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1:24Why is it so relaxed? It's odd, Harrison had a... How did I wait? Him and Bub spent about four hours awake last night together bonding. Just got a good week ahead. Yeah? Yeah. Feeling dialed in. What we did last night was so good. Harrison wanted, and this is what happens. This happens about every Sunday. Around 11 a.m. he's like, let's invite people over for dinner. Let's do something fun. And then I don't do that. I've learned I'm not going to invite people over for dinner. I've never been so happy when you said, I was like, let's invite people over. You're like, oh, I'll text X. and then two hours went by.

1:58I was like, oh my goodness. Like, oh, we committed to social plans and I don't want to do them. And it was my idea. And I asked, I was like, so did you, what did they say? And you're like, I didn't text. I couldn't have been more happier. I know because I knew what you wanted to do last night. What you wanted to do last night was get the house ready for the week, eat a good dinner and go to bed early. Yeah. And I knew you wanted to do that, but I knew, because this has always been the running joke. You know, happy hour always used to sound fun around 10 or 11 a.m. Right? You start texting your friends, let's do something tonight.

2:31And then, you know, four o 'clock hits. And like all you want to do is go to bed. Yeah. Can I tell you something kind of funny that you don't know about me? Yeah. So when I lived in San Francisco on Sundays, like almost rain or shine, I would order Thai feasts. Okay? and I would always order green chicken curry with a side of shrimp pad thai. Wow. Okay? And so last night's craving, dinner craving, was like on the back of that and that's why I made green chicken curry. We did. We had chicken curry last night. It was so good. You did a phenomenal job cooking it. Thank you. We're at the phase with the neighbors where we just went to the store and bought groceries and went over to their house and cooked it.

3:21And that doesn't count as being social, by the way. Well, we got very – they weren't supposed to be in town. So the initial game plan was – I was like, oh, amazing. We'll have just like – what do you want to call it? A village dinner? Yeah. We'll have a village dinner. They said they weren't going to be in town. And so – and what I love about it is just like kind of – it's like brainless, if that's the right word. Yeah. Like you can just sit there and not like worry about small talk and you really just like your comfort level. It doesn't matter what you're wearing. It doesn't matter if the food is undercooked, if the food is like not cooked.

3:55It does matter. It doesn't matter if the chicken is undercooked. It does matter. But like you know what I mean. No, it's the frame. Like I tried kelp noodles last night. Yeah. And like I'm not going to try kelp noodles in a setting that I'm not super comfortable in. Well, I think it's – Kelp noodles are very good. It goes to say very crunchy. Kelp noodles are very crunchy. They were delicious. It just goes to say it's like when you first go to college, I remember for the first six months, I was like it's really hard because I don't have my best friends yet and your best friends are the people you can sit and eat in silence with.

4:24Like I always had my friend Sydney who like we could just sit there and eat and like I don't have to talk to her. And I can do that with you. Totally. I love the friend you can sit and eat in silence with because that's true comfortability. Totally. Okay. This episode let's see. We're going to talk about our night last night. We're going to talk about some things in the comments. We're going to talk about lots of fun things. But before we do that two things. Number one, subscribe. Please. Send it to a friend. Pretty please, our dearest listeners. Number two, Jules is 30. Yay. Yay, Jules. Yay. 30.

4:58I can't believe you just doxed Jules' age. Oh, I don't care. Are we okay with that? Yeah, because 30 is young. 29 is older than 30. I completely agree. Wow. Completely agree. 31, what's 31? I mean, we're good until I hit 35. Sorry, 35. well i actually go based off of my function um health age bio age you're like 17 what's your 22 uh i think i'm 26 26 no 24 i go off of my spotify age oh i'm like 14 you're 16 i don't have spotify oh i was 22 which i was really proud of yeah i was like 21 or 22 or something i think you're like 28 well okay what's what's it called the bot i want to get it right because it's amazing and i want to i want to stay true to function yeah he i think he's looking for i'm looking for the name of my correct age i think it's bio age biological age yeah yeah bio age um kind of looks like my biological age went up a little bit i don't think that's possible unless you had a birthday which you haven't had yet yours is on thursday okay but let's not take this moment away from jules how's the birthday how's the birthday Jules and Ginny in New York City.

