Training for the Diaper Dash, Baby Led Weaning, & the first "Dada" : Episode 30 Part 2

0:00 So not surprisingly, the biggest fans of baby led weaning so far in this household are the dogs because most of the food, most of the food ends up on the floor. Right. It's just constantly falling. And it's proven Rumpel is clearly smarter. Rumpel is very strategic, gets right down there underneath. She's like waiting. She knows what Watson is watching because he has a different perspective. Right. So he's up above the table of her, of her high chair. So he's watching what's happening. Rumpel is smart enough to just be down there waiting for whatever benefits.

0:48 This is the gray hair and daycare podcast with a combined age of 111 years and a combined IQ right in that same range. Your hosts, Frank Cereo and Carlo Russo. Welcome back to episode 30 part two. We've got a few more stories that we just didn't have time to get to last week. So we're back to finish them up and get you all caught up. So thank you for coming back and spending the time with us. And here is the rest of episode 30. Okay. We are back with our, something we have not done in a while. And we did a similar thing many, many episodes ago with a different, a different product of a similar stripe and, but we're going to do a new episode of Crash Test Daddy.

1:43 So Crash Test Daddy today, we at one time did an, a different ergo baby product. And, but this one is called the Ergo Baby Omni Classic Baby Carrier. So what happened was, so we had a baby carrier that Carlo tried out and we did kind of a time lapse video of him getting into it many, many episodes ago. Maybe I'll see if I can find some of that archival footage to put in here, but that one was basically for infants, very small. So for teeny tiny babies, not for me.

2:25 And, but so I wanted us, we're getting to the point where it would really be useful to have one. So I tried that one. Kelly really hasn't used it very much, but she's used it a couple of times, but baby Josie was never really a fan and it was just not big enough now. So I did a bunch of research and this ergo baby, these are really good baby carrier, papooses, whatever you want to call whatever you want to call them. But there's a new model that came out. So again, my recommendation, this is my hot tip for if you're going to get one of these guys, if you're going to get a baby carrier, this is the model that is outgoing.

3:06 This is the old model. There's a new model that's a lot more expensive. So the new model is basically just like this, but it's $199. You can get these for 134 bucks and they are good for children that are from seven pounds to 45 pounds, which I can't imagine carting around a 45 pound child in this, but it is called the ergo baby omni classic baby carrier. It is $134 on Amazon right now is the, that's the best deal. But I want you to try to see it. Do you have any idea how you would do it? I don't even know what I'm looking at.

3:48 So it's kind of, it is adjustable. Okay. I have one question. Okay. This must be the actual, what you're looking at. What the baby, is this the front or is this, I mean, obviously the labels are, yes, it's the bad. That would be against you, right? So now you can do this. This one can do multiple positions. So it can be in front of you, centered baby facing out. Okay. Baby facing in. Okay. It can be adjusted to your hip and it can also be on your back. So you can, a backpack, like a backpack. But I will say, I don't like that too many things can happen back there.

4:30 I don't know if I would like that either. I don't, can't see people. But so I can, I'll show you here. So hand me that thing. And essentially what this is, it's very, it's kind of hard to picture without doing it. So maybe we'll have you when we're done or I'll cut to a scene where you model this for us. But essentially this is the waist. Oh, okay. So this goes around. So it has a little lumbar pad. Okay. Like the fanny pack that goes in the back. So that's it, right? So that goes in and then this becomes kind of what they are in. So the leg, leg. So they're sitting in this pouch arms up here.

5:11 So it kind of sits on you that way. Gotcha. That makes sense. And then if you want, you can rotate it one way or the other. And that goes around your, that goes to your shoulders, like a backpack shoulders, except the other way. Right. So instead of right. So it's going around and then you clip it together. The baby's going to be here. So the baby's a front. So I like it because basically when I'm using this and I'm the one who's using it mostly now, she is right here. Yeah. So she's right beneath me facing forward. So every once in a while I say it's funny, I'll say vibe check and we'll go to a mirror and she'll look at, she's all smiley. She really likes it. So in the morning when I've been using it in the morning, it's, it's comfortable. She's right there.

