Welcome to week 11. You can expect this week all things New Year's resolutions, or lack of for us, and New Year with a baby, so in bed by nine o'clock we're thinking. And everything from our Christmas to now, we're thinking pantomime, family fun, all the eating, and vegetating on the sofa.

So I think we're a go.

Okay, welcome to week 11.

Yeah, I think it's week eleven.

Yeah. and New Year's Eve. Bubba's actually got her Born in 2023 onesie on stay.

So while it is episode 10, we're on week 11 because we recorded one at Christmas as the bonus episode.

true, very Ow! Sorry. that, we're in as

So we're in that, we're in that Christmas perennium as some people call it or crimbo limbo. Well, yes, between the arsehole so

not heard that one.

yeah, Christmas perennium, crimbo limbo. What's the other one people call it? There's another one. Let's

one. So, Dead Zone? Yeah, it's kind of

purgatory thing.

What's all the time of year? You don't tend to do very much, do you? Yeah, get

ready to go say that you're gonna do loads of things. You do nothing to try and build up the willpower to do loads of things, then inevitably people end up quitting by February. So,

all the

time this actually comes out, most A lot of people will have probably failed the new year's resolutions.

Yeah, are you setting any this year? We don't tend to. Have you got any for this year? I don't

don't, we've had this discussion. I don't really like them because I feel that if it's something that

care enough about,

you shouldn't need to wait until the beginning of the year to do.

if we

you don't care, and

therefore, if

it's something that you said at the beginning of the year, you don't care enough therefore to actually see it through. Saying that, I do need to make some lifestyle changes as we've discussed in terms of before setting out those sort of

in an area service and

an earlier episode we discussed those things that we make sure we do kind of every morning Watch out with the clunking.

like? Kind of those

things that we try and make sure we do every morning

Right. So mine being

being Meditation run and hopefully a little bit of journaling. Oh, I also need to do my cold practice, obviously. Love some of that

Huh? Not just running, work out

as well But yeah, how about you? You got any?

I'm sort of the same vein as you really, I think. You're going to do something, just do it. Don't wait until New Year. I guess like, I've started doing my exercise, you know, postpartum. But I am starting with a new trainer. at the beginning of the year. So that's sort of like my accident has happened. to fall into the start of the new year.

Really, I

guess well I guess what I'd like to do more of in 2024. is, I would just like to see more photos. And when do I get to see photos?

No, and I think that's a lot better to just kind of say things that you'd like to do more of.

which is what I think. So I think, I'd like to see more photos because I'd like to have all those memories of Zoe. Especially for you with your awful memory.

so I think we've come to the conclusion that we're giving up on this idea of trying to hide her identity as Moonbeam.

Yeah, so the

her name's Zola, shortened to Zo.

it's for you to name her. Well, I

I manage. But you

I get the picture. I

mean,

half the

the time I do just refer to her as them. So, that's quite helpful.

So how's your limbo week been?

Well first let's talk about what we're eating.

Oh, okay.

So what have we got for food today?

for food today? Leftovers. what Everyone eats. between Christmas and New Year. Although this isn't a festive leftovers. We've got some leftover Stilton Elite macaroni, and we've got a sort of like, it's not lasagna but I used lasagna sheets, that I just smashed up last night and made it with some airy sauce and cheese and stuff. Which you'll be into. Yeah a

it was bloody good, well it is bloody good, even reheated in the microwave. Yeah

the carbs, while it absolutely pees

it absolutely

it down outside. Well the

the big news is what we're having tonight.

Go on then, you tell them, you've got to go. no,

run for it. Cause I forget half

Well I don't know what we're actually having. Okay,

So we're going to have a

banquet. Yeah.

banquet.

A deep fat fire is coming out. First time we've gone out since Sarah was born. You're going to get meet a deep fat fire. present that your dad put your mum a year ago. Which is basically bye. Because it's I've never been far more better. It's

But yet I've never bought you sexy underwear.

