18 - Kids Say The Darndest Things

If you've ever frozen in public because of something that just came out of your kid's mouth — this episode is for you.

Kat and Sam are sharing the moments their kids said the thing nobody was ready for. The embarrassing, the unhinged, the brutally honest, and the surprisingly deep. Because kids don't filter. They don't perform. They just tell the truth about everything, I mean everything, but especially about you…with complete confidence and zero warning.

We're getting into the public moments you had to recover from, the kid logic that makes absolutely no sense but somehow holds together, the callouts that stung a little because they weren't wrong, and the things our kids have said that we are still thinking about.

It's a funny episode. But it's also a reminder that these kids are paying attention to everything — and sometimes what comes out of their mouths is exactly what you needed to hear.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Gonna kick ass. Yeah, we we give him permission to use password with the like unspoken agreement that it's ass. Yeah. And one time we were in Oklahoma, and he was FaceTiming with me. We called because he missed her. And he's like, Can I say it once? And I was like, Go ahead. And he is like, I kick ass. And all of us were just like, Whoa, did you just say? He's like, You need permission. And he was not wrong, but we were like, Oh my god. Has he gotten permission since then? I don't think he has. I don't think so. I mean, I don't know if I'm gonna give it to him again, like, especially not in like a public setting or anything. Oh my gosh. That was that was unexpected. It was super unexpected. That one was he cut us all right on that one. That was wild. Lily thought hilarious. She did. There is nothing that will humble you faster than a child full of confidence and zero filter. They don't know what's appropriate. They don't know what should stay in their head. They have no concept of timing, no awareness of the audience, and absolutely no idea why you are making that face right now. And they will say the thing in the grocery store, a family dinner in front of your boss with complete sincerity and zero remorse. The thing about kids is they are just out here telling the truth all the time about everything, including you, especially you. And some of it is mortifying, and some of it is the funniest thing you've ever heard, and some of it will stop you completely because you didn't know a seven-year-old could say something that hits that hard. Welcome back to Friends with Benefits. This is Kids Say the Darndest Things, and today we're getting into all of it. So I fully believe that kids are snitches. Absolutely. Snitches get stitches. There's a reason why we taught the kids that phrase. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Wait, hold on. Time out. Do you remember when Arlen broke his arm and he was super high on ketamine? I have the video. I like I saved the video from my security camera. It's hilarious. It was so funny. I could watch it over and over and over again every time. It's so funny. So he gets out of the trunk because Kyle Kyle had to take over for me because that was gross. Like his arm was like weird. It looked like a T. Yeah. It's not good. So when he got out of the truck, he farted. Like he farted for sure. Like I heard it and I was like, did you just fart? He's no fart. And then he goes, Smitches get stitches.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

He was that like exasperated about it as well. He was just so into it. Everything he said. Yeah, all of it. The whole thing. It was hilarious. So I could I could post it for people.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

Okay. It is the funniest face.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Well, that was so that was at your house. Have your kids ever said something embarrassing in public?

SPEAKER_00 3:02

Well, speaking of the farties and denying that he farted, Arlen also, when he was probably, I don't know, three or four, we're in the grocery store, and he smelled something Benlin. And he told me that I farted. Like very new. It was not me though. I did not fart. I promise I did not fart. I don't fart in public places. That's NSD. And yeah, he the entire grocery store trip, which was probably a full hour, and it was literally in the beginning of the trip.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

I remember it was in the beginning because we had nothing in the cart. He fought with me about how I farted because I wouldn't admit that I farted. And he was insistent. So everybody walked by got scared. So that's my way.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

Oh, and also I did forget to tell you this when we were talking about it earlier. That's also the grocery store that I worked on.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Oh no. So they called you farting Kathy all the time. Yeah, all the time. Just tooting away. So also it must be you. It must be. Well, what's the same? No. Whoever smelt it dealt it. So that's it was Arlen. He deflecting. He was deflecting. Have you ever left a store or someplace because of your kid? Absolutely. Andrew, we went through the terrible two, two and a halves, and he threw the worst tantrum. I had a grocery cart completely loaded, full. Like it was it was full. Like you were ready to check out. I I was. We were almost there. And he wanted something, he saw something, he wanted it. And I told him no. I bet it was ice cream or something. You were probably on that end of the store by then. It was outrageous. Yeah. And this boy threw himself on the floor and started screaming. And I did all the things. I gave him a countdown and he still wouldn't act right. And then I was finally like, let's go. We're leaving right now. Did you pick him up? Did you have to like physically carry him out or did he get up the wall? I said that. Oh, he was scared. Yeah. So I was like, he was like, yeah, point at the cart and stuff, and like still trying to have fit, like point at the cart. And I was like, oh no, oh no, we're going. We're leaving right now. Let's we don't need food. Yeah. You are getting a sink. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. You're going to bed without dinner tonight. He only did it once. Yeah. Only once. I'm sure. And he learned while the rest of my we don't do that. No, it's not appropriate. It may not act full, especially when we're out trying to accomplish things and knock all that out. Mind you, I was working full-time as a single parent at the time. And after work trying to knock out groceries and yeah, no, I was not having it.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

Have you ever thought about how like how different we are for like other people's children?

