FIRST MICRO-HOBBY OF 2026

Welcome to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly. Like I'm sicking on cash. Yeah, I know you are. Like if my house gets robbed, like let me just be clear, the robbers will be looking in the wrong places. Yeah. Because anything I have of value is in my toy room. And Liz. It's Kelly, not Callie. Kelly. Kelly like belly. Kelly smelt like jelly. Kelly rubbed jelly on her belly. Your mom time off starts now. Welcome back to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Liz. Happy Wednesday. You know, I hope by now we are all just thriving. The snowstorm has passed. No, it's like negative still here. We're still full. We're recording this on Sunday because like we're not going to have childcare this week due to the roads. Like schools are closed. So while our husbands are home, we had to like get this recording out. And let us just say the sun may not be shining, but our spirits are because we have. No, I'm saying like we are here to bring some light. Yeah. And some joy to your listening ears because I have a driveway dump. Like I'm actually so happy we're recording this on Sunday because I simply couldn't wait till tomorrow morning to say the things that I need to say. Like I have so many interesting thoughts. We have never texted more. And I'm so excited about talking about this one specific thing, your new micro hobby. Like I can't stop thinking about it. I'm so excited to talk about it. I know. So that's what we're here to do. You've maybe been stuck at home with your kids. You might be going a little stir crazy. We're here to just hopefully give you some mindless banter and take a break. to get you out of your rut whatever that rut may be so let me start always in a rut let me start with my new micro hobby and it's my first micro hobby of 2026 you know and I just let micro hobbies find me I mean I like I'll I have some things I'd like to do but for the most part my hobbies find me this is my favorite micro hobby you've ever had I'm so invested in it I am having so much fun with you thank you so I spoke earlier this week on my stories about some of my favorite vintage toys and i know the word vintage sounds crazy because i'm talking about toys from the 90s but like whatever we're calling them vintage they know they are tell you 90s toys were superior like 100 they were made better they were made smarter um they were made to last like everything about them is better i've been so vocal on my dislike for the Gabby dollhouse I think it's the most biggest piece of garbage ever made I can't believe they're selling them to have 3d printed crap sorry to say a bad word but like the Gabby's dollhouse is horrendous and those vintage toys are it so I love sharing things like my McDonald's drive-thru the clip-clop castle the little tykes play garden like I love them and I have always wanted the fisher price uh family house from 1993 loving family loving family 19 loving family that's what they're called and i have seen these here or there like when you if you google the picture you'll you'll you'll recognize it if you were exactly what she's talking about and i don't even think i should ask mom but i don't even think we had one i think we just like would have them at friend's houses. I don't remember having one. I don't know, but like I see the people and I see the house and I know it so well that it makes me feel like I played with it so much. So it makes me feel like we did, or maybe one of our, like you said, our friends or our cousins had one. Yeah. You'll, you'll, you will know it. So Kelly calls me, Kelly calls. Can I just say it from my view? Kelly, that's Kelly calls me the other day and she goes, well, I had just picked up the Little Tykes Activity Garden. And I'm so happy that you like put it on my heart to find it because it just popped up for $25 10 minutes from my house. And you said, just do it. And I did it. And like Sloan is obsessed with it. She's constantly in it. And everyone in my DMs is saying, oh, one's listed for $400 near me, $125 near me. Like I got an amazing deal. I paid 17 bucks for mine. You got an amazing deal. So like the deals are out there, but you were so right. It was so good. And so this came up and you go, it's as if you had been marinating on it for like literally months, the way that you said it, you go, I need the 1993 Fisher price, loving family dollhouse with the characters without real hair. And she sent me a like eBay listing for $700. dollars you're like of course I'm not gonna buy this but like this is what this is what I'm trying to find because I want all the pieces I I want I want the set I don't just want like a rundown house and I don't want to I'm obviously not gonna put my crap Gabby dollhouse pieces in it so I want I want it all so since you told me that my Facebook marketplace was like all these houses popping up so I started sending them to you I'm like oh here here's this type oh here's the mansion for a hundred dollars here's this house for 75 here's some people maybe you can split it up they're asking for way too much and it's been so much fun to try and figure out how you can get this thing oh I now I'm learning about the different editions of the the Loving family Elizabeth is right when I want I want the characters who don't have the hair so I believe like in the late 90s early 2000s The Loving family got real hair and they look ratty because real hair sucks. I hate real hair on toys. The Loving family of 93, they are the, well, here's what they are. They're the perfect size. They're not chokies. Not to keep dragging Gabby's dollhouse. Those are like chokies for Libby. They're the perfect size. They fit so good in a kid's hands. There's no real hair. There's no clothes to take on and off. Their clothes are painted onto their body. It is the perfect doll, in my opinion. like that is they should have never deviated from that so I was like okay I'm not gonna I guess I kind of had just been like waiting for it to like come across my desk at like a JBF sale once upon a child like a garage sale because I've never actually like paid for I never paid market for my vintage toys they've always just found me but it's getting to the point where like my kids are getting older and let me be clear I want my kids to play with it like I don't I don't want to just put it away and like it never be touched. I want my kids to play with it and then I want to keep it. I also find it so