In this episode of Father Knows Less, Bobby gives an honest update now that the baby is officially 2 months old: including feeling like he’s not helping his wife enough, hitting the exhaustion wall, and waiting for the moment the baby finally recognizes him. He also talks about whether newborns need nannies, why Nick Cannon having 12 kids makes no sense, and if thank you cards for baby gifts are actually required. Bobby also talks about the baby monitor scare that ruined everyone’s sleep, the surprisingly emotional effect of a crying baby, and the expensive Tim McGraw baby gift they can finally use. Plus, he did his first Baby gift unboxing!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Father Knows Less.
I'm the father I know Less.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm Bobby.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
However you're hearing or watching this, it's just me in
a room, sitting here looking at notes that I've taken
over the past. It looks like now about two and
after three weeks. So this is a different kind of
show for me because I literally just keep notes of
things that come to mind inside my notes app and
then when I hit about seven, I go, hey, we
should record another one. Or if I have a friend
that is having a baby or had a baby, or
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knows a baby or is a baby, I'm like, hey,
why don't you stop in and let's talk about it.
So that's where we are as of today. I just
had two months. Baby's two months old, which is pretty cool,
pretty crazy. She got a lot of hair, She pretty
much got her rhythms down. But we're definitely in the
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stage now of and Caitlin more than me, of just
being tired. As just a baseline, we don't have a
nanny or any thing, but can you have a nanny
for a newborn? Because like, what even would you do
as a nanny for a newborn? And I know that
people probably have them. I wish we had two right now,
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to be honest with you, but I don't think there
would be enough time because my wife loves being with
our baby like all the time, and so if you
had a newborn, especially your first one, it'd be weird.
Like it might be nice for like a little bit
of rest, But I think it would be weird for
us to have a nanny because I don't think that
my wife would want time for the nanny right now.
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That could change. Hey, you hit me up in six months,
I may tell you we have three nannies. I have
no idea what's going on, but yeah, newborn and a
nanny kind of feels not wrong or anything. But I
don't know where we would use it. I guess if
I don't know, I've just reading this Nick Cannon story
about him and he has twelve kids, right, and so
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they just announced this documentary series about him, and he
has twelve kids with six different moms. Now, he's got
to have a lot of nannies, I would assume also,
like I feel like at times I don't do a
great job of being there with my wife all the time,
and that's just because of my job, right so I'll
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go into the morning. I'll wake up at three forty
anywhere from three forty five to four to fifteen normally,
sometimes a little earlier if I'm not sleeping at all,
Definitely sometimes a little later. If I'm going to work
from home, which maybe I do about once a week.
It's much easier to work from home because I can
just walk one hundred feet, so that usually gives me
about twenty minutes extra to sleep. But that being said,
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with all the time that I'm at work, driving to
and from work, going back to work in the afternoon
to do different bobbycast stuff for sports show stuff. If
I do decide to work out like I'm there for
my wife. But even if I'm making an app solute
effort to get there, in between, I still feel like
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I'm not doing enough to help. And I don't know
if it'll ever reach a point where it's like I
feel great about how much I'm able to help, but
I don't feel like even with me being there for
hours in the day every day, I'm doing enough to help.
How in the world can Nick Cannon, who has twelve
kids with six different moms, be there unless they all
like live right next door to each other. I mean,
is that's the movie? You move them all in six
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houses right next door to each other, and I'm sure
they've got to figure it out. But man, I feel
like I'm not there enough with one baby. How the
crap does he do it with twelve kids and six parents?
That is a lot of postpartum, especially if they've had
those babies near each other. So that series is coming
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down on Netflix, which is crazy. It says from million
dollar meetings to midnight diaper runs, he ain't doing no
diver runs. If you're having a lot of million dollar meetings,
you ain't doing a lot of diver runs, especially if
you have six moms and twelve kids. No shame, do
what's good for you. But I wonder if he feels
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like I feel because I got one kid and I
feel like I'm not there enough. He's got twelve. That
is wild. So I just saw that coming in. I
was just thinking about nannies because it'd be cool to
have one, I thought, But then I also thought, I
don't know that we would use it all the time
or much right now, because my wife just loves or
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it drives her crazy when the baby's not near and
then I saw the Nick Cannon story and I was like, dude,
how many nanny's does he have? He's got to have
a ton. So here we are, Uh, let's go with
some notes that I have here. I didn't mention that
I bought something called the Tiny Traveler. Now I've never
been paid any money by any baby business. Big Baby
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money is not coming to this podcast, so there's no
money from Big Baby coming at all. Any Traveler is good.
I don't know if it's the best. I can look
up reviews, I guess. I literally went to Amazon said
baby cameras, and it was one that was not the
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most expensive, but it wasn't the cheapest and it had
pretty good reviews. Maybe not the best, but not the worst.
So I bought that one. And it's great. I don't
know what other cameras do. It's great. It does this
thing where at the end, whenever you're turning your car off,
it goes ding doom, doing doing, and then it shows
you a picture of another baby that's not your own baby.
So that freaks me out a little bit every time.
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And the reason it shows you that picture is to
remind you that there's a baby in the back, which
is odd. They probably should just get let you upload
a picture of your own baby, because a lot of
times I'm getting out of my my SUV and I
got an Asian baby back there, and I'm like, but
it reminds me that there's baby back there. But I've
never actually left the baby back there in that seat.
(05:55):
But it is good. The camera is good. I'm sure
there are better they're worse. But the tiny Traveler has
been a good addition to both of our cars because
my wife and I both have them in ours now.
It doesn't take up too much space either on the
front windshield, which is something I worried about. Small it's
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underneath the rear view. There's a tiny cable that runs through.
It's not really in the way. It's not large, so
I give it a solid as I did see a
jeep this morning as I was driving into work. Because
now that I have one of these, I often look
in other cars to see if they have any sort
of baby monitor. But I was thinking this morning when
I was staring inside of a jeep all creepily. This
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jeep had so many ducks on the front dash. There's
no way that's safe because you turn a curve a
little hard. All those ducks now into the floorboard underneath
your gas pedal, underneath your brake. Now you can't stop.
Now the car is going and you can't stop because
you got a freaking duck underneath your brake pedal. All
of a sudden, there's a mom with a oh well
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with four orphan children up there that she's just taken
in for the day to make sure they can get
some food. You can't stop all of a sudden boom
plow into them all because you get too many ducks
on your jeep. If I were a police officer, I
would look for reason to pull them over. I think
that's a ticket. I think if you have more than
ten ducks on the dash of your jeep, that's a
ticket because that is extremely unsafe. Now, I was only
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staring at a jeep because I was looking for baby monitors.
But I made that note. Too many ducks in jeeps
are unsafe. It's note number one, next one up. Something
else that I've realized is that when the baby cries,
it affects Caitlin and myself wholly differently. When our baby cries,
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I feel like it physically hurts my wife her goal
when the baby cries is to figure out why as
fast as possible. Hungry, sleepy, physical pain. Who knows she
wants to figure it out, out, identify the problem, fix
it as fast as she can, and once the baby
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stops crying, she feels better. And I don't mean for
this to sound bad, but when the baby cries, it
doesn't bother me that much. So when the baby cries,
a little bit of me goes. That's adversity, kid, Time
to live with it. Now, if the baby is in
physical pain, I don't want that to happen. But if
she's sleepy and she's crying and she won't go down,
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I don't mind taking her at all. If she's just
so bussy, I don't mind taking her, going to walk
with her. She can scream my ear all day because
it doesn't physically hurt me. Now, I love her and
I don't want her to cry. But it really bothers
my wife when the baby cries. I don't like it
because I don't want something I love to be going
through any sort of struggle. But it really does not
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affect me in a way that it affects my wife.
And I'm sure there's some biological reasons to that, Probably
because that baby was inside of her body and ripped
out of her vagina. I think that's probably a big
part of it. It did not come out of my
vagina at all. So if the baby is tired, hungry,
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we can identify and fix. But if she's crying and
there's really nothing we can do except wade out the
hard crying, I usually take the baby because it hasn't
bother me that much. Sound like a jork thing to say.
I don't want her to cry. I love her, just
doesn't bother me the same as my wife. I've noticed
that after the last week and a half or so.