And you definitely enjoyed it. Oh

Yeah. So, and. You definitely enjoy this. yeah. Because you get to make your favourite meal.

your

your favourite item.

my favourite items, yeah. Prawn toast. Prawn toast.

Because we're being celiac, get it

able to get it all done. Crispy meat.

going to make

I'm also going to make us, so I've got some gluten free, Speculoos, So basically like Biscoff biscuits. So I'm going to do us a little sort of trifle y thing with that. Sorry excuse me, one second. That was getting busy. So that's, what I'll be able to eat is going to and weird foods you've bought me. Yeah, Over the years. Carnival meats.

Yep, so it's some sort of polished delicacy. Some

charred meat. we're not sure. And lots of other things you've bought me. And of course, we're going to go to an LSG. Yeah. So until he's bought me

Tilly's brought me a packet of MSG, because I love that stuff.

stuff in this house. Yeah. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. So yeah, delicious. Probably a very low alcohol evening. Maybe we'll have a bottle of bubbles. Yeah, I think that

I think

I think

me on to, to my low, I guess. I think this week my low is just feeling a bit.

ill, And also I

I think she's not been feeling that great,

We've all been a bit ill, Yeah. I've been a bit snotty. I've been

very snotty.

then you've been, yeah, pretty phlegmy and snotty, and she's just been a bit fussy. Yeah, I give her a little soap. What was it? I'm dairy Tom. Oh!

or whatever.

Dairy and

and tolerant or something. Basically,

a comedian gig, like

up with this thing where they're basically somewhat dairy

they

but they live with it because they enjoy dairy. That's basically what I am.

Yeah. And it

it just makes me really phlegmy.

And so the combination of

of all

Christmas dairy combined with actually

having some sort of

me very It's been delightful for you to come you've had a couple of gouts. Yeah. More in a way. Years. Yeah.

And so you've also been a bit snotty, and then she's been very fussy. So she's not been sleeping, and she's been weeing so

weird. She's been eating loads, though. She's been so hungry this week. Like her, her, some of her appetite has like massively increased, hasn't it? Yeah. What's get a couple of hours between most feeds. Yeah. We even do a day, if we look at that. But now She's having a lot more, sort of, cluster feeding and a lot more, just a lot more feeds in general.

Well, the other factor is that because she's more fussy, it ends up being something that we use to calm her down a lot more because it basically ends up being she wheezes in her nappy.

more, She gets pretty elevated. Well,

you go to change her, she gets pretty irate about it.

you feed her When you finish feeding

her and she wheezes in her nappy

just

kind of have this cycle until she gets really tired and falls asleep either

know. on the

or with wee in the nappy, one

the bottom.

well, or on the boob, mainly on the

I'll say this for my funny in a bit. I've got a good story for you to tell me while you're upstairs. Also put some scotch on. Ooh. It's nice. I've quite enjoyed it's weird week, isn't it. You always feel like you're not really it's nice spending time together. Just in case it's It's always a bit of a pity, you know, you sort of do, a bit, but not very much. but It's just sort of quite a slow, spending time together. Why is that? You say

I think it's a bit different for us because you say we sort of do stuff, but not very much. We've written out like a load of things that we want to try and catch up on,

used to

we're not doing very much of that. Most people kind of have quite a, well, I assume this is what I used to do

tend to plan anything, like, apart from, and

agenda of just kind of watching stuff, catching up with people and that sort of stuff.

2024 in this period.

Which we should probably do.

I'd like us to do that, but maybe we'll just do that. 24.