interesting. I was thinking about this, Elizabeth. We were all told as 90s kids, like keep your beanie babies. Those are going to be worth something. Yeah. Those aren't worth anything. They're not worth anything. But a Fisher Price loving family 1993 mint condition. Those are worth something. So it's an investment. It's an investment. Now, I have kind of like set a budget for myself on what I think I should what what I'm willing to stomach to acquire all of these things. And it's around like three hundred dollars. Like I'd like to spend around there to get everything. And I think I can do that. That would be. Let me be so clear. We will never tell my husband what I have paid for this. As like if any of you, if I find out that any of you go behind my back and tell my husband, I'm going to block you. No, you can never know about this. Here's the thing. This is a hobby. Like you and I are texting back and forth. We're getting excited. I'm like, oh my gosh, this mansion looks so nice. This one looks even nicer. This is in your area. Look, this one's only 10 minutes from you. Like it is fun. We're connecting. And isn't that what it's all about? A hundred percent. And actually he, he, he's not going to care. but he won't care that I spent that money. He will care what I spent that money on, but that's not his business in my opinion. Like, sorry. No, it's high. It is, that is, that is a lot. It's, but I'm telling you it's market and he's a man who can understand an investment. So I have, no, it's everything's pending pickup as of now, but I have all of the characters and all of the furniture. Well, it's then it's hard because like then they had so many families. They have families of every ethnicity. so I kind of want all of them. You can't drive yourself that crazy, Kelly. Like I feel like you need. No, I know you need a lot. Like you need a lot of people, not a lot of people, but they, the lot of people, um, you need some furniture, like you need it so your kids can play with it. Yes. And then I have to buy the house. Now the 1993 house in the mansion are different. I'm kind of leaning towards the mansion. I just think I like the looks of it more. I did find a 1993 house for $75 kind of close in St. Peter's, Missouri on Marketplace. Send me that link. I will. And then as I'm like digging, because I'm liking to look, the problem with Marketplace is I feel like I'm learning more from the eBay listings because that's where the collectors are. Yeah, sure. So the Marketplace listing, you're not going to get a deal on eBay, but I like knowing the eBay people know the right name, the year. like they have all the details so i'm kind of cross-referencing my ebay to marketplace you know to get some information and then i find out that from the 90s to the early 2010s they sold loving family family cars that included several different kinds of minivans and some suvs yeah and i'm telling you they just don't make toilet this anymore and i'm like i need these minivans like that is so car mom coded to have these minivans so the minivans are kind of standoffish so I have been on Poshmark for those I've already placed and got offers accepted for two of them Kelly this is so funny I know but I'm having fun no it's a lot of fun um and I've never had I've never collected I've never collected anything I would like to be a collector it's a game it really is I mean you could you could insert in anything that we're talking about like it doesn't have to be this Fisher Price loving family it is fun to find a deal it's fun to find something that's right they are rare they're vintage like it is it's a rush and it's fun and that's what you've been up to yeah so i do like the people who don't i mean i think it'll be fun it's fun when you come when you come by someone who like doesn't know what they have and they're like just trying to sell this for my mom like that my mcdonald's thing uh-huh five bucks five flipping dollars they're on they're eight hundred dollars on marketplace like i'm sitting on cash yeah i know you are like if my house gets robbed like let me just be clear the Roberts will be looking in the wrong places because anything I have a value is in my toy room. Yeah, totally. So interesting. So anyway, I'm probably going to make it like a series because like you have to see these toys like they are just incredible. And I'm just yeah, if anything else I'm having fun of it's my newest micro hobby. You know what I'm so the mode I'm most obsessed with with these toys is the furniture is like the Fisher Price furniture that they Fisher Price also sold life size. So it's, it's the Fisher Price turtle sandbox. You can get the turtle sandbox for your dollhouse. And it's, do you remember that pink Fisher Price plastic vanity that girls would have in their room? They have that in the toy version. It is just, it's so great. It's so full circle. It's so nostalgic. And I'm so curious to know, like if your kids love playing with it, or if this was all just like a fun Easter egg hunt for for you well it's a good question um you seem to have really good you seem to have a really good eye for what kids are gonna like like the paw patrol tower no i think my kids are gonna love it i actually think my kids are gonna love it which is why i'm kind of like putting which is why i want to get it now so my kids can like play with it for these years and then you know i can save it for my grandchildren um they just i can't say enough they just don't make it like they used to and like i'm just gonna put this out there i'm gonna shoot my shot if anyone's listening new dream partnership fisher price i'd like to come across your desk i think we should bring back one of these minivans as a collab in a major way yeah totally like look at this one it's it's they have seat belts it's amazing they just don't do it like this anymore i'm obsessed the boy is in a little harness car seat no i'm obsessed and they make like toddler size dolls I'm just I can't like this this minivan with all the pieces this is the 1999 family talk and travel with luggage $250 hey and this is also a reminder like if your parents are hoarders and they've been holding on to your stuff go dig in their basement you could be you could have like several hundreds of dollars yeah in your in your bank account soon enough I do wonder I'm also like needing to accumulate my pieces before the market skyrocks because like I'm not like trying to toot our own horns though