Another thing I'd like to bring up shout out to
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everybody who's been getting people baby gifts since the dawn
of baby gif three, because you guys are awesome. Hey
amount of baby gifts that we got either at our door,
people finding me, people coming to the house. Also the
art of dropping a baby gift at a front door
and then texting them after. That's a plus because with
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a baby, the schedule is paramount, and the baby be asleep,
the baby might be eating, and if you have to
go all of a sudden, you try to go to
the front door and have a conversation, because you're not
just gonna like take a hand off from somebody and go, okay,
thank you bye. If you see somebody, you're gonna have
a little conversation with them. That is very difficult to do.
If your seven eight week old baby is in one
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of those things sleeping, eating, there's only like twenty five
minutes every three hours that the baby can be social
with someone. So big shout out to people that drop
baby gifts off at the front door and text you after,
because then there is no obligatory Hey, what's up. Good
to see you, while in your gut you're going, oh,
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she's gonna start crying anytime, or oh I got a feeder.
She should have been put down for a nap ten
minutes ago. Big shout out to you guys. Secondly, to
everybody who just gets a baby gifts for people, It's awesome.
I was never in the culture. I've never had a baby.
I don't think I've seen more than five babies in
her life until my own, so I don't think I've
ever gotten anybody a baby gift maybe ever. And I'm
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a gift guy. I like getting people gifts. I just
never thought about getting someone a baby gift. One, I
didn't know what to get them. Two, I don't even
know what two is. I just don't know what to
get them. So I didn't even know that was like
an it's not expected, But I didn't know that was
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part of like gift giving culture to someone who has
a baby, get them something. So we've had so many
people do so many nice things, and big shout out
to all of them. What I've started doing now and
I've had three friends that have had babies since we've
had one, which is kind of wild. Instead of getting
them something that I know they're probably not gonna use,
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it's gonna end up being a bit of clutter. I've
been sending two hundred dollars gift cards to uber eats
because much like you take food over to somebody's house
if somebody dies, people take food over to people's houses
if they have a baby, because it's not like you
can go and you don't have time to cook. But
(12:08):
with the uber eats card, you don't have to see me.
This is basically me going, hey, I got you some food.
I don't want to drop it off on the porch
because I don't want it to go bad. Also, I
don't cook, and my wife's not really cooking that much
right now because she's got a baby. But this is
me going I'm gonna take care of a couple of
meals for you. Although here's the thing about Uber eats. Now,
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for the last year and a half or so, you
can order food and you can pay the two extra
dollars or so, and it's priority. It gets it a
little faster. Well, now they have like two lightning bolts
super priority seven dollars, which is crazy. But I just
don't want my food in the back seat while somebody
else is super priority and I'm sitting back there food
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getting warm or cold, depending on what it is. So
of course I'm hitting super priority. I got a smoothie
for three dollars Super priority. Fifteen dollars later, I got
a smoothie. But I'm now sending Uber eats gift cards
to folks because people got to eat. People don't want
to have to see you rut when they have a baby,
because it's not they don't like you, it's just they
got other things to worry about. And that's a baby gift.
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I feel like that's a good baby gift, and so
that's my new move. And the great thing about uber
eats is if you have an Uber account, obviously you
can use it. You can do door dash too, if
that's what they use. I'm sure there are a few
of those services. But if you want to send a
gift card on uber eats and you use it as
much as I do, you hit the three dots right
and it's like give someone a gift how much. You
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write all the stuff down and then you buy it
before you can even say where it goes. So the
first time I bought it, I was like, I didn't
eve get to say where it goes. I'm going to
purchase it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I fear not.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Click to how much it is, write your little message,
then buy it. Then it'll say, hey, do you want
to text this? I always text it, then you can
do it. So I found that to be a not
just a kind gesture, but a very practice gold gift
for someone who really needs practicality because they've just had
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a baby. There's no room for anything else. So a
big shout out to everybody who's gotten his gifts. We
did because the baby is old enough now to wear
the gifts that Tim McGrath got us the Macrath's. It's
not Tim, it's Tim and Faith. I don't even know
if I mentioned them specifically in our baby gift giving segment.
You can go back on the YouTube page and look
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at that the whole thing about baby gifts. But the
McGraths were really nice and they got us this expensive
box of baby onesies. And on these baby onesies, there
are seven of them, and every one of them has
a different day of the week on it. And they're
also really nice because the first thing I did is
google how much they cost. I'm not gonna lie if
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I go buy somebody's house, I'll look up their Zillow
I see how much that costs. When I got that
gift from the Magrath's, I googled it up. How much
did this cost? Is expensive and it was a little
big for the baby at the time, which is the
right move because the baby's going to grow into But
she's starting to rock those and so that's pretty cool.
Although the days of the week are written in another language,
I believe in French. I don't think she's matching the
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date at all, but we're rocking them. And I was thinking,
should I send a thank you card. Now, I've never
been someone that was great at sending thank you cards
or handwritten notes, and I think my excuse has always
been a bad handwriting. I think I'm just kind of
lazy when it comes to that. Man. When I get
one from someone, I feel like, man, that is so thoughtful.
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I should do more of this smash cut. Two and
a half hours later, I forgotten about it completely, and
I don't do it or think about it again until
I get another one from somebody, and then I'm like, dang,
I should do this same pattern over and over and
over again. But and I want to google this because
I've never looked it up. I just made a note like,
are you supposed to send thank you cards as a
standard for baby gifts? Let's take a look here, because
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for wedding gifts, you are well. My wife and I
got married. We sent thank you cards to everybody that
sent us a gift for our wedding marriage, and we
split those up to half and half, and mostly I
sent thank you cards to people on my side and
she sent them to her side. But we signed both
of them right so she'd write it sign her name,
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and then I tossed my name on there, and the
other one I would write it. I'd sign my name,
then she'd go, this is terrible. She'd write a note
on that one as well, then she'd sign her name.
Is it standard to send a thank you card for
a baby gift? It is standard etiquete to send a
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handwritten thank you card for a baby gift. While not
always strictly necessary in modern times, let's be honest, right now,
is as modern as it's ever been in the history
of time. It is considered polite to acknowledge gifts from
baby showers. This is not baby shower gifts, by the way, Nope,
this is gifts after we had the baby. The baby
shower gifts and the cards are strictly on my wife. Right.
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I didn't as it wasn't my shower. I guess we'll
not sound like a jerk. I didn't spend much time
at the shower. I showed up at the end. And
not only that, we had to think, Okay, I'm unpacking
all this in my mind because I didn't like how
I sounded there. We didn't take gifts as in regular gifts.
All we asked for gifts and my wife's baby shower
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were children's books with a note in it. So we
have an entire basically children's book library up in the
baby's room. Now do I write a note back for
a book with a note in it? I feel like
that's note on note crime. I don't need to hit
them with a note. They just wrote me a note
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and gave me a gift. I do think though, my
wife would have made us write thank you cards had
we accepted gifts from folks, like big gifts like a blender.
You get a blender for somebody for a baby. If
we would have, we would have sent you a thank
you card. Well, I'm not always necessary. In modern times,
it is considered polite to acknowledge gifts from baby showers
are directly by friends, family to show gratitude and confirm receipt.
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M It says preferably within two to three weeks of
the shower or two months after the birth for later gifts.
That's on me because I've had zero organization when it
comes to who's goddess gifts. I've texted people back. I
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know that doesn't count as a thank you card. Man.
That kind of sucks on me.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Huh, well, you want to know what we did for
who just when we had a baby, for us, for
when we had our baby and we got our gifts.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh, I thought you said what you did for me.
I'm put on the spot.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Oh no, just take a picture of your daughter wearing
the onesie and send it to Tim say thank you
so much for this. That's like a good in between way.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Huh you think I would have passed on that. But
thank you to everybody who got us. This is universal.
If you're watching this and you got me a baby gift,
thank you. And I'll move my mouth. And if you
want to edit your name into this you can. Here
we go. Hey, it's Bobby here. Thank you Chap for
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sending that gift. Man, you guys are great. That's good.