SPEAKER_01 6:04

Because I know me, like throwing a fit in the grocery store or Target or a movie theater, which are all the places that I'm gonna leave because our kids are throwing fits, is unacceptable. But like if I see a mom with a child who's throwing a fit and like people give them like the looks, I want to change them all. Because judge her, she's doing the best. I know. So that's I want to go up and like pat her on the back and be like, let me help you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

And like, but we didn't do that. We were like really thinking like our expectation for ourselves versus like how we want to treat others that's totally different. Drastically different.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

Drastically. I you know, I think about like Eric, I give her baby so much grace, so much grace. Where like she's like, she's done, and because he's just being difficult. And I'm like, just the beans, it's okay, like just needs a hug. It's it. I I did not grant. Okay, so I was like, I'm like, why are we over here doing that? Like that was not acceptable, then why are you doing it? Yeah, no, yeah, but it it pierces you so differently, like to the core when it's your own kids screaming and acting up, and you know, when it's someone else's, you just have a much higher level of tolerance for that. You do, and even like for your attention stages, yeah. Like Andrew's my firstborn, you're just a young mom. And so, like, I didn't know what I was doing. I just you know, I taught him better, and so why is he doing this? Yeah, you know, so versus like Archer, Archer got a way more patient version of me because years later I'd grown so much more and had so much more experience. And so, like, yeah, like unaccepted behaviors want to be addressed immediately. However, the buildup to it, I'm much more patient for now. I think that like varies on your where you got in your guarantee. Well, and maybe now you can you can identify the not the triggers, but like the the actions that lead to, you know, and so now you can kind of reroute before it gets to that point. Yeah. I mean, I know like, you know, thinking of like rerouting, but like for Archer specifically.

SPEAKER_00 8:21

So Archer for the longest time, if we went to a store, it did not matter what kind of store.

SPEAKER_01 8:29

If it was a store where you could buy something, he thought he needed something every time, every time. You could be in a depot. So you could be like, say there's such a thing as a store for only feminine. Yeah. He has to have it.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

And so I specifically remember when I remember when I was like, we are fixing this, like this is not happening, and so we are not to buy him anything when we go to the store, but like have a conversation every time. And we did, we stuck to it.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

We we are a unified family. Oh, but that was so easy, hard. It was so hard. And part of it was because he is the baby, yeah. And so we sometimes we are like, Oh, like something, and then it's like no, yeah, absolutely not, because you're expecting it once again. And this part well it was the Hot Wheels cars, yes, because he'd be like, it's a Hot Wheels car, it's like a dollar, and like, oh yeah, like dirty, yeah, big deal. And I had to talk myself out of it. Like, no, he doesn't need something every time we go. It was it was a difficult one, and he knows how to negotiate. Yeah, he does, and he's so good at it. I wonder where he gets it from.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

Are you are you implying it's me?

SPEAKER_01 9:46

What did I say that?

SPEAKER_00 9:50

I am diplomatic. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Diplomatic. Anyways, I was asking, I wonder where he gets it from. So what about you know, kids say the darndest things? Are there anything, is there anything they say where you're like, that stays in this house? We do not talk about that anywhere else. Words, phrases, retelling of stories. So between Sam and I, we we don't have much of a filter.

SPEAKER_00 10:18

Okay. Really? We really don't. So discreet. No, no, not really. And so there are times where, say, like a person, if we if we don't like somebody, Sam and I will sit here and we'll we'll talk about it. And Archer is nosy and he will sit there.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

He will quietly sit there.

SPEAKER_00 10:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

So like one of the things that's one of the only times that he will be quiet and sit still. He wants to know he wants to hear the tea. Yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

And he loves to hear the tea. But then we realize that he's listening to said T. And Archer, I will tell you a lot of things that he's great at, but one of the things he is not great at is lying and keeping secrets.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

