Stepping Up to the Tee (And Fun Funcles)

(upbeat music) Hi again everybody, welcome back, Miles Palfkast, the flagship podcast of Rights of Passage as a Parent. And we finally have gotten there. I've always liked a write-up passage as a kid, is like slamming your finger in a car door, in a door of some sort. I guess it happens, it happens everybody and it sucks. But it's something you gotta go through and it's something that everyone does and it happens. It's took us four years and about four months, almost the dot as a parent, it's a recent point where it shows up at the exact same time that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy all do, in the middle of the night, when you have the monitor on and you hear that, the tell-tale, wretching sound of a kid throwing up. And then proceeding to do so multiple times an hour from the rest of the night, bring this to the next day. We finally got to the point where Emigot 6, she's thrown up like once, maybe twice in her life, but never like this. And it was just, we've been through it. The last month our family's been so sick and this boy, it's now been two days. So to pull the curtain back, I recorded a short podcast yesterday. I used to record these on Thursday at lunch, on Thursday at lunch yesterday. I didn't have a ton of time 'cause I had to go home because like I said, Emigot 6, was sick all night and I can't claim that I got poor sleep because then Kendall was up all night with her and it's just one of those things where you get such limited choppy sleep. And then unfortunately Kendall gets sick and then I'm up with Gabby last night and she starts throwing up. It's just been one thing, one thing after another. But I record a short podcast yesterday saying, "Hey, if you're listening to this, it means I probably got sick and I didn't survive but I wanted something to maintain my streak." Well, turns out, I don't have to use that. Thank goodness, I'm still here. It's now Friday at noon. I'm putting some late, but I had to record something better than yesterday 'cause yesterday was just a placeholder more or less. And man, oh man, fingers crossed, knock on. Wood, that's probably drywall, but hopefully you can. Say here's some wood. That I don't get sick. I have been amidst it last night. It was Gabby and, you know, when she's two and she's sleeping right next to me and she throws up and guess what? It's all over. It's just, we've been through it. We have been through it. Thanks to Kendall for helping out so much with the girls, even though she's sick, like right now she's sick and both girls are sick and they're all home together and that's a lot and here I'm at work and there's no doubt what I'm going through right now is easy to win. So I'm going through and I appreciate that and my mom is sort of coming up to try and save Gabby because she just wanted to be with mom and with sis and they're all sick and she took her out and they had a great time and it worked for a bit. But then last night, I guess that little streak ended. Fortunately Gabby hasn't had it nearly as bad as them. But man, Emmy's handled like a champ. Like you look at her and she's poor little, four year old and the first thought that can in my mind was pitiful but that wasn't the case at all because she was handling it like a freaking champ. She, it's like she'd done this for forever. Like she was laying on the couch and when she had to throw up, she'd reach over. She'd grab her bowl. She's at the point where she had zero food in her stomach so nothing's really coming out. But she'd grab her towel, she'd have her mouth and she'd lay back down. There was no complaining, no whimpering. Like she just, it was business as usual and she handled it so well and Gabby, same thing. I mean, she, again, didn't have it nearly as bad but, oh man, we've been through it. I would give anything to trade it with them. Like, you hate to see your kid going through that but if nothing else, this had to be our first time. It's been horrible and it's succed but Emmy's done really, really well. Anyways, to move on, away from that, that stuff. Again, man, fingers crossed. I stay where I'm at. I gotta talk about Seaball that I tell me something good. Emmy started to teaball. I owe you one, not only to Kendall and to Mom but to Funkle for an awesome weekend and how much she helped the girls and then, it shines what do you into? This shirt that I want, this running thing. But to kick it off, tell me something good. Tell me something good. We finally reached it. Emmy has started to teaball and now looking back on hindsight, glad she didn't get sick earlier 'cause that would have been a bummer to mispractice. But I was really worried because the first day, it was Monday and Wednesday this last week and neither day was particularly warm. It was raining, I think, around lunch each day and whatever reason, it stopped just in time. And I really wanted her first experience of sports to go good. Like, you hate to see them go out and they just freeze and all of a sudden they associate. That was sports in general and they don't wanna do it. But it's been really cool. She had her first couple of practices. She, we're sitting on the sidelines. I now understand what it's like to be a parent. You don't understand this till