All right. So we didn't any thank you cards back
my wife's might I don't know. I haven't, and I
feel like a jerk. We had a little minor incident.
This is my one of my last notes here Again,
I'm taking no money from big baby organizations, but I'm
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gonna shout out another company. The name of that company
is I tell it now, Are you know what's the
name of it? It's the name of a company that
it's like a camera that looks into the crib. But
she also wears this thing on her ankle that monitors
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her vitals when she sleeps.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
The outlet outlet.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
It's the greatest thing.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
That's it, you guys know the outlet. Okay, now we're
talking big shout out to the Alet company because you
make good stuff. We have this monitor. If it's a
big monitor, we also have little monitors like the app
on our phone. We have like a big monitor that
sits there when the babies asleep in her room, we
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can watch and see if she's awake. It has like
them that's not infrared, but the night vision, so you
can tell if the babies asleep or not. On the
top of it, it tells you the temperature in the room.
It also puts a little note up there, like baby
cried six minutes ago. Baby, Like if I check on
it and I'm just like looking at like I pulled
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it up now, it would say something like mom was
with baby fifteen minutes ago. It's crazy. AI is watching
everything that we do. That's the bad part. The good
part is I can tell what's been happening with my
baby for the last two hours or so. There's an
ankle thing. I think that's alid too, and so we
charge it and we put it on her at night,
and basically if any of her vitals go crazy, it
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makes a big alarm sound. We've never had the alarm
sound happen until a couple of nights ago, and it goes.
My wife jumped out of bed, like somebody's breaking in
the house. Turns out, I think the battery was just
going dead or it had come off her ankle to
where it wasn't getting close enough to the ankle to
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be able to read whatever the vitals are. And it
was fine, like five minutes later. We were up for
like the next three hours though, because again it felt
like somebody was breaking into our house. We've had our
alarm go off in the middle of the night and
it wasn't someone breaking in the house, but we thought
about it. That's kind of what it felt like. It
was almost impossible to get back to sleep after that.
But big shout out to the Outlet Wait to Outlot,
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because they make a pretty goodroduct too. Now I've not
tried multiple products, I've only tried one baby camera and
one outlet, but I feel pretty good about that. So
that's where we are today. We've got a pretty good swing.
The baby likes now. I wish I knew the name
of it. It moves like a chucky cheese character though, like,
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I don't think this is an expensive one because it
kind of goes like nothing about it looks like it
would be comfortable to be in. But we kind of
got it going. We're tired. My wife is way more
tired than me. I do live baseline kind of tired,
and I would say more tired sleepy because I don't
get good sleep. But we're at that point now where
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my wife is just exhausted, and I think if I
come home from work and I'm like, hey, I got
the baby for a couple hours, all good. She would
love the idea of taking a nap, but I still
don't think that her nervous system has allowed her to
take a daytime nap since the baby was born, which
is pretty wild because it's like, hey, you're sleepy, get
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a little sleep, and I'll take the baby and she'll
lay down and close their eyes and can't do it yet.
So I'm really rooting for her. It's been really great
to see how much that she loves it and the
joy that she has with it, and so that's it.
That's the last couple of weeks for me. Man, the
nick can and stuff is crazy to me, Like, how
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do you even spend enough time with the baby? They
even know what your dad like? For me, our baby's
just now two months old. I don'ty. I think I'm
just like a taller figure with glasses because she spends
all the time with the mom and obviously they're doing
feeding and all hours of the day. I think I'm
just like a dude that shows up, and so at
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some point I think they'll start to be that recognition
of oh yeah, this dude owns me that I can't
wait for. That's gonna be cool. I was talking about
therapists about that. I was like, I'm not putting any
sort of expectations on a biological connection with me and
the baby, because I understand that with dads it's a
bit different. You can love it even though there's not
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like this deep connection with the baby yet with the mom.
With Kaylen and the baby. If Kaylen walks in the room,
that baby's like, where is she with me? I think
it's like, here's the guy that does farty noises. Try
to make me smile. Although she does smile now socially,
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I think that's what you'd say. Like, it's not just
little muscles to make her smile. I can make specific sounds,
and I know usually if she feels pretty good, she's
gonna smile or laugh, which is pretty cool. That part's
pretty cool. I've really been doing a lot of woopig
suy to her, just trying to make that normal. Also.
The other thing is that, like if something is uncomfortable,
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if like there's like a diaper change or anything that
she's not going to like I call that a mommy.
Anything she does like, I call it daddy. I'm like, oh,
this is a daddy. And if there's something that's not
just so comfortable, like if I want to go to
the pediatrician, oh we gotta go do a mommy. I'm
just trying to make sure she associates daddy with positive
Maybe I shouldn't sacrifice mommy for that, but I really
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felt like we're dialing in on that. So that's what's up.
That's it. We got Dylan who's about to have a
baby coming up to not super soon, but close enough.
Any questions. I'm a veteran now, Dylan.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
So one thing I have been curious about.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
No, I got all the answers. Do be doing this
for two months? All? Yeah, it's great. I'll invoice you
after this go ahead.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
So people are always saying, you know, their baby sleeps
good or sleeps great at this stage within you know,
first two months or first few months.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Realistically, what does that look like realistically? How many hours
a night is this baby?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I'm glad you asked, because again I'm an expert in
this because I've only ever had one baby ever, and
I only know my story, so that makes me an
expert in everybody. So I'm glad you asked. We've been
very fortunate. Our baby sleeps like eight hours.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh geez, Oh dude.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
It's awesome. Full night, full night. I've talked to a
lot of friends who have two babies, and mostly what
they've said to me, for the most part, is if
you get one that sleeps real well early, usually that
second one kind of sucks, or the opposite you get
one that's difficult. Yeah, so kind of a law of
average is thing. We've just been fortunate that she started
to knock out three and a half four hours or so,
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and the pediatrician was like, hey, at one point, she
was like, if she's not waking up, let her sleep.
We had to get to that point, but it's like
if she's no and then she just sleeps, it's wild.
Right now, it's we're very fortunate, but we drug her. Yeah,
now standard milk with milk, that's what the out's for.
(26:58):
Are you excited or is it? Is it even in
your yet? Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Oh, I'm super pumped. You are. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I didn't really start getting pumped till third trimester, because
that's when it felt the real realist. Yep, you're already excited,
like in a positive way.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah, absolutely, I kind of I think I need to
like slow it down for myself a little bit.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I don't know. I'm all I'm like looking.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Like you rushing her label or months ahead. Yeah, you're
driving her in just in case. Let's see if you're dilated.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh, I think maybe we can swing it. Like three
weeks early started induced to you about three weeks earlier.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh that's cool that you're excited. She excited.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yoh, yeah, she's super pumped. She's been sick, not once,
not even nauseous. Wow.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Yeah, yeah, it's been great. She you know, she's like comfortable,
hasn't been sick. So, yeah, she's been lucky.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
That last few weeks. And I say this from my wife,
I say this from a couple of friends that just
had baby or pregnant right now, that last few weeks is.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Hell yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
And the thing that's probably gonna make it worse for us,
that's like we have a lot of stuff personally going on,
and then like that we have to.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Be at and do like what does she need to
be at when she's nine plus months pregnant.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Well, we're probably going to be moving. Oh my god,
Oh no, it's gonna be a handful that you.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Don't want to do any of that.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Can you not move them?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I mean there's nothing she leases up.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
We're due early October, leases up into October, but we
want to be in a place in September.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
So if you can do it seven and a half
eight months, good, you're gonna do it nine.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That's what we're gonna try to do.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
So she's not even gonna enjoy watching television at night.
I mean, there's not even the comfortable things that people
like you don't even enjoy doing that. Yeah, good luck, dude.
That's super exciting. Yep, Brandon, any advice for Dylan.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Man, just hang on? I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I think I think everybody's different, and I think you
should take everybody's advice with a grain of salt because
it could be very, very different for you.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Do you plan on watching it all?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
What do you mean, I'm I'm not gonna work. Oh
oh watching watching it?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, like well like watching the.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Baby Yeah no, no, like watching the Miracle of birth.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Uh, I'll be shoulders up.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah I was shoulders up.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Don't feel shame in that you might change your mind
while you're there.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And if you do, awesome, If you don't, awesome too.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
For me, I felt like I didn't want to do it,
and my wife wasn't telling me that I should do it.
