:52 This is It's called the halo. H a lo 100% cotton sleep sack swaddle three-way adjustable wearable blanket has four point six out of five stars with 26,000 ratings 30 bucks and It is This is the best thing. So it's got little arm holes and it's just a sack Right, and then it has wings One wing goes over. The other wing has velcro It is the best thing ever. So you get you get her in there You get her a little arms through arm holes zip up. She's all in there and then it's literally arm down For all the way over tuck it in other one around No, there's a bug in a rug no brain loves it and the tighter the better You know close.

10:42 I don't know about your daughter, but generally the kids the babies want to be sold I think this we were at the point now where we only swaddle her at night to try to get her to sleep It does help but she likes to have her hands up Look out like freely Well, like so the one the one nurse Lexi that show showed me how to do a swaddle She you take the you take the square You'd fold it down and then when you fold it over the first time it kind of makes a pocket for their hands And then you you basically do them like a vampire Right across the chest and it kind of holds up But then they can get to their hands if they want to Now a lot of people say oh no No hands at this hand because they might get through it My sister Lucille is always like I can't believe you let her have her hands free because she's worried about scratches Absolutely, but she hasn't she's been okay Although there's more just this morning Which she was she was getting a little fussy and Kelly was getting ready to feed her and she was waiting a little bit too Long and she just like whacked herself in the head I'm like, yeah, okay.

11:46 Calm down. Yeah that but the swaddle thing so there's different different ways But so I can do it pretty good now if it's the right size one But the sleep sack thing if you got the halo, you don't need it was that thing is fantastic They're very cozy. Lots of room easy makes sense. I mean they had to come up with something that was just from from so easy Yeah, I mean, yeah, cuz otherwise like when you're trying to stop it's them in the middle of the night It was tough and you're trying to and there's no like you got a really you got to be good at How how long do they say that goes for is there a swaddle yeah like Calm down No, but yeah So we we were doing it a lot in the beginning Especially when she was in the beginning when she was still regulating her body temperature, right?

12:37 So while it was like outfit swaddle blanket over that and a hat But now we do it really because we want to try to encourage longer sleeps at night So we're doing the swaddling at night and that seems to extend it a little but the yeah Those those sleep sacks are awesome so the halo and the ma'am ma'am for the ma'am for the pacifier halo cotton sleep sack swaddle awesome the other one that immediately That we already talked about and I knew this was gonna be it was gonna be a winner and it absolutely is it is Every it gets more use than anything. So don't my best friend nursing pillow and then there's there's There's another brand But all of the lactation consultants, there's like two big brands there's this one in another one and I don't remember what the name of it is, but All the lactation consultants that we've talked to and we've talked to a few now between the hospital and the pediatricians office I'll say the my best friend is the one what you guys use.

13:39 Yeah, and it's been great. Kelly uses it very very consistently easy Yep, she's used to it. Boom. Boom, and it really works. That's awesome So the that's the my best friend nursing pillow four point six out of five stars around seven thousand ratings 47 bucks and you sometimes you see them up for less that and they're all washable It has a whole thing a lot you zip it off and you wash it But yeah, that that has been that was key in the beginning Kelly wasn't using it. Yeah, because she was just trying to remember your posture. It made it harder using it It helps it helps her to be more upright. Let's just it's easier on her. It's easy for the baby Great great product the next one which was new in the beginning With the breastfeeding was challenging was before her milk comes in They're good, you know, it was like it wasn't oh it's time to feed and let's go let's go right she would have to She would have to ice her breasts first They recommended that and then she would have to pump Before feeding to kind of like get things on right, but you know the ice packs.

14:50 What are you gonna do? Right, so they're the next one is exactly what she used then They're called the Lansing Oh LA n si no age Lansing Oh breast therapy packs 4.6 out of 5 stars 29,000 ratings 12 bucks. Basically. It's just a little breast sized with a cutout ice pack Heat or cold so that we had a couple of them in the freezer whenever she needed them might swap them out she put those in and That was that was like step one as she was as her milk was coming in She really loved though now when you say heated I Don't have them in the microwave. I guess she always wanted him just ice, right?

15:31 That's what we did. But apparently they can be hot or cold. Okay, so there was a Lansing Oh breast therapy packs We had we bought multiple so we could always have them ready and then Tied with that with the pump. This is the pump they gave us but we also ordered different size parts for it. It's called The Medela manual breast pump 4.5 out of 5 stars 20,000 ratings 37 bucks super simple plastic and it's just different so there's different size flanges but depending on the mom's anatomy and it's just a simple kind of one-handed pump and It does a great job and that was manual the man.

16:12 Yep. Yeah now we have another one, which we haven't started using yet That is the whole right here. Yeah that thing we haven't used that Yeah, that'll probably she's probably gonna start that in the next week or so But the pump when she had to pump before feeding made a huge difference. Sure. Very helpful So the Medela manual breast pump. Oh, that's right there. Yep. Yeah, it was just it was super simple easy to clean and did a great job and then the Number one thing and I realized this is not I think we've said this a couple times. Yeah, it's so good the the cradle wise That thing there's one problem with the cradle eyes, which I will discuss because they have not resolved it yet.

16:54 Okay, but the cradle wise is absolute just Lifesaver like she when we put her down And if she's already asleep You put her down and everything she just snoozes along the minute she starts to move or stir it starts starts with the soothing a kind of a bouncing motion just like a parent would and Then it plays there's different sounds white noise sounds It does that we haven't even used the feature You can actually do a custom but kind of a custom process and much arrested They call it a recipe where you tell it I want it to do Nothing for 10 minutes and then after 10 minutes I want you to go to level one you can do a whole program you can you when you figure out what your baby Likes now, we've been lucky and the baby was like what it does She likes and it will she'll wake up She'll stir and it will get her back to sleep.