6:15Ginny didn't come. Whoa. She was supposed to come. Why didn't she end up coming? That's Jules' dog. Because they raised the prices of the dog tickets. How much are they? They're$300 round trip now. They're trying to get dogs off the airplane. It used to be$200. And just like on principle, I didn't want to bring her when someone could watch her. Who watched her? Alex and Coop. Okay. So how was New York? It was great. We saw a show. What did you see? We saw chess. Do you guys know Lea Michele from Glee? No. She's the main character from Glee. She's big on Broadway, but it's the show that she's starring in.

6:53Was Zac Bryan in Zac Efron and Glee? No, that was High School Musical. Okay. And The Greatest Showman. That was Zac Efron. Yeah, he was in both of those. Big musical guy. Saw a show. That was great. Did a big dinner. That was great. my my the friend group my my group text surprised me that was great and how'd they surprise you um they showed up at zoe's apartment but um anna had texted and said that she had sent us a treat and that there was a delivery coming oh that's a good idea but i now have a surprise pro tip because it's the one thing that threw me off when i kind of got some wind that they were coming we'd Love a surprise tip.

7:35Yeah, tell us. Love all tips. Well, P was saying this could be bad. She switched her location to her iPad. And so therefore she was in her apartment in Chicago all day when I was refreshing to see if she was coming. And I was like, she can't make it by the time we're supposed to hang out with our other friends at 8 p.m. I think it's genius. Yeah. Genius. I will say I get very confused by the whole find my location tracking thing. Like I don't know why it doesn't – something just – I feel like doing that I wouldn't execute well. You would like send a notification that's like Harrison switched to his iPad.

8:16Like we've been trying to set up find my iPhone. Well, that's different than location tracking. I don't know. I don't know. Great idea. Eileen, she turned her location off. That was a dead giveaway. See, that giveaway. I knew she was there. That's the giveaway. Yeah. Terrible giveaway. But no, it was great. It was awesome. And my friend Jane did a really good job planning everything. And where'd you go on your birthday dinner? We went to Korean Barbecue, a Korean barbecue place. Where? Coat? What? What's the name of the restaurant? Oh, I don't know. Was it C-O-T? No. It was in K-Town. I don't know where it was.

8:49Okay. What did you think of Korean Barbecue? It was great. It was so much food. like so much food so much meat first time yeah yeah Harrison loves cream I think cream barbecue is probably the most underrated eating experience that exists I think so too so much fun the food is amazing did you cook or did they have someone they're cooking for you they had someone they're cooking for us okay so that's probably like a hot debate I think I prefer cooking myself So for the listener who doesn't know what Korean barbecue is, it's similar to hibachi where you have an open – you have like a barbecue in front of you and you cook your own meat or they have someone from the restaurant cook it in front of you.

9:33And it is like – it is a ton typically of red meat. Yes. And so just like different cuts of – They're like thinly sliced and you like cook them. Is that what it is? Exactly. Okay. Exactly. Great sides of kimchi and rice and... Macaroni salad. Okay, that seems unique. I don't know. It was good. But there was 18 of us, so I don't think... Whoa. Holy smokes. Yeah. So there was three barbecues. And I don't think we could have cooked for ourselves if there was such a large group. Jules, this is so fun. What a good 30th. Yeah, it was very fun. It was great. For Korean barbecue, it's even good with two.

10:15I do a solo Korean barbecue. Why haven't we gone? But it's also perfect with 18. Because I've looked and I haven't found a good one in Austin. My friends apparently have a good one here. Really? I'll let you know. Oh, can you get the name of that? I would love to go. Yeah, it's just one of the finest eating experiences out there. Also, the food is amazing. And there's enough food. Yeah, that's the thing. It sounds like there's plenty. There's almost too much food. I think I was saved by the not drinking thing. if I was drinking and eating all that meat I don't know oh meat sweats yeah like I just but it was amazing sorry I'm not complaining about it no no no it sounds like it was really fun I'm glad that I'm glad that it sounds like it all went well sounds like it was a successful 30th it did good because you deserve a successful 30th thank you um okay so that's Jules's birthday everyone's subscribed so that's good those are my two things for my birthday for oh my gosh it's not for me today it's for jewels and there's nobody the listener loves more than jewels so i assume our subscriber numbers will skyrocket they will skyrocket after this one um okay before we talk about newport and we recap like just some we have some fun things to recap um i do want to talk about burger talk because harrison and i are both on it have you guys seen the ceos eating the burgers no he has what i'm obsessed this is like a great internet moment this i think will be like a 2026 internet moment oh i haven't been on my phone that much okay good jules's screen time is low today yes so basically the mcdonald ceo started it off because he was trying their new arch burger yep and he's like okay i'm gonna eat this new burger wow what do we have here a sesame bun double patties like it's like his first day at the office and nibbled it then he goes hold on Sorry, I jumped ahead.