And one thing is I don't want to let society
pressure me in much, so I said I'm gonna stay
up here.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And I compared it to the dad's of the fifties
and sixties who were in the freaking lobby. They weren't
even where I was outside smoking, Yeah, I was like
I was in there. Yeah. They had this massive mirror
in the delivery room and they told my wife to
me roll it over so you can see. She's like, no,
I'm good. We were all good, none of us. We
were good. I don't think the nurses wanted to look.
Nobody wanted to look. We all turned the lights off
(29:51):
and just felt around. Don't feel bad.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Oh I'm not.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And I think my wife is on the same page,
like we're very much like we don't we know you
do all that, Like I was, like I told her.
I was like, I saw it once in health class,
like I'm good.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I was talking to a guy. We went to Austin
for iHeart Country and I was talking to a guy
in a like meet and greet sales meeting with a
bunch of clients, and he said, hey, I heard you
have a baby. I said yeah. He said, I delivered
my own baby. And I said, are you a doctor? Now?
Are you a nurse? No? Then I thought maybe he
was just under there and like he caught it. Yeah,
(30:26):
And I said, oh, I said, yeah, I didn't do that,
but that's really cool, Like that's that's I admire you.
If you feel like you can go and be a
part of your child coming into the World said, so,
how did that work? Did they just tell you he
was coming? You catch it? He goes, No, I went in.
They let me go in. I said, they'll let you.
He said, yeah. I went in and he like pointed
that spot between your wrist and maybe like a no,
(30:47):
not all the way halfway to the elbow, but like
a bit down he said. I went all the way
in and took the shoulder. Said hey, okay, turn the shoulders.
And I turned the shoulders so the baby could come out.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
No, yeah, no, that's just a no no way.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Well I thought too, like, how safe is that? Is
a doctor watching a game?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, get in there, man.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Also, it could be a female doctor. We had a
female doctor, but that joke only works with a game.
So okay, so is she watching a game? Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah yeah. Well no, see that's also sexist. So
you just did so what I did was sexist. And
then I said, okay, I'm gonna admit it. And then
you flipped it back. Uh yeah, I'm gonna not. Did
you watch Brandon?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I wasn't even allowed in the room. COVID, Yeah, COVID.
Oh yeah that does suck. Dang, that really sucks.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
It was great. Yeah. Great.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
So we got two here that didn't see it and
one here that doesn't want to. I think most people
do watch though most of my friends want to do
it for for content, for content. If she doesn't care,
because I think if my wife was like, I really
want you to do it, I probably would have It's.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Weird though, right if somebody was like, I want you
to watch this like that feels a little like a
little strange.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I'm gonna tell you. I would have thought that too
until it was time to have the baby. And I
think if my wife was like, I want you to
see it because I want you to see like the
moment our baby comes and a guy, you know, breathing
into earth, I I wluady got it. I would have
thought it was weird. I thought she was kind of
like on on like an organic, all natural, emotional let's
join together with Earth for the delivery of our child
(32:27):
type thing.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
While we're delivering.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah, yeah that's ground. Uh but that's yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Well that's my update. Nothing life changing, except all of
it has been life changing. And and we'll get a
guest up here in the next one or two does
seem to be a little fun, and I don't say
oddly sexist stuff like I bet the doctor he's watching
a game. Don't like who I am? Didn't like what
I was earlier talking about thank you cards. Hey, everybody,
(32:57):
we're gonna do a father knows less sort of un
boxing of a baby gift. So got this from a
friend of mine. I've not looked in it at all,
so let's see if we like this. We like it though,
it's very nice, So thank you for the baby gift.
I'm not gonna say who it is. I this is first,
this is an Arkansas razorback. What do you think this is?
(33:19):
What's sports he playing here? He's got two gloves on.
Wh would you guys say that is soccer? Is that
a goalie? Oh that's interesting now he is wearrying a foot? No,
that might be soccer. Huh yeah, sure, huh. So it's
an Arkansas razorback. For those who are just listening, it's
(33:40):
like a little plush stuffed animal with two gloves on.
My I'm thinking way too much about what sport it is.
When the whole point was he got the baby something
that was out of Arkansas. Okay, So there's that next up.
We gotta looks like a little blanket. Oh, a nice
little blanket here, kind of I like the materials like
(34:04):
that kind of rubbery. Okay, let's see what else we
got here. Okay, we got a little little onesie, A
little onesie. My recommendation for getting anybody a onesie for
their baby is buy it a little big and let
them grow into it. Because we've had people that were
so kind get us onesies for our baby, and I
(34:26):
think because when you go in, at least when we do,
they give us this baby book, and inside the book
they keep all the statistics of the baby. So day
one it was like link to the baby, way to
the baby. The percentile meaning if they're the top twenty
two percent, top ninety, so right now are Babi's tracking
(34:48):
a little longer than most babies. And so we've had
people give us probably appropriately timed onesies, but that are
way too small, because our babies maybe even be tall.
She doesn't stand up. I guess you're long until you
can stand up. When you say that, I say long. Yeah,
you don't get tall until you can actually stand. So
(35:10):
always go a little tall, a little long on the
onesies Okay, we got a Oh nice more Arkansas stuff.
My wife drives are crazy, mostly because a lot of
people know what I like, and so we have ninety
seven percent Arkansas stuff and three percent Oklahoma stuff. And
I like to encourage people to keep doing that. Oh
it's a red razor back onesie.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
We like that.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
And a black razor back onesie, we like that. Oh
we like the summer onesies too, with the lights and
come out a plus when you're outside. Okay, nice little basket.
We got two books here. We got I love You
as Big as Arkansas. I have never seen this book before,
(35:56):
very specific to me. We like that. I love you
as big as Arkansas. You're my little natural state heart.
Together here with you is always better than a part.
Do you guys have in like kindergarten, whenever they would
read a book, they would do this and show the
whole room. How about that there's a razorback stadium on
(36:19):
the front page. I'm sure my wife loves that. Next up,
Twinkle Little Star six bedtime rhymes. So this is this
book and it says press and sing along. Okay, I'm
pushing it. Need a battery, I don't know. I get
(36:45):
mad because the one the book is broken. So a
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I know, I wonder if these
are all public domain star. Okay, so that's number one,
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Let's say if we know of
all the songs. Number two Hush Little Baby, Hush Little Baby,
don't say your word? Good one. Number three Rock a
(37:10):
Bye Baby, Rock a Bye Baby. On the tree top
it says, I can push this thing.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Is like an on button on the back or something.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
There is an on button that makes sense? Yeah, by baby, dude,
I would have thrown this away when I got home.
I would have never looked for an on button. I
would have just got home and been like, well, that
was nice of them, But this book's broken. Huh, that's cool,
all right?
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Rock a by Baby.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Let's PLoP over here. Little Boy Blue Baby. I don't
know how it goes. I just do the androwd Dice
Clay Little Boy Blue. Mm hmm. Do you guys know
that song pubably?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Don't mean?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I think Let's see little Boy Blue me too, Boy
Blue Come flas the Sheep in the Meadow, Cows in
the Corn not a hit from the eighteenth century. Yeah,
that's b side. I don't know that one. That's like
any song other than Sex and Candy from Marcy Playground.
(38:22):
That's what that song is. Okay, here's a song called
go to Sleep. Do we think we know this one?
Go to Sleep?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Go to Sleep?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Is that little darling? I love sleep? Go to sleep
me too, Ti, I love you. This pretty cool book.
Now that you turn it on, everything comes on at
night and then it freak you out. It does feel
like what they played before you get murdered. That's like
in a horror movie. Okay, I think that's the last one. Okay,
(38:52):
that's a good little book.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
How about that.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Little Star? How I wonder you know the books that
has this has to be pissed all the time because
people are walking by just playing it. Maybe they can't
figure it out too, and they can't turn it on.
Of boxing, of boxing, of boxing. Of this is a
baby gift. It was all from the same person. But
that's the first time I've done that, So thank you.