5:51 So it does get a little warm. Some of the models used to be cotton. This is a more breathable fabric, okay, but it's all adjustable. So for her right now, it's set up for her. She's about 14 pounds. Now our typical morning, Kelly turns the baby over to me about seven 30 and she gets ready and she's off to work and Carrie doesn't get here until about nine. So usually I wrap up whatever I'm doing and then I get this thing on, pop her in and then she's with me and we will go, I'll prep her bottles for the day. I'll just walk around with, she's just with me while I'm getting stuff ready for whatever dinner, whatever we're doing. If I'm doing laundry, she's there with me and she loves it.

6:34 She, she, and every once in a while she'll look up at me. The nice thing is if you have like a bowl of cereal or something, you can place it right on their head and just put it right there. Like a little shelf. It's a, that's so, but our kids are there to help us out. They are that she is, I think it's really cool and I'll, I'll post the link to it. So, but this, and this is a good, again, the new model, not much better than this. I think it has a cell phone holder where the baby wants the little pocket. That's for wipes and little, little snacks and yeah, whatever. But this one I think is the best. Like again, not as expensive as the new model. Still available. $134 on Amazon. The ergo baby Omni classic baby carrier.

7:17 According to me and AI, this is the one to get. So that is our crash test. Daddy look good. Okay. Don't miss any of the fun. Subscribe on YouTube. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and tech doc. Now we will move right into what just happened. So one of the most important, what just happened as we've talked about in the past, teething has been a big thing. Lots of, lots of that stuff. Nothing's breaking through yet, but we did get a recommendation. So my, my brother-in-law's daughter who lives in London, Michal, she has a little boy, cute little guy.

8:00 And when he was going through teething, she heard that we were having some teething challenges from my sister when they were talking and recommended this stuff. It is called it's camellia oil, camellia oil, and the brand is boron camellia teething drops. They are $10 and 52 cents on Amazon. Now I, we had already tried. We had the little refrigerated teethers. We had the baby aura gel. We had scotch. We had the tile and all when it's really bad. This stuff really worked well. It comes in a little like a, like a little tube.

8:40 You crack it and you squirt it in there and it really, really worked. Do you rub it in or just squirt it in there? That's it. And it really, it helps. He was kidding about the scotch. I was. Although my parents did that with me. I'm like, yeah, I don't know. That's when I had my first love affair with scotch. You are scotch. I am scotch. Okay. No. So that stuff work. This stuff. Yep. So it's boron camellia oil. Uh, absolute game changer. Way better, way better than the original thumbs up on that. Yes. Big, big, big thumbs up. $10 and 52 cents for a box on Amazon.

9:21 It's a bunch of them in there. And it's like a single 10. That's nothing for a piece. Yeah. You'd pay, you'd pay a hundred dollars at a hundred times. Sometimes it's very low grade. It's not really about, but sometimes it really, you can tell she's hurting and that's, this stuff really has taken the edge off. So cool. That stuff is great. So we have that recommendation. We tried that stuff out. One of the big things that we have started since the last time we visited was baby led weaning. So have you ever heard about that? you were, you mentioned that earlier. So baby led weaning basically is, you know, the typical, what we will probably had as a, as kids and what a lot of people did, baby foods, everything being pureed and kind of cooked and smooth.

10:11 Okay. That was very typical. Yeah. Baby led weaning introduces food in a different way. Okay. And it's none of that stuff. The theory behind it is that a lot of times kids who get started on baby food and it has some negative, sometimes some negative impacts. One of them is a lot of kids who get raised with baby food compared to other methods. They are more picky eaters and they have more issues with consistency, like not necessarily taste, but textures because everything is smooth for so long.

10:54 The other thing is when you do that, it's obviously it's a lot of work because you're never, you're making dinner for yourself and then you got to do whatever you got from the baby. It's always something separate for the baby. There's also the idea that you're feeding the kid at a particular time, whether they're necessarily are hungry or not. Sometimes kids can get the kind of a bad association with sometimes I eat just because it's time to eat, not because I'm hungry. So baby led weaning, the idea is to let them develop a relationship with food as something they experience first. And then if they happen to accidentally mash it in their mouth and they like it, then that's it.