Thankful for that. I'm thankful for that. I mean, yeah, at the same time, like when we realize he is in the audience for these conversations that do not need to leave the house, we have to give a full-blown speech and reason why, and everything else is why he does not repeat it outside of the house. Because you cannot just say, Don't repeat this. No, you have to give him how long. Yeah, yeah, because otherwise it doesn't stick. No. So and then he'll be like, You don't like them. Why don't we just say that? Like, you can't do that. Like, you can't always, I mean, you can sometimes, but I'm totally willing to tell somebody I don't like them. Yeah, sometimes sometimes we cannot. Like, if it's your boss are certain things or something, if you're just venting about like your day-to-day life, you cannot repeat that. Like well, and I've seen him do that. You guys will be having a conversation or something, and then he'll start asking questions, even like he'll be there. Wait, who? Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. Every time, very nosy. So nosy. He's a gossip. He is a gossip. It's not gonna be good when he gets older. Killer. Can you think of anything that your kids believed for way too long? I I I feel like Archer on us. He don't think you believe too long. I think he conduct. It was the other way. Well, we made you believe he believed. He made us believe that he believed in the belief. Yeah. He slipped up on a couple of different, you know, holiday things. And um, he would slip up and then we'd be like, Oh, if you realize that, then like we're gonna change how we handle these things in the future. Like, you don't get those gifts from Sansa, you know, therefore. And um, the the one I remember the most clearly is the Easter bunny. He slipped and said he doesn't believe in the Easter bunny. And then mom cat told him, like, okay, you don't you don't get like the big Easter basket anymore, and that's fine. Like, if you don't believe anymore, that's okay, but you don't get what you used to when you were younger because you're older now. And he's like, Oh no, no, no. There's a good Easter bunny. Yeah, he's like, There's a good Easter bunny and there's a bad Easter bunny. I was talking about the bad Easter bunny. That's exactly what he said. And I also do want to reiterate, it wasn't like I was going to take away Easter baskets.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

He still got it with the magic of because that was like my whole thing. I was like, you're not gonna get like the magical experience anymore. It's just like because like I think where it started was we had gone to the grocery store to get stuff for the Easter baskets. And I told him that he could pick out what candy he wanted in his Easter basket, and he was like, What? And I was just like, Well, you don't believe anymore, so you might as well get the candy that you want. And he was very offended by being called.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

And then he came up with the good Easter bunny and the bad Easter bunny. And the bad Easter bunny, like, well, didn't he say that he like steals or steals the eggs? Or I can't remember exactly. He came up with a whole scenario, a whole thing on the bad Easter bunny versus the good Easter bunny, and like how he believes in good Easter Bunny. So she he should still have a normal Easter. Yeah. So what happened for Easter this year? Is he still in the I believe in the Good Easter Bunny phase? No, no, we move that no.

SPEAKER_00 14:31

Absolutely not. You do not believe. And here's your basket full of candy.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Enjoy that we did not pick out because we all still got to do the hunt. Yeah, you know, like we'll do all that. It's just we don't pretty much have to be so secret about it. Yeah, you know, yeah. Honestly, that's same thing with like Santa. Yeah. We like I do still normally leave like a toy out or like something out for them, but like everybody knows it's not from Santa because that's what I used to do. It's just like one of them got wasn't. Christmas Eve gift now, where it's like you have one thing you can open and do you instead of the Santa present.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Yeah. But it's like, you don't you don't believe? Like, why am I gonna put all this effort into this magic?

SPEAKER_01 15:20

Like, I I want the the meeting. If you get to believe, then I do too. Yeah. So who's gonna be? But that's what I was gonna say with if it's if it's not a secret anymore, God, that relieves so much pressure from having to go and like shop when he's not with you or like secretly bring the bag in and hide it upstairs. And you know, it's fabulous. Yeah, is what it is. Although we have had to make it clear to him that if he finds his presents because he snoops, he uses them. He doesn't get them, they get sent back. That's a good rule. Yeah, we have had to make that very clear to him. We because he has been like presents. And like, if you snoop and you find those presents, you don't get those presents, you don't get those presents and you get you get them in. So good luck. He's printing that stuff, yeah. He is because he doesn't all lose out. Might be there. Yeah, yeah. Which I mean, we give good gifts. Yeah. So this is gonna take an unexpected turn because I didn't plan on bringing this up. But now that we've been talking about the tooth fairy, I I gotta know. Did you ever keep your kids' baby teeth? Ever, like when they were little and they were losing teeth, did you ever keep them? It is a it this is a thing between me and my sister. She thinks it's disgusting. I have kept my kids' baby teeth and they're in a storage box thing, but I don't know what to do with them. Like one day do you present it? But I've wondered from other moms like, am I the weird one? Or did you go through a phase when you kept them too? I kept all of Archer's up until I moved after my old time. Sure, had all of his teeth like in their little container. And did you ever stop and pause and go, What am I doing? No, there's many times that I opened the drawer and looked at them, and I was like, it's kind of creepy. I know. I had that moment many times, and then I would just find by being like, well, if something horrible happens, God forbid, have his DNA in his teeth. So we're good. However, when I moved out of that house, I had to convince myself, like, it's it's kind of weird.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

I have to get so I did keep some teeth, but it was not because like it wasn't purposeful.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

It was just like I would go get the tooth from you know the tooth fairy. Like I'd go get the tooth, and then I would not want to go downstairs to throw it away or something. So I would shove it. So I had a bunch of teeth in like one Ziploc baggie, which is almost worse.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

So I just have like this little Ziploc baggie in my in my dresser, but I don't have it anymore.