(39:17):
I'm gonna take my little soccer player razorback, and I'm
gonna put this near the baby's crib. All right, there
we go. All right, that's it for this episode of
Father Knows Less. We will see you guys, next time.
By everybody,
Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Father Knows Less.
I'm the father I know Less.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm Bobby.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
However you're hearing or watching this, it's just me in
a room, sitting here looking at notes that I've taken
over the past. It looks like now about two and
after three weeks. So this is a different kind of
show for me because I literally just keep notes of
things that come to mind inside my notes app and
then when I hit about seven, I go, hey, we
should record another one. Or if I have a friend
that is having a baby or had a baby, or
(00:30):
knows a baby or is a baby, I'm like, hey,
why don't you stop in and let's talk about it.
So that's where we are as of today. I just
had two months. Baby's two months old, which is pretty cool,
pretty crazy. She got a lot of hair, She pretty
much got her rhythms down. But we're definitely in the
(00:50):
stage now of and Caitlin more than me, of just
being tired. As just a baseline, we don't have a
nanny or any thing, but can you have a nanny
for a newborn? Because like, what even would you do
as a nanny for a newborn? And I know that
people probably have them. I wish we had two right now,
(01:11):
to be honest with you, but I don't think there
would be enough time because my wife loves being with
our baby like all the time, and so if you
had a newborn, especially your first one, it'd be weird.
Like it might be nice for like a little bit
of rest, But I think it would be weird for
us to have a nanny because I don't think that
my wife would want time for the nanny right now.
(01:34):
That could change. Hey, you hit me up in six months,
I may tell you we have three nannies. I have
no idea what's going on, but yeah, newborn and a
nanny kind of feels not wrong or anything. But I
don't know where we would use it. I guess if
I don't know, I've just reading this Nick Cannon story
about him and he has twelve kids, right, and so
(01:58):
they just announced this documentary series about him, and he
has twelve kids with six different moms. Now, he's got
to have a lot of nannies, I would assume also,
like I feel like at times I don't do a
great job of being there with my wife all the time,
and that's just because of my job, right so I'll
(02:19):
go into the morning. I'll wake up at three forty
anywhere from three forty five to four to fifteen normally,
sometimes a little earlier if I'm not sleeping at all,
Definitely sometimes a little later. If I'm going to work
from home, which maybe I do about once a week.
It's much easier to work from home because I can
just walk one hundred feet, so that usually gives me
about twenty minutes extra to sleep. But that being said,
(02:42):
with all the time that I'm at work, driving to
and from work, going back to work in the afternoon
to do different bobbycast stuff for sports show stuff. If
I do decide to work out like I'm there for
my wife. But even if I'm making an app solute
effort to get there, in between, I still feel like
(03:02):
I'm not doing enough to help. And I don't know
if it'll ever reach a point where it's like I
feel great about how much I'm able to help, but
I don't feel like even with me being there for
hours in the day every day, I'm doing enough to help.
How in the world can Nick Cannon, who has twelve
kids with six different moms, be there unless they all
like live right next door to each other. I mean,
is that's the movie? You move them all in six
(03:24):
houses right next door to each other, and I'm sure
they've got to figure it out. But man, I feel
like I'm not there enough with one baby. How the
crap does he do it with twelve kids and six parents?
That is a lot of postpartum, especially if they've had
those babies near each other. So that series is coming
(03:45):
down on Netflix, which is crazy. It says from million
dollar meetings to midnight diaper runs, he ain't doing no
diver runs. If you're having a lot of million dollar meetings,
you ain't doing a lot of diver runs, especially if
you have six moms and twelve kids. No shame, do
what's good for you. But I wonder if he feels
(04:07):
like I feel because I got one kid and I
feel like I'm not there enough. He's got twelve. That
is wild. So I just saw that coming in. I
was just thinking about nannies because it'd be cool to
have one, I thought, But then I also thought, I
don't know that we would use it all the time
or much right now, because my wife just loves or
(04:29):
it drives her crazy when the baby's not near and
then I saw the Nick Cannon story and I was like, dude,
how many nanny's does he have? He's got to have
a ton. So here we are, Uh, let's go with
some notes that I have here. I didn't mention that
I bought something called the Tiny Traveler. Now I've never
been paid any money by any baby business. Big Baby
(04:52):
money is not coming to this podcast, so there's no
money from Big Baby coming at all. Any Traveler is good.
I don't know if it's the best. I can look
up reviews, I guess. I literally went to Amazon said
baby cameras, and it was one that was not the
(05:14):
most expensive, but it wasn't the cheapest and it had
pretty good reviews. Maybe not the best, but not the worst.
So I bought that one. And it's great. I don't
know what other cameras do. It's great. It does this
thing where at the end, whenever you're turning your car off,
it goes ding doom, doing doing, and then it shows
you a picture of another baby that's not your own baby.
So that freaks me out a little bit every time.
(05:35):
And the reason it shows you that picture is to
remind you that there's a baby in the back, which
is odd. They probably should just get let you upload
a picture of your own baby, because a lot of
times I'm getting out of my my SUV and I
got an Asian baby back there, and I'm like, but
it reminds me that there's baby back there. But I've
never actually left the baby back there in that seat.
(05:55):
But it is good. The camera is good. I'm sure
there are better they're worse. But the tiny Traveler has
been a good addition to both of our cars because
my wife and I both have them in ours now.
It doesn't take up too much space either on the
front windshield, which is something I worried about. Small it's
(06:16):
underneath the rear view. There's a tiny cable that runs through.
It's not really in the way. It's not large, so
I give it a solid as I did see a
jeep this morning as I was driving into work. Because
now that I have one of these, I often look
in other cars to see if they have any sort
of baby monitor. But I was thinking this morning when
I was staring inside of a jeep all creepily. This
(06:38):
jeep had so many ducks on the front dash. There's
no way that's safe because you turn a curve a
little hard. All those ducks now into the floorboard underneath
your gas pedal, underneath your brake. Now you can't stop.
Now the car is going and you can't stop because
you got a freaking duck underneath your brake pedal. All
of a sudden, there's a mom with a oh well
(07:00):
with four orphan children up there that she's just taken
in for the day to make sure they can get
some food. You can't stop all of a sudden boom
plow into them all because you get too many ducks
on your jeep. If I were a police officer, I
would look for reason to pull them over. I think
that's a ticket. I think if you have more than
ten ducks on the dash of your jeep, that's a
ticket because that is extremely unsafe. Now, I was only
(07:21):
staring at a jeep because I was looking for baby monitors.
But I made that note. Too many ducks in jeeps
are unsafe. It's note number one, next one up. Something
else that I've realized is that when the baby cries,
it affects Caitlin and myself wholly differently. When our baby cries,
(07:43):
I feel like it physically hurts my wife her goal
when the baby cries is to figure out why as
fast as possible. Hungry, sleepy, physical pain. Who knows she
wants to figure it out, out, identify the problem, fix
it as fast as she can, and once the baby
(08:05):
stops crying, she feels better. And I don't mean for
this to sound bad, but when the baby cries, it
doesn't bother me that much. So when the baby cries,
a little bit of me goes. That's adversity, kid, Time
to live with it. Now, if the baby is in
physical pain, I don't want that to happen. But if
she's sleepy and she's crying and she won't go down,
(08:25):
I don't mind taking her at all. If she's just
so bussy, I don't mind taking her, going to walk
with her. She can scream my ear all day because
it doesn't physically hurt me. Now, I love her and
I don't want her to cry. But it really bothers
my wife when the baby cries. I don't like it
because I don't want something I love to be going
through any sort of struggle. But it really does not
(08:47):
affect me in a way that it affects my wife.
And I'm sure there's some biological reasons to that, Probably
because that baby was inside of her body and ripped
out of her vagina. I think that's probably a big
part of it. It did not come out of my
vagina at all. So if the baby is tired, hungry,
(09:08):
we can identify and fix. But if she's crying and
there's really nothing we can do except wade out the
hard crying, I usually take the baby because it hasn't
bother me that much. Sound like a jork thing to say.
I don't want her to cry. I love her, just
doesn't bother me the same as my wife. I've noticed
that after the last week and a half or so.