11:41 And then if they're hungry, they're going to eat it. Okay. Right. So the idea is you expose them to different foods in big pieces. Like let's, I don't know why I'm thinking like a piece of potato, baked potatoes. One of the things is a bit piece of a sweet potato. Okay. Well one of the things is just give them a big chunk of banana so big that they can't possibly choke on it, but big enough that they might cram, they might taste it or lick or do that stuff. So you don't have to make, you don't have to have baby food. You don't even have to cook anything special, anything special. So the other night I screwed up cause Kelly had made dinner and she made some broccoli for us to go with what we were eating.

12:26 And then there was some broccoli set aside. Well I just thought there were a couple of pieces of broccoli there and I ate them, but she had set aside some and didn't put salt or anything. So basically all you gotta do is whatever you're preparing for you, just don't, don't season it, don't season it. Right? So if we have broccoli, she has the broccoli too. That'd be a hand, you know, you hand her the little broccoli for it and that's it. So not surprisingly, the biggest fans of baby led weaning so far in this household are the dogs because most of the food, most of the food ends up on the floor, right? It's just constantly falling and it's proven. Rumpel is clearly smarter.

13:06 Rumpel's very strategic, gets right down there underneath. She's like waiting. She knows what Watson is watching cause he has a different perspective, right? So he's up above the table of her, of her high chair. So he's watching what's happening. Rumpel is smart enough to just be down there waiting for whatever benefits of being down there. Yeah, yeah. But you do all the same stuff with like being careful about introducing potentially allergic foods or things like that. But that's it. You kind of let them smash it up. You let them play with it because yeah, it gets real messy, but it's going to happen either way. It has the side benefit of, look, you don't have to, you don't have to do the special cooking. The baby can kind of eat what you're eating.

13:46 The other day we had chicken. We just give her a big chunk of a chunk of a chicken breast and she's playing with it, right? Sometimes you mash some of it up and put it on a spoon, but you give them the spoon. The side benefit of it is it's really good for their fine motor skills and hand to eye coordination. So one of my employees did this with her. She is now actually getting ready to leave and go on maternity leave. She's going to have her third. She did this with her second and says that even though he's two or three years younger, he's way a way neater eater. He's better now because his, his fine motor skills developed better because of this.

14:31 So I don't know what we did. I mean we must've had like the mushed up carrots and all that. I mean, did you buy the, do you remember having the jars or a couple of times? I mean, we, I mean I, so long ago I just mashed stuff up. I could be wrong again. That could be a slice of pizza. I think it was fine. Yeah. Well he's eating pasta or something. I don't know. I mean obviously we, we had to do some kind of, I remember buying baby food, but it wasn't like jars and jars of it. And it's fun because both of my kids had some kind of like palate problems with their food. Like Natalia, very picky and likes her. Yeah. So maybe he did. We did more of that with him than yeah.

15:13 So it's called baby led weaning. And the thing that I think is neat is there is an app. Of course there's an app for everything. The app is called solid starts, solid starts and it's, you do, it is a subscription. You pay 99 bucks a year, but it gives you kind of step by step all these things you can do that are like a side dish for grownups, but it's a good thing to use for the baby. So we have like, we are, we've done, we've done banana, sweet potato. We've done zucchini. We tried applesauce the other day with the spoon. We're not sure. We think Kelly thinks she, she had, she got a little broken out. So the baby did.

15:54 Yeah. Now I, Kelly, Kelly thinks it might be because it was applesauce. I think it's so highly unlikely that she would be allergic to apple. Give more apples. Give them, just let them just, yeah, I was, we're going to, we, she actually just called the pediatrician about it earlier today and they said, we'll hold off on apples until you know, you see us again. But I think it was just, it could have been from any babysit. Oh my God. Rashes. The foods are on them. They're, I mean, yeah, she's covered in sweet potatoes. She looked like an orange, like of course, I mean, got better safe than sorry. Again, your first child to your third. I'm like, that's not a rash. Rub it on them. Yeah, exactly. You'll know if they're allergic.

16:34 So we've tried a bunch of different stuff and we're continuing to do that. But the app helps with suggestions, recipes, and how to introduce the foods that might be more allergic. And we're going to be using that as well. So it's solid starts as the app. Solid starts. It's called, there's a book that will be a part of book report in the future. I'm sure called baby led weaning. Kelly has already read it. The app is called solid starts and that's kind of what we have been doing and it has led to yet another product recommendation. Although I think Kelly found this one and it is good. This stuff is fantastic. She swears by it. It is called miss mouth's messy eater, stain treater, messy eater, stain treater.