SPEAKER_01 17:53

So you can't have it anymore. Did you have was it in this house before the tornado? Yeah, you had it then. So was it both their teeth mixed up in one bag? Some of Archer's too mixed up in one bag, yeah. Oh those teeth. I'm like, that's and this is when the teeth of my children. You know, that's funny. That reminds me. You remember our conversation with Archer when he told us about suit fairy? No, he said, um, he lost it. Oh, it was my it was my fault. He lost a tooth every tiger, and um I don't remember the exact conversation, but he lost a tooth ever here. He chose not to tell anybody to lost the tooth. He just put it under his pillow, and then he did it for like three or four days in a row. He was over at my house, and then he said something about the tooth fairy's not real. And I was like, What do you mean, babe? And he was like, I didn't tell you guys I lost the tooth. And he's like, I know you've told me sometimes the tooth fairy's too busy. And he's like, But you guys didn't even know to tell me she was too busy. You guys didn't know it was under there because I didn't tell you, and you've been lying, you're the tooth fairy. He was actually mad. Yeah, yeah. Because, like, I mean, he ruined his own magic, but like he he set it up. He did, yeah, yeah. He wanted to sleep, yeah. Was like, I'm gonna put this under here and I'm gonna see what happens. And but he did that with the knowledge of his mind, like, this may not play how I want it to, and it did not play how he wanted to wanted to prove us wrong, but at the same time, he didn't want us to be wrong, yeah. And so, like, he was super upset with all of us, yeah, because he's like, I know you guys are the tooth fairy, don't lie to me. Yeah, and I was like, All right, dude, don't hide your tooth, your teeth anymore. Like, tell us, give it to us. But I mean, but we throw them away now, right? We throw them away. One so he lost tooth. He hasn't lost one since I moved. But he's gonna lose teeth. We're gonna throw them away, right? I'll give you I'll get you a tooth book that you can put it in. I'm not keeping a toothbook. It's cool. I'll send you a picture of it. You can even write the date, it fell out.

unknown 20:03

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

So you even have nice wooden ones. It's like a wooden box. Have you seen those? I have. I did keep Ella's wisdom teeth, not for long. I did end up throwing them away. Oh, those cute, don't they? Just pull? Yes. She had to have them pulled already. Yeah. But like they were just so like big.

SPEAKER_00 20:19

I wanted to show everybody before I threw them all.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:22

And so I like I showed you and I showed Kyle and pretty sure I showed Brian even. And I was like, look at these. Like they were massive. They were like this thing.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

But this at least what you say? I feel those full arm, but close. Yeah. That's pretty big. That's big. Yeah. It was crazy. You know, Draden doesn't have wisdom teeth. Like he was born without them. No. That's impressive. Yeah. I had them, and I my mom scheduled to have them taken out for spring break of my freshman year in college, actually. It's a straight way to spend spring break your freshman year of college. I will say Ella was really upset that hers were already like needing to come out. Yeah. I mean, because she hadn't, she's had them out for almost a year now. I mean, it's probably better the earlier. Well, it's it's they were already starting to erupt. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

And I was like, I didn't get my wisdom teeth pulled out. I think my last one, it was the year before I moved here. So it was 20 yeah, 29. Really?

SPEAKER_01 21:23

Yeah, I want to say it was 29 when I got the last two removed. Did they wait for them to come in or were they still impacted? Did they wait? Or did I wait? The dentist and I wow have a great relationship. I didn't even have a my mouth was so small, like that's not the only teeth I had pulled. I had multiple teeth pulled because my they wouldn't fit in my mouth. Yeah, no. So I didn't have a choice really. The dentist and I, we don't get along. And so I waited until they came out. And one time I got like a huge infection in my face. Oh. Um, and then another time. Was remember I told you about this one, the dentist who pulled it out. I swear to god, with pliers.

SPEAKER_00 22:04

Well, that was crazy. Yeah. No anything. What pulled it right away. And then the other two I had to have surgically removed because they were all like wrapped around like my roots.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Yeah. It was risen teeth are gross. Something else. I don't know. It's mine pulled out when I was in the army. They carried that up. Yeah, they did. You can't go overseas with your rose and teeth because if they become impacted and infected, it's a medical emergency. And so they want to eliminate any possibilities of that while you're deployed. Oh wow. Or elsewhere. Um, and so I had this side done by a military doctor, and I was awake for it. They've snugged me up really good, but I was awake, and there were pieces of teeth flying everywhere. They had to cut my gums to get them because they were underneath. Oh my god. And like chunks of teeth were flying and hitting me in the face. It was awful. And then I got done and they realized that they didn't have mean the system properly, so they could not give me any medication. Oh, it's which was horrible. Yeah. It was horrible. But then my other side, so they decided to do a side at a time. My other side, they sent me to a civilian dentist for. He put me under. However, I have nerve damage from this side to where the left side of my tongue and my gums, I can't feel. Really? So it like it changed my space buds and everything. Yeah. It changed how I talk. It changed all of that. And I still have like I have an extreme fear of dents now because if you touch my in this region, it sends sharp shooting pains down my tongue and throughout my mouth. Oh. Really bad. Yeah. So like I I don't like that. I I was appreciative that I was put under four to because the first time was when did you get the other two taken out? Yeah, I got them all taken out. Oh, okay. So they did the top and bottom on this side and one. Oh, okay. I was thinking just the back ones. Yeah. It was I I don't like going to the dentist. I see a pediatric dentist because they're nice and control. But I'm looking for that's what I'm looking for now. Yeah. I'm due, but I'm afraid to go to the dentist again. Yeah. It's my dental exams have not been done because they don't understand. Like, if you poke my gums on this side, it's going to make me cry. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