Another thing I'd like to bring up shout out to
(09:30):
everybody who's been getting people baby gifts since the dawn
of baby gif three, because you guys are awesome. Hey
amount of baby gifts that we got either at our door,
people finding me, people coming to the house. Also the
art of dropping a baby gift at a front door
and then texting them after. That's a plus because with
(09:55):
a baby, the schedule is paramount, and the baby be asleep,
the baby might be eating, and if you have to
go all of a sudden, you try to go to
the front door and have a conversation, because you're not
just gonna like take a hand off from somebody and go, okay,
thank you bye. If you see somebody, you're gonna have
a little conversation with them. That is very difficult to do.
If your seven eight week old baby is in one
(10:17):
of those things sleeping, eating, there's only like twenty five
minutes every three hours that the baby can be social
with someone. So big shout out to people that drop
baby gifts off at the front door and text you after,
because then there is no obligatory Hey, what's up. Good
to see you, while in your gut you're going, oh,
(10:38):
she's gonna start crying anytime, or oh I got a feeder.
She should have been put down for a nap ten
minutes ago. Big shout out to you guys. Secondly, to
everybody who just gets a baby gifts for people, It's awesome.
I was never in the culture. I've never had a baby.
I don't think I've seen more than five babies in
her life until my own, so I don't think I've
ever gotten anybody a baby gift maybe ever. And I'm
(11:03):
a gift guy. I like getting people gifts. I just
never thought about getting someone a baby gift. One, I
didn't know what to get them. Two, I don't even
know what two is. I just don't know what to
get them. So I didn't even know that was like
an it's not expected, But I didn't know that was
(11:24):
part of like gift giving culture to someone who has
a baby, get them something. So we've had so many
people do so many nice things, and big shout out
to all of them. What I've started doing now and
I've had three friends that have had babies since we've
had one, which is kind of wild. Instead of getting
them something that I know they're probably not gonna use,
(11:46):
it's gonna end up being a bit of clutter. I've
been sending two hundred dollars gift cards to uber eats
because much like you take food over to somebody's house
if somebody dies, people take food over to people's houses
if they have a baby, because it's not like you
can go and you don't have time to cook. But
(12:08):
with the uber eats card, you don't have to see me.
This is basically me going, hey, I got you some food.
I don't want to drop it off on the porch
because I don't want it to go bad. Also, I
don't cook, and my wife's not really cooking that much
right now because she's got a baby. But this is
me going I'm gonna take care of a couple of
meals for you. Although here's the thing about Uber eats. Now,
(12:29):
for the last year and a half or so, you
can order food and you can pay the two extra
dollars or so, and it's priority. It gets it a
little faster. Well, now they have like two lightning bolts
super priority seven dollars, which is crazy. But I just
don't want my food in the back seat while somebody
else is super priority and I'm sitting back there food
(12:50):
getting warm or cold, depending on what it is. So
of course I'm hitting super priority. I got a smoothie
for three dollars Super priority. Fifteen dollars later, I got
a smoothie. But I'm now sending Uber eats gift cards
to folks because people got to eat. People don't want
to have to see you rut when they have a baby,
because it's not they don't like you, it's just they
got other things to worry about. And that's a baby gift.
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I feel like that's a good baby gift, and so
that's my new move. And the great thing about uber
eats is if you have an Uber account, obviously you
can use it. You can do door dash too, if
that's what they use. I'm sure there are a few
of those services. But if you want to send a
gift card on uber eats and you use it as
much as I do, you hit the three dots right
and it's like give someone a gift how much. You
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write all the stuff down and then you buy it
before you can even say where it goes. So the
first time I bought it, I was like, I didn't
eve get to say where it goes. I'm going to
purchase it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I fear not.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Click to how much it is, write your little message,
then buy it. Then it'll say, hey, do you want
to text this? I always text it, then you can
do it. So I found that to be a not
just a kind gesture, but a very practice gold gift
for someone who really needs practicality because they've just had
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a baby. There's no room for anything else. So a
big shout out to everybody who's gotten his gifts. We
did because the baby is old enough now to wear
the gifts that Tim McGrath got us the Macrath's. It's
not Tim, it's Tim and Faith. I don't even know
if I mentioned them specifically in our baby gift giving segment.
You can go back on the YouTube page and look
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at that the whole thing about baby gifts. But the
McGraths were really nice and they got us this expensive
box of baby onesies. And on these baby onesies, there
are seven of them, and every one of them has
a different day of the week on it. And they're
also really nice because the first thing I did is
google how much they cost. I'm not gonna lie if
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I go buy somebody's house, I'll look up their Zillow
I see how much that costs. When I got that
gift from the Magrath's, I googled it up. How much
did this cost? Is expensive and it was a little
big for the baby at the time, which is the
right move because the baby's going to grow into But
she's starting to rock those and so that's pretty cool.
Although the days of the week are written in another language,
I believe in French. I don't think she's matching the
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date at all, but we're rocking them. And I was thinking,
should I send a thank you card. Now, I've never
been someone that was great at sending thank you cards
or handwritten notes, and I think my excuse has always
been a bad handwriting. I think I'm just kind of
lazy when it comes to that. Man. When I get
one from someone, I feel like, man, that is so thoughtful.
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I should do more of this smash cut. Two and
a half hours later, I forgotten about it completely, and
I don't do it or think about it again until
I get another one from somebody, and then I'm like, dang,
I should do this same pattern over and over and
over again. But and I want to google this because
I've never looked it up. I just made a note like,
are you supposed to send thank you cards as a
standard for baby gifts? Let's take a look here, because
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for wedding gifts, you are well. My wife and I
got married. We sent thank you cards to everybody that
sent us a gift for our wedding marriage, and we
split those up to half and half, and mostly I
sent thank you cards to people on my side and
she sent them to her side. But we signed both
of them right so she'd write it sign her name,
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and then I tossed my name on there, and the
other one I would write it. I'd sign my name,
then she'd go, this is terrible. She'd write a note
on that one as well, then she'd sign her name.
Is it standard to send a thank you card for
a baby gift? It is standard etiquete to send a
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handwritten thank you card for a baby gift. While not
always strictly necessary in modern times, let's be honest, right now,
is as modern as it's ever been in the history
of time. It is considered polite to acknowledge gifts from
baby showers. This is not baby shower gifts, by the way, Nope,
this is gifts after we had the baby. The baby
shower gifts and the cards are strictly on my wife. Right.
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I didn't as it wasn't my shower. I guess we'll
not sound like a jerk. I didn't spend much time
at the shower. I showed up at the end. And
not only that, we had to think, Okay, I'm unpacking
all this in my mind because I didn't like how
I sounded there. We didn't take gifts as in regular gifts.
All we asked for gifts and my wife's baby shower
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were children's books with a note in it. So we
have an entire basically children's book library up in the
baby's room. Now do I write a note back for
a book with a note in it? I feel like
that's note on note crime. I don't need to hit
them with a note. They just wrote me a note
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and gave me a gift. I do think though, my
wife would have made us write thank you cards had
we accepted gifts from folks, like big gifts like a blender.
You get a blender for somebody for a baby. If
we would have, we would have sent you a thank
you card. Well, I'm not always necessary. In modern times,
it is considered polite to acknowledge gifts from baby showers
are directly by friends, family to show gratitude and confirm receipt.
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M It says preferably within two to three weeks of
the shower or two months after the birth for later gifts.
That's on me because I've had zero organization when it
comes to who's goddess gifts. I've texted people back. I
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know that doesn't count as a thank you card. Man.
That kind of sucks on me.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Huh, well, you want to know what we did for
who just when we had a baby, for us, for
when we had our baby and we got our gifts.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh, I thought you said what you did for me.
I'm put on the spot.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Oh no, just take a picture of your daughter wearing
the onesie and send it to Tim say thank you
so much for this. That's like a good in between way.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Huh you think I would have passed on that. But
thank you to everybody who got us. This is universal.
If you're watching this and you got me a baby gift,
thank you. And I'll move my mouth. And if you
want to edit your name into this you can. Here
we go. Hey, it's Bobby here. Thank you Chap for
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sending that gift. Man, you guys are great. That's good.
All right. So we didn't any thank you cards back
my wife's might I don't know. I haven't, and I
feel like a jerk. We had a little minor incident.
