She Had a Baby! So we made her a Pretty Coop :)

It was hard to get up this morning. He had a little bout at what, 4 o'clock, Becky? How'd you guys sleep?

It wasn't that bad.

Like babies? Terrible?

He actually did really— I feel like he's getting better at it. He's like, he had— some gas and we had to change his diaper and clothes, which is never fun in the middle of the night, but— Um, he's doing better. I feel like he's like, I don't know, he's just so cute.

You guess? You guess? He slept good for a baby.

He did. He could not sleep good and I would still think he's just so cute. I can't stop looking at him.

Yeah, I slept through most of it, to her credit. I did wake up to 4 o'clock.

Yeah, that was when he was up.

And offered to help, but you won't ever give him to me. Why don't you ever give him to me?

You did change his diaper.

I want a turn with him in the night. You did.

I did give him to you at one point. I know.

No, but I like to be alone.

I did.

I like to take him out in the living room. Oh yeah, that's true. I remember that now. That must have been another time.

Well, if—

or was that at 4?

Well, I guess, do you want to really wake up in the middle of the night when he's sleeping and take him into the living room?

It seemed like he was gassy and not sleepy.

Well, all I did was just burp him and he fell asleep again.

Look what I got. I was able to get him for a minute because Well, I had to go to the bathroom. I'm gonna hold him all to myself. You're definitely looking the nurse. I'm not it, buddy. I'm sorry to disappoint. With a little baby like this, it's, um, if you're not the mama, you have to take advantage of these little tiny windows that he's kind of happy without the mama. She's already getting a hair fussy and it hasn't even been 6 minutes. Hey, look, look, Henry, big brothers going to do the little animals. Good for them. In the past, that would somehow have to be me because all our kids were so little. I guess it would just happen even later because I can't hold the baby and mom go to the bathroom and do the chores all at the same time. Checked your diaper, it's good. Now we've swaddled him and that's already made him happier. Do you know how to swaddle yet?

Uh, like that?

Well, that's the sway. But look, we swaddle and we wrap this blanket around him and he's already so much happier. Look, look how he's going at his mouth. Let's see if he wants to suck. None of our kids really took a pacifier, but maybe this one will. Ah, he got his arms. He likes his arms up there. Okay, try this now. Remember I taught you the 5 S's yesterday? So there's sway, shake, and shh. We've learned to do them all at once. But there's one more. I invented it yesterday. You want to see one more S? One more S. There's a 6th S. It's drive. Shh. Good morning, Mr. Brown. Good morning. No matter what we do, we always lose to Mom, and we have to give him up to Mom. And that's the magic juice. Penny, are you having the hardest time?

Yes.

With the adjustment? What is all this excitement over this bundle? He's like, he does even less than me.

What's the excitement?

Okay, we got a little bouncy seat for him. Maybe I can still go do chores.

It's okay, I'll just put it in the bathroom and I'll just take him in there.

All right, I think I got it cleared. She can get out of the tub, dry off, get in the shower. Hopefully he stays— well, that's not what I mean. Hopefully he stays there without Crying, waking up. We've been doing this system that works really nice where a child helps mama in the morning while we do chores, but Lily is unavailable. She's in a homeschool lesson right now online. Tutoring, so there's gonna be this hour. Think he's gonna stay? Think he's gonna stay, Becky. Think you knocked him out. All this white noise in here too. Yeah. Hey, what you doing? Hi, you mountain boarding?

Uh-huh.

How's it going down here?

We're done.

What's that ladder doing?

That was just Isaiah's way over.

Stinks so bad now. You got this one piece, it's got the stinky milk. Gideon, what happened? You were with me. I don't— I know, I know, I didn't want to be out there. Now Josiah's on his tutoring. Oh good, you're in here to help.

Yeah, I'm just waiting for Mom to—

Okay.

Like to hold a baby or something.

Look. He's still asleep. That's a good boy. Keeping Mama in rest.

Mommy, I'm little, see?