17:23 So when the kids covered in sweet potatoes, it comes a little, I'll put up a, I'll put up a link. You've squirt, squirt, squirt and throw it in the hamper. And then when you wash it, everything comes out clean. Also, I can, Oh, it's like a pre-treater pre-treat. So that shout it out. And so it's like, so, so basically, because if you don't like, we've already had a couple of pieces of her clothes that if you don't immediately wash them or hit them with this stuff, it's their stain forever, especially like the carrots and the, yeah, yeah. All that's right. Well, everything's orange. So this stuff, that is, that stuff is great because it does get messy. Cool. Does it work for anybody? We're just baby food. It might work for me too. I hasn't been suggested yet, but it could, it could work.

18:05 It's like a 16 ounce spray bottle. It's not cheap. 16 ounce spray bottle is 29 bucks. So, but worth every penny. If you're buying a baby first, we had the state fair here where we are. We went to the fair. Did you, we did now. Did you always do that with the kids or yes, we went to the fair. But yeah, so we, we went obviously. Yeah. She's so little. We walked around. We went right to the more for yourselves at that point. And it was a stroller and there were my takeaways were there's a lot more food at the fair than there used to be. There's a lot more places to sit down. There's a lot more products for the obese and unhealthy. Oh yeah.

18:45 A lot of that stuff. And as a community, we are, we are not great looking. Yeah. It's a little, and it got more expensive, right? Obviously everything. I mean, it was eight bucks to get in and we didn't really, I'm talking about like the food. I think it's like over, it's pretty, it was $10 or more, right? Oh yeah. Sandwiches are like 1499. Yeah. I mean, we got a little pizza from Toss and Fire, which I really like, but it wasn't bad. It wasn't, I didn't think, Oh my God, how could it be this much? But there was a lot of stuff that you see about bringing a family. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it could be a lot. I mean, the state fair should be something that everybody's not like from New York city and has millions of dollars. You got, you know, people that, you know, you have three, four or five kids sometimes.

19:27 You bring them there and everything costs so much a drink. It does add up. I'm sure. We used to bring our own food. Oh yeah. We used to bring sandwiches and stuff, but it was fun. We walked around. The one encounter she did have, we went right to the agricultural buildings to see the animals. Sure. Oh yeah. We went to the dairy building. They had one calf in a small pen and kids could walk up. Yep. So I rolled her right up in her little stroller and the calf stuck her head in the head out through the rails and started licking her feet. And it was the first time that it was very clear. There is that moment for a little kid where they look at the parent for, should I be worried?

20:13 Yeah. Protection. She's like, is this okay? And she was, gave us that look like, is, are you like, is this everything fine? And we were both like, it's okay. She was fine. And then we kind of backed her away a little bit, but it was, these don't look like those things that licked me at home. Yeah. This is a lot, this is bigger than Watson. That was kind of cute. So that was about as interactive as the state fair got for, for a little baby Josie. We did that. We have made the transition now from six month to nine month close. Oh really? So even though she just turned six months, because she's long, she's sizing out of, well, she's eating chicken. She's got a turkey leg.

20:55 Turkey leg. Yeah. That was a, and that was a big transition. Cause it's like, you got to kind of box up everything else. And then isn't it crazy? All those clothes, like you like, Oh, okay. Oh, at the end there was like three outfits a day. Cause there were so many things that she had never even worn. Right. Right. The other thing that is nice is one of her cousins, her mom gave us a bunch of her clothes and some of the cutest stuff, uh, our little outfits from her cousin Isla. Uh, so we've been enjoying trying, trying those out every time. Almost every time I'm like, that's so cute. Where'd that come from? It's from Isla. I remember the first child you'd have to buy it. Oh yeah. Maybe hand-me-downs, you know, I remember, uh, uh, my brother would have some stuff, but you know, not many, but the second one, Oh yeah.

21:41 You get all the hand-me-downs from the brother. Yeah. Cause we had two boys. So we were like, we don't have to buy anything. Cause he just, you know, so it was cool. They could have headed your way. No. So that, that's been fun. The closet that I showed you in the last episode is now fully stocked with all kinds of, all kinds of stuff. So that's all, uh, all full. And then the, the big one, honestly, one of the big moments for us is something that, that I know Kelly has been waiting for, has been the, the rollover, right? Yeah. That's a big, that's a big developmental milestone. Same day rolls over and breaks out my personal favorite of all of these milestones broke out.