I I Archer and I have the same dentist still.

unknown 24:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:24

Do you get seated at the same time? Like you're like in your film rallies. I have my own appointment. I just want to ask her she would take me on. Uh-huh. She doesn't take my insurance, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

But she's really sweet and she makes me feel like I'm not like horrible because I I think I cry I cry more than probably either of the other.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

You're also like the size of the teenagers in there. So true. I mean, Dra's bigger than you. Yes. I mean, he's bigger than me too, but see, and that's the same reason why I don't think it's fair that I can't do the bibidi bobby boutique. Because you can have a pediatric dentist. I if I can't you should be able to wear children's shoes. I can wear children's shoes. I should be able to do the bibidi bobby. Yeah, the mentality of a child. Implies I understand. Why does that have to do with anything? Because they are children. But the mentality of children. Why can't I be a princess? I think you should be allowed to. Archer's very rude. Yeah, he's super rude. He's so rude. How old was he? Do you think? Well, I well, I was in the picture. You were, but it was when I was at the old house. And I was with my ex at the time. I think he I think he was four. Yeah. He was four or five. He was four or five. I I have major weight fluctuations depending on where I'm at in life. I mean, I think a lot of women do too. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's something that women are sensitive about anyway. Yeah. And so, like, I was in like one of my higher weight fluctuations at the time, and it was summer, and I came out with shorts on. And Archer said, Mommy, why do you why are you so fat? Ooh. And I didn't wear shorts again for almost two years after that. It was a long time. Yeah. Yeah. I just I wouldn't. I was so self-conscious. Yeah. And like to him, he was being a naive child. Yeah. He's not trying to be mean to you. He was just what he saw and what he knew that term to be. But it like destroyed me. Yeah. Destroyed me. And I I didn't wear shorts for a couple of years after that. Yeah. It was a long time. Well, I mean, Ella's pretty mean too. She's like, and that's a different line of means. So that's teenager mean. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

Teenager mien is different because um I mean, everything from I mean, this, you know, this is cringe, and my TikTok is cringe. And sometimes my style or how I I don't know, I don't know. She'll complain about my curls if I didn't do them right, or I'm wearing something that's too young for me.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

She's very good. She's super critical of me, specifically, because she's not like that. She's like no, but she's in a phase where she's hypersensitive. And I mean, that's a teenage thing to me. If I hypersensitive things, but at the same time, like I've told you this many times, she feels comfortable to express anything to you, as frustrating as that is, and as hurtful as it can be, and as much as you want to her mind her of where she came from, you know. Do you think she's looking out for your best interest too? Yes. Yeah. And for the most part, for the most part, I do let it like roll off. Because like sometimes she's on a roll. Sometimes she, yeah. And then I'm just like gotta be like, Can we not? Can can we can we let me, I don't know, think that I'm doing something right in the put them in time out from each other one night. You did. I I like did not allow them to go near each other or talk to each other. She was fuming, like she was angry watching dishes, and Ella was just kind of puttering around. And like every time they said something, it was jab at each other. And I was like, okay, pause. You guys are not talking to each other for the next 10 minutes unless you have something nice to say. And then they still didn't have anything nice to say. And so I was like, hug. And I made something physical connection, physical connection. And I mean, and we both were doing like the the like they did. They absolutely did. But I was like, I won't talk about a hug until I see a genuine hug me. And I made it so ridiculous that it it won't work in. Yeah, because I made it so ridiculous where I was adamant that it had to be a real hug and they didn't want to touch each other at first. I just had to intervene when they're both being buddy. I mean, yes, it doesn't she is my daughter. I mean, like, she is like and when I say that, I mean like she is like my my twin flame. Like, I cannot the same personality be really similar. What's the like moon sign, zodiac? Are you complimentary? Well, she's a Gemini, so she wouldn't compliment anybody. Okay, she's her track. She is her own person. Uh, I am a Capricorn, so I'm an earth sign, which I like to think is complimentary to all. I am to all. But but do you realize how forceful that was? I am. I am, I am, and you're gonna acknowledge it. You are Capricorns are like the best signs. I'm just saying pointing. The best signs. We are the cool signs. I've always heard it was Sagittarius. Okay. No, absolutely not. Sorry. Sagittarius fine. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 30:06

Absolutely not. Okay. Well, my consent is a vegetarian. He doesn't doubt this conversation. Yeah. What's his what's his like moon and everything else to look? I haven't we don't care enough to look. I mean, he doesn't doubt. Okay, fine. But Kyle and Archer and Arlen were all water signs. So there's a lot of emotion. Yeah. Oh, water signs. It like break down what their signs are. So we've got Kyle's Achises. Which is we we know, but that's a handful. Yep. Uh-huh. Yep. We sure do. And then we've got Archer who's a Scorpio.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

Which we know we should also say I sent you the meme. Remember when it was so zodiac signs being compared to demons. Oh, like different demons. Yeah. And the one that compared to Scorpio was the devil. Really?