12:09Then he goes, this is the part that gets everybody. He goes to take a bite of it. And he's like, and then they don't even show him swallowing it. And everyone's like, their food is that bad. Even the CEO doesn't like McDonald's food. So the best response to the chat to me was Burger King immediately. Yeah. Well, a couple of other things that I just want to add about the video, which you need to watch the video, is he even like hedged and made a comment at the beginning. He was like, and don't worry, I'm going to eat all of it for lunch later. I was like, wait, what? Like before he even took the bite.

12:48And yeah, sorry, please go. So like the parody accounts are like, the best parody one I saw was a girl being like, okay, she's impersonating the McDonald's CEO. And she's like taking the fries, not actually eating them though, just like putting them beside her face. and then she goes to take a bite of the burger and then like throws up off screen. So like it's, McDonald's has since deleted the video. You were talking about Burger King. Hold on, but I just want to say McDonald's took the video down. I mean, it probably had 45 million views. Oh my God. So the McDonald's CEO, Tom or Tim? Tom. Maybe.

13:24He's doing such a good job. I followed Burger King because I just. Wait, wait, you just confused me. Sorry. So, okay. So now all these burger CEOs are responding. and they're saying they're using it as a time to talk about their burger and taste test their burger, and they're all taking obviously massive bites of the burger. But Burger King, I think, was first to the race, and they had already put up a video of their CEO eating a burger. So they just clipped it and said, we're going to replay this. Really? So Tom was already off to the races, yeah. Tom at Burger King. Can we just name check these CEOs?

14:00The CEO is Josh, but the president is Tom? That's Tom. It's the president. Yes, Tom. The Burger King. Yes. So Tom has put his phone number out there, his personal phone number. I just saw that. For people to call. And he's actually calling them back and he's like, all right, what do you want us to change? And they're like, your nuggets are soggy. We don't like your brick and mortar. So he's changing all this stuff in real time. And he's just doing a social moment. Let's call the guy. I did want to call the guy today. Let's call the guy. Let's call him right now. Okay, one second. What's his phone number?

14:35Burger King. So you have to leave a voicemail. And you know what I'm going to say? I'm going to say, Tom, you are on Two Parents and a Pod, the number one parenting podcast in the world, and we are just giving you kudos for a company that is appropriately reading the room and reading the moment and taking advantage of the wind at your sails. And we are now Burger King family. And we're going to take our family to Burger King tonight. What's the burger he's trying? We got a reward. I think that you want to just like reward companies that like. Call. Yeah, I'm waiting for the number. I sent it. Listen up, guys.

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16:39I'm going to be taking many, but admittedly fewer calls as I get back to my day job. But my leadership team and I are dedicating time each week to get back to as many of you as possible. So leave a voicemail and we'll be in touch. Thanks for the call. Hi, Tom. This is Alex and Harrison. We're on Two Parents and a Podcast, and we are talking about the CEO slash president burger wars that are happening on TikTok. And I got to say, you're doing such a good job that number one, I followed Burger King on TikTok. Number two, because I can't wait to see more of your content. And number two, we are going to go try and we're going to take our sweet little 17 month old with us.

17:19And we're going to go try the Whopper at Burger King because I haven't had it since high school. And I just, you don't have to call us back. I just want to tell you you're doing a phenomenal job. Do you want to say, hold on, Harrison's going to say something. Yeah, we just wanted to give kudos to companies that are reading cultural moments the right way. Good job, Tom. And ask them to bring back BK Chicken Fries. And Jules wants the BK Chicken Fries back. And it's her 30th birthday, so come on. So please. I'm sure you don't even know this given the market cap of your company. but um yeah shout out shout out tom shout out tom okay thank you thank you tom were the were those the the long chicken tenders yeah i used to have them in high school all the time so good phenomenal where did they go i don't know they i just remember that they left um they don't have them so that's really sad they need to bring them back they're redoing a lot of the brick and mortars right now yeah and you know they have this do they who is the square patty uh wendy's now also somebody another really funny thing i saw was the rb ceo realizing he's gonna have to actually eat the burger and the guy's like well the the the the key learning in this for me is like you just gotta you gotta know your your ceo you gotta know your founder you gotta You know, like some founders, there's really compelling content to be made behind.