Your eggs, darling. Thank you. All right, we've got our job cut out for us today. You know, it's a small job. It's winter. We've got a new baby, but we want to do something. It's that 1% change every day, making some kind of progress.

Ever—

doesn't matter how small, we're making progress. Yesterday we forgot our legs. Oh, we pulled our blocks out and our coop just totally collapsed. That's what we want to build right there. Like this? Yep. So let's just measure those two lengths. Measure the vertical one. I think it's a good— it's a 13, 17, 17. All right, this is a good design right here. We had the legs shorter than the wheel, and that's so it slopes a little bit, so there's not as much of a chance as a teeter-totter. So we're going to keep it that way. The height With the wheels, there's a slightly lower because we did mount it into our frame as opposed to below our frame. So yeah, 13 would go way down. So Josiah, could you take the, the 2x4s off? Thank you, Josiah. Okay, that might get to where you want to go. So it's going to come to right there. It's still slightly sloping down this way, which is good because you don't want it to topple. Yeah, hopefully we didn't do our handle too close to the front. So it's a V forming at the bottom. See, on this one we have our handle quite a far way back. I know we're gonna have to do this. See this here? Yeah, that'll work. Yep, it comes up here and we go ahead and screw it in. Hey, good job painting that, uh, Josiah, Arun. I ended up having to step away. We've got a painter here with not enough work to fill a day, so we're like, hey, could you paint the The wrestling ring? It's got this cable like this, but I guarantee you Arun has a suspicion the boys have done something with it. It's probably, it's probably the zip line now.

Who knows?

We just got all the plastic off of it. Two good tires, one horrible tire. Hopefully we have enough. One dead tire, another dead one. So all three wheels in the back are Hopefully somewhat useful. Hopefully we can drag this thing, this spot. What's going on?

Nothing.

Trying to make this hook work. Trying to open that so you can hook that on our cord. All right, he's got it. Jonah! Oh my word, it's hard to keep him on track. Jonah, you come drive. Irene and I are gonna push. Josiah, you might watch and make sure we're not hanging up somewhere. All right guys, get down. The plan is Jonah will drive this, Arun and I'll push it. What happened? Our little hook bust? No, didn't bust because the— yeah, look, it unwrapped. Tie the cable. Yeah, there you go. Wait, it needs to be lower too, I think, to offer more support. We got it tied on there. We're not holding up too good up back here, but somehow it seems to be moving because we're rolling on the rims. Yeah, it's just dragging. Seems to be okay. It's not dragging the frame. The angle seems to be holding in. Whoa! All right, there we go. Now you can get it going straight. You think this is fine, Arun? I think it's a The miracle we got over here, huh? All 3 back wheels are destroyed. I think because we had air in this one, Summit, and these, we were okay. Oh no, my God, because the front one is okay. No, that's why we want to bring— otherwise, I think so. The problem is this is just going to rust away if we don't paint it. The painter was kind enough to say, hey, do you have any other work for me? Because, you know, there's a minimum work payment for, for making the effort to come out. And this is going to be a great opportunity for that, so I'm so appreciative of that. Oh look, we got one bending. Yeah, we'll have to put a brace on it like this one. Yeah. Oh, little man waking up.

He is. He's very happy.

Are you very happy? Are you very happy? Are you gonna smile? We're gonna catch your first smile on camera. Oh, you can't like that.

Kiss made him sad.

He thinks it's the nursing.

You want to nurse?

That's all I want, Mom. Forget the kisses.

He's like, his blinking is like so deliberate.

He's like— He has to put a lot of work in.

Oh, look, he's smiling!

Or is that gas? Is that a smile?

Is that a smile? Are you seeing the fuzzy thing on top of the camera?

Are you seeing that? Or is that gas? What do you think, Mom?

I think you see Mommy.

Oh, look.

And you just love me so much.

We'll take it as a smile.

You just love me so much.

I get to hold you. We just ate breakfast. My mom is here.

Are you getting upset? Look at you, you've grown in a week. Say I have.

It's my job.

That's what we want to hear. So beautiful.