SPEAKER_01 30:58

The devil, like other people had like different demons, like, but not Scorpio. Scorpio is literally the devil. Yeah. And then Arlen was a cancer. So we had one of each. It's funny because I knew that Archer's birthday was like a week before Davian. Is it has like close to Halloween or something? 23rd. Yeah. Yeah. So they're both Scorpios, though. And I just think it's funny. They're both Scorpios and we're both Sagittarius. They flash. But they so it does. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

But that's that also makes sense though, because like, so the one thing that Davian does when he comes over to play that like always makes me think like, what's going on there? Is he playing, having a great time, and then all of a sudden, like very randomly, he's like, I'm leaving.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

Yeah. And he's I mean, he'll do that at home too. Like he'll be playing, everything's fine. And then he's like, hey, he decides the vibe is off. Yeah. So he's done. Like, I'm out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:53

And so I've like never really thought about it. But like now that I know that he's not working. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

Yeah. I'm not super into like horoscopes and all that, but I was talking to a girl that I went on that women's retreat with, and she's very into all the astrology and other signs I just I don't know enough about. And she was asking me the other day what his sign was. And I was like, hmm, I don't know. I haven't actually thought about it. So I knew that he was a Scorpio because I had just come up with the two of them or with her. And so when you were talking about it, I was like, that's what's up. Yeah. They're both a Scorpio. They're both Scorpio is up there. That is 100% why. But that's actually why David is a good match for him. It is. They they challenge each other and they match each other. Yeah. Even if you don't like look into astrology or believe in it or whatever, you can do not, you cannot deny when you look up somebody's sign without looking into the breakdowns of it. You just look at their basic sign and you think about their personality. Yes. It matches. It does. It's time for every person. Yeah. Yeah. Every time it really does. I mean, I I'm not denying it because I know that I am a Capricorn through and through. Like there is no denying. And I'm fun. Capricorn. Same. It's a it's a balance. It's a really great one. Listen, it takes all kinds we can't all be Capricorns. Okay. Imagine. I mean, in this family, there's only room for one. Yeah, you imagine if we're another one for her. Like Ella, is that you can be? What is Brian sign though? Isn't he an Earth sign too? October. But not Scorpio then. Not the end of October. Is that Libra? What's his what's his what's the number? Or Virgo. No, Virgo's November. Libra. It's Libra. Um just balance as an air sign. Also. Yeah, Libra. Charming, intelligent, and pleasure-seeking individuals. Sounds right. They value harmony and aesthetic beauty, focusing on details to succeed. Do your kids have any weird things that they're afraid of? Bugs are pretty common, but anything weird?

SPEAKER_00 34:12

Did you bring that up on purpose? I don't like to eat bugs, like for years, years and years and years.

SPEAKER_01 34:27

Yes. Yes. And then she got like some weird rash slug that she was like, because she saw a slug at sign. She's like, it's so cute.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

And it became like her friend. And like she had it like falling on her leg. And I swear to God, like she got like an infection. Um, but so Ella, from the time that she could crawl, would start eating bugs. And I could not stop her. And I was telling Christina, I was like, I've pulled a live cricket out of her when she was baby. Because she she wanted to eat crickets. And so I've seen this child eat crickets, a roach. So gross. No. Uh roly pulleys.

SPEAKER_01 35:12

I don't know what else outside of that. Ants is another one that I've seen her eat. So yeah, she she really liked to eat bugs. So not afraid of bugs. No, not at all. She was not afraid of bugs. Didn't she used to keep them too? Like in her microwave. Yes. Not real microwave, but the toy kitchen. Her toy kitchen, the microwave where the rolly pulleys lived and and died. Lived and died. At least they were one. Yeah. I got a couple rapid fire questions for you before we close out today. You can just go fast or you can add a story to it if you want. Mispronounced words. Lemon laid. Who else I think? Lemon laid. Lemon laid. It's my favorite. I can't think of any major ones with my voice. Uh yes. Yes, you can. Oh, nibble. Yes. Arthur, Arthur says nibbles. And I every time somebody tries to correct him, I'm like, no, it is nibbles. That is what they're forever knowing this. I do think it's hilarious that Davian also follows.