17:52 And as soon as she goes back to sleep it stops so it absolutely the other thing that's very nice is it has Reporting so you can see from 8 p.m. To 8 a.m. There's a graph every day Or not 8 p.m. 8 a.m. To 8 a.m You see the whole day and it tracks when she's asleep when she stirs when it successfully Kind of gets her back to sleep. You can see it all and and track how they're sleep Wow, so Absolutely. It's a it is a big investment, but there's ways you can do it where you rent them You can get them used sometimes and it is look into that as well I think compared to the snoo, which is not a whole lot less expensive But this new is just a bassinet this because it will go from bassinet to cradle.

18:40 You can have it longer Now Technical issue. So one of the features that this that the cradle wise has is you have a care team or a caregiver? Account so I have an account. It's on my phone It's on Kelly's phone So if I'm around the house, I can watch I can hear her Okay, I can do all that if she's in the monitor and it also will just send alerts like if I put her down She's sleeping and I come down working on something if she wakes up I get an alert that says baby Josie's awake Gotcha, and so and I can look I can look and listen in before I run back up there so my sisters and Kelly's sister and Sister-in-law, they all have They all have accounts and then we can set it up.

19:29 So to what they get to see Okay, so you can set it up so you could only see on Tuesdays gotcha or you could see all the time or you could see and hear and They get the same alerts. So my sister in Texas if she wants if she gets an alert that says, oh, you know that Baby Josie just went into the cradle why she can turn it up flip it on and see the baby now my sister here my sister Paula one day a couple weeks ago says gee, what's the speaker when I'm why cuz she watches it like a Normal guy watches ESPN, right? She's watching it. She's got popcorn Watching it constantly. So she she'll really loves it.

20:11 But she's like what's the speaker thing? And I'm like, what do you mean? What's the speaker? She's like there's an icon and I'm like, well You're not supposed to have that because the way I set it up for everybody all the sisters and sister-in-law have They can view whenever the baby's in the cradle eyes, but no audio because the cradle wise is in our bedroom So if I'm having a conversation with my wife, you don't want I don't want everybody Right, so and I'm like, well, what do you mean? She's like, well, there's a thing I'm like, well what happens when you press it? She's like well, I hear some noise and I'm like I'm gonna hang up the fog was on the phone I'm gonna hang up. I'm gonna say a word you tell me what you tell me and sure enough She could hear it even though she's not supposed to have it So I have reported that to the tech support at cradle wise And it's been like a week and a half and they every once in a while send me an email saying we're still working on it That's really kind of a big thing Think about it because if if she's like that's happening.

21:11 Yeah, that's kind of a big thing. So Hopefully they hopefully they take care of it. But yeah one day she'll have the speaker icon one day and then it goes away Then the next day is back. Okay, so So I do want to follow up to what we started our podcast with Many many many months back was the the books of the dogs. Yes How is that then with the with the animals the cradle wise? I just want to kind of circle back. It has been Way easier. Okay, like Yeah, I mean so we didn't have a whole lot of opportunity We didn't have the opportunity to set it up the way out They all said to and to to bring them something before because we came home so late.

22:00 We just came home, right? They both react differently. I think they are both adjusting to Just like we are another person because they don't if if either of us wake up in the night, they get up. They're like, okay Where's the party? They want they want morning. They want to be involved no matter what right? So every you know every time Every time Kelly gets up to There are so they're exhausted almost all the time because they're not sleeping through the night anymore. So no idea what's cool I have a picture. It's really funny. I just took a picture from the doorway to the bedroom because it was like There's there's Kelly in bed with the baby and there's Watson Completely like almost he looked like a cartoon flattened out like when the roadrunner gets run over like a rug Yeah on the bed and then the opposite way rumple on the floor same way Just like when is this gonna end?

22:58 They're very tired. So I think next to Kelly. They are the most sleep-deprived I'm very lucky No Interacting with that likes they they understand the limits. They will get they will get up close. They do Even when I mean Kelly is confident enough now if she's in bed and nursing She'll let them up on the bed and they'll come right up They'll be rumple will be on her knee while she's watching feeding and just hanging out even Watson will get right up there And It's awesome. The only thing I worry about is Watson has a tendency if he wants to get your attention He will whack you and he's got a paw that's like he's almost the size of my fist So I get a little itchy when when he's that close or when he's in range that he might do that But if he's up close and his snout is near near the baby.

23:53 He can't do that. Anyway, but no they have been Fantastic I did I'm sorry. I did notice that they want some attention that was funny because yeah, so Carlo shows up and and Kelly brings the baby out and you start paying attention and When rumple will do this rumple will sometimes bark when people leave But she'll bark when I hug Kelly Right, so there's just there's an attention thing there So he's just paying attention and rumple starts barking like what's going on play with me? Oh, yeah Yes They need and and I do think I've been trying to because Kelly pays a lot of attention to the dogs normally And now she is so focused on the baby I'm trying to pick it up with them and spend a little bit more time and I think Watson I think gets it like Watson is more with me Like he'll be he'll come seek me out Rumpel is a little more like wants to be pursued Lots of the attention.

24:55 The short answer is they've been great, but they do you know, they they want some they want some The weather's getting nicer if I go outside, they're both out there with me and running around and it's and that and that's a good thing too Circle wrong from the books that you've read and everything that you you know, we were talking about now we have it obviously happening live yep, and Yeah, I was I didn't know what to expect actually because I knew the dogs were very high energy Yeah, so I didn't know what to expect. I knew they weren't mean dog. So it wasn't right We weren't worried about that. I think just the energy and the size of sure and he's getting me the four Yeah, he could because yeah, he could hurt you before. Yeah, I'm just playing.