This is my one of my last notes here Again,
I'm taking no money from big baby organizations, but I'm
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gonna shout out another company. The name of that company
is I tell it now, Are you know what's the
name of it? It's the name of a company that
it's like a camera that looks into the crib. But
she also wears this thing on her ankle that monitors
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her vitals when she sleeps.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
The outlet outlet.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
It's the greatest thing.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
That's it, you guys know the outlet. Okay, now we're
talking big shout out to the Alet company because you
make good stuff. We have this monitor. If it's a
big monitor, we also have little monitors like the app
on our phone. We have like a big monitor that
sits there when the babies asleep in her room, we
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can watch and see if she's awake. It has like
them that's not infrared, but the night vision, so you
can tell if the babies asleep or not. On the
top of it, it tells you the temperature in the room.
It also puts a little note up there, like baby
cried six minutes ago. Baby, Like if I check on
it and I'm just like looking at like I pulled
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it up now, it would say something like mom was
with baby fifteen minutes ago. It's crazy. AI is watching
everything that we do. That's the bad part. The good
part is I can tell what's been happening with my
baby for the last two hours or so. There's an
ankle thing. I think that's alid too, and so we
charge it and we put it on her at night,
and basically if any of her vitals go crazy, it
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makes a big alarm sound. We've never had the alarm
sound happen until a couple of nights ago, and it goes.
My wife jumped out of bed, like somebody's breaking in
the house. Turns out, I think the battery was just
going dead or it had come off her ankle to
where it wasn't getting close enough to the ankle to
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be able to read whatever the vitals are. And it
was fine, like five minutes later. We were up for
like the next three hours though, because again it felt
like somebody was breaking into our house. We've had our
alarm go off in the middle of the night and
it wasn't someone breaking in the house, but we thought
about it. That's kind of what it felt like. It
was almost impossible to get back to sleep after that.
But big shout out to the Outlet Wait to Outlot,
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because they make a pretty goodroduct too. Now I've not
tried multiple products, I've only tried one baby camera and
one outlet, but I feel pretty good about that. So
that's where we are today. We've got a pretty good swing.
The baby likes now. I wish I knew the name
of it. It moves like a chucky cheese character though, like,
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I don't think this is an expensive one because it
kind of goes like nothing about it looks like it
would be comfortable to be in. But we kind of
got it going. We're tired. My wife is way more
tired than me. I do live baseline kind of tired,
and I would say more tired sleepy because I don't
get good sleep. But we're at that point now where
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my wife is just exhausted, and I think if I
come home from work and I'm like, hey, I got
the baby for a couple hours, all good. She would
love the idea of taking a nap, but I still
don't think that her nervous system has allowed her to
take a daytime nap since the baby was born, which
is pretty wild because it's like, hey, you're sleepy, get
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a little sleep, and I'll take the baby and she'll
lay down and close their eyes and can't do it yet.
So I'm really rooting for her. It's been really great
to see how much that she loves it and the
joy that she has with it, and so that's it.
That's the last couple of weeks for me. Man, the
nick can and stuff is crazy to me, Like, how
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do you even spend enough time with the baby? They
even know what your dad like? For me, our baby's
just now two months old. I don'ty. I think I'm
just like a taller figure with glasses because she spends
all the time with the mom and obviously they're doing
feeding and all hours of the day. I think I'm
just like a dude that shows up, and so at
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some point I think they'll start to be that recognition
of oh yeah, this dude owns me that I can't
wait for. That's gonna be cool. I was talking about
therapists about that. I was like, I'm not putting any
sort of expectations on a biological connection with me and
the baby, because I understand that with dads it's a
bit different. You can love it even though there's not
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like this deep connection with the baby yet with the mom.
With Kaylen and the baby. If Kaylen walks in the room,
that baby's like, where is she with me? I think
it's like, here's the guy that does farty noises. Try
to make me smile. Although she does smile now socially,
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I think that's what you'd say. Like, it's not just
little muscles to make her smile. I can make specific sounds,
and I know usually if she feels pretty good, she's
gonna smile or laugh, which is pretty cool. That part's
pretty cool. I've really been doing a lot of woopig
suy to her, just trying to make that normal. Also.
The other thing is that, like if something is uncomfortable,
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if like there's like a diaper change or anything that
she's not going to like I call that a mommy.
Anything she does like, I call it daddy. I'm like, oh,
this is a daddy. And if there's something that's not
just so comfortable, like if I want to go to
the pediatrician, oh we gotta go do a mommy. I'm
just trying to make sure she associates daddy with positive
Maybe I shouldn't sacrifice mommy for that, but I really
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felt like we're dialing in on that. So that's what's up.
That's it. We got Dylan who's about to have a
baby coming up to not super soon, but close enough.
Any questions. I'm a veteran now, Dylan.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
So one thing I have been curious about.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
No, I got all the answers. Do be doing this
for two months? All? Yeah, it's great. I'll invoice you
after this go ahead.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
So people are always saying, you know, their baby sleeps
good or sleeps great at this stage within you know,
first two months or first few months.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Realistically, what does that look like realistically? How many hours
a night is this baby?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I'm glad you asked, because again I'm an expert in
this because I've only ever had one baby ever, and
I only know my story, so that makes me an
expert in everybody. So I'm glad you asked. We've been
very fortunate. Our baby sleeps like eight hours.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh geez, Oh dude.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
It's awesome. Full night, full night. I've talked to a
lot of friends who have two babies, and mostly what
they've said to me, for the most part, is if
you get one that sleeps real well early, usually that
second one kind of sucks, or the opposite you get
one that's difficult. Yeah, so kind of a law of
average is thing. We've just been fortunate that she started
to knock out three and a half four hours or so,
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and the pediatrician was like, hey, at one point, she
was like, if she's not waking up, let her sleep.
We had to get to that point, but it's like
if she's no and then she just sleeps, it's wild.
Right now, it's we're very fortunate, but we drug her. Yeah,
now standard milk with milk, that's what the out's for.
(26:58):
Are you excited or is it? Is it even in
your yet? Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Oh, I'm super pumped. You are. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I didn't really start getting pumped till third trimester, because
that's when it felt the real realist. Yep, you're already excited,
like in a positive way.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah, absolutely, I kind of I think I need to
like slow it down for myself a little bit.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I don't know. I'm all I'm like looking.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Like you rushing her label or months ahead. Yeah, you're
driving her in just in case. Let's see if you're dilated.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh, I think maybe we can swing it. Like three
weeks early started induced to you about three weeks earlier.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh that's cool that you're excited. She excited.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yoh, yeah, she's super pumped. She's been sick, not once,
not even nauseous. Wow.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Yeah, yeah, it's been great. She you know, she's like comfortable,
hasn't been sick. So, yeah, she's been lucky.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
That last few weeks. And I say this from my wife,
I say this from a couple of friends that just
had baby or pregnant right now, that last few weeks is.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Hell yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
And the thing that's probably gonna make it worse for us,
that's like we have a lot of stuff personally going on,
and then like that we have to.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Be at and do like what does she need to
be at when she's nine plus months pregnant.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Well, we're probably going to be moving. Oh my god,
Oh no, it's gonna be a handful that you.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Don't want to do any of that.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Can you not move them?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I mean there's nothing she leases up.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
We're due early October, leases up into October, but we
want to be in a place in September.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
So if you can do it seven and a half
eight months, good, you're gonna do it nine.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That's what we're gonna try to do.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
So she's not even gonna enjoy watching television at night.
I mean, there's not even the comfortable things that people
like you don't even enjoy doing that. Yeah, good luck, dude.
That's super exciting. Yep, Brandon, any advice for Dylan.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Man, just hang on? I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I think I think everybody's different, and I think you
should take everybody's advice with a grain of salt because
it could be very, very different for you.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Do you plan on watching it all?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
What do you mean, I'm I'm not gonna work. Oh
oh watching watching it?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, like well like watching the.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Baby Yeah no, no, like watching the Miracle of birth.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Uh, I'll be shoulders up.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah I was shoulders up.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Don't feel shame in that you might change your mind
while you're there.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And if you do, awesome, If you don't, awesome too.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
For me, I felt like I didn't want to do it,
and my wife wasn't telling me that I should do it.