22:29 Dada. No. Same day. It was, I gotta tell you, I know she has no idea what it means. I know she has no idea that she hasn't made fully made the association to me yet. Or at least at that point, adding, she likes the sound of what it makes. She figured out. Dada. And so cool though. But you know what it means. I I'm getting, I'm getting, I'm tearing up talking about hearing that. Hearing that. I loved it. And so, Oh, it's just, I loved it. It's come from a little girl. And I know the baby's not, you know, they all have that. She has this thing now that she seems to like to do it. Like, like it's a whisper and she'll look at me.

23:10 Dada. Oh my God. And it's like, what do you do? Kelly's sitting there going, mama, mama, mama. She's been doing now. It's like, she's doing Dada, Josie, mama, trying to get her to under the, to get, to make the, make the connection. So I'm hoping there's a mama very soon today. Today was for the first time. Tata Tata Tata. She got a T sound. I don't know if that's, but the very distinct difference from the Dada, but yeah, so Dada and rolling over on the same day, which was awesome. And now she's even getting good at, she's, she's pressing up.

23:51 So she's holding herself up. She's doing, yep. I was talking to my sister in Texas today, Lucille, and she was asking if I have started in earnest to train for the baby races. Well, yeah. And she was, she got all about those. She had, Oh, I, well, I got to get serious. Now we're only a couple of months away where we got to be ready. And she's like, you need to think about, you need to have a plushie that is just for the races. Now when, when is this cruise potential cruise? So the cruise is already booked, ready to go. It's booked. Okay. Oh, it was booked before she was born. Uh, we, we plotted it out. It's going to be our family and Kelly's brother and his wife are joining us.

24:35 We have adjoining cabins. Really? Uh, yeah, yeah. They're there. They have, we'll have a little door that they can come and come back and forth between our cabin and their cab. I was thinking for some reason I thought all in one. No, no. Oh God. They have a cabin. That's why I looked at you like, no, no, no. But there's a little door that we can go like an adjoining hotel room. So it's a seven night cruise and it's like the second week of December. So what was the race again? So the races, uh, they call it, this is a Disney cruise. And what they do on every Disney cruise we've been on and we've been on a lot and finally we get to not be the weird people cause we'll have a kid. I think they stole the baby.

25:16 We need a DNA test. So what they do is on sea days when there's not as much to do, people aren't going ashore around midday in the atrium, they have an event and it's the Jack Jack baby races. So Jack Jack from the Incredibles. And they literally set up a five lane track. Sure. Of course. It was a sprint track and they race multiple heats and the usual. And then the winner of each heat then goes into a championship and they race for different prizes. So you have, you have one parent holding the baby at the start. You have a parent or a sibling or somebody enticing them. Sure. And then but that's it.

26:26 And then they just raced the babies and it's fun and it's fun because they will make everybody in the whole atrium is full. Hundreds of people all watching this cheering for the babies and it's always hilarious. Usually I mean seven to 10 months probably. So she's going to be babies crying, right? Aren't they freaking out like everybody's going, out of all the times we've done this, we've done it and every cruise we go on, we never missed the baby races and I have never seen a kid cry. Okay. There's a lot of just sitting there like what was like what's going on? How many babies? I know there's five, but it all depends. What's the most you've seen? 10. The most I've seen is like 15 babies.

27:08 Okay. They do three heat shots and then the final, right? Really? Yeah. Sometimes, sometimes people take this serious. Sometimes it's not as many. Okay. There's always some kid from Alabama that's like a ringer. Like it's like takes off like a rocket. That's funny, but it's fun because you never know what's like, it's always different, but it's such a cute thing. So Josie is curl. No, no. Now. No. But my hope is, which is why we booked it where we did. We booked it at the beginning of December. So she will be, well, she's six, seven, eight. She'll be nine months. Prime crawling age. So I'm hoping she can, you know, I'm sure. There's no idea.