but I do feel as though I put the clip-clop castle on the map just wondering it does it I do I do wonder that Kelly I do wonder that did I put the clip-clop on the map because I picked up mine for $15 and like I just searched my sister-in-law had the clip-clop castle and I went I was like oh that's a fun toy I'm gonna see if I can find one I went on found one 15 bucks bought it that day that was years ago i've just i've just accepted in my motherhood i will not own a clip-clop castle because i refuse to pay more than honestly 40 for that i just refuse i had a fun idea which this is tbd and if i don't do it no one be mad at me but i was thinking for the calm auto show this year um we're doing like a fundraiser i might buy a clip cop castle to auction off oh that would be a good one like maybe i'll buy some of these vintage toys to auction that's a clip cop is like so car rom coated yeah it's so true so that's what i've been up to like literally that's it so then i've been sending each other facebook listings if you live in st louis and you like have a great listing send it my way don't send me any fisher price with the hair though like look if they have the real hair i'm not interested um okay next on my dump should i go next yeah no you you have i don have anything on my dump I curious to know what all this stuff is on our Yeah because I just put things that you have a lot about them. Okay, so speaking of just like the weather, first of all, temperatures make no sense. Yeah, and I just feel like we should live in a world where the temperature is the temperature. And I'm specifically referring to this idea of like, there's the temp and then there's the feels like yeah i'm sorry that makes no sense because if it feels like that then that's what it is and if you're like no because of the wind and i'm like no because if the wind is making it colder then it's colder totally it'd be one thing if it was like oh it's 32 it feels like 30 they're like oh it's 20 it feels like negative one i'm like okay we're not gonna do a 19 degree swing here because of the wind like it's one degree someone's wrong like and i'm gonna say like I think feels like is what it should be I think this is insane a temperature is the how something feels it is how hot or how cold something is if something feels like it is negative one degree you can't convince me it's 10 degrees like if we can't even believe if we don't even live in a reality where the where what it feels like is the temperature I'm worried for our world what does that mean girl and then i was thinking here's something like which i just can't wrap my head around okay so we always keep our house between 68 and 70 degrees like that's just what our house is set at my husband won't let me change the thermometer like he's just he lives in the world of like open a window take off a clothes add some clothes like we're just this is it this is it in 68 to 70 i think is fine i'm for the most part very comfortable in my house but how come in the summer I will wear like biker shorts flip flops and a tank top in my house and in the winter I will wear fuzzy socks pants and a sweatshirt in my house and I couldn't imagine I would be cold in my summer clothes but I'm in the house that's between 68 and 70 degrees what is that math well I think it's like I think it's like the I think it's back to like the feels like like I think your temperature says it's 68 to 70 degrees but it feels like 65 because it's winter because like because it's winter and because like you're there's cold air or there's hot air coming through like when you open doors and just like the cracks in your house like the air is coming through it's just kind of interesting it is interesting okay today's episode is brought to you by Skylight. 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Plus, I'm raising two kids. ick have you not seen these no i oh liz it's i've seen like four to five a day hating me is probably valid i did everything i said i would plus i'm raising four kids okay i have to look up this trend because that i'm not trying to be a hater i just think it's like such an out-of-pocket thing to say like you want people to hate you why hating me is valid oh gosh hating me is valid dot dot dot she's combing her hair you've been running joke between my sister and i you've been a running joke between my sister and i you're not on the right side i'll send you the next one i see i mean i'm telling you it just must be i'm doing everything i said i would plus raising two kids it's just like okay wait everyone's just saying hating me is probably valid because i'm doing everything i said what plus i'm raising four kids oh everyone's using the same text no it's the exact same text but it's such a weird like message to put out to your audience um like what account would benefit from telling your followers that they probably hate you because you're so much better than them i think it's like such a weird thing to say and that's like not like me to have to have a take like this or but i think that's a honestly like a really uh dangerous mindset and i think you should not say that and that's very strange you know but all the comments are like you go girl yes you are hell yeah but who's hating you so so maybe let's back up so who hates you so actually so actually no one hates you you know what that that brings me into other stuff that i hate which is like this might cancel me but insert the most lukewarm non-controversial at all take this might get me canceled but I don't know yeah 75 is the perfect temperature like that's not going to get you canceled or the um god I can't think of an exact example but it's like this like it's like a quote like someone said something to you that absolutely no one ever said to you and but you're like still doing it like you can't we'll use the same example like you can't work your full-time job and raise four kids and do it all me doing it all it's like no one literally no one ever said that to you well yeah or it's like I didn't really also love that trend when it was like and it started out good and then people just started to take it like overdone and it was in your 20s someone will tell you this which again no one told you that it's really important you don't listen okay what yeah gosh people got that was like the only trend that was going on got overdone that one got overdone and I didn't hate it in the beginning but I agree with you it's like yeah