25:37 Yeah, and it's so no They're there. I think that's it's gone. I think as well as you could have expected and I I think it's going to be Probably more so with Watson. He just seems more interested in her than Rumpel I think that's gonna be a good relationship. I think they're gonna be they're gonna be buddies. Can I ask you a question about? Now that you do have the baby yes, and you're going through your you know, you're You're going through your routines. And yeah, so when when we started this you had the books on Parenting the books on having pets the the videos of how to You know the birthing that the laborer childbirth another Now that you are going what do you think?

26:30 that Got you. Did you think that helped? Do you think that it just when it happens it happens and you figure it out What's your real feeling? And this is yours. I mean this is I so I'm I'm reluctant to say my instinct Answer that question is None of it was useful, but I will qualify that Kelly is a is a Like a lifelong learner reads She reads voraciously even more than I do. She has done way more of that than I have So, I think I benefit from her doing it her doing that right without a doubt So I think I have picked up a lot more Once I started to get pushed videos in through social media and online on YouTube I've learned lots of little things.

27:27 Yeah that have been effective right likes that have been surprising stupid little things like I Feel like I've never dressed a baby right getting that little girl's arm into a sleeve is like How do you how do you do it? But I saw a video and you turn the sleeve inside out reach through grab her little hand and I'm like, right This is me a test. I showed Kelly and Kelly's like, where did you learn that? Yeah, so there I think there's there's so much out there now that didn't used to be there But but Kelly continues to read all this stuff, but that's what she is I mean, that's who I mean she does that with and yes, which is great But I remember like when I first did I'm like, oh my god I got it.

28:09 I got it figured us out and you know, I'm not gonna know how to do it And then when it happens you figured it out. Yeah, you do it and I just wanted to you know I'm kind of like for me. I'm 56 years old. I've never had to change a Baby girl. Yep. I don't know how that is. I don't you know what I mean? Yeah, I've had two boys and they were basically this thing, you know, you watch out you're gonna get beat up You still got to be careful The same thing but That to me would be even now having two kids grown and all that. Sure. There's something supposed to be a new thing Yeah, like if I had a great daughter, you know You know, yeah, there's definitely that's I think there's definitely I benefit from everything Everything that Kelly has read and But I've you know, I've learned stuff from social media and some reading, you know, and some of the reading too but yeah, there's little things like There's no way even if you do go through all that stuff.

29:08 It's like kind of like studying for a test All right in my mind like when we brought her home There wasn't it wasn't like oh, I remember in the books. They talk about their regulating temperature yeah, it was me just looking at this little girl crying thinking and Having that realization like she's been in a 98 degree waterbed and now she's now she's not right She must be cold get the hat, right? So there are more things on her. Yeah It's neat though. It's yeah when you go from it It's all in the books in theory radical Right. Yeah, and then boom it's there and go. Okay. Yeah, I got this And again, we never had YouTube, oh, yeah YouTube's great on everything.

29:53 Yeah, I mean you want to learn how to play piano tomorrow It's it's so it's funny one of the things that the You know that happens. It's just like not only do you experience all this stuff, but then when you talk to experienced mothers Everything has changed somebody who had some you know, like for Trina five years ago Completely different and there's all these things that she did that everybody did and now they're like, oh, no, you can't do this You can't do that, right? There's all these crazy rules, which some of them are nonsense, but some of them probably, you know Yeah, maybe they've learned something. But yeah, so it is it's an evolving art. Yeah as it goes through Why you were talking? I was just thinking about all these things.

30:34 We were talking prior to the baby. I'm very important What was really not right now where the rubber meets the road with a lot of that stuff is Yeah Yes, without a doubt because other a lot of it too. I'm sure is just Feeling if you went into it Blind completely blind. Yeah, it would be so terrifying right where so just even if you don't use any of it But feeling like oh, yeah I got a toolkit that I can use even though you never touch one of those tools You feel a little bit. Well, you think you have a manual? Oh, yeah I can figure this out there. Yeah, and then it makes you feel like you're not like you said walking in blind well, one of the one of the things we'll talk about later is One of the simplest things diapers that and well, I won't spoil it.

31:21 We'll talk about but there are certain things that you think Oh, yeah, like I got this. Yep That's what we call a teaser. Yeah But so that is our those are that was our review I think those six products that we talked about the knocker the sleep sack the the nursing pillow The the breath therapy packs the manual pump and the cradle wise absolute game changer Make your life so so much easier. So that is crash test daddy and we're gonna get right into our next segment Check, please All right, brother So this is always you're on the spot again.

32:01 So this was it was a few weeks ago. We did this certainly It was a few weeks before the baby, right? So and we just talked about some of the things in in the crash test daddy So I meant that we have bought since so there's there's quite a bit. Yeah, so to go So last time we were at thirty five. Oh three forty three and We had you know, we've bought some clothes, but you know quite a bit. There's there's diapers in here now Okay. So what do you think you got about five five weeks? I think five weeks and The baby's been around for about four of those five weeks.

32:43 Yep. Yep what we talked about today. You're looking at maybe 30 another 40 $120 I'm gonna I'm gonna try to help you out. Okay, so The other there is one thing in here and this is actually a cautionary tale. There is a bigger thing in here So very nicely we were gifted a car seat Well, we were gifted two things a car seat from Kelly's brother and and his wife very nice and We were gifted a stroller. Okay from my brother and his wife so One of the things to think about as you're doing this is as there are in many things in life There are whole brand Ecosystems.

33:29 Oh, yes where stuff works together We were not fully aware of or invested in a Particular one. So the car seat we received it was a Graco car seat and very very nice one it's got the carrier so you operate in and then the The stroller was an up a baby Uppa up a baby never heard of that. Very nice. They're very nice but so now she's a little little bean she's old and The stroller is for, you know bigger bigger bigger means you can't so I'm like, okay So, how do we get an adapter so we can use the stroller because we want to take little walks up and down the driveway gotcha, and when we look the way you do that is either getting a bassinet the up a baby bassinet that it that attaches to the stroller or You get the up a baby car seat and the car seat plugs right in So now I'm looking at okay.