SPEAKER_00 36:29

He does, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

That's so weird. I know. They're my Scorpios. I don't know. Maybe it's got something to do with it. Like any Scorpios listening. How do you pronounce it? Is it nibbles? Ella also, now they're LOM. When she used to say his evil play nib, his eagle plan. Eagle. Or your brother. My brother's my favorite one. Honestly, like out of all the ones I've heard, my brother's my favorite one. He loved birds when we were kids. And he could not pronounce the word falcon. And I thought it was great. And so when we're in a situation that I didn't want to be in, such as like a family road trip because we used to do like weekend road trip pet things or whatever. Hey, Jalen, what's your favorite bird? And he's like, fucking. I mean, believe it. My my mother like was reaching behind the back seats to smack me. But it was well worth it. Yes. I have to agree. That would be no one seen this. I know. Does he still pronounce it wrong? No, he pronounced it correctly, unfortunately. But whenever he does say it, because sometimes I'll egg him on. Whenever he does say, I'm like, you're not saying it right. I wonder how someone comes to that realization because, like, if nobody ever tells them, like, like we haven't really broached the subject on of nibbles with our kids. We're like, oh, so cute. Like, you know, I do they like read it and then they're like, oh my God, my whole life I've been pronouncing this word wrong. Or does someone they get made fun of and then they learn? There's something I corrected Archer on recently so that you wouldn't get made fun of, and I can't remember what it was. Do you? I don't remember. It'll come to me eventually, probably like at two o'clock when I can't sleep. When you're opening the door to let the dog out. I know that he he told me, I mean, earlier today when I had told him concept, and he thought that that was counting, like counting instead of concept. And I was like, yeah, no, that's not the same thing. It'll come to me eventually. It was a funny one. When it comes to me, I'll show you. But grossest thing they've ever handed you, or I don't even know that it has to be handed to you. Grossest thing that has been delivered to you is the result of a child. What? A handful of poop. Yes. Wait, somebody like handed you poop? Their own diaper. Like a diaper. Like a diaper explosion. I've never had to deal with the poop being smeared all over. Yeah. Any of that. I never had that situation. However, look, mommy. Oh. That's Mancy. And then I was like, don't do not do not touch me. Pause. Ellis did the smearing. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_00 39:16

Yeah. And it was really it was a hard one to break. Like that was a really, really, really tough one.

SPEAKER_01 39:21

I don't think that I had I what I ended up having to do, and here is a here's a trick that I learned was I would put her pajamas on her, like the zip up, you know, like the one of these backwards. So she can't unzip it. So she couldn't zip it. That is smart. Sounds uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_00 39:40

You have to cut the like because they're always like the feet's off.

SPEAKER_01 39:44

Um but yeah, I would I would put it on her backwards so that she could not unzip it. That is really smart. But I I seriously could not stomach that. I've made more of a mess but throwing up. No, she's pooped in my face, like with legit projectile pooped in my face. So poop does not bother me that much. Oh, I hate all of it. Yeah, no. I mean, even though I am with like dog poop. Yeah. I I don't even like to deal with that. It's clean up dog poop because I will throw up. Yes, I will too. Yeah. Sagittarius thing. I guess you'll be handling the poop. I've worn this in like a nursing home and done a whole lot of stuff. And that didn't bother you? Maybe because you were getting paid for it. Probably doing a lot getting paid. Yeah. All right, last one. Strangest food combo. Do they have any weird food habits? I mean, Ella puts Cholula on everything. Her Cholula and popcorn mixture that she does. Oh, does that make it soggy? It does. It does. Yeah. I've tried it. Yeah. Soggy. It's gross. Um, she also will like dip like tortilla chips and ramen. Yeah. She'll dip anything chip and ramen. Yeah. She taught me. Yeah. It's really weird. That's that's one that I just don't really understand because I'm like, I mean, it kind of reminds me of like tortilla soup, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 41:09

I mean, yeah, but but it's not.

SPEAKER_01 41:11

But not.

SPEAKER_00 41:12

So it's weird.

SPEAKER_01 41:14

Like dipson gets it all soggy and yeah, I wouldn't like the soggy part.

SPEAKER_00 41:20

So I know that it's not like a weird combo, but I do I do not understand the Nutella sandwiches.

SPEAKER_01 41:29

Like, I do not understand how that is yummy. Because like sweet, it's a treat, but you're still accomplishing like, oh, I ate a sandwich for lunch.

SPEAKER_00 41:38

I mean, I get that. But like every time, like to me, that sounds disgusting. I'm like, you're not even gonna put like peanut butter or like something else with this.

SPEAKER_01 41:46

You're like putting chocolate on a bread. I think it's regardless of chocolate. Hazelnut by yeah, it's weird. It's chocolate hazelnut. So it's weird. It's like peanut butter. I feel like it's it's better like by itself. I think it's weird. And yeah, Archer loves it. It's Archer's too. Yeah. I think the the wildest part about kids and what they say is you never know what's coming next. You cannot prepare, you just have to kind of be ready for it. Um, so final question for today. What's something you hope you never forget that your kid has said? It's probably a lot. I mean, this one for me is hard. I think that one's hard for you. Like for me, I just like especially given what happened. I want to remember all of it. Yeah. Um, I think for cats, it's a little bit harder and more specific. It is. Yeah. I definitely would say record your kids talking as much as possible.