18:49And like other founders are just like career corporates. And I guess not founders, CEOs, they're just like career corporates that like are really good at their job of scaling these massive global organizations and optimizing the complexities of operating those businesses. but like yeah shouldn't be on camera with the food like read your strengths and read your weaknesses tom should be now this dude also just had like as when i were talking about mcdonald's uh just so we're clear on that last comment like he he had a linkedin post which was a zero out of 10 response oh no like talk about just like digging yourself into a bigger hole mcdonald's is is swinging a miss well the problem with mcdonald's right now is they're not in on their own joke so they deleted the video they've made no response to the video all their comments are like where's your video thank you they're not leaning into it at all whereas burger king social team is just like dunking on them and and mcdonald's has the platform and the opportunity to like come back yeah they should have done like they could have done even like a hilarious redo video where they even take the the joke to a further extent or like release a behind behind the scenes like there's so much you could have done with it but i'm also sure that that they're not making any of these decisions themselves and they're like sitting on these outsourced agencies and they're running these like massive pitches for like agencies to come in and tell them what to do yeah they're not leaning on their own yeah this could be a great moment for them that all said i do want to try the mcarch you do want to try it yeah i it's kind of making me want to i also thought like how do you not have arch manning try it oh my gosh okay a tip for mcdonald's like that there's your video like hi i'm arch manning the new ceo of mcdonald's dude because you know that dude smashes burgers that's actually gene okay i can't believe we're going to give this tip to mcdonald's for free but i do think harrison maybe just and he could say I'm the only one who can actually rate this burger.

21:00Yeah. It's named after me. And that is like a three out of 10 idea, maybe two and a half, maybe two out of 10 idea, but better than what they've done. That's a great, well, I'm blown away by it. If I was sitting in the marketing meeting and that was just pitched to me, I'd be like, you're hired. You know what would actually be funny, but they like do not have any form of balls to do it? What? Is to pretend like he was fired over the situation. He, but here's the thing. If they, He won't let them. If they put out a press release and were like, we had to fire him and we won't hire him back until he has 100 burgers on camera.

21:38Like that is how you re-get the internet's attention in a positive way. Okay. Harrison, two really good ideas. What do you think? One of the funny things or entertaining things to do, and this is definitely the geek in me, is like whenever you see a company's CEO, either they hire a new CEO or they resign a CEO you look at what the stock does on the back end of their performance and so I'm very curious if this dude if they even did a fake resignation or firing what would McDonald's stock do what's his name? when Starbucks brought in the new CEO billions of dollars of market cap were created oh they were created versus when um not howard is howard schultz like long gone uh yeah i i think with that he's kind of been like in and out of the organization i think it's like he steps away the company has operational issues he announces like he's going to re-engage the stock comes back i feel like that's like kind of directionally the trend that's happened but they just brought in some um i think they did they bringing the Chipotle CEO?

22:52I think it was the Chipotle CEO. Yeah. I'm not sure what the stock's done. Chris is his name. Okay, the Chris is the McDonald's CEO's name. Here's the thing. I don't think Chris is letting them have any fun with the social media. I think Chris is the problem. Why we're not seeing any buzz out of McDonald's. Yeah, this is a really, this is an amazing moment for them that they're not taking advantage of. Like plain and simple. Yeah. Tom, though, over at Burger King gets it. Now, here's the other piece. It makes me want to, I think, it does make me want to have the other burgers over the McDonald's burger.

23:24Like it makes me want to go out and just like smash a, uh, we got to go Burger King. How far away is a Burger King from us though? That's what I'm wondering. I was just going to say, like I haven't seen a Burger King in years. Shut up P Terry's. Well, here's the thing that I was going to say other people, other CEOs or presidents that have just one burger shop, right? Or they have a brewery with a great burger. They're all getting online now and talking about their burgers. And the biggest, the one I saw was like, this isn't human meat. This is animal meat. Like they're really taking a moment to talk about their burger.

23:58But I got to jump in here. And the quality of their burger. I love the initial like Burger King comeback, A &W comeback. I hate when you're like the fifth to 10th to 20th burger company coming out and like just copycatting the trend. like if you're not first you're last okay ricky bobby i i think that's how i feel on the comeback like and i see it with brands do this all the time with instagram where like some pop culture moment happens and like and i've always said if you are not the first one to ride the meme nope you're out someone commented the other day alex is low-key sneaky funny and like that's just the example what did she do you didn't even hear me probably Ricky Bobby what do you mean I quoted Ricky Bobby yeah but she made it funny Harrison doesn't get it um I hear I have to I have to push back on this for one moment yeah I agree with you like if you're the fifth sixth seventh like large fast food chain okay uncreative and you're just riding a wave now at this point but these small mom and pop shops that are like putting their CEOs on there that have millions of views for the first time on their account I love it.