I'm sorry that that doesn't bother me as much as the hating me is valid like okay what who hates you like this one nobody quote nobody cares about what you post no one or doesn't posting this embarrass you no one's messaging you that no one's saying that to you like people are just making stuff up they're making up scenario yeah they're making they're making up scenarios um don't don't make up scenarios you're interesting enough as it is okay so funny so there is a real problem going on in our country and that is artificial intelligence not that anyone needs me to tell them about that but the videos are progressing at such an alarming rate. It's so annoying. I agree. I find it. I find it so annoying. And like we are to the point where you need to second guess every single thing you see. I know. Like if you think that happened, watch it again or see who it's coming from. Like people are insane. So I start and I literally fell for this one. And I'm actually kind of obsessed with it. I'm not saying I like it because like I wish artificial intelligence wasn't around I guess I don't know I don't really I don't know I don't know what's gonna happen but it's this AI old lady who's like who's not real but she like looks really good for 75 and like she like listen I need you to look it up look over to your Instagram and look up too rich to age everyone do this unless you're driving And then which stop what you're doing. Okay. Evelyn. Like, Oh yeah. I've seen her. She's not real. 75 plus Evelyn, Evelyn, Evelyn, rich. She like, she's literally getting collabs. I know 75 plus retired from being nice. And she is this like really young looking, 75 year old kind of i mean and the videos are scary good and like you read the comments and everyone's like what's your secret you look so good and she would be one evelyn would be one to say hating me is probably valid i look this good at 75 um totally also something that is crazy is she posts she's posting videos like her dancing in this dress and then she's tagging where the dress is from i know so i saw that because i was like is she like i'm literally like is she real i'm like there's no way she's real no she's definitely not real no she's not real for sure and i can tell you right now like i feel like there's always like different markers for how we're touching ai like for a while it was the hands well surprise they figured out the hands now you can always tell him the hair you know yeah no i hate this but she's kind of funny like she danced she's doing like tiktok dances yeah no i mean it's like it is fashion like goals like it's of course goals but again it's like it's just it's fake i just i've i've been seeing so many like influencers pop up that i click on their profile and they have like 900 followers and i you know you can tell like the classic pretty like hot girl ai like we all kind of know what her face looks like now like what ai believes like the hot man looks like and the hot girl looks like like you can always tell i'm seeing these all pop up and it's so crazy i'm also seeing people all the time like ai people who make it look like they're talking on a podcast so it comes off as even more like real and like they could just say anything they could have any they could have any it's so dangerous and i hate it and I like watch like an incredible video like some just like cool or funny or incredible act of human will or something and I'm like was that real or was it AI and like people don't know like the comments are mixed so I just think yeah it's very scary and it's very scary because like we also like have I mean I'm not I just hate to be depressing I hate to be depressing um but i just think we need to really work on like getting off our phones more i could i definitely could i am i'm like one more screen time reminder away from getting a brick have you seen the brick thing yeah like takes your apps off yeah or i'm gonna like delete all my apps on my real phone and like just have it on my content phone yeah but well you know what And that's why the Fisher Price hobby has been so nice because instead of scrolling Instagram, I'm scrolling Facebook Marketplace. And I'm looking for something real. You know, I'm just trying to connect to what is real because AI could never. AI could never. No, I'm telling you, I just think we all need to be finding micro hobbies. That and like traders is like the best show on television. If you're not watching traders, wake up. Yeah, we just need hobbies. Like we just need to replace our mindless scrolling with some other scrolling because like, yeah. And we used to have hobbies. Like as a society, hobbies existed. We would read. I am reading. I'm reading. That's good. I'm also another like micro, like micro, micro. What's what's less than micro? Nano. Nano, I think. Another nano hobby of mine is I'm currently going through all of like the cheaper cuts of meat in my deep freezer from our half a cow. You say it's nano hobby. It's literally every time I call you all you freaking talk about. I'm like, honestly, I stopped caring. So I just like we have some I shouldn even say cheaper Well I mean they are the cheaper cuts but they a little bit more difficult to cook with Like my cube steak saga first of all I hate cube steak Like I made it the best way I could prepare it It literally never got tender Like it's just a rough cut. And then I did an arm roast, which was fine. And today I'm doing beef short ribs, which are not a cheaper cut. I just it's a cut I'm unfamiliar with. And I am having fun with that. I also have pork jowls I have to use up. I've got beef soup bones. I've got round steak. I've got just all sorts of crazy cuts that I've got to learn how to cook with yeah yeah that kind of is all I've been talking about that so like literally all my days consist of Fisher Price Marketplace short ribs or cube steak yeah but you know it is what's going on and it is I guess a hobby what are my hobbies what am I doing you're growing a baby that's so true i just like kind of have like a mandatory nap time in my house now like we all nap at one o'clock and that's been really nice i'm starting to feel a little bit less nauseous so that's good i posted on my instagram like when did your nausea go away you know and the amount of overwhelming dms that i was like i was literally throwing up while giving birth like it literally never went away that won't be me because i just i I know that my first trimester