SPEAKER_00 42:47

But like Arlen, when he used to come home, like he'd like slam open the door and like burst in with so much energy, like and like I can still hear him say that.

SPEAKER_01 43:01

I remember like how hard that was for you. Yeah, like it still is, but it is where it was, like especially initially.

SPEAKER_00 43:07

Um, and there's been a few times where I've like if I doze off on the couch around like school time, like when Archer comes home. Because Archer does he does the the opening of the door the same.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

It's but it's obviously not like the he doesn't have the enthusiasm that Arlen did. Yeah, yeah. And so, but like I think that the door swinging, like it does like kind of trigger that. Cause remember, like, what was that, like three weeks ago? That I like I woke up and I swore, like could swear up and down that I heard Arlen. Yeah. And then like it dawned on me that I did not hear Arlene and I was a wreck for like two days after it. Yeah. Like it was the the door swing really good to you. Yeah. But like Arlen was all enthusiastic. Even like when I would come over to fall asleep on your couch after working third shift. Like he was super enthusiastic. When I walked in. Heck yeah. Yeah. He was across the board. He was he was happy about life. He was very happy about life. Yeah. Yeah. It I didn't, I don't know. I didn't think about it earlier, but I had said something about Arlen singing Queen, like we will read you. Which I have that on video. So that one I will never have to forget. But it made me remember, it just like popped in my head. Ella used to sing also. She was also, she sang a lot too. But she her first song that she ever sang was the Meow Mix commercials. Meow, meow, meow, meow. Surprising. And like she it she sounded just like the commercial. Like that's so true. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. Sure. Well, she was little because like we could fit that voice. Yeah, you really can't. You really face it together. Oh my god, that's a child. She's still adorable, but like she is so precious. She really does.

SPEAKER_00 44:58

She she asked me, she's like, No, I'm thinking about getting bangs. And like the answer is always yes. And she was just like, oh my god, I did. I was just like, you should totally get bangs. She was like, You just want me to get bangs because I need some bangs and I'm big. And I was like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:11

It was so adorable. Like this doll face.

SPEAKER_00 45:14

Yeah. So cute with bangs. She has so freaking cute bangs, but I don't think she'll actually do it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:19

Because I'm one or two. You should have been like, don't do that. Yeah, I'm not reverse psychology.

SPEAKER_00 45:27

I'm not quick enough. Like as soon as she said bangs, I was like, yes. I think it was in the pantry and I like popped out. Like you should so excited. Yeah, but shit the beyond's commercial.

SPEAKER_01 45:40

Yeah, I can totally see it. And like I'm picturing her little face and that voice perfectly. I wonder if I have that on video. I have so I look so. Oh, that would be great. I'd have to look. But you know, even like going back, you know, when they were a baby, like they they're they're never those people anymore. And so like sometimes I'll watch old videos where like they were just like making baby sounds, like that sound that they would make when they were eating or when they were dreaming and they, you know, sometimes they get that little smile on their face or whatever. And then into the toddler years, you know, that that part's gone too. And it's just to be able to go back to videos like that and listen to them again, whether it's something profound or just a sound that they made is so special. Yeah. Yeah. And you don't realize how much they're gonna change from baby infant to toddler, toddler to child, you know, those kinds of things. And you never know, like when is when's the last time that you're like gonna see that moment? Like like Ella with lemon lead. Yeah, it just stops. It's just even changing diapers, like you never you don't realize that's your last diaper ever. Yeah. Or your last bottle ever. Or you know, you just it just it's it's done. Yeah, and you never have that moment again. Yeah, I think videos and pictures. So crucial to have. I mean, that's that's that I that is one thing I'm glad that I am pretty good about is videos. Very good. Yeah. Specifically videos. I'm not great about pictures. I'm good about pictures. You are not good about videos. I'm pretty good about you're really good about videos. Yeah, yeah. Even now, Davian likes to at night before we go to bed. Sometimes he'll like to go back and watch, you know, he'll be like, Can we watch some videos from when I was little? Because you know, he doesn't remember that. And so he thinks it's kind of cool to see himself at that stage. He loves to watch videos of not because obviously I don't have very many videos of him when he was really, really little. Yeah. Um, he does like to watch videos of Alex is like an Arlen. Yeah, he loves seeing videos of them. He loves seeing like the dancing videos you guys have. Yeah. Dancing in the kitchen. That was a big thing. That was a big thing, and he loves re-watching those. Oh yeah, yeah. Well, that's episode 18. If you have kids, save the voice memos, write it down in your notes app, text it to someone, record it. Because one day you're gonna wish you remembered exactly how it sounded. Next episode, we're diving into end of school routines and prepping for summer with summers with kids. It's gonna be great. Thanks for being here. We'll see you next week.