you're in this position but you just wanna yell and help the coach out but you know those parents and you don't wanna be those parents. But part of it's like, Emmy would be in one spot and she would take her glove off and leave it and run off and say, no, Emmy, go back and get your glove. Or she'd put her glove, her baseball glove on the wrong hand 'cause she's left handed and she's trying to put her glove on the left hand. It's little things like that but I now understand what it's like to not, you gotta hold back sometimes. Just the coach do their coaching stuff and her coach is great. We're also trying to yell like, hey, Emmy, good job. She did a really good job hitting off the tee. She was one of the first up and hit a really good hit and she's done good at a lot of things and I'm like, yeah, good job, Emmy. And she turns at you and it is like, you talked in a library and the librarian's mad because she's like, dad, don't talk. Shhh, or dad, don't yell at me. She's so focused on her sport and she just wants us to be there but not to say anything at all. Like, no cheering, no nothing. She's trying to gabby cheers for her but for us, it's like, dad, shhh, don't talk. You're not supposed to talk. It's like, well, and we can cheer for you. But it's been so fun watching her play. I mean, it is exactly to expect out of a bunch of four and five year olds playing T-Ball. It's, they're hitting the ball and they're kind of all running together and then the throws don't go very far and the catches don't happen. It's classic four year old, five year old T-Ball but it's fun to watch. And it's been really cool the first couple of days. She's number eight. They got their uniforms and it was all random and her jersey just happened to have a number eight in the back. I always wore the number five. I'm a regar, I always wore the number seven. Ah, Chan, I don't remember what she used to wear. But number eight, I'm glad I was random. I didn't want like, choose it. 'Cause I probably would have gone from number five like I would've used to wear it, but it's cool that it's random. Maybe it's gonna be your number from now on, we'll see. But it's been great. Her first game's on Wednesday and then like normally it'll be practices on Monday. Games on Wednesday and games. Like it's, they're all gonna, how these games work is they all go up to bat. They bat around through the order. You try and get them out, but I don't think out's count. They don't keep score. It's just, let's go out and play. Which, hey, that's important 'cause you don't realize like they, their things don't even know like what first base is and like the order to run the bases and where to throw the ball on each position. You're just getting the basics. And to have them go up and go bat, it's way more conducive to success than just actually trying to play a game which has just been disaster. But it's fun to watch. I'm really excited for the games. I'm excited for it to be warmer outside, not so cold. They haven't been the first couple of times, but coach's doing a good job of having them like run the bases and do things to keep their bodies warm to try and fight off the wind and the coldness that we've had this last week. But it's been great. Teabull success, it started off good. Emesville said, she's like, oh, dad, did you see? The coach was so proud of me and she was so happy about how she did. And it's so cool to see that. The Iowa you won. (upbeat music) ♪ You know who you are ♪ ♪ Yeah, who you are ♪ This last weekend, we were down in the Tri-Cities for Colson's birthday, which, happy birthday, Colson. He handled like a champ as well. I feel like he turned one and a lot of times when you have a one year old birthday, it's, there's tears, there's overwhelm, there's, it's just hard. Like it's hard with all those people and everybody staring at you in the cake and blowing up the stuff. But his theme of his party was like one happy guy or one happy boy and he epitomized that. Like he crushed it. He did great with the cake, did great with everything. He handled it like an absolute champ and it was a great birthday. It was cool to be down there with everybody. But the one particular Iowa you won is at one point I went to the playground with the girls and we met a champ there and funkel, fun uncle Tyson. And he spent so much time there was this zip line there. It really cool zip line that looking at it. It's like it, I love it because it was so almost like dangerous. Like so we went to a, we went through a phase of like where playgrounds became like way overly safe. And as a note, you don't like to see that because you want to see like the kids experience adversity and take risks and when everything's overly safe, that's not cool. These zip lines were the opposite. They, you hang on it. It's probably 50 yards and like 25, 50 yards in length. And you hang on to it. And what funkel will do is he give him speed, he'd run and give him a big push and they'd slide down this zip line. And then you hit the end and you got to hang on tight because the whole thing like whips forward and then whips you back and you kind of start going backwards. Emmy and Tegan did awesome at hanging on. Neither of them felt, but I could definitely see how if you're not, if you're not ready for