is bad, but like I've been pregnant two other times. Like I just know I'm not going to feel horrible the entire time. But that's crazy that some people just feel horrible for 10 months. I know. Like they have to like, they like get dehydrated and have to like go to the hospital. Like that is crazy that that happens. So sad. It's just the, just like women are amazing. It's just like the ultimate, obviously the ultimate sacrifice. But I hear that and I'm like, wow, you're sacrificing so much more than I am. like wow I can't believe you did that you're amazing and have you like been thinking about names you know are we gonna get like clues again well I don't know it depends on when we come up with a name I'm kind of at the phase where if a name I don't immediately hate it I will put it on a list and I'll like revisit the list and Maddie and I kind of talk about names but Sloan was obvious Sloan was always our girl name James was kind of was kind of easy because it's just he's just named after both of our dads and like this one I just have no idea like I really don't like a lot of girl names and the girl names that I like are like I don't know like top 10 list and do I want that but I don't well what's the deal with the top 10 list like are we always trying to stay out of it or is it just like okay to be in the top 10 list well naming baby we need to get her back on the pod she had an interesting take on like top 10 names and she's like names feel so much more common now because of social media yeah like because you're hearing the names but like you're not running in circles with all these olivias or all these avas i mean you're just not or maybe you are but like you're not running in those kinds of circles i like I like a top 10 I'm just wondering like if because I mean my daughter's name is Elizabeth my second daughter's name is Elizabeth so I just wondering if your second daughter like if Kelly's even on the list uh I'm not naming my daughter Kelly but speaking as an Elizabeth myself with the top 10 name like I there were always Elizabeth's in my class and like it affected me zero like I lived to tell the tale like mom and dad just loved that name I've like rarely come across other Kellys can we bring the name Kelly back I think it's kind of darling Kelly's not very popular where does Kelly fall in the top is Kelly in the top 100 certainly look that up for me I'm wondering about Kelly I do think Kelly has grounds for a middle name for you just like something to consider also if you didn't know Kelly was our mom's maiden name she was Chris Kelly which is why I'm Kelly. So that's fun. Yeah. So such a nineties name. Like everyone thinks like Jessica, Courtney, like what about Kelly? Oh, wait. Kelly is not even the top 1000 in 2026. No one's thinking of my name. It was the most popular in 1977. It is kind of a weird name. Kelly. jelly belly you know smelly that's tough yeah but like belly like belly Isabella like she was you know what's that yeah and like I don't think that was like good PR for that name um so interesting not even the top 1000 it's like such a common name but like it's not obviously it's not but obviously it's not but like we have Kelly Stumpy we have Kelly Clarkson we have Kelly um i mean you really those two are great kelly's i'm not sure kelly for a boy i don't like kelly i like kelly for a boy it's a totally different vibe no matter which way you go with it that was interesting okay do i have anything else in my dump I wrote roast why did I write roast oh I wrote roast so I made a roast last night and I posted on my Instagram like uh when it's five o'clock and like your roast is not shredding like it should and normally when I post things like that my DMs are then filled with just like smarter people than me being like oh babe all you got to do is x y and z and then it's going to shred perfectly so I kind of posted that with the hope of like getting people who people to tell me what I have to do and everyone's like that's the worst that sucks like it literally just sucks and there's not a rhyme or reason I'm sure it has to do with the the real temperature of the crock pot and the feels like temperature of the crock pot and pro and honestly probably but people are like maybe it's the quality of the meat I'm like this is the meat from my butcher like it's good was it an arm roast or a chuck roast it was a chuck roast it was like everything i had a lot of liquid in there like everything the stars were aligned and then i like kind of shredded what i could get so we could eat and then i let it sit continue cooking through bedtime and there were parts of it that just like i was never able to shred sometimes it helps like cut it so like with my arm roast i made this past weekend um or this past week i like checked it at 3 p.m i'm like this is not good like it was nowhere close so i chopped it up turned her on high and then she was shredding yeah maybe i just need to like start by just cutting it up but like or maybe searing it before like i don't know well some people say i think searing like helps with the flavor i'm just like simply like if i'm doing a crock pot meal i'm not looking to get another dish dirty except my new crock pot that i got apparently you can saute in it but i'm like can you you know yeah what does that even mean i don't know i'm so tired i also started the movie um People we meet on vacation. I couldn't finish it in one night, though, because I got tired. But it is excellent. It's so good. Tyler was so into it, too. Like, it's a great movie. Yeah. It makes me really hopeful. Just, like, for it, yeah. Because I watched that other one, that Regretting You, like, I kind of talked about. And it was just, like, so average. And that one was just, like, so good. Was that a Netflix original? I don't know. Netflix just can't Netflix I'm on my Netflix peacock grind right now mainly because they have traders yeah there's like really not that many famous Kellys last name Kellys machine gun Kelly it's literally you and Kelly Clarkson Kelly Teller that's Miles Teller's wife but she spells Kelly kind of crazy guess how she spells kelly oh i think i've seen this isn't it like k-e-l-e-i-g-h yeah which is actually i actually think it's kind of cute yeah it kind of like makes it kind of like softer of a name it makes it softer of a name it's like a different name like she's kelly she's kelly it's like everly it's like everly like she's kelly she's kelly