WEBVTT - Narwal Cake 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:17.400 I got welcome, it's parenting. I'm Peter McNerney and I'm 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:26.360 thought Noel. We're tired. We're yeah, we're all quarantined out 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:31.840 like the rest of you. We're tired physically, existentially, parentingly 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.440 Parentingle really proud of not meaning exploding at my children tonight. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.760 I was on the verge. I kind of exploded at 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:48.159 them today, not like I was just more um vocal 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.720 than usual. But I don't think I got as worked 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.760 up as I have in the past. Yeah, I had 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:59.640 had a fine day until bedtime, and uh, I felt 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:06.520 ray Mayven. Maven was really full Maven today they were 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:11.559 both being so difficult, like she's she's just so contrary, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.759 and I like, there's so many days now. So like 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.800 for people listeners who are not aware of our schedule, Um, 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.360 we are in quarantine. And I tend to work in 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.520 the mornings while you do school at the kids, and 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.880 then in the afternoon I deal with them while you 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.560 do work, and so you know, depending on the day, 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.320 by the time I get to them, it's like I'm like, Okay, 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.400 maybe I can get them outside blah blah blah. But 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.560 sometimes it's just like I'll mention going outside and I'll 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.880 be saying it for like a full hour or something, 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:44.680 and I just have to sort of, like early on, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.000 try to figure out which way the wind is blowing 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.360 so that I can give up in time before I 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.960 lose my mind, you know, Like Mayven went up they 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.600 both wanted to go to the beach, and then they 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.280 weren't getting their shoes on. And finally, by the way, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.120 this is a very out of the way, not public beach, 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.840 no one's around. We're not going to the beach. Yeah, 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.320 but we're going to walk down to the beach and 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.160 just walk along the beach and so and it's like 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.400 one of the few things we can do right now. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.120 So it's like, let's get out of the house and 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.639 go to the beach. And when once they're there, they 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.120 love it there and they relax and it's good, but 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:22.359 getting them outside is a problem. So Mayven today, she 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.160 finally goes upstairs to get dressed and then decides that 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.200 she wants to wear a bathing suit, which is not 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.840 appropriate because it's like fifty five degrees outside, and she 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:32.920 refused to put any clothes over it. So then I 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.320 was just like, well, this isn't happening today. We're like, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.480 we're done, but she I came out later to see 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.640 that she was still insistent I'm going to the beach. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.600 I was like, okay, great, I'll take you, and she 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.720 was going to bed at eight pm with her bathing 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.720 suits still on. She was like, we never got to 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:56.840 go to the beach. Like, listen to us. Yeah, she's 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.600 I had a real victory, which is we were both 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.760 up there and we both remain calm. I was about 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.960 to blow up. I was really appreciative you were there 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.920 because we'd always threatened Maven with me. Well, I could 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.119 just tell by the way that this day has been going. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.280 There both being really bad at the same time, and 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.000 I was like, there's no way you're going to survive 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.359 this in time for us to record this podcast unless 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.160 we tag team this a little bit. Yeah. I was 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:30.760 about to literally grab both of them. Yeah, I could 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.200 feel it. I was like, this is things were getting tense. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.040 I got up there though, and maybe I just ignored 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.000 her enough that she every time I do like this book. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:44.680 Maybe she's been doing a lot of brooding today. Evil 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:50.120 does eyes squint at us. No one can look at 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.200 you out of the tops of her eyes with more 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:58.560 fire and disdain. I talked to you. I think I 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.880 told you I talked to this like in suitive woman 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.920 a couple weeks ago. I was like doing a session 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.400 with her, and she kept saying things about maybe and 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.760 that were so true. And she was like she's she's 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:15.600 got fire and ice. It's like yeah, yeah. I was like, 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.880 that's her. Well, you know how I finally got her 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.720 because I put her in bed and then she was 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.040 like kicking the blanket off and I'm like, I can't 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.159 leave because she can't get this blanket, big heavy blanket 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.040 back up, so she's gonna like we'll have to come 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.200 back up eventually. So I was like, okay, how do 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.599 I get out of here with the blankets still on her? 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.600 And I did it with tickle spiders? Good work, I 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.159 said later down, I go, all right, mabe, I know 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:46.120 you've had a red day. Just before I go, just 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.400 be very careful because last time I was in here 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.680 that I saw this bed was full of tickle spiders. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.520 She goes, and I go, there's one right behind you. 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.280 And then I tickle her and then I pretend to 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.599 grab it with my other hand and then I squash 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.160 it up. I go tickle spider and then I eat it, 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.720 and then I act like it's the most disgusting thing 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.080 I've ever eaten. And then I get mad at her 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.359 and I go, don't make me eat anymore tickle spiders. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.880 And then she started giggling, and I knew I had her, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.520 and so I was sort of tickle torturing her. But 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.240 then I grabbed them and pretend like I was getting hurt, 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.480 and I think it balanced it, and then bring out 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.240 and we all started screaming, and then they started going, 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.480 there's a tickle spider on your butt. So I got 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.680 a lot of exercise up there, and I eventually slammed 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.479 the door by saying, when I come back, you better 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.440 have eaten all these tickle spiders. I am not happy, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.000 and I shut the door and they were laughing hysterically, 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.839 and I ran down sound upstairs less angry than I 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.520 was when I went up. That's good. He turned it around. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.479 Turned it around. It does not always work, and it 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.520 won't work next time I got. I got so mad 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.839 it for him today because I was trying to distract 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.479 him from being horrible as usual, and I was trying 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.680 to get I was like, oh, he can read this 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.600 rest to pea for me while I'm making it, and 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.960 I was like trying to get him to do that, 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.080 and so he kept standing in front of my computer 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.920 like reading it. But then as soon as I would 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.479 walk away to get the ingredients, he would open up 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.400 another tab to try to look at YouTube videos. I 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.120 can't leave alone with the computer front, just like, I'm like, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.920 you this, you're not allowed to use computers. You're just 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.160 so bad, Like he's just so's. I was like, never mind, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:30.480 this is that, this is never happening again. Uh, screens, 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:35.599 screens we need Yeah, we need to print out recipes 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:39.120 or something. He's just so. I was like, it seems 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.320 like a good way to get him reading, like he 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.400 doesn't like reading for school as much as he does. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:51.040 If it's like a game, Yeah, he's obsessed with twenty 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.920 Questions to the point where we're all hate this game, 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.159 but so is he likes to play with his Nana 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.120 on the phone own in real life. And then finally 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.240 I said, final, I'll put twenty Questions with you whenever 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.680 you want, but you have to submit your questions in writing. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.600 And he's done more writing through this game than you 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.000 will any other time. Well, he was okay, so he 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.520 was playing with my mom and she had to write 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.800 the questions on the game, and so he just had 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:23.600 to hit like yes, no or sometimes, and he he 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.120 was his thing was the cat, and he had my 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.160 mom asked like if it climbed trees and he hit no, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.880 and I was like, well, sometimes it does. So then 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.239 he was trying to like type out a text message 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.640 to my mom's and it took him so long, and 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.760 it was so funny to watch. He was like sometimes 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.120 he's like, how do you Like he'd be like, how 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.960 do you say? How do you spell climbs? He texted 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.400 sometimes it climbs trees. And he also somehow figured out 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.840 to send her a voice message at some point, like 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.880 he texted her voice message to be like Nana, this 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.360 uh this part of the game blah blah blah and 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.760 like and then so then the team switched over like 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.760 it was his turn to ask the questions, and I 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.880 think he immediately got exhausted by typing. So he just 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:15.680 typed w T w U T what is it his 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.800 first question, and then my I think my dad was 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.440 playing on the other end, and he just hit my 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.640 dad just hitting no, And then his first question is 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.880 what is it yeah? So then Brent called them and 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.440 was like, I give up? What is it? And there 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:37.720 it's just like fully fully given up. He cheated with 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.120 me the other day. I say, I write it on 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:41.959 the last page, and I go, all right, I'll submit 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:43.920 the questions the front page. I left the room for 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.040 one second and I came back. Your questions were like 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.320 is it an animal yes? Is it a mammal? Or? 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.000 Is a reptile no? Is it a mammal yes? Is 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.080 it a pet no? Then I left the room for 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.320 two seconds and I came back and it said is 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.600 it a zebra? Which was correct? And he was like 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.360 all smug and smiling, and I was like, you cheated. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.640 His look on his face was like how could you 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:12.240 possibly have known? He's so bad at cheating. It's like 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:17.960 he's five other big news of the week. May even 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.800 turned four. May even turned four. It's crazy. I feel 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.320 like she like did another one of those growth spurts 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.920 where she also looks huge. Yeah. It's also we spend 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.640 the whole day looking at her and we're like, when 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.079 the hell did this happen? Yeah? I like, who is 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:37.880 this huge person? According to Brandon Maven's rules, she is 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:42.080 now officially a big kid. It kind of feels like 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.200 it though, Like all of a sudden, I'm like, yeah, 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.600 this is a kid. It's not like a toddler. Yeah. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.960 She's like thirteen. Yeah, she's well and she got like 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.760 a new gown for her birthday and she got like 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.640 little girl high heel shoes and she's been like prancing 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.760 around and she already was like into like girly stuff, 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.439 but this is like kind of next level, I feel like. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.120 So she's like she'll have like a peanut butter and 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.520 jelly sandwich like all of her face, and then she'll 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.640 be putting on like new toy makeup, like plastering it 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.560 on her cheeks, like just all mixed together. She took 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.560 like this blue glittery lip bomb thing and was just 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.160 rubbing it all over her legs in hand and like 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.200 and then I was like, she was like, oh, we 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:30.719 have to go wash this off, and I was like, yeah, 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.000 how about a bath? And she thank god, she took 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:39.160 a bath. Anyway, she's I love what we did. So 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:44.160 we didn't have any wrapping paper. Um, I mean, we 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.880 could have got wrapping paper, but we've been limiting the 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.640 trips to the store. We haven't been to the grocery 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.000 store in over two weeks. This is a new record, 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.400 and we're still pretty good. It really feels like it's 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.160 been a year since we went to the grocery store. 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.200 I can't believe how well we're holding up. I'm I 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.600 really feel like I've become like a pioneer woman. I'm like, 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.679 I've got an onion and I got some pasta, and 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:13.000 you're making culinary miracles happen with only six to seven ingredients. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.840 I'm really proud of my efforts today. This afternoon, I 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.559 really wanted a snack and we're so low on groceries, 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.240 and there was like just a handful of baby spinach left, 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.280 and I managed to make like a cheesy spinach dip. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:34.960 And I was like, I am incredible. Like it's just 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:39.520 you're like the French peasants making high art out of snails. Well, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.080 I was like, it's fast, it's easy, it's just the 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.640 snack I want. It's almost healthy. I had the best 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.640 eating day today that I have had since we've been here, 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.640 and I'm realizing now part of it is because we're 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.720 out of good snacks. I was like, I've got self 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:59.240 control today. I'm like, no, it's just not around. We do, unfortunately, 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.640 need to have less sugar in the house because our 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:06.320 children are fiends for sugar. So is your husband. I know, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:11.560 but I have no self control. And normally at home 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.720 we can have like a couple of adult snacks, like 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.920 I can hide away or something. But it's true here 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.319 kids like I don't know something about Easter and then 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.959 maybe's birthday, and like just the fact that we've been 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.679 baking more as a coping mechanism. I think they're just 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.120 like all they think about a sugar somedays. So we 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.600 really need to like taper down for a little bit 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.319 so that they forget that that's a constant option. It's 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.720 a weird balance because I have no self control. But 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.080 if it were up to me, we'd literally have none 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.000 of it. But that doesn't work for you, you know. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:46.800 But if it was up to you, we'd all just 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:51.160 be eating like fried hamburger meat every meal, Like you know, 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.800 that's fair. The point is it's been tricky with the 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.160 way we do things in our needs to find a 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:01.760 balance that suits everyone. Um, but can I like to 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.280 have snacks and treats sometimes I'm not criticizing you in 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:12.360 the least. Um, I'm different and that's my problem. Um, 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.920 so maybe and that you also love them. I don't 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.560 even love them the way you do. I just consume 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:25.520 them without feeling. So for Mavens, we didn't have wrapping papers, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.559 so we wrapped up all of her presents in beach 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.959 towels because we're in a house that has ten trillion 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.320 beach towels and rubber bands. And I gotta say, rubber 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:38.760 bands and beach towels are incredibly effective. And uh, I 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.840 just want to say, for the first time ever in 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.040 this podcast, Beth just got up in the middle of 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.880 us recording and left the room to get water, acting 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.280 like I can pretend to talk to her. I can't. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.920 I need you here, even the first time I've gotten 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:01.640 up to get water. But um, continue on talking about 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.760 how this fascinating you bought. But you bought this, this 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:11.240 beautiful pink tent. It's a really excellent gift. Beautiful. It's 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.240 a little tent. If it's inside, it's got these poles 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.520 in it. I set it up and like we we 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.440 set it up. So there's our room here is attached 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:25.240 to a porch that you that we set the tent 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.280 up on the porch, and then we put all the 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.600 presents inside the tent. And then Beth, you've got a 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.880 bag of these little plastic animals. And I made a 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:38.120 trail from their bedroom down the stairs, a line of animals, 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.600 through the living room, through our bedroom so that they 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.040 would wake us up, and then through the door to 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.840 the porch where are the presents were, so our kids 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.960 would be our alarm clock and they would wake up 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.560 and find a magical trail to presents. I gotta say 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.760 it was pretty magical. It was good. Maven has had 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.840 pretty great birthdays the US a couple of years. I 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.640 feel like she's really benefiting from like it not being 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:08.520 a crazy time of year. Um, May, it's not a 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.840 crazy time of year. It is for me that's like 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.880 normally my busiest work time. But it's not like being 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.240 born around like Christmas time or like the fourth of 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.800 July or something like. It's like that's fair. We're like, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.640 we're not like all just like moving from one event 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:27.160 to another. We're sort of like, Okay, what's happening around me, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.880 you know, especially right now. We we had plenty of time, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.240 so we're all pretty focused on her. And can you 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.840 talk about the cake you made. I made she last 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:40.280 minute requested an our wall cake, and I'm so proud 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.840 of myself. Um, I'm a pretty good decent cake decorator, 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.640 but I really feel like I did myself this time 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:49.840 because I was like, Okay, how am I going to 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.160 have us this at the last minute, and you mentioned 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.680 construction paper, which I was like, fine, But then I 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.120 had a last moment minute for the horn for the 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.920 horn for the one, so I was I bought just 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.200 like box cake mix because I don't have discerning enough 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.760 tastes to want to actually bake a cake from scratch, 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.120 and uh, it's just I like to focus on the decorating, 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:18.080 to be honest. Um. And then so we did this 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.760 like box cake mix. I did the two layers. I 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.680 shaved off a little bit of the top layer to 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.400 make it rounded, which I have never I don't think 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:32.240 I've ever done that before or like, not this successfully. Um. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:38.040 And then I got puff pastry to bake the narwall's 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:43.080 horn and its tail, and uh, it came out, I 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.840 have to say, pretty incredible. And then our kids instantly 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:51.280 made a very crucial mistake, which is to put the 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.320 birthday cake out first thing in the morning. On the 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.920 counter and say to our four and five year old, Hey, 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:01.200 don't eat this cake for the next twelve hours. I 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:06.479 think it's a funny challenge. I was not expecting it 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:10.280 to be so completely destroyed, especially not like face first, 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.359 it was like so conspicuous, like the looked like somebody 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.840 through a cup of acid in its face. Well, what 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.520 I found funny is like I have watched a lot 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.280 of nature shows about whales, and it really just looks 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.600 like someone's eating at the carcass of like a dead whale. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:31.240 Like they're just like out a beach whale that a 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:37.080 grizzly bear found a family of grizzly bears, some killer 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.800 whales got out it like a loose, sugary jaw of 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.040 a whale on the counter. Well, because I made the 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.720 mouth and eyes out of chocolate chips, so that that's 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.040 why they went right for the face. Um, I mean 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:55.119 that's what your cat and the cat does too. Um. 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.120 What when you die in your apartment and your cat 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.399 eats you? Never mind, let's move on. So on a 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:07.240 scale of one to narwhale, how do we do narwhale? 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.000 All right, now it's time for he knows what they're saying, 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.679 this is where we talk about some weird ship our 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:30.960 kids said, um, so this is something weird that happened 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.560 actually on Maven's birthday, which feels really weirdly conspicuous. She 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.879 told me that one of her best friends is a 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:44.040 dead girl named Hallie who she hangs out at daycare. Hallie, 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:49.600 I think you said Nella. Nella is her baby her 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:54.800 doll his name Nella or Ella anyway, the uh. She 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:59.280 told me that this this girl, Hallie h is her 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:02.040 best friend to day care with her other best friend, Camilla, 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.399 and she said that. Um. I was like and I 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:09.720 was like, is Hallie nice? And she's like yeah, but 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.960 she hits me when I say bad words. And I 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.160 was like, like what kind of bad words? And She's like, 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.720 like stupid. And then it was like kind of confusing. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.359 She said. Hallie died a couple of years ago in Brooklyn. 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.440 I don't know what she's doing at our daycare in MEMARNEK. 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:29.119 But um, she just like she's she's setting our daughters straight. 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:32.679 Seems like a little bit like a good influence. And 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.159 I feel like the fact that like the three of 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.359 them were all best friends together and it sounds like 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:43.400 Camilla can see this girl too. Um, I think Camila 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.200 is a really sweet, nice girl. She wouldn't mind to us. Well, 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.080 it's just her and may even have like a very 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.000 good thing. They're never like a lot of friendships at 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:53.640 that age. I feel like there's a lot of fighting 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.840 because they're little and they are not like you never 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.000 hear about them fighting. It's always just like really, Familia 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.239 does not seem conflict prone. No, they're both just like 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:06.560 very sweet. I'm like, so glad they had to have 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:10.520 each other there, um anyway, so they so I was so, 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:12.119 I was just in the sense I was like, I 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.560 think I like Hallie, Like, I think Halle is a 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.200 good influence. She hits her about her, but only when 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:20.000 she says stupid. Yeah, but the way Maven said she 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:22.560 hits like the way Maven was like, So she hits 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.000 me sometimes it didn't feel like she's hitting her like hard, 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:29.240 that's in my instinct. But I did. I did tweet 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.240 about this, and then all I got all these replies 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:37.000 of people telling ghosts the stories about their kids, and 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.199 three and four years old seems to be about the 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:44.280 age where this is the most common. Well, um, I 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.919 don't believe in ghosts. But Maven and I have been 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.240 talking a lot about dead people because we went to 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.080 a graveyard together, and it's fascinating to go to a 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:57.800 graveyard with an almost four year old she wanted. She's 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.000 like sort of got it from that. Wasn't a woman 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.000 who swallowed to fly at the end. She's buried in 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:03.879 the ground because she's dead. And they look at the 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:07.119 tombstone and Kevin like, what's this door? And so like, 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.040 I've really explained it to him. So we went to 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:14.480 the oldest maintained graveyard in America, which is in the 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:18.200 town we are in, in case you're trying to find us. 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.480 Uh and uh. We went there and uh. There was 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:27.360 like a plaque with some famous Ish people, people I've 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.240 never heard of. They were there and pictures of the gravestones, 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:33.360 and Brin goes, I want to find this one. It's 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:35.919 got a nine on it. Let's go. And I'm like, wait, what, 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.600 maybe you should study more of the details on here 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:40.560 before you go looking for it instead of just looking 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:44.119 for the number nine and uh and then they so 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.760 he went running off to find this gravestone and maybe 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:52.280 it was like there's dead people here. Are they going 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.080 to be zombies. She's obsessed with the idea that you 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:57.680 die and then he becomes a zombie. That's her only 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:01.080 understanding of any kind of afterlife. So she's saying dead 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:04.440 people are real, but zombies are not real. Like yeah, 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.520 I'm like, there's people under this ground and she's like what. 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:12.600 And we talked about cremation yesterday, which I could tell 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:16.800 was creeping them out a little bit. But they asked, um, 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.280 and we had this needs to lead into our next segment. 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:25.280 Oh boy, what does that mean? We'll find out, But 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:34.159 this one's not over yet. Um it's not. No, okay, 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:40.680 yess it is, but bah, in fact, we're just gonna 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.960 immediately dive into our next section. No break. This is 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:46.760 we know's what they're watching, because that's all they do 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:50.240 these days, is watching all we do. Uh. So we 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:55.879 found some uh fun movies during this time, but we 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:58.720 made a really strange last minute choice last night to 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:01.840 let Bran watch Little Shop of Horrors, which none of 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:05.040 us had ever seen. All of us thought we'd seen it, 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:07.600 and as we started watching, we realized, we've never seen this. 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:09.439 Now I kind of knew I hadn't really seen it. 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:13.480 I had seen like clips, but I, Yeah, I really 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:15.879 had not seen this movie at all. I just realized 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:18.040 I was a theater major and I've heard every song 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.920 from the music music theater majors around me. Yeah, and 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:23.520