Oh, oh, you won't do that. He does that with anything that's not his mama. Rebecca nursed him. Now my mom gets to hold him. He's happy now.

Oh, he's looking at Papa.

He likes that hand up there. Oh, looky here, he's painted it! This looks so good. I mean, as good as a mobile sheep pen can look. Totally stop this thing from rusting, I hope. At least give us some more time. Look a hair better out in the pasture. This looks good. We had debated whether or not to paint the panels. I'm kind of glad we did— didn't. It looks good. Black frame and panels. I mean, we're not looking for a, uh, a perfect paint job here, so that just did the— that did the trick. Looks so good. For those of you that are new to the show, that is our mobile sheep pen for our ram male sheep. When it's not breeding season, we keep him and a buddy, which happens to be a castrated male out in the pasture, moving them around on grass during the growing season and separated from everybody. How's it going, Becky?

It's going good.

You laying down?

Yeah, my pelvis is hurting back here, so I needed to just lay down, take pressure off of it.

You are a resting champion. Take care of yourself. Midwife instructed a 2-week rest.

Yeah, she wanted me to do another week in bed.

I'm sure you'll be excited to get back at it. Taking care of some business, approving the vlog, getting a TikTok going. I do have something exciting to share with you guys here. Been working on the storyboard with my co-director of Rooted. This next episode is going to be very, very, very special. We'll actually be doing some batch filming for 2 episodes over like 4 days, but this next episode is gonna be about— and it's about time, because Rebecca, you— what you did, man, you're really a heroess. And there's a lot of women out there that can relate to you.

There was no options. That's just— I mean, there was no option of not doing it, so.

So I posted this picture on Instagram of Rebecca and said a little something nicer. You guys can go see it at the Justin Rhodes Show. A lot of people resonating with that, and she's inspiring a lot of people. So this next show, it's not just going to be about her, but it's going to be about the, the goodness that is motherhood. So it's going to be about all you mothers, wouldn't you say, Rebecca? Because you definitely don't like being the center of attention. This is going to drive you nuts. It is. But you're doing it for the ladies, aren't you?

For the ladies.

It's for the ladies.

All for the ladies, not for me.

Parenting and mama and the courage that it takes to be a good mom. That's gonna be a good show. Yeah or nay? Bless her. So humble.

I don't like being the center of attention.

So humble.

When Justin and I got married, it would cause me so much anxiety to 'Cause I was like, oh, everybody's gonna be looking at us, like at me. Oh, it was so hard. We should have just eloped.

Look at that little tiny feet.

It's so cute.

It's so cute. Oh, you wanted me to get him socks.

I did want to get socks because he keeps putting it out. Makes me nervous.

'Cause you think he's gonna get cold?

I do. It is gonna get cold.

Do we have socks over here? I think they're in here. He's not even a week old and I'm already hunting his socks. Henry, where are your shoes? Is it gonna be, Henry, where are your socks? Do you want to put them on?

I hope it's not gonna be— I hope it's gonna be, Henry, you just know where everything is.

He's so organized. You put things away.

You're the most organized 2-year-old I know.

He's swimming in those tiny socks.

I know.

He's getting there though. He's gaining weight.

He is.

I wish you'd turn the AC off and then weigh him. You gonna weigh?

I don't care.

You gonna tell us? You don't care? I'm not one of those people. This is the lady who knows I'm gonna be Big Papa and she don't— What if they call you Big Mama? It's fine. You go with it?

153 pounds.

Are you happy about that or upset?

Trying to think how much I weighed at the end, so I lost like 13 pounds, I guess.

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Where'd you go?

I'm gonna go. You take a nap.

I can't take a nap.

Come on, you can take a nap. Just a little nap.

I don't want to take a nap.

Just a little tiny nap. 5 minutes.

You're funny.

Just 5 minutes. You probably won't sleep more than that anyway. The woman fights a nap as hard as a 3-year-old. Ah, but hopefully she'll take a little cat nap. I'll take Teddy on a walk. We'll see you guys tomorrow.