34:32 Well, so the the bassinet which we'll only use in the stroller is 200 bucks Right and or we can get this other car see then we have two car seats But then if we go somewhere with the stroller then comes right out of the car into the stroller So the moral of the story is I know which one you bought the moral of the story is Look look into it because a lot of these things do work together And it makes it so much easier when you can go. Yeah one to the other without Thinking about yeah, and I will say to the up a baby stuff is beautifully designed work Like you can take that stroller one hand fold it up One hand and that's the important thing that you just said, you know one one hand.

35:22 Yeah, cuz you will only have You got a kid in the other yeah, that's it so We did buy another car and up a baby car seat gotcha to go with the stroller So that's the other two were gifted. You still purchase and now basically what we've done is we've got the The original one is in the second car my car And then the main car has the new one that also goes with the stroller. Okay, so I'm going to I'm going to Overshoot it and I'm gonna say that that car. I don't think you've ever.

36:02 Oh, I don't think you've ever on overshot it I'm gonna say the car that you had to buy the car seat the end about probably a good a Good it's a good brand not probably it is a good brand. So it's gonna cost Yeah, I don't know what they cost nowadays because back in my day as for about 20 years ago couple 300 Okay, that's what I was gonna say. I was gonna say 399 to 499. So I'll just I'll just say $400 and I'm gonna say we're up to right now at an at $4,800 $4,800 little over little over I'm a little 4309 63 so about 800 bucks.

36:47 Okay, mostly The mostly the the car seat lots of diapers already The knucklers the you know, like all the miscellaneous stuff now We didn't any of the like the personal care stuff for for Kelly We did not include so only stuff directly to the baby directly for the baby all the sleep sacks the swaddle stuff all those things And they're so yeah, we're up to a little over four grand. So so in the last five weeks you said you upped it 800 Yeah, but basically 806 dollars. Yeah, not bad. Not bad. I honestly thought I was gonna be way more than these numbers would be way higher Yeah, I really did but you got a lot of nice stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah No, we have to buy all that stuff.

37:29 You'd be in the thousands and thousands more I would guess at least two and a half times where we're at now Yes so much so much stuff so so that's where we are to give them stuff Please Don't let your generosity come to an end Keep sending stuff. But so that that is the check please update Yes, now we get to do the fun one that another one where you get to guess. I always like this one It is the diaper diet So, all right, so now I'm gonna try to be fair because now we're at now if you recall the idea was as Kelly gained weight with the baby.

38:12 I would try to lose as much or more. She was gaining you were losing, right? Now she has turned around now as and now as she's losing your I want to try. Yeah, I Wanted to try to lose that way too. Okay, so so now you're both losing So the last time we did this Kelly was up 32 pounds and I was down 15 and a half Okay, so at the at right before we went into the hot when we went into the hospital she gained a total of Right up to the baby gained a total of 34 pounds. So the last couple weeks of the pregnancy She only gained a couple pounds. Yeah, so she gained 34 okay, and since coming home, it's been amazing because for the first couple weeks like a week later She still weighed a week after we got home She still weighed the same she as she weighed when we went into the hospital Okay, she lost no weight in the first week, but then in one week lost 18 pounds and Literally, I gotta get pregnant.

39:21 Can you imagine that and has it lost now more so now okay She gained 34 pounds 34 at the highest and then she has already lost 21 of those So that means 55 pounds is my target And last time like I said, I had lost 15 and a half So now you get to guess so she is she is down 21 pounds. So the target is 55 pounds and the last time I was down 15 and a half from the start of everything. Yes from when we started she went up She went up 34 back down 21. And I well When she was up 34, I was down 15 and a half and now she's come down another 21 I'm gonna guess and you're guessing me.

40:08 How many times you've lost since that if if any Because there's been a lot of door dash That kind of I do see a lot of baskets up there. Oh my All right, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be nice you look good You lost an additional How long is this again for weeks? The last time we did this was seven weeks ago So seven weeks ago. I had lost 15 Seven weeks Yeah, that was the last time we did so healthy want to I'm gonna say you are down This is an awful position to put you know It's okay, I'm gonna say you lost an additional 10 pounds, okay So that would make me down 25 and a half.

41:09 I am actually down 22.2 So I lost another seven almost seven pounds. Okay, so now I'm doing like two a couple pounds a week Yeah So honestly, I think a lot of it. That's good that most of that happened from going into the hospital till now So basically the long story short is I am behind by thirty two point eight pounds. Yes Now she if she but she's only got basically 13 pounds to get back to her original pre-pregnancy No, baby, and and she looks at right like she's yeah.

41:51 Yeah, so So she's a great pregnant though. Yes It was honestly it was after the pregnancy where she really suffered with the lot like the water weight. It was it was Yeah, it was hard but That's all on the men now and good 13 and you got 30. So well, so if she gets back and I'm sure she will I shouldn't even say if When she gets back down to third to the neck of the last 13 that she's got to lose That would mean I would have 45 pounds to go to tie So and I don't know if that's possible Sure, I think I could probably than you I think I can I think I can probably You never know you never know.

42:37 I'm not sure if I'm really trying to make an effort to Because I'm doing most of the food prep and stuff and it's funny because free it is one of those things I don't know if you've had this. I'm sure you have had this experience as a father Hit me up rather that I Was like what's for dinner? I haven't thought of anything like what do you want me to go get? and and yesterday you mean but Kelly looked at me and said well, we've been ordering in a lot and Basically was like I really wish there was something that was a more healthy option course for the baby because what she goes in Comes out and I was like, oh And I could and I then I couldn't do it.