Yeah, we're off for the first week. Well, I'm off for the first week, and

you're off. So, indefinitely. Not true. Indefinitely. But yeah, I'm looking forward to sort of, new year. it's always nice to

bit weird to

start something new. But yes, we had to see Willy Wonka, didn't we, yesterday? She was good. She had her little ear defenders on, which she doesn't really like wearing. But she was a lights and colours. I

want me to take them while you eat? I don't

short. Do you want me to

Well we did, we did my load, just

Oh yeah, I guess low.

load I guess it's a load that's

I guess it's low slash Frustration, Frustration, I don't know. I find, when we're doing things in public, and she suddenly starts getting fussy, like, when we're in a cinema essay and she starts crying a little. bit, you suddenly almost like, when you start panicking about how you can most quickly shut her up. You don't want to inconvenience other people. It was actually realistic. She's a baby. People know she's going to cry. But

generally agree but I don't feel it's the same in the cinema. People are born with an experience for something immersive. If I'm in a restaurant, I find it's very different

Well, I don't know if it's in a restaurant, but it seems like, yeah, in a cinema or like when I had her at the Panto.

Yeah, I struggle.

sort of thing. I'm like, oh, come on, quickly, like, quiet, quiet down. It sort of, like, stresses her out very quickly. Yeah. But I mean, she's pretty good most of the time. I mean, she's a baby in the patient sheet. I just did a massive shit ditch in this one while I need to go change it though. Well, that's fine.

for me.

So yeah. I'm working on my nose. Sort of like figuring out like, How fast I can get a boob out. Sort of in my mouth.

Yeah.

Yeah. I guess

quite different for you. For me, it's

it's a ground

a bottle and shove it in or like try and take her out so I can go feed her, not feed her, sorry, change her.

Whereas, I guess for you

it's kind of a bit of a case of

trying to work out

She can,

how do you get your boob out. So yeah. you throw a lot of fibroids

worried about

it over, so it's

so it's probably a lot easier. Back in the time when you were.

I was at the primatone, I kept having to get my boob out to be there. My mum kept trying to cover it up. I was just really, like,

it

I was just like, wrapping it out. She was trying to cover it up all night. Aw, crap So yeah, that'll be a high then.

got it written down to make sure I don't forget them. So, hi I think she's been a lot more engaging recently in smiles.

Well,

before she was ill.

We had a lot more of her smiling and recently

and mimicking. Recently I think she's been a bit slower to

she's been

a bit more fussy. But yeah, she's done a lot more, a lot more smiling, stretching out. And stuff like that, she's very bright eyed as it were, I've definitely enjoyed kind of,

and it sounds a bit

bit silly because I, I don't know,

don't know. So I

I guess it goes back to the thing that,

I don't know if you've seen this before, the

since we listened to it, I think before the Christmas one, we didn't discuss it in the Christmas one,

there's this kind of old

adage that

mum becomes a parent when she

when she finds out she's pregnant. And the dad becomes a parent when

baby's born.

born.

And it's kind of very

true in terms of the

sort of parenting that we're going through with oxytocin

stuff like

you know, the emotional change not certain or sudden for women, but

not so it's not selling for women is

mentally you have a bit of prep, you know, your body's already changing. Your hormones are ready to help you with that

with

transition, whereas for men it's it transpires.

So they've really got to invest

terms of building that oxytocin And that's

and that's definitely quite, I found, I personally found that

in

in the first sort of six weeks, definitely.

And

I found it a bit easier recently because it's,

know, stuff like being involved uh, trying to find a friend, and she's smiling, and just

those

things to build those, you know, those moments where I was

oxytocin, that ponder, admittedly whilst being ill it's been a bit harder because she's, you

know, she's just been

a lot more fussy

fussy and

and I'm the sort of person who wants

time to do things.

to do stuff like podcast stuff or whatever. And I've just found that she just won't.

Oh, I'm getting

that time between sort of feed and change. And so I'm finding that quite difficult because I'm getting a bit as it were, because I'm wanting to do podcast stuff. And she's something

I mean, another change.

And honestly, I think she was on 20, more than 20 changes a day at certain points, because there were times when she would literally piss every

minutes.

30 minutes.

Yeah.

So yeah, I think. I think I've been

better at, at, trying to engage with her. and since there was lots

and so there was

moments, before we

all came down with some weird illness. How about you? What's your high? I

I think just having it around family. Christmas has been really nice. Yeah. You know, to share That with her. and seeing how, like, happy she makes our family being around. Her being so comfortable around them as well. Yeah. Who are really happy and proud that we've sort of socialised her well. not like she's, unattached, that she doesn't care who she's with, but she still seeks comfort from us. Yeah. Um, but

I think that would be a fair problem to have. Live podcast, podcast exclusive.

one,

watch it on the video now, because I didn't see it, because I'm on the wrong angle.

you know, we can give it to mum as she's really comfortable with my mum or my, oh, a sister or whatever. that's really nice. She's still kind of connected to where we are, which is good.

But then, she's very comfortable kind of being with other people.

think that's been what's your Yesterday

my funny, okay, so yesterday

we were discussing, so we, were watching, we've been an odd show but we've been binge

but we've been binge watching Louisie Farru

we were watching the Capernaum, crying, and

watching the

moment in Louis

episode, and there was a moment in Louis Farru whereby,

Catherine Ryan her daughter, a 13 year old daughter, which is the simplest of

about 13 I think,

are wearing the same outfit.

outfit.

You're a happy girl today. And I found, and I I really

like the

of

of

wearing the same clothes as your child for two reasons. Firstly, it promotes this idea of dressing your child

to be

a, an accessory of yours. secondly, it's for them from

their own

their own identity

like clothing or whatever. She's trying to now. She's trying to

all right, my brother. It's all right, you've been good, you won't be on the podcast.

And

and so,

That's my

and so

I was saying something along those lines. You, you were saying, well,

it's a child and they want. to

You know, wear the same

Yeah, I'm a little bit older, I think. yeah, then that's fine.

And, and I said, no, I'm not going to allow it. I want them

to be original and unique.

unique. No, no. So turned to her and she just spat up a load of vomiting milk

And I

moment.

like, okay, you may disagree with that, I'm sure it's a dress exactly like her daddy, but it was the perfect timing might want to be unique. to Turn around and then bleh. Yeah,

me,

we, we, we don't want her to be a doll. We barely ever put her in a matching outfit. She's not looking too bad today. She didn't break in today, actually. Yeah, people gave us a lot of girly stuff. which I didn't expect. No, I knew. so I didn't want us to find out gender, because I knew we'd get it. Yeah, but I

I thought, given that, you know, she was, she would

been a rhyme by

the time people started sending gifts.

thought that those who bought their gifts before would get new

her gender

it to us. Yeah, a lot more wasted. Yeah, which I thought was strange. I didn't think that, yeah, in 2023, given how kind of progressive a lot of our family is.

is.

and, and the, we places that we, less aggressive when it comes to gender. yeah. Like I'm

not, you know, I'm not stupidly povert, I'm not trying to raise some sort of

don't mind.

absolutely gender fluid. I'm just trying to keep her completely open to be exactly who she wants to be.

that

that be tomboy, girl, boy, you know,

whatever, whatever

she decides is her path.

Support that. little monkey feet. Yeah. I have big monkey feet.

So what

your funny then? My funny is funny and scatting one. Oh, okay. We

We can thank Franck to scale after this

so it's actually while you were up here getting stuff ready, mum gave me a call. So I went to see granny. We were just chatting away. And suddenly Zoe's just such a big shit that it woke Fatty up, like, bounding over and sort of looking, like, and then she does another one, he's like, oh, and he was just so like on alert about your massive loud pose that you were doing, it just kept on coming. Yeah, it was a proper big shit. Yeah. Yeah. You were very happy with yourself. I can imagine. Because you were squirming away before. Not unhappy, but just literally.

I hope

So that was pretty good. I enjoyed her, her pre waking fatty hour, you see. You did.

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We're moving into sketch hour.

Okay, we're moving into full blown

sketch hour. Skiddy op pa pa pa, sketch hour! old

how long I'm going to have to keep that up for.

know. So, yesterday, the Skidamundi

cinema, baby

girl, who they're what?

Skiddly Wonka.

How far was it? 10 minutes It wasn't that far at all. Yeah, it was

maximum 20 minutes in.

lasted the adverts. Yeah, so she hadn't pooped after

nearly two. Yeah, because she hadn't pooed

That night. She often doesn't poop

does a poo either

in the night or

or in the pooed that

poop at night. And

And I think the earliest she'd pooed was that morning, the morning before, so it must have been

about a day and a half.

So we knew a big one was

and then I was

was just sat there in the cinema, and

I was hoping,

her and feeding her milk.

as impossible, she was

that she was hungry, it was the reason why she was crying.

While I

I was holding her bottle, I just felt this huge rip and

the sculpture just lying in,

in in the hand.

As

the cinema was going on, and I was like, Oh fuck, she's about to just,

have

bawl her eyes out as soon as

done. And so I started trying to move, and then she started crying while I was

to carry her. Got out, and she had absolutely filled her

her napkins, and through to

the men's toilets, and they're on the changing

tables.

And it's all like, she's managed to poo so much it's come out the front of the nappy.

Which is a rarity. and lo And,

lo and behold, We didn't have wet wipes, which was

to make sure that we do. After they've gone way down. Yep. I need to remember to grab the spare wet wipes.

And so I to use these little those

little cotton bud things. They're not cotton buds. No, that's going out. It's cotton wool.

Those discs, cotton discs. My shots came with ear buds. That would take That would take a very long time.

very long time. and So that was That was quite a lot of cotton

of cotton disks, and it was a very wet poo, so it ended up leaking up over the

that and

and trying to clean the, not the changing mat, but the changing table,

and trying to clean the

changing table with the,

with the wipes, It was,

was a lot,

it was a lot, but it was funny, Funny in the end.

in the end.

Yeah. So lots of just lots of poos. She's had some pretty, big poos this week actually. She's had quite a lot of big poos, So do you like fondling her nappy like you fondle poo? I don't dog poo. You do fondle it. In the back, but you do fondle it. Yeah, so when he poos, our dog, eats 60 kilos,

kilos, doesn't just drop

like little mouse droppings. proper big. Roundup Man poo. Well, yeah, like, think about, you know, it's

bigger than a tennis

his head. It's for Roundup Man shirts. Yeah, it's proper, it's proper poo. and, it's like a morning poo. Oh yeah, when you're doing your first big one day. yeah, You

don't you?

you? Morning poo. And so, I'll often then, after that, I will just hold it

it in my hand, not like by the end, but like, let it just sit in my hand as it were, because it's quite nice and warm,

sometimes I do scrunch

it into a ball,

just leave it in my hands. Yeah, Will's face when you're doing that. Will came for a walk. Will's a dunker. Dunker. But I

mean, we've got pretty strong bags, so I'm

that tall. And it warms my hands a lot. Do you want me to do it? No, because it doesn't

the nappies are so thick, and

not outside in the

cold when I change her. We tend to

sometimes, to be fair. Our house

Our house can be, but in those instances, I'm usually

up.

house is generally warmer than the outdoors.

warmer recently. Yeah. I think the insulation's helped. Yeah,

Zoe?

yeah.

no. Well a very

Getting towards touchy. Getting towards, oh yeah? no. Yep, so, we've got a few there. old online.

Oh

here's a good one.

one. Got two

actually,

do do a Christmasy one even though this

So, first Christmas

we were six and a half years old. old, a tiny little Santa for little the tree. the

tree.

went to the mall to have him get, well, well, in the

Shopping

centre. the shopping to go take a photo of Santa. was, sat Santa's There she was, sat on Santa's lap,

camera

the camera clicked, he gifted us with a poo explosion right exploding right on Santa's lap. erupted, the the photo was hilariously,

hilariously

A quick cleanup followed. Even

Santa was

safe from a diaper disaster. Get him a little poo

So yeah, at least we didn't do something like that. Next year, if she's chubby enough, I'm 100 percent dressing her up as Christmas pudding. Yeah, and then you get

then you're gonna take a

innit? When they're older and they want to do it, I think it's alright.

Yeah, if they

to. do it. I don't think they need to force her into doing it. She's like, she's not going to do it. At like, what, 14 months?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's right. You'll be 14 months. Chubby, chubby. chubby, chubby, you going to enjoy getting chubby, aren't you? I'm going to try

and quickly re read that so I don't make so many fuck ups in it. That's

Yeah, I think that's.

I won't

do

Okay,

it.

Okay, on the Where is it? Where here we go. It was that picture day and we wanted a natural naked shot. Our three month old son, Just as the photographer said smile, he unleashed a pee fountain,

under the

camera. and the camera. The The photographer stunned lady with picture itself. We all couldn't giggling. The lesson

she learned was

always have a diaper on on during

Be less dramatic. It'd be like a little Yeah, popping up a bit when it's full, so we'd get a little spout of milk out of my nipple. Yeah, you've done that a few yeah. I mean, it's a really thin, like, shot of milk. Because the holes are quite small, it's like a really thin, like sprayed

her in the

on the face, Yeah. Milk facials you've had a few She obviously gets a lot of milk from her hair. you get too excited for a girl, she's like, and it all sorts of like, slides down her mouth. You've become a lot more drooly this week. Yeah, I

think her teeth

chewing her hand a bit. And her clothes.

Like, if she has a muslin, she'll put it in her

teeth, baby. Yeah, it is. I have a look at your channel? Can

a look at your gum? I can't see no

very happy bird.

She's been very happy today. Ooh. Ooh.

it.

Right then.

Do we have any army caring

parent

I'm a caring parent. but because he's been waking up so much. during the night I have been like, I could just dump her in the room in the cot sometimes.

that before. No, no, it's my

I said I'll put my head on my bed it's no mattress, so she'll be laying on bare wooden slats. I wouldn't do that to you.

I'm a caring parent, but I've got

look straight ahead, because we do not know it,

So much so that you've just stopped giving her to me

to get past it and look straight ahead.

Yeah, so I'm feeling a bit flat because I didn't get much sleep last night. You were a bit, you were being a bit precious last

well, Yay! you? said you'd be awake at one in the morning, didn't you? You're that wide awake have A late edition funny. Oh, okay. Not quite about her, but about Christmas So we'd, on Christmas Day, there 16 of us, I think in total, wasn't there. So, like, three of my sisters were there, and they had their kids so that was, two nieces and a nephew, so a five year old, a three year old and a two year old. We give them all their sort of their main present. Then we also got like a little cabaret selection box, you know the classic ones you get. So they'll open up a selection box, there's Maisie, who's the eldest, who's five, and obviously had a few of these already. They opened it up. so I just threw it on the table And was like, so disgusting. She's like, I've already got loads of these. And I was like, all right. I mean, since when has a kid not wanted more chocolate? But it was a very funny reaction, I did enjoy it, she's very sassy. Whereas Frankie's reaction, he's our nephew, he's three, he opened it up and was like Yes! I've already got loads of chocolate! I that is what I thought more the better. It's

Exactly. But I guess not for Maisie if she wants to smash Davo on tape

2023,

baby.

Oh, you did a little dance, yeah. Bubba's doing a little dance with you. party tonight. Fried food? Games? Really? Yes! We'll get some. fried flavoured chicken milk. Crikey,

to try and play Guess Who, aren't we?

might just be fried food in this programme you found for us to watch.

Yeah, because Guess Who's going to piss me off.

who? It just baffles him, I don't understand. I was saying you're all mad, I just, can't I

think people have explained this game to

was just thinking, it's amazing, like little kids play it.

What do you do?

You ask questions. Yeah.

Because I didn't quite link it to the idea of 20 questions. Is It's

crying? No? Are you going to dance? Are you always crying? No? Are you going to dance some

and going to shout.

then,

sign off. Well.

I guess we will chat to you next year.

It'll be next year by the time

Yeah, but I mean, we'll, for us, Next year. Bye!

Ha ha ha ha

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