not callie kelly kelly like billy kelly smelt like jelly kelly on her belly yeah i've i've i've heard it all i've heard it all you think you can hurt don't kill that's what you should say quote things people have said to you you're smelly because your name's kelly and you rub jelly on your belly you think you can hurt me i've heard this and i do it all and i'm raising four kids so okay so i think our industry news is just like going to be some advice segments talking about some family cars before we do that i want to make an what do they call it when you get something wrong an addendum at our last episode we talked about the volvo xc90 we have since removed it because i misspoke and i'm like can't believe i didn't know this but i'm always growing but we said that the volvo xc90 doesn't have tether anchors in the third row and here's the craziest part about that it doesn't with the bench seat, but it does have one with the captain's chairs, which is the craziest thing. Like, how was it? Genuinely, how was I supposed to know that? Like, come on. But that is the craziest thing. So I still think like, so if you missed, if you don't know what we're talking about last episode, it was a mom. She had two toddlers and a baby and she bought the bubble back standing with captain's chairs. And I was like, oh no, the third row doesn't have a tether anchor. because in every Volvo XC90 I've ever been, I guess I've been in the bench seats the most, they don't have them. But when you have the captain's chairs, they do. And me and my team were talking about this and they do that because federal regulations requires every car to have three tether anchors. Which we should have put that together. Which we should have put that together. Whatever we didn't. Which we didn't at the time. So in the bench seat, the third tether anchor is in the middle seat. When you get the captain's third row, then they add a tether anchor to the third row. Now, why in the world they just wouldn't keep that tether anchor in the third row when you have the bench seat behooves me. It's behooving. It's behooving why they would remove. Why would they would literally manufacture a different third row? Just because the seat is taken out or added. It's crazy. it makes me wonder if any other cars are like this because that's like we've never run into that well so that's why so it's making me question it honestly made me question everything i know no like there i don't think there's any other cars that take it away but that's why like every car like that so that's why for example in the palisade like they put a tether anchor in the bench even though you can't do three across because of the it's just it's it's very strange it's very strange okay also speaking of cars so i'm going to the chicago auto show is it next week am i going yeah yeah next week i'm going to the chicago auto show listen carefully saturday morning what's that date elizabeth let me look it up Saturday February 8th 9am February 7th February 7th 9am I am doing a tour of the Chicago Auto Show I can only sell 25 tickets it'll be me and Sam and we just like basically run around the auto show before like everyone else gets there and just like have a grand old time we'll go look at the new Telluride together I can answer any of your car questions maybe we'll stop by Volvo and confirm that we'll see with our own eyes totally totally and if anyone's involved was there we'll give them a piece of our mind i'll say look at this crew i brought with me we want tether anchors and all your seating positions answers so if you want to come get a tour maybe i'll bring some of this limited edition merch with me that i'm wearing today we did the tours in new york and it was like so much fun and like honestly the best way to like get your questions answered because also like kelly's a wealth of knowledge but like sam mom in his car seats is like such a wealth of knowledge so she'll also be there to answer your questions yeah so it's like basically you should come whether it's just to hang out or how can you get tickets if you're interested i have a link so where should i put said link show notes show notes we'll put it in the show notes um okay well i i have oh did you have something else no that's all i had okay well I have an advice question. Um, this advice question is for, believe it or not, her name is Jenny. Um, but it's also kind of for me because I'm starting to think about like what we're going to do with like three car seats of it all. So this is help to, with car seat configuration for baby number three. I'm writing in person car slash car seat advice. We drive a 2020 suburban with captain's chairs and I'm currently pregnant with baby number three due in July. Oh my gosh. Same due in August. Congratulations. We have a four-year-old forward-facing and 18-month rear-facing, both currently set up in the captain's chairs. With both my babies so far, I've often needed to sit in the back with them for bottles, snacks, and general entertainment. I'm trying to think ahead about the safest, most practical way to configure our car seats once baby number three arrives. We currently use a Brightaxe type seats for our two olders and plan to use a Kiko Keyfit 35 for the newborn, but we're open to purchasing different seats if that would allow for better and safer setup how would you recommend arranging the car seats in this scenario well i would say i mean you have you have a ton of options here and what's hard about your car seat setup is like today's option is going to not be two years from now's option like right like so we're going to have to look at how things are going to change but i think i mean i think the most obvious thing is let's put the four-year-old in the third row and then let's have the other the the rear facing kids the two younger kids in the captain's chairs um did you say why she didn't want to do that no she's just looking for how to shoot how you should do it okay so the only thing she said is that sometimes she'll sit in the third row to like entertain the kids that's what i thought that's what i thought um i think another solution for you if you just wanted to mix it up is i think there a world where you put the four in the third row You also put the 18 month in a third row in a rotating car seat and then you leave a captain chair open because i just wonder how easy or uneasy it's going to be for you to buckle your four-year-old like are they buckling and unbuckling themselves really confidently or are you still having to like go back there and tighten it because let me tell you what a giant pain in the butt it is to like bend over a rear-facing car seat in the second row to get to the third row to reach that child and like i'm six feet tall and i'm like stretched across half my car. So I see a world where like, maybe, and so maybe you just get a rotating car seat regardless. So that, that way you can just rotate this, the 18 months old seat forward facing, get in there, get back there with the four-year-old help them and then rotate it back. But I see a world where you put the rotating seat in the third row and then leave a seat and rotate it forward to buckle that kid in and then flip them rear facing. And then you just have that outboard seat and then you're back there with baby. And it's just kind of fun and dandy that way that's another consideration what remind what the third row access is of the suburban is it the um it's a fold and flip fold and flip yeah no well it's not great but for your scenario it is kind of great because it like for what i'm saying yeah it like totally like then you've got like a ton of cabin space like you can load your baby up get your kids just like in the car and then like shut the car behind the door behind you yeah and like just kind of take your time loading everyone up i kind of like the idea of putting the two older kids in the third row or i think another solution if you don't want to get a rotating seat i think getting a baseless infant seat would just make life easier too yeah that you can just take it out yeah get kids in and out yeah um it's a good one yeah what am i gonna do i'm probably gonna be i'm gonna hopefully be driving a kia carnival with a bunch oh i got all kinds of fun things for you to do do you yeah carnival like it it's so hard to like pin the minivans against each other but like it probably does have the the most versatility when it comes to car seat setups because you can remove any of the seats so like in the honda odyssey we all know magic slide magic slide you can remove the middle seat but even when you push that middle seat or that outboard seat to like when you do the magic slide the gap is not as wide as it is when you remove an outboard seat of a carnival yeah like you're gonna be like so we're gonna do that and then we'll probably put james in the third row really i wouldn't do three across i mean you could you can do three across i would put james in the middle then forward facing low on one side and kelly on the other um okay and so then i've been wanting to get the I've been thinking about getting the enjoyment latch I've been so excited about having a baseless car seat but then I was looking at my uh mockingbird and like they don't have a car seat attachment and like I'm so used to attaching them I feel like they just came out with it I literally like the other day they don't have one for the enjoyment I thought I heard rumblings well I don't think they're rumbling no I don't think that it will I don't think it's necessary for you like we needed it because i was accessing the third room the expedition i don't know what a baseless seat would do for you in terms of making your car seat set up any easier yeah no it's so true it's so true if i'm if i'm literally just said i want to do three across how would a baseless infant seat benefit me honestly i don't know it just seems kind of fun and exciting like the prospect of it all and it is fun and exciting okay are you ready for ditched the drive yeah girl I mean are we just like ready to get to that um I thought I really thought I would have more to say well I know I think it's just hard because we're recording so far out yeah I just like don't know who I'm gonna be on Wednesday like well I don't know what we're experiencing on Wednesday versus today yeah it's I mean I should have my Fisher Price family by now like this is so exciting you're gonna be a different person yeah come that time no I guess I'm ready for just the drive-thru then okay now it's time for ditch the drive-thru when I give you an easy dinner recipe to mix it up to get you out of ya dinner rut and this one came to me actually I owe this one to my daughter Hattie because I took Hattie grocery shopping the other day I had Hattie and Libby with me Tyler had the boys and we walked past the soups and I'm so fascinated by the marketing of using characters on food and it brings the age-old question like who pays for what like yeah and i think i actually think i know the answer i do know the answer i think so anyway we found a pokemon a paw patrol and a princess can of soup i do believe that campbell's is playing paying pokemon to use our image and likeness for sure yeah but you could argue it's selling more it's advertising for Pokemon. But I don't think definitely selling Campbell's soup. Definitely selling Campbell's soup. You're right. Because it's always interesting like you know who's on the sticker of the bananas. Like I just like love human behavior because like who are we to like literally advertise on a banana sticker. It's so interesting. Like we're her soul we're always being advertised to. So we walked by these cans of soup and I was like oh my gosh can we get these. And it's like you know it's the age old thing. It's like of course you want the soup that has your character on it. But I was like sure Like we're kind of stocking up for the snowstorm, whatever. Pick out one for you, one for George, one for Fred. Because I like I've learned a thing or two. So we picked out a Pokemon, Paw Patrol and a princess. They are just like noodles and chicken chunks in broth. Like they are nothing. So let me be clear. I am ditching the drive through here. I'm not claiming to be anything other than not going to the McDonald's drive through. My kids each killed a can of these soups. Oh, my God. I mean, at least it's on a soup. Fred goes, this is so yummy, mommy. this so yummy I was like okay George was like more please and the noodles were shaped and like it was just a very simple it was just like literally there wasn't a vegetable to be found and let me be clear like I make a great chicken noodle soup but I was like she wanted to buy them because they had the characters I was in a pinch for lunch like I didn't know I was gonna feed these kids for lunch yeah and I literally like pulled out their cans of soup they were all so excited