43:22 I couldn't go get right you make sense Couldn't go get food and I just like okay And I made a nice tomato sauce with Florentine and And I had some meatballs in it from the freezer boiled up some coffee much much healthier had a nice meal and So I think the I am I'm feeding my wife that's feeding my baby Is gonna make you is gonna make me just as a halo effect. You are that person once you see the steps Yeah of what you're doing. Yeah, like now that being said I Picked up Taco Bell for lunch for us But so I think I think it will I think it'll help and we're going into summer I'll be doing all kinds of work outside But so that's it.

44:20 So I'm down. I'm up. I'm upside down by 32.8 But I'll tell you right now you did well because I think I said this in prior episodes. I was not as Smart, I gained both Pregnancies. Yeah, didn't even think about dieting. Really wasn't even part of I was that because I Would imagine your mom must have been around a lot. Was your mom cooking? Well, like that's it. Like that's just that It's not even fast food. Yeah, she doesn't eat fast food, right? Oh Got it, you know, I got a cook for the you have to be a Superman not the game We gain weight and then and then of course we were talking about it's so much easier when you have a team Player.

45:07 Hey, you want to get ice cream? How about how about some this that and the other you just you know, and so I You know come in Julie. You lost weight you lost weight. No this process. So that's good. Yeah Hopefully I can keep hopefully I can keep going. I think I can Like the little engine that could So we'll we'll see how it goes. But anyways, I'll be guys. Yeah, we another I almost I will almost guarantee because the calorie deficit that that Kelly has right now with breastfeeding I Bet you anything the next time we do this. She's back to her start. We have more or less She's gonna like I guarantee it because she's constantly She's got to be burning five six seven hundred calories a day just Yeah on top of her normal.

45:56 Well, so that's good. You guys are on the right track. Oh, yeah, we're doing Okay, so that brings us to the end of the diaper diet and we can move into What just happened? So Okay, this is a teaser in beginning. Yeah, we talked a little bit like this. So this is something that I often will say Because especially now because things are happening so fast we're going through different things and I'll say to Kelly So what should we talk about and she's like, well, it would be funny to talk about the diaper thing And I'm like, she's and she's like just make sure Kind of basically her point was don't make us sound stupid Because we're not stupid but but when you don't get a lot of sleep stupidity is probably one of the Things that we fall into this is just I mean it's it is funny, but we would basically tell me what happens she's She's little right?

46:52 So in the beginning six pounds. She was under six pounds, right when we got home. Absolutely, and so we have the the end size or zero size Diapers, okay, so we're using pampers. They they seem nice enough. Yep, but She still had her little umbilical cord thing yep, so you have to be careful with the diaper not irritating or Interfering with that and she's so little and she there's no hips. There's nothing to keep holding the holding stuff up, right? And so we're both struggling with what do we do? So we started rolling down the front Okay, so you roll down the front a little pull around But and that really didn't seem to work so that I'm playing around with it and trying to get it to look like it fits Right.

47:43 So I start rolling the back down But when you roll the back down then the little tabbies that stick are the wrong way So you got to like do a twist so it's becoming increasingly complicated and there's you're MacGyver No, we're like I've heard and and then we start having and almost within a day or so Was the first time I was out at the table Kelly's in the bedroom, which is right kind of door to the our bedroom is right there kind of by the near our dining room table and she's in the room and the dogs are in there and all of a sudden The dogs the dogs respond to all kinds of noises outside But I don't hear I didn't hear anything and all of a sudden Rumpel and Watson come charging out barking and I'm like what's it?

48:28 Kelly comes around the corner and I'm like what what happened? And Well, your daughter pooped so loud it scared Rumpel. Oh my god, that's hilarious She's a cereal But but then what we had we started having problems with blowouts, yeah, yeah Right. So then it's like we were doing like it was We were ordering more sleep sacks because I was like I was doing a load of laundry every day and they go It's like all over the outfit the sleep sack the pad underneath the sheet like Yes, it's all it's a lot.

49:10 So at this point, this was early on maybe a So the the one lactation consultant really nice older lady that works for Summerwood pediatrics I don't remember her name, but she's great. We've seen her a couple times. She's like, what do you have any other questions? And Of course Kelly we are not too proud to ask even the most ridiculous questions and So your Kelly looks at me and looks she's like well We're having a problem with blowouts with the diapers and and she's like, okay. Well, like well, why don't we change her? And she's good and she just shows us and she's just like just put them on tight And make sure the flares are there and sure enough That's all you had to do was just put them on top.

49:59 No folding. No wrapping. No nothing and then no more Because that's that's the number one thing that we were doing wrong. Yeah. Yes is the tighter to the seal. Yes Yeah, I thought I were we just nervous enough. No, it was tight But I was trying to like get it on an angle And trying to roll sometimes where it was just make it as tight as you can Right and and that's that's all that's all it took and then the ruffle You got to make sure the ruffle around the leg, right is flared out. All right, but they're really it's these things are amazing I didn't it's just the other day. I had no idea because I'm always I check and I'm like, oh it's wet or it's It's a number two And Kelly tells me the other day just look at the stripe.

50:43 I'm like, what are you talking about? There's a stripe on the outside of the diaper that turns blue if it's a wet. I didn't know that So I'm like, okay there it is, so no there So there were good there with the diaper thing, but that was it what I think now is fun is yeah We had so many of those now that that problem has gone away. The new problem is Going through multiple diapers in a change she has this thing like I have multiple times now we call I I Kind of talked to her all the time while I'm doing these then when I'm changing and I'm always like so is it good? What's it gonna be? Are we gonna have a single a double or we're gonna go for a grand slam because one time literally four diapers It took me for one change and I'm like, I'm doing it.