27:49 What's no, what's I'm already, I've already worked out where we're going to, I've already done the designs in, in auto illustrator for the t-shirts that we will be wearing the team name. Her crew. Yes. Uh, maybe Josie. Yes. Baby Josie's pit crew. That's fun. Step aside. It's just her name on the front and then on the back busting farts and breaking hearts. Disney cruise 2025. All right. That's awesome, man. I forgot about that. That's December. Yeah. We're looking, we're looking forward to it. So, so I got it, but my sister was taking it very seriously. Like you have to have something that she's used to.

28:29 So when she sees it, she knows she has to run to it. We'll get there thinking about kind of the psychological underpinnings of this kind of race. Um, so I'm excited. It'd be fun. Can't wait to hear. We're looking forward to it. So we're going to get ready for that. Josie. That's right. The thing she's working on now is she should be the next milestone is sitting up on assisted. She still tips over so, but she's trying to brace herself. So doesn't her dad. She always, that's true. A lot. I think she always hits those, these kind of the physical, the milestones, like right at the point where she's supposed to, it's the other stuff. She's early, all the social stuff is, and kind of that stuff is early. But so we have that the other last weekend, I built her her first little bookcase for her nursery.

29:16 So it's a little juvenile bookcase. It's from a pottery barn kids or William Sonoma thing. I'll put up a picture of it cute and it's set up. So the books face out, not all right. So like a, are they like a library? So the kid can see and pick what book they want and it looks good. I was so happy because it fit right next to the mouse hole, the way it should. She's going to be reading to the mouse. She will probably read to the mouse. That's true. I think we're doing much better with our rhythm and I think she's gotten really used to and really starting to have genuine affection for Carrie. She's enjoying it for our caregiver. Yup. They're getting on really well.

29:57 Like if they're learning each other's, yeah, it's been nice. Um, this last yesterday was just great. I was actually able to go to run some errands and come home. And isn't it when you find that when you get a little bit of that freedom back, oh yeah, you know, like I always say, um, it's so like, oh, let me run to the store. I'll run to the store. No, really. I'll get that milk. What was ironic? Did I think I got, I didn't have my hair. I got a haircut since we recorded last. Yeah. Cause I came over, we came over for dinner and you just got your haircut. So that day it was funny because a lot of times I'm working, so I'm downstairs in the office, the baby's upstairs and she was having a hard time. She was crying and it's so hard to try to focus on work, hearing that.

30:41 So it's stressful. But I had a moment and I thought I'm going to go get it. I was like, normally I get a haircut every four weeks. My hair grows fast. I was at eight weeks. I had missed a haircut and I needed a cut. It was cold in here. And I was just going to go. I was like, I'm just going to go to the barber around the corner. I like it. So I'm like, okay, things are okay. I'm going to run real quick and I'm going to get my haircut. I walk in and there is like a, I don't know, three-year-old kid in the chair screaming. Of course. And I just, I looked at the, I thought, this is the good Lord just poking me. Like, you thought you were going to get away from that sound?

31:22 Guess what? I sit down with my guy. I was kind of shaking my head. He's like, everything okay? I'm like, he's like, and I told him, so I told him, I'm like, I told him my story and he just laughed. And that kid, the guy who was cutting the, he was a young guy who was cutting that kid's hair the whole time. The mother's like, it's just going to be another two minutes. It's okay. And he's like, I don't want to get it. It was horrible. If we, you or I had ever done that to a barber, we would have never needed a haircut again. But the kid, when the kid was gone, I looked at the bar. I'm like, you have must have the patience of a saint to be able to do that. I remember we used to do that. And I don't, I don't remember if, if they were both bad, one of them, but I know one time we just bad haircuts for kids are bad.

32:11 And you just have to tip them. Well, because those people are, we used to have a lot of ladies and they're so good. I don't think we had a gentleman that cut the baby's hair. It was always a female and they're so good. And I'm like, I could never, like when I look at a nurse, I could never do what you're doing. Even the same thing with the barber of a baby. Nope. Couldn't do it. Sorry. Yep. Not for me. So, yeah, but that, that was good. It was kind of funny. So things have been going really well with Carrie and it's starting to smooth out. That's important. Yeah, it is. It is. So that's been good. But that's, that is pretty much everything with what just happened. So we're glad you made it to the end. Thank you for spending the time with us and we'll look forward to seeing you again in a week or two.

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