Easton is up late at night THINKING

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What area code is ninety seven zero? Anybody knows what
nine seven zero is?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (00:03):
We get a text from nine seven zero It says
John Jay's autism really shines during Christmas wish rism with
the tism Jan.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Northern Colorado.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
What I did?

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Colorado?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh? So, Kyle, what's going on with your son Easton?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well? I love his inquisitive mind. He is very curious.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
He's eight years old now, and I do I do
need to like find some sort of hack or trick
to help him just go to bed, because they can
be like so tired, and then once we start like
brushing the teeth, going to potty, washing the hands of
things we do.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Before we go to bed, it's like they're all jazzed up.
They're on fire.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Like all of a sudden, they wake up, like it
wakes them up to the point where it's like, oh
my gosh. To bring them down to where they get
tired again, it's very difficult, you know, like having them
draw or color afterwards, or read books or like just
lay down in silence. And it's pretty much the same
almost every night. So we'll do all the things and

(01:12):
we'll the lights will be out, ready for bed, everyone's
tucked in, and then like twenty minutes, Easton will come
and he'll like lean up next to my bed there
he is like, hey, buddy, what's up.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
He's like, Mamma, can you come lay with me? And
I'll be like okay, because I think that's pretty pretty
darn cute, So I'll go lay with him. And sometimes
he just wants me to lay with him.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
But a lot of times I can just tell his
brain is spinning because it'll be quiet, and then he'll
turn to me and he'll ask me a question like
one he asked the other night.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Is he goes, well, what college do you think I
should go to?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
You are eight?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
We got plenty of time for this. Do you not
that out right? Now?

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Go to bed?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
But I want to say that, you know what I mean,
because like I treasure the moments that he wants to
talk to me. So I'm like, you know what I
think we'll do probably when you're like a junior senior
in high school, we'll go visit some colleges you're interested, and.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Then you can make the choice.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Then and he's like, Okay, how many years left do
I have at my school? It's like his brain like
spinning and spinning and spinning, and it's like I said,
like I love the conversation, but also I'm like counting
the minutes that I'm losing of sleep, and like how
tired I'm going to be the next day.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
And I don't want to be.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
I don't want to be like, Okay, way out of
go to bed now, which is what.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I'm saying in my head. But I'm like, Okay, I
think we can. I think we can talk about these
things tomorrow. Right, let's go to bed.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I think he's way ahead of the game. I remember
I was fifteen years old and I was having dinner
with my friend Greg and his family. Missus Potterson, Missus
Powison says to me, John Jay, where do you want
to go to college? What do you want to study?
And I was like what, No one's ever talked to
me about that before. I don't even know what college is.
And I was so embarrassed. I'll never forget my aunts.

(03:06):
I was like, well, I like to help people. People
always tell me their problems at all. The girls of
school always tell me their problems, and I don't know,
maybe a psychiatrist. And I never forget how terrible and
asked me where he should go to college. It's gonna
be like the next Elon Musk.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
He's planned, because there's also been times where he's like, Mom,
you know, I said I wanted four kids. Now I
think maybe just two or three.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
He loves he loves babies. He wants so bad to
have like for us to have another kid. I only
wants to be a big brother. He loves like taking
care of babies. He's my like emotional child like. He's
very empathetic.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
He loves that.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
And then ADDIE's kind of like, I don't think I
ever want kids. I just want like animals at my house.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I think both those stories are very very relatable. I
remember putting my kids down like that. It was so funny.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, those even though you're not you don't get to sleep.
It's just awesome when they ask you to snuggle, it's
just awesome.