51:31 I'm trying to be proactive When we start off I open up the little tub of desiccant. I have a wipe ready yeah, I put the new diaper under the existing diaper so I can remember and I do it and She poops poops on my hand. She pees a little it's good and it's just like so now I'm getting better at anticipating but yeah, it's like for a while there was like almost always a double or at least a ground rule though and Sometimes a triple in the one time. It was a grand slam I'm doing the math on my head. I'm like, these are 87 cents each. Yeah, like you're going through this is gonna go up another Grand yeah, like we already have graduated to buying like the 200 packs because you yeah you go through them so fast So so speaking about that.

52:21 Mm-hmm another throwback to a Previous episode. Have you used the diaper genie? Well, the diaper genie is another that that almost made the list of it is it's fantastic But there's no more sausage. Oh, no There's no twist. What is it? Now? It's just a tube You pull it out. Oh, so it doesn't it is a snake as they said it is a snake. Yes, there's no twisting Literally, but it works. It's super effective. Yes. Yes. It does a good job. No, no problems with odor. Very nice. So so Yeah, so the diaper change thing that was one that like she's just the woman I'm sure the woman's thing at least two people are idiots.

53:01 How are you having a hard time with? rubber bands Why is there duct tape? Yeah, it was not good So there was that the other thing that I think I said very early on as far as how quickly They're moving how quickly things are moving and changing. Sure is I said to Kelly like maybe a weekend like The the baby we came home with has already disappeared. Oh, yeah, it is just it is Unbelievable how Because you're fascinated by this you're looking at all the time But it she just changes so quickly that that's my photos from night to morning Yeah, when you start going back through photos, like what?

53:48 Yeah, it is a me It is amazing, especially because she was so small and so skinny so now she's starting to plump up and she's got a little you know, little cheeks and chubby cheeks and The thought of the disappearing baby, she's got yeah, whatever She's she's on like version 3.0 already, right? Right, right. It's just when you leave and you fall in love with Each version is like oh, yeah. Okay. This is exactly what I I thought you look like, you know, then you look at picture goes Oh my god, that's nothing like we brought home Honest honestly you what you just hit on is exactly last last time when I was talking about how I wanted to have this profound Feeling to be able to explain what it meant and I think what you just said is Since then I've thought about it it is I Think that's what it boils down to is if you have been lucky enough at any point in your life Hopefully everyone has to to be in that madly in love with somebody That oh, this is this is the person.

54:54 This is the this is the person for me And that's a wonderful thing and hopefully it lasts longer but is it is also the intensity of it is fleeting I think and it's there and Hopefully it builds into something that lasts a long time when we're talking about a relationship but that intense Realization is fleeting it goes away. Yeah, this is a day after day adding of Exactly of a just ramping up like It is just you can't you are you can't pause like you just you you think you I can't possibly love this little Girl anymore and then she just looks at you Yeah, and it's more and more and more, you know what the crazy thing is.

55:43 Hmm I have a 24 year old and an 18 year old and I look at them and I have the same Still falling in love that wonderful feeling. Oh, yeah, these are my boys. Yeah, this is my baby. Yeah This is my baby. No, even though one baby comes with a face full of hair You know, we have a drink together the other when you need a ladder to get the other one I need a ladder to comb his hair. I Look at them and they're in every day you fall in love again and more and more Because they're your baby. Like you said the look of them from bringing them home. Yeah, it's totally different from four weeks Yeah now, yeah, so I'm and I'm still in that process. Yeah, I'm still like everyday looking I'm going.

56:23 Oh my god They look different from a year ago, but now I just fell in love Keep falling in love with your children or you should at least And it's it's a great. It's a great. It's a great time. No, honestly, it hit me in the middle of the night It was funny because the way we've been doing it. I'm very lucky I try to like get extra sleep for Kelly leading into the overnight and then in the morning But she isn't making me get up in the middle of the night, right like we're together in the room But she's handling the feeding And I think we talked about it a long time ago one of the episodes with my CPAP Yeah, my CPAP allows me to be completely under the covers.

57:05 So if the lights are on That it doesn't matter Yeah, we got this little she turns the light on to change her to set up to feed I can just go Pull the car never I never realized that because you have you can you're breathing it's feeding air to you. It's like a deep-sea diver Just so I can literally pull the comfort up all the way up over my head I didn't even think about that. I do it all the time now because I just get all the way under and that's dark So I I'm not bothered by the light and I can sleep but then I'll wake up and sometimes I'll just hang out under there I'll hear This is Ridiculous and stupid Really touching hopefully is I'm one time.

57:53 I wake up and it's under and I know the lights are on But then I listen and I hear my wife humming Moon River to my baby and And I just think how I couldn't love her anymore And I think it is the If you're lucky enough, and I consider myself Very lucky lucky and very very blessed that you this this Expanding relationship and love you have with your child also translates over to How I feel about my my wife absolutely hearing that I just I would like of course and then I peek out And she's just so a machine on your crying Strap throw my mask But and she's just you know beaming happy She's just enjoying the mother of the moment you being a mom and it and it's why we talked about that's another thing that we talked about a lot in the last couple weeks is Understanding.

58:57 I think we both see I see her all the time There is a relationship there with the baby. Oh, yeah with her breastfeeding that is a absolutely Beautiful thing to see what a bond, but yeah, I feel and I feel like What do I like? Where's my bond? What do I have to offer? Where's my bond that can compete like I joke around and say I'm daddy. I'm the favorite but daddy can't do that So and I know you know what your bond is gonna be or your thing is gonna be taking care of your wife Well, I think I think there is there is that equals the baby's gonna be also yeah I that is I am to I take great pleasure and pride now in Like I'm I'm doing everything everything I can because I yeah, I can't do that.