it, you hit that end and you let go, you're gonna fall right in your back and get your win knocked out of you. But man, oh man, Emmy loved it. And the number of times like she, her funkel would help her every time. Like she'd do it and then she'd run and get in line and she had to wait for four or five kids and she'd do it again and just loved it and went back and got in line. It was so cool to see. And funkel without missing the beat helped her every single time without any sort of complaint was happy to do it. Gave her giant pushes, she loved it. And that's just, that's why funkel's funkel. He's the fun uncle, he's awesome. Tyson was so helpful for him and she absolutely loved it. And it was, it's cool to see that. Cool to see a zip line on a playground. I don't think I've ever seen that before. And it's, one of those things where like there's two of them and there's always a line. So you could tell it's like one of those popular things on the playground and rightly so. All right, last but not least, Sean's what are you into and then we'll get out here. - All right, listeners, it's time for hidden passions, wild hobbies and that one thing that you didn't know Miles was obsessed with. Baka Lupp, it's time. for Sean's, what are you into? - There's this new, so Nike started like this new department. Like they're one of like their new subcategories. I talked about it a little bit before 'cause it was during the Olympics they debuted it. But it's like ACG or all conditions gear as part of like they're all conditions running department. And they've really got into like more like trail running stuff and hiking, which is cool because I feel like I'm more like the trail running space at this point as it is as well. And they have like all these different sponsored athletes or doing these giant like 30 to 50 mile trail runs and they're out in the middle of nowhere. And it's cool, like it's canyons and boulders and cricks and all this stuff. And they have like one of these like this flagship shirt it seems like they're coming out with like this super highly sophisticated like running shirt that it looks really cool. They've advertised it for forever. It's not out yet, supposed to come out this summer. I can't decide if I wanted or not. It looks really cool. So what it is, it's like this. So I'm not gonna have to say that I don't explain it. The science of it is it's got a whole bunch of like these little holes in it. So kind of like imagine mesh, but more breathable than mesh and the holes are designed. So it's like a bigger hole followed by a smaller hole against your skin. So I think the idea is like when wind hits it, it hits this bigger space and then it's condensed into a smaller space and then it accelerates the air basically against your skin, which is how cooling happens. If you've done any kind of running especially in the warm weather, like you don't realize how important like what you're wearing is or how important what you're wearing, what it does for you. 'Cause like I can't imagine like running in cotton or like even in like a cheap mesh. It just sounds so hot, but if you're wearing the right stuff, you get so much more out of it. Anyways, the shirt looks cool. But if you were to, if I was to describe it to you, imagine like a long sleeve shirt, you cut the elbows out of it, you take some scissors, you cut the armpits out of it, and then you find a barbed wire fence and you take this shirt and you drape it over it and you give it a nice tug and you lift it off the fence, throw it over it again, pull and give it a tug and do it over and over and over again. 'Cause it's like the shirt that was just torn up is what it looks like. It's full of holes. It's, there's some sort of pattern to it, but not perfectly. It's just like it was thrown over barbed wire over and over and over again. It's full of holes. It looks just almost like you go by a pair of jeans, full of holes. It's kind of what it looks like. Again, a little bit more sophisticated than that. And I understand like the science and I'm curious to see how it works because they've got a lot going into it. And I think I want it. Like I got a big run, I someone I'll talk about it. I don't wanna do it yet 'cause I haven't figured all the details out yet, but it looks cool. And it's one of those like really unique looks, like you'll, people recognize it and it looks so unique that you'll get questions about it and that I love that kind of stuff. But it's our new rat, it's called Radical Airflow. And it looks cool. I think I want it. I've watched like a bunch of like little videos on it and it looks cool, but I, it's curious. I'm curious to see how well it works, truly. 'Cause I can't imagine it's gonna be cheap either. But Radical Airflow, I'm excited about it. Thank y'all for listening. I appreciate it. I have so grateful I'm here. You don't realize how grateful you are to like to be at work or to be doing this until there's a chance that you could have been home on the couch or over a toilet, utterly sick. But here I am surviving and fingers crossed that doesn't end anytime soon. Gabby's sound bite on the way out. I appreciate it. And we'll talk to y'all next week. Bye. Gabby, can you say okay, fine? Okay, fine. Thank you. It's there. So please. Peace.