25:20Because that's uncharted territory for them. Love it. Big, of course we love small businesses. I guess my point though is if they're getting millions of views then they're doing something good. Like they're actually doing something entertaining. Some of these CEOs have just oodles of charisma. So if you're not going to be first you just you need to nail the entertainment factor is kind of my point like it didn't matter what the first burger company really did on this they just needed their ceo to smash a burger eat a eat a big bite yeah which tom did um and it needed to be the right company everyone else it's like if you're gonna do it make make don't just copy do it and and and make a statement and be entertaining with it who's wearing the mask jack in the box i'm not understanding what they're doing but people are saying they're winning but i i really don't get it because the ceo is like thirst trapping also wearing like a mask of some sort i don't know but people love that one but it didn't make sense to me i think maybe i maybe i'm too old and and i'm aged out and on those if i i haven't seen this one but what i will say is i can't say everything i just said and a company takes a different swing and if it doesn't land like at least at least they take a shot yeah which i agree with i just think burger it was ironic last night harrison was like are you on this burger talk i was like am i on it it's the only thing i'm watching it's the only thing i'm watching and it is i want to go try this burger king burger so bad because he's perfected the buns people were saying they were too soggy and he switched the buns out it's a great internet moment it's a great internet and just shout out to burger king all right so that's that's it on burger talk which we are clearly all over in our household i was thinking can you make me a burger and i can pick on the ceo of our house and then i can taste it that's a funny video okay tate eating the burger the ceo of our house the real ceo of our house tate that's really funny that's like really funny do you think she could figure out how to pick up the whole burger oh for sure if we show her we show her it's a new year and time to get feeling like yourself you guys if losing weight is one of your 2026 goals, well, it's March and we're still tracking those goals and you're ready to make progress you can count on, then weight loss by HERS might be the right fit for you.

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28:55What happened? Oh, yeah, we never actually talked about it. How she just – Oh, my gosh. She had a good three to four-hour stretch of wake. The bubberator did. So she woke up at 1, went back to bed, call it 4.30-ish plus minus. Let's call it 4. So there was a three-hour stretch. i i'd always heard um like when your kid is crying in the middle of the night the what you don't ever want to do if you can avoid it is take them out of the bed because it wakes them up and i think that the challenge that we got into last night driven by me is i think she was cold and so i think she woke up at one cold and so when i changed her into something warmer i think that really woke her up and so i think she was very confused as to okay like i'm kind of up you kind of changed me like while i'm tired i'm thinking my day's starting and so we had to like really recalm her back into bed that's what i think happened and that's why i think she was up for so long because i think she thought her day was starting because we because in changing her it like it woke her up but i felt like she needed to be changed because i thought she was cold her room just like felt really cold which is funny because it's we're all we always sleep at 70 for bubs because harrison and i would sleep at 68 but because of the bubberator we sleep at 70 in our house um i'll say this though harrison turned it up to 72 and the three of us zonked out from four to eight to eight a.m yeah like comad out it was and i was warm and i was so cozy and it stayed darker later it was great bub stayed asleep it was amazing yeah i also want to be clear we didn't leave her in the crib from one to four i was with her the whole time trying to get her to go back down no we're not listen some people when their kid wakes up in the middle of the night and they cry like they leave them in there Harrison and I we don't have that heart so we just like I went in there first and I grabbed her and I held her for a second and then Harrison came around the corner and said I think she's cold and she heard him and let me tell you who Tate loves she dad dad dad and then it was just dad dad and then she really wanted data so then data took over which was great for me because I mean I could not keep my eyes open um so he was with her the whole time but we don't and then I put her back in the bed and when I put her back in the bed that's when I was just like I really think she's cold and that's when I was like I didn't know what to do because it was going to take too long for the room temperature to actually get warm once you changed her and got her warm and the house heated up I mean the girl she was zonked yeah but it took a long time because I changed her and then she was up and then when I put her back in she was standing being like it's time for my day to start and so we had to redo her bedtime routine and did yeah she got confused I think she was very confused um but what we were saying this morning was like we really feel for we're lucky right we don't know what we're gonna get with our little boy here in the belly but like we're lucky with bubs because she's a good sleeper nine out of nine and a half out of ten nights and like last night she wasn't and even though I wasn't even up with her I could hear you guys and I could hear her crying I knew you weren't in bed I knew she was awake and like that kept me up let alone was i you who was like fully awake and like this morning we're both just like you're out of it if you're fully up for four hours in the middle three hours in the middle of the night i because she slept until eight i i feel fine um the i tried for the first time to sleep in her room on the floor yeah and that's when i realized that she was fully awake because she was just like talking to you well i would the way it would work is i would like put her down and i'd get her to calm and then when i'd leave the room she would like immediately stand up and and start calling for me and so i went back in there and i was like okay let's put her down and let's just sleep beside the crib and And so I'd put her down.