59:49 I think as men that's what we Yeah, we can't do the others. We can't do things. We can't we can't give birth. So it's a big one at first Yeah, and then after that you're like, oh, yeah, I can't do this either right, and I can't do that either and So I think now is the time where you you build that bond with your wife because that will trickle To the to your daughter. Yeah, and then I think as fathers Later, we we have that building bond. I think it What I think is fun is since I'm seeing that and and and thinking how wonderful it is but at the same time thinking I don't have that sure so when I interact with her is First of all, it gives you a license for me It gives you a license to be a complete idiot Oh, yeah, right You think I can just be I have these conversations with her and I will talk to her like she is a reporter Like she is one of my employees like I work for her.

1:00:51 Yeah, like and I will hear and I she's the Queen Like and it'll be you know, you know, I don't speak Spanish like it will go back and forth and and I will hear in Kelly will laugh right and she'll just start laughing at me, but it's fun It's fun. It makes it fun. And then the ultimate fun has been building a playlist of songs Yeah, so when she is those moments where there's some recognition and she's she's awake and interacting and I'm literally Dancing around with her singing Louie Prima songs. It is that's gonna be something a little much it's so much fun and and Kelly brings it up and she's like, I'm I'm kind of jealous of I'm I'm jealous of that stuff with you like that.

1:01:37 You get to do that stuff with her and And and I'm like, I'm jealous. Yeah what you keep her alive. Yeah I Trust me like she's only happy when I saw she's only happy when I pick her up because she knows I'm gonna bring her you But but I think it's nice because I think she sees she sees that there is bonding there And I see it certainly with her and she has like she's singing to her all the time, too Yeah, and then I think music is gonna be a very bad just Reminded me what I used to do to the kids when they were at that time I was just speaking about earlier when they're sturdy where you can kind of go with them So we used to be we'd be at the you know restaurant or sitting down whatever and I would have the baby with me And Trina would sit there and you know have a time She's not holding the baby or feeding the baby or doing anything and she's eating or and I would take You know take their hands, you know would pretend doing like Bruce Lee He would start doing blocks Do all these oh My god and Trina would laugh Natalia or Nick would their faces like I don't know what you're doing.

1:02:56 But but they would laugh when they're Just brings back so many memories of doing that in restaurants and and stuff where it's like that little Like you said we can do that joking bonding. Yes that you know, I think that's one of the things they I've seen a lot about read a lot about that. Yeah, it's play like play like that is good for babies So yeah, I'm looking forward to I'm looking forward to lots lots more. I was lucky enough to Be a stay-at-home dad with Nick. Yeah, I was really Yeah, even though I would wake up and run to my mother With my first child by Nick I was like, I'm good I can do this.

1:03:37 Yeah, so Honestly, like I think about yesterday was my first day back and I had a you know full day and it was a lot more than a couple times that I thought I Would what am I already missing? Yeah, like they're gonna like she's gonna go for a walk and I want to go for a walk Like it's it's the worst thing when You're lucky enough to be home. Yeah, you know when you have to leave the house Yeah, as both parents. Oh That will be yeah, that's that I can imagine man thinking about it's tough how hard things are And we have all this like people didn't have When there was no paternity leave No, there was none of that Yeah, like there was a maybe But even with you know for my like my sister when she was having her kids there was none of that She had Literally my sister Lucille in Texas when she had her daughter my niece.

1:04:40 She had four weeks off her husband worked she had four weeks off she went back to work gave her notice and She could she couldn't she couldn't do it four weeks and I I can't what is it now? What well, I mean, I think I think different places are different. I mean Kelly her benefits are excellent She gets 12. Okay. The state is 12. Okay, the state benefit I get eight Which is great. I wasn't even imagined us Father yeah. No. Yeah, so it is it is nice But yeah, it's it's an incredible. It's an incredible experience and them and you realize when you start to see how quickly it goes by You think yeah, like it's too fast.

1:05:25 It's got to be That's another thing my sister in Texas Lucille said she's like that when she's like when I meet what When my time is over and I meet God the first thing I'm gonna tell him is the first year of life should take two years You got it should because it goes by so it goes by and there's so many things you're throwing into that one year Yeah, right. Yeah You guys slow down. I always we make a joke with when we go on vacation We're gonna slow our vacation down it never works because it feels like it's always it goes That's how life should be like, let's slow this down. So this part advantage of every moment Yeah, and it's hard It's easy to say it's hard when you're in it because things have to get done people have to go to work Yeah, you have to make money you have to provide but it does go quickly Yeah, but that's why when you do have those moments you do them and you cherish them Yep, and you take the photos and the pictures.

1:06:18 I mean we were lucky enough. We have video Yeah, you know, we're art, you know our we didn't grow up with video our parents Yeah, we're lucky if I see a picture of my parents when they were young. I don't even know how they look like, right? Have you ever seen your parents as babies? Oh, yeah I got a couple I don't know. I can't say I did luckily not my mom. I don't think right my my dad There's some pictures Yeah, and now we have like movies of our children, yeah, like you know, I'm so there it is That doesn't make me think of some of this is another thing that has happened in the last couple weeks so right before Or no right after the right after we got home my my sister Lucille.

1:07:00 She's come up a lot this time Yeah, she's all Texas is all over it. So when she had my my nephew That was the first grandchild. Okay, right and my dad at the time decided he was gonna Make he made a cradle Okay, so and you know, he did like DIY stuff and he did some woodworking stuff but you know those that was this was the days before you Could go to Home Depot and get you like everything you need to everything you need to so but he made he made her a cradle and she has had it she has had it since and But nobody her kids weren't interested in it.

1:07:41 She had you she had used it with both of her kids And but it was kind of in her garage and she offered to and she offered it to me and I was like, yes, please Like you take that stuff. Oh, I Was I remember him? I remember him make making it and then I was thinking about it So she she she she went through a real hassle to break it down and ship it to me from Texas It got here and I'm looking at it Well, she was she was able to it was a lot of work to take the rockers off of the bottom So she could fit it in a reasonable box. It was hundreds of dollars to ship it Sure, which I still I still have to send her reimbursement for it.