And one thing is I don't want to let society
pressure me in much, so I said I'm gonna stay
up here.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And I compared it to the dad's of the fifties
and sixties who were in the freaking lobby. They weren't
even where I was outside smoking, Yeah, I was like
I was in there. Yeah. They had this massive mirror
in the delivery room and they told my wife to
me roll it over so you can see. She's like, no,
I'm good. We were all good, none of us. We
were good. I don't think the nurses wanted to look.
Nobody wanted to look. We all turned the lights off
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and just felt around. Don't feel bad.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Oh I'm not.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And I think my wife is on the same page,
like we're very much like we don't we know you
do all that, Like I was, like I told her.
I was like, I saw it once in health class,
like I'm good.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I was talking to a guy. We went to Austin
for iHeart Country and I was talking to a guy
in a like meet and greet sales meeting with a
bunch of clients, and he said, hey, I heard you
have a baby. I said yeah. He said, I delivered
my own baby. And I said, are you a doctor? Now?
Are you a nurse? No? Then I thought maybe he
was just under there and like he caught it. Yeah,
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And I said, oh, I said, yeah, I didn't do that,
but that's really cool, Like that's that's I admire you.
If you feel like you can go and be a
part of your child coming into the World said, so,
how did that work? Did they just tell you he
was coming? You catch it? He goes, No, I went in.
They let me go in. I said, they'll let you.
He said, yeah. I went in and he like pointed
that spot between your wrist and maybe like a no,
(30:47):
not all the way halfway to the elbow, but like
a bit down he said. I went all the way
in and took the shoulder. Said hey, okay, turn the shoulders.
And I turned the shoulders so the baby could come out.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
No, yeah, no, that's just a no no way.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Well I thought too, like, how safe is that? Is
a doctor watching a game?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, get in there, man.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Also, it could be a female doctor. We had a
female doctor, but that joke only works with a game.
So okay, so is she watching a game? Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah yeah. Well no, see that's also sexist. So
you just did so what I did was sexist. And
then I said, okay, I'm gonna admit it. And then
you flipped it back. Uh yeah, I'm gonna not. Did
you watch Brandon?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I wasn't even allowed in the room. COVID, Yeah, COVID.
Oh yeah that does suck. Dang, that really sucks.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
It was great. Yeah. Great.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
So we got two here that didn't see it and
one here that doesn't want to. I think most people
do watch though most of my friends want to do
it for for content, for content. If she doesn't care,
because I think if my wife was like, I really
want you to do it, I probably would have It's.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Weird though, right if somebody was like, I want you
to watch this like that feels a little like a
little strange.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I'm gonna tell you. I would have thought that too
until it was time to have the baby. And I
think if my wife was like, I want you to
see it because I want you to see like the
moment our baby comes and a guy, you know, breathing
into earth, I I wluady got it. I would have
thought it was weird. I thought she was kind of
like on on like an organic, all natural, emotional let's
join together with Earth for the delivery of our child
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type thing.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
While we're delivering.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah, yeah that's ground. Uh but that's yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Well that's my update. Nothing life changing, except all of
it has been life changing. And and we'll get a
guest up here in the next one or two does
seem to be a little fun, and I don't say
oddly sexist stuff like I bet the doctor he's watching
a game. Don't like who I am? Didn't like what
I was earlier talking about thank you cards. Hey, everybody,
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we're gonna do a father knows less sort of un
boxing of a baby gift. So got this from a
friend of mine. I've not looked in it at all,
so let's see if we like this. We like it though,
it's very nice, So thank you for the baby gift.
I'm not gonna say who it is. I this is first,
this is an Arkansas razorback. What do you think this is?
(33:19):
What's sports he playing here? He's got two gloves on.
Wh would you guys say that is soccer? Is that
a goalie? Oh that's interesting now he is wearrying a foot? No,
that might be soccer. Huh yeah, sure, huh. So it's
an Arkansas razorback. For those who are just listening, it's
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like a little plush stuffed animal with two gloves on.
My I'm thinking way too much about what sport it is.
When the whole point was he got the baby something
that was out of Arkansas. Okay, So there's that next up.
We gotta looks like a little blanket. Oh, a nice
little blanket here, kind of I like the materials like
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that kind of rubbery. Okay, let's see what else we
got here. Okay, we got a little little onesie, A
little onesie. My recommendation for getting anybody a onesie for
their baby is buy it a little big and let
them grow into it. Because we've had people that were
so kind get us onesies for our baby, and I
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think because when you go in, at least when we do,
they give us this baby book, and inside the book
they keep all the statistics of the baby. So day
one it was like link to the baby, way to
the baby. The percentile meaning if they're the top twenty
two percent, top ninety, so right now are Babi's tracking
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a little longer than most babies. And so we've had
people give us probably appropriately timed onesies, but that are
way too small, because our babies maybe even be tall.
She doesn't stand up. I guess you're long until you
can stand up. When you say that, I say long. Yeah,
you don't get tall until you can actually stand. So
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always go a little tall, a little long on the
onesies Okay, we got a Oh nice more Arkansas stuff.
My wife drives are crazy, mostly because a lot of
people know what I like, and so we have ninety
seven percent Arkansas stuff and three percent Oklahoma stuff. And
I like to encourage people to keep doing that. Oh
it's a red razor back onesie.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
We like that.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
And a black razor back onesie, we like that. Oh
we like the summer onesies too, with the lights and
come out a plus when you're outside. Okay, nice little basket.
We got two books here. We got I love You
as Big as Arkansas. I have never seen this book before,
(35:56):
very specific to me. We like that. I love you
as big as Arkansas. You're my little natural state heart.
Together here with you is always better than a part.
Do you guys have in like kindergarten, whenever they would
read a book, they would do this and show the
whole room. How about that there's a razorback stadium on
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the front page. I'm sure my wife loves that. Next up,
Twinkle Little Star six bedtime rhymes. So this is this
book and it says press and sing along. Okay, I'm
pushing it. Need a battery, I don't know. I get
(36:45):
mad because the one the book is broken. So a
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I know, I wonder if these
are all public domain star. Okay, so that's number one,
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Let's say if we know of
all the songs. Number two Hush Little Baby, Hush Little Baby,
don't say your word? Good one. Number three Rock a
(37:10):
Bye Baby, Rock a Bye Baby. On the tree top
it says, I can push this thing.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Is like an on button on the back or something.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
There is an on button that makes sense? Yeah, by baby, dude,
I would have thrown this away when I got home.
I would have never looked for an on button. I
would have just got home and been like, well, that
was nice of them, But this book's broken. Huh, that's cool,
all right?
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Rock a by Baby.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Let's PLoP over here. Little Boy Blue Baby. I don't
know how it goes. I just do the androwd Dice
Clay Little Boy Blue. Mm hmm. Do you guys know
that song pubably?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Don't mean?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I think Let's see little Boy Blue me too, Boy
Blue Come flas the Sheep in the Meadow, Cows in
the Corn not a hit from the eighteenth century. Yeah,
that's b side. I don't know that one. That's like
any song other than Sex and Candy from Marcy Playground.
(38:22):
That's what that song is. Okay, here's a song called
go to Sleep. Do we think we know this one?
Go to Sleep?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Go to Sleep?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Is that little darling? I love sleep? Go to sleep
me too, Ti, I love you. This pretty cool book.
Now that you turn it on, everything comes on at
night and then it freak you out. It does feel
like what they played before you get murdered. That's like
in a horror movie. Okay, I think that's the last one. Okay,
(38:52):
that's a good little book.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
How about that.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Little Star? How I wonder you know the books that
has this has to be pissed all the time because
people are walking by just playing it. Maybe they can't
figure it out too, and they can't turn it on.
Of boxing, of boxing, of boxing. Of this is a
baby gift. It was all from the same person. But
that's the first time I've done that, So thank you.
(39:17):
I'm gonna take my little soccer player razorback, and I'm
gonna put this near the baby's crib. All right, there
we go. All right, that's it for this episode of
Father Knows Less. We will see you guys, next time.
By everybody,
Host
Bobby Bones
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