33:17And then when I'd slept, when I'd go beside the crib, she would just stand up and she just started calling for me. I was like, all right, let's just completely reset the bedtime routine. So I went and we like got her some milk and rocked around the chair. That would be confusing for her. And talked a whole lot. Like, because how would you know? Yeah. How would you know tonight for, you know, 18 months, no one's changed to be in the middle of the night. I am cold but tonight they're changing me in the middle of the night like it's so confusing and I what I love one thing I do want to ask you because I I think you and bubs have like the sweetest bond ever and like she sees you she loves me I I you know that she loves her mama number one Harrison always says mom is number one but actually dada is I mean she is a dad as girl so I wanted to ask you what are some ways that you've bonded with Tate over her first year year and a half of life especially knowing like you're not the kind that sits in place with her you don't love toys but like you guys have such a strong bond and you found ways to bond with her that are like incredible yeah I think that um number one she loves you most so let's just be very clear about that um i think when it comes to the bond that her and i have that i'm like so it just feels so special to me um and i even felt it like last night when she was just like lying on my chest like oh my god i'm just like so happy with this girl lying here um is but but back to our like when i look at what are the the actual things that are being done to drive that the first thing is is routine and from day one her and I have just had daily routines both routines that her and I do ourselves but also family routines and these routines like they're not rocket science but they do happen every day and they do create special moments where her and I can bond and bond through her different developmental phases.

35:32And so an example of this, it started week one of week two of her being in the little pouch and we would walk to the coffee shop with her in the pouch. Now that's since adapted and it went to us walking in the stroller to now we walk there together and I hold her hand and... Takes longer. It takes, you know, what is a seven-minute walk is now anywhere from a 30 to 45-minute walk. But it's a very special thing that we truly do, you know. Five times a week. Yeah, I would say five to six. And, you know, on the back end, while we have our bedtime routine, which I've talked about before, There's also the pre-bed time routine, which we do now as a family where we walk around the block.

36:29And so that's the first thing is just like finding these day-to-day routines and adjusting them as she continues to get older. And repetition is really, really good for her age because it's how they learn. So she knows to start to expect that. Yeah. The second thing is I found activities that both of us enjoy. And the one that really jumps out on this is cooking. And that's something that when we have a down hour in a day, it's something that I know that she wants to do. Because when I move that cooking – The stool. The tower. The tower. The cooking tower. She scoots right to it. And you just see the raw positive emotion on her face throughout it.

37:22and I really like doing it and when it comes to like things I know she wants to do I just like have found my way to enjoy them so like going to the park she loves to go to the park she loves to play with other kids at the park and so like once again none of this is rocket science but I've just been like okay when I take Bubz to the park we're either going to kind of go through the the player together but often not she's just going to want to be playing with other kids and that's turned into my podcast time and so i'll have one headphone in um and like i i found that as a way for her to get to do something that she wants and me get to do something i want obviously i'm watching her i'm enjoying the moment of watching her play but like she's playing for like an hour no she's she's very happy at the park um and then the third thing is uh i really leaned into traditions and i find that those traditions create everlasting memories and um really like around the holidays is what i'm referring to i wasn't growing up a massive holiday person and every single holiday from valentine's day to i mean going back like it started with uh halloween and her being five six weeks old and turning her stroller into a hot dog cart to thanksgiving where we turned her stroller into a thanksgiving table an oven sorry she was the turkey she was the turkey um to easter the holidays like this this valentine's day we did a bunch of big cooking and um just like really finding any opportunity to like create special both one-on-one moments and family moments um and yeah i think the way i just bring it all together is like I said while none of this is rocket science what it is is just like it's a consistent focus every day on connecting with her growing with her and and bonding with her and and now she truly feels like an extension of myself well what I what I have to give you kudos for is because I think those are, what are the three?

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