1:08:25 Good reminder, but So when I got it, I'm looking I'm thinking gee and I'm trying to figure out how old my how old my nephew is so my father Made that he was the same age. I am now When he made that cradle for his first grandchild, so his first grandchild was your age. He was born was His he was yeah, cuz it was it would have been he was born in 1922 and I think Shane would have been born in 78 78 or 79 so he was he was he was 56 years old. I will be 56 this year So he is the same he made that at the same age I am now and I'm gonna be I'm gonna refinish it and and make it and make it, you know Yes spruce it up a little bit.

1:09:17 It was awesome. It was and it's fun to just see something that he made and how he approached because I think he made it out of like When I'm looking at him like I'm looking at the lumber, I think he made it out of like framing lumber Oh, really? Like it's like out. It's like because it wasn't like because back then I don't know where you would even gotten like good wood Yeah, yeah, you know unless he went it was working, you know Dimensional it look like a dimensional lumber So I'm gonna have I have fun with that. The other thing that I think is really cool Thanks to the generosity of my my cousins so my my dad was one of Three it was him my uncle Johnny and my aunt Mary my uncle Johnny Has my three cousins Mark Jack and Judy Judy lives here and lives in the house where they grew up in Liverpool, okay, and My uncle had years ago when he was still alive apparently in the basement of the house My father and His siblings grew up on Highland Street on the north side.

1:10:26 There was a High chair. It is a high chair rocker So it full it looks like a little rocking chair But you can pull it up and it will come up into a high chair like a tripod Like four legs. It just I'll have to I'll have to put a picture on it. I haven't It's like it just it's hard to explain but the it's like the the rockers are doubled So when you rock it up It goes like that. Okay, and it turns it turns it goes it from a from a rocking chair to a high chair I'm sure and that's neat. So this was My father like I said was born in 1922. This was the high chair that my father was fed in This is his high chair and then his siblings.

1:11:12 I mean somebody has this I have it now They my uncle found it and he had taken a I guess he had learned how to cane like the seat He recaned it Refinished it. I remember he showed me when he first did it One of the rockers had kind of rotted because it was in the basement. He repaired it Made it so it looks it looks original, but it looks brand-new and And it works all fine. And she happened to be going through the attic of their home they've got all this stuff from other from from, you know, family family members and They were generous enough to let me have it Wow.

1:11:53 So literally it's over. It's it's got to be a hundred and three years old Because yeah, and it was my literally I'll be able to put my daughter in a high chair that my father Said and he yeah, that's cream. I could I just about cried. That's crazy. What? Yeah, I was Absolutely, I couldn't be more grateful that's to have that so now I'm gonna think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna finish The cradle he made to match the high chair set so it'll look at least the same finish But yeah, it's a really cool. It's really cool. Yeah, it's all the back is all carved in late It's really beautifully made.

1:12:33 Was that a bought thing or somebody made a custom? I Can't imagine anybody who could have made that it was something that they they must have bought Yeah, that's it. That's gonna be man. Yeah, I was so I mean, it's absolutely you want to pass on Yeah, I was absolutely absolutely thrilled to have that that's a cool thing man you how life keeps going You know like we always talk about unfortunately death happens. Yeah, but you know what? We keep living man, yeah, we keep learning things there's absolutely Memories and yeah life, I you know, I'm not trying to be savvy but it I don't you know, we doesn't really end I mean, I you know, we lost our parent, you know your parents and I lost my mom But we're always talking about them like they're here.

1:13:26 And yeah, it keeps them. It keeps their life I think there's yeah, I think you can you can I think there's certain things that always live on I think yeah, it's some for some people a lot of bad things live on. Yeah, and the wrong things live on But if you're lucky You notice in yourself The good the good things and you can feel like yeah that your life is a little in in some way an extension of theirs and yeah, it's a wonderful thing and then when there are these things that have just Found that find their find their way back in your life. That's what I mean the idea that that exactly That's what I mean. Like, oh my god.

1:14:06 No, that's still living. Yeah, that's still around. That's still current. That's still here. Yeah, you really You have to realize not everybody grew up and grows up like in a good situation. No, no, and it's sad Because when you look at this babies this innocent babies that yeah should have everything and love and Warmth and and that's not that's not always the case. It is. It's very different. I think yeah, you're it's good To have that it's good. It's good to see it sometimes because it does make you appreciate Yeah, the things we went through you thought we were going and it makes you appreciate the the good stuff Yeah that much more But yeah, so that was a that was a Really nice.

1:14:53 That's nice. Yeah. No, I was yeah keep around and big things time you feed them You're gonna be like, this is crazy. Yes first time the babies on there. Yep. Yeah, it'll be a while It was my dad that my dad sat in that thing. It is it is absolutely Yeah, it's crazy. So big things to my cousin Judy. Yes who listens to the podcast out. Yes, it's a Very very awesome thing. So but that that's kind of where we are. I think we might be able to get back to Back to weekly. So we had a couple two-week breaks, but he was screaming in the streets We need more to find out we need another diaper diet update Yeah, I think we'll be able to get back into that rhythm it's going good We appreciate you making it to the end of yet another episode of the gray hair and daycare podcast What do you think?

1:15:50 Did you think we would ever make it to 22? You know, I Honestly, I'm gonna say it and I'm not just saying it. Yes. I did. Yeah, because I know when When you start something and when I start something it usually yeah goes well Episode 22 in the book. That's it. We will see you again soon. Thank you 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 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 Have any hilarious parenting stories of your own?

1:16:45 questions about navigating fatherhood later in life or even when normal people do it email us at ghdc.podcast at gmail.com We'd love to hear from you. And now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed