Intro to Big Girl Bikes

(upbeat music) Hi, get everybody. Welcome back to the MilesPathcast. The flagship podcast of Daddy Watch This. We're at that stage with Gabby, where it's, she's, I don't know, she's so proud of like her things that she can do and her movements and her faces she can make. There's a lot of mama watch. Mama, are you watching? Daddy watch this. Daddy watch. Daddy come here and watch this. And it results in her running across the room, making noise or acting like a monkey or a cat or pulling on her eyes in a certain way or curling her tongue in a certain way. There's just so many little things and it's so fun to see and she gets such pride out of it and she's so proud of herself that she can do it. It's been cool. I wish I could get that as like a sound by it. It's generally, it's so quick that I'm never ready for it, but I'll keep trying. Maybe maybe one of these days we'll get it. Today in the show, usual stuff. Tell me something good. I owe you one, Sean's ready into. I'll look back down memory lane for a couple of things, but tell me something good. Different approach today. Instead of telling something good about what's happening or things that I've got going on, the tell me something good is something that we bring him back that we haven't done in a while. And it's a recipe and it's a recipe that we got initially from HelloFresh a long, long time ago. We've kind of made it on and off ever since. It got thrown on the back burner for quite a while. It's because we over did it, but it's back. And it's a great recipe that we love. It's a, it's like a chorisa, sweet potato, pita recipe. And what it is is like you take sweet potatoes, you peel them, you die some down like medallions, you just kind of kind of really thin, coat them in olive oil, and then top it with like a chorisa powder, which is like a kind of a spicy-ish Middle Eastern powder. I think it is like it's a red spicy powder. And you just kind of shake some on the top of all of them, throw them in the oven, eight minutes aside, pull them out, and then you mix that, or you don't mix it. That's a part of the sandwich, part of the pita anyways. And then you also take a cucumber, same thing, you dice it up, or, god, if I could get this right, you don't dice it, you slice it into medallions, and then throw it into like a bowl with some vinegar, some olive oil, some dill, whether that's fresh dill, which is as good as it gets, or like a, like a dill weed, that you can just get any kind of spiceile and cover it with that, and then mix in some garlic. If you're feeling like you want to go the extra mile and dicing some of that up, so then you got this two things. You got the sweet potato, you got the cucumber mix, and then you just slice it up a cato, so you can throw some avocado on there, and you throw all this into a pita, or what we do is we use like the flat, pitas, like the wheat, flat pitas, that are like a giant round piece of bread, essentially, and you kind of make a sandwich out of it. You can also obviously do it with an pita, or probably in a wrap, I think it'd be really good, but you got those three things, and then you mix it with the sauce. That's like a mayo, chorizo powder, garlic mix. It's so good. It's really, really good. It's something we have made in a long time. Got it from HelloFresh, and it's one of the recipes I kind of saved all these years later, and we brought it back this week, and it was good. It's an easy one to make. It's kind of like a lighter summer meal, which is nice when it's really hot outside, but it's been great, and I would highly recommend it. It's like a chorizo, I got a chorizo sweet potato, pita recipe with cucumbers and dill, and avocado, it's great. Highly recommend. All right, I owe you one. ♪ You know who you are, yeah I owe you one ♪ This is, this is like an Emmy I owe you one, but it's also an I owe you one for Kendall and I. It's for Grandpa Jim and Diane, she gets credit as well. But the other day, they showed up at our house after work and after school for the girls, and they brought Emmy her very first big girl bike. It's a bike with, you know, it's two wheels with training wheels on it. It's pink, it's Disney princesses. It's got a little, like a, like a, it's like a plastic, bonish seat on the back that's got like a little strap so you can put like your babies or your dolls in it, so she can drive around with her babies and her dolls. And it's awesome. Like it is our first big girl bike. Up until now, she's been on a tricycle or, you know, something of that nature anyways. And she sees every people on her walks all the time and she's like, "Oh, I want a bike like that. "I want a bike like that." And we just have never gotten around to it. We figured at some point she'd get one, and we've reached that point. And it was so cool. She wanted to go down to the park right away. We took it down to the park and she got her helmet on and we were practicing. Initially, she couldn't, she'd push down, but it's one of the bikes that you, if you push the pedals backwards, it breaks. But if you push them forward, obviously, you're gonna go forward. And it took a second to get that pattern down because I think before she'd just, at the pedals like we're right in the middle, she'd just push down and she wouldn't go anywhere. So we practiced that motion, got it down, got her going up a hill and then got her going down a hill to kind of really get it going. And she's loved it. She picked up on it so, so quick. This morning she wanted to do it before school. So we took it out and she got a ride up and down the sidewalk and she did it all by herself before, before I had to kind of guide her. I held the bike and I'd walk along with it to kind of get the pedals going. She could get that pattern down, but did it all by herself. And it was so cool because it's one of those moments and it's occurred to me like in the moment as we were doing it. And I like, I got to kind of put a bookmark in my memory for this because it's like one of those, those like cliche is the wrong word, but like one of those really big moments that kind of comes up in someone's life, right? You got their first steps and their first day of school. And sometimes in our case in between there, you got the first time they're going to ride like a two wheel bike. It's like one of those just those moments that are going to be like locked in time that someday, you know, after, anyway, so yet we have the first steps, we got the bike ride, she got the first day of school, then she'll be like her first dance, her first date, graduation, you know, it goes on and on. And one of those points of time when we look back and it's like, I remember the first time that she rode a two wheel bike and she got it down. We were walking in the park and I was kind of holding onto the bike and guiding her. And it occurred to me at that moment. I just tried to save her it and suck it in as much as possible. Kendall could have got a really good video of it of me doing it. And it's just, you know, it's one of those times that life goes by fast. The days are long and the years are short and that shows it because that's where we're at. And next year at this time, almost exactly this time, she'll be going on the bus to her first day of school. And it's just, you know, it kind of goes from there and it's crazy, but it's been really cool to have her first bike. And for her to have her to love it so much and I'm sure now at the point we're going to be taking it everywhere we go because she loves riding it. And you know, over time we're at the work on getting those training wheels off, but it's a big step in the right direction. It's really cool to see her love it so much and to be able to move on from the tricycles to now the big girl bike. And Gabby's already there. She already wants to as well. And it's, that's just fun to watch. And it's fun to see those moments in time and to be a part of it. And it was great. It was really, really cool. Last but not least, this is a really quick podcast. I'm going to get out of here really quick today. Sean's what he been to. All right, listeners, it's time for hidden passions, wild hobbies and that one thing that you didn't know miles was obsessed with. Buckle up, it's time for Sean's, what are you into? Kind of all on the same lines. I'm at the point where, well, obviously with my job, I work with kids and we're at the point in the year where everybody's going back to school next week. It for Spokane District 81. And I think a couple others up here anyways. The first day of school is next Wednesday. So obviously all my kids for the last time say, hey, I hope I've a good first day of school. Hearing about their school shopping and the stuff they're excited about and the stuff they got and what grades they're going into. And just hearing all that, I feel like I'm living vicariously through them. Because I loved summer. Don't get me wrong. But I feel like you get to the point where it's like, all right, you start to get a little bit more excited for school starting again. Now with that said, always a bummer when school would start before Harper's was over, like that just felt out of turn. And it sucks. Because then we wouldn't be there for the last day of harvest, which was always a really big deal. And something to be fun to be a part of. But this time of year, it's like, you kind of get down to the last spot. I remember we always would kind of come up with, like, well, not always. But we'd come up with like a bucket list of things that we still had to do with the last bit of summer that we had. And then we would obviously do school shopping. You're excited about all the stuff you go for school shopping and you're ready for it. And I remember always being the most excited things I'd get about would be the new backpacks. I'd love to get a new backpacks, new lunchbox. I remember one year I got a, I got a charger lunchbox I was super excited about. In another year, I got like a Hercules lunchbox. Like this would have been like when the Hercules movie came out. It was like 1997, 1998. It's like a blue plastic lunchbox. Came with a thermos. Like one of those thermoses that you don't screw the top and it becomes a cup. Oh, so excited about it. And love that stuff. But fourth grade also. Fourth grade was the first year we were like required on our school list to get a binder. And I got like a red zip up binder, which looking back. I mean, a zip up binder is such a pain because you gotta zip it all the time. But oh, it's so excited about that thing too. And I don't know, just go back to school. Like you're so excited about all your new stuff. Going back to see your friends again. Going back to get back in the swing of things. And I loved, one reason I realized like, I love schools where I like schools much as I did. It's like it gave structure to the year. Like now with a job, like everything just kind of blends together. Like you're doing the same thing in the spring. You're doing it in the summer. You're doing it in the fall, which is great. Like don't be wrong. I like my job and I love the people I work with. But with school, like it gave it structure. Like you could think about, oh, it's fall. Like schools just starting and then you have your winter break and you have your spring break and then it's summer. And it just, it gave, I don't know, give structure to the year. And now when you're in a real job, that's not necessarily the case. It is with farming. It definitely is with farming. But with the job that I have, that is not the case. And it's just it gets, everything's kind of the same all year long, which is nice for consistency. But also there's times where I'm like, what, when is it? Like what, what time is it right now? Like what day are we in? And not having that structure makes it a little bit harder. I'm getting better at it. Practice makes perfect. But I love, I love to go back. And like going back to high school, the biggest thing we look forward to going back in high school was like the soil judging competitions. As, as nerdy as that sounds, man, it became a big thing in the school. Like at one point, I think we got half the school going to the soil judging competitions, going out, three pits that are dug in the home side and you're judging the top soil in the depth. Oh, I loved it. It was so much fun to go out there and hang out with everybody and just kind of a fun day, kind of off from school and hanging out with all your friends. college. Obviously it was great like this time of year moving into your dorm. I think it was freshman year because it would be sure you're required to like live in a dorm in the first year or eventually if you move into apartments and they're looking back. I moved almost every single year. Like my freshman year was in Stevenson South, that tower with a Scott Smith, who's my roommate at the time. And then sophomore year I moved into like my dab co apartment, junior senior year where at Cougar Crest and then I obviously went back at Eastern and I moved into different apartments there at Eagle Point. I don't know, just like looking back. Those are fun times. Like he was exciting doing all that stuff and I'm jealous of kind of all the kids going back to that and it just, you know, it's the next step and you have summer. It was great. We had really good summer and now it's time to kind of go to the next step and our girls are in the same spot. We got one more month of kind of where they're at now and then they're going to go to, I mean, it's just another day care, but we call it school. Like they'll be the first day of school. We had about a month from now and they're excited about that too. But I don't know, it's exciting time of year. I love this. We're going into Fall. I'm sure I'll talk more about Fall. Fall is my favorite. There's so much cool stuff coming up. So many great things, including the weather getting a little bit cooler outside and football and pumpkin stuff and that's great stuff. That's all I got. Thank you for hanging out. Thanks for listening. I always appreciate it so so much and we'll talk to you on the flip side. Gabby, Emmy, sound bite on the way out and talk to you later. Bye. [BLANK_AUDIO]