to have their special soup can well here's the thing microwaved them i put one on the two on the stove one in the microwave because they all wanted them at the same time and i couldn't mix up the noodles because all the noodles were different you know i do i appreciate the characters being on a soup because i've certainly had to buy freaking a pack of fruit snacks because there was a character on it and i wasn't in the middle i didn't feel like fighting and you know the grocery store so you know i appreciate that they're they're slapping them on something that's not terrible i'm telling you it worked for us and you know you could have easily judged it i could have served it with a grilled cheese i could have i mean you could add things to it of course also kind of goes to show like what what would happen if you just ordered like what if i just ordered like dinosaur stickers and i like put it on oh that's a great idea for sure you should do that um I was also gonna say I easily could have added like a can of like or I could have added like frozen carrots and peas so like add some vegetables to it I'm just saying like again it's not homemade it's got probably got some artificial something of another but again I ditched the drive-thru I didn't go to Chick-fil-A to get them chicken nuggets we had chicken soup they loved it it was hearty it was they're a dollar a pop I fed my kids for three bucks okay winning shelf shelf stable you know shelf stable winning so that's my ditch that's my ditch the drive yeah I don't have anything like fabulous I've been making like burgers at home which has been like really great um I kind of forgot about burgers like I forget that like when it's not summer and I'm not grilling I forget that I can also just like make burgers on my stove winter patty a winter patty is nice um i i like it oh here's the ditch the drive-through um those soup dumplings kelly have we not talked about the soup dumplings yet the soup dumplings we need to pull up our text from this past week this is so interesting so the soup dumplings maybe you've seen them at costco or at sam's they're at bolt they're frozen soup dumplings they come in a pack of six you microwave the thing and then you have a trader joe's it's not soup it's just like a little doughy thing with meat in it little dumpling that has like soup and a broth inside of it and meat and stuff no there's no soup inside it it's like a broth no that's what okay yes there is it's like put them no you're like they're designed to put into soup oh okay anyway so they also sell them at Trader Joe's. Now, Kelly had the Trader Joe's kind and she had the Costco kind and she only had one of each left. So she made them for me and her one day and there was a stark difference in the Costco versus Trader Joe's. Costco were much better. It's important to note. Sam's was also delicious i just had them but here was the fixings here was the toppings that you put on top of them that really elevated it for me kewpie mayo sriracha and what is this japanese barbecue sauce what is the brand of this japanese barbecue sauce i have no i think it just says japanese barbecue sauce on it i think literally says japanese barbecue sauce it's so good you can also get it like a you can also get it it has replaced like it's replaced chick-fil-a in my house like george is asking it for george is asking to put it on everything chicken nuggets we're adding this barbecue sauce to it let's see it is so good it's literally called the original japanese barbecue sauce the brand is back backhands b-a-c-h-a-a-n-s bachans backhands i don't know it has a little octopus on the front excellent so that's what i just made in a pinch and And it was delish. Delish. Oh, my gosh. I have one more thing to say. I'm so sorry. I hope people are listening to the end of this episode. If not, I'll give an update later. I also have another micro hobby I'm exploring. I am so excited about one of my recent Etsy purchases. So as you all know, Elizabeth and I have been on our press on glue on nail grind. Now, I don't like a print. I don't like a pattern. I don't like a festive swirl. I like solid colors. I think that's just all I'm looking for in my nails. And I was like, I know how to paint nails. Surely I can just bulk order. Oh, no, I don't think that's a good idea. These nails and paint them myself. That way, if I lose a pinky on a Wednesday, I have the pack. So I bought 150. This was not a good idea. I don't think. extra short nails for seven dollars okay what do you mean this is a good idea so what are you going to do you're going to put them on and then you're going to paint them no i think i'm going to like they come on a sheet i think i'm going to paint the sheet i like white and blue nails maybe i'll do a bubble gum pink if i'm feeling crazy and i'm going to paint all of them okay i just don't see a world where you keep up with this consistently. What do you mean? It's just like an extra step. Like you have to paint them. You have to wait for them to dry. You have to do a top coat. I know, but I'm in it for seven bucks. No, I'm in it for, it'll be a 25 cent manicure, a dollar manicure. How would I can get 15? It's 150 nails. I can get 15 cents. How do they come though? How do they come delivered to you? They come like in a tray and I guess you pop the top off and probably file that a little bit. I can't believe you're not more on board with this for me. I don't see you keeping up with this, but I hope that that fuels your fire to prove me wrong. I just paid my girl because I have a girl who like does them for me, but she really specializes in like nail art. So like she doesn't charge me a lot, but I'm like, I'm not like, she's just painting them. Okay. So is the, is the paint going? Cause the problem with like just painting your own nails is they chip. So is the paint going to last longer on the artificial nail? I don't know. I'll do an experiment. Maybe I'll pull out, maybe I'll get a gel thing. I'm still in it. Don't get a gel thing. You're not listening. Because the problem with my sets now I get from my girl is like, I get my white nails. Heaven forbid. I'm installing a Great Coast Lymphed 3LX. I hidden the lock off. I don't realize the nail's gone until it's right away from the dealership. And now I have now I have a set that's missing a nail. And that's so annoying. Yeah. And that's what's hard about being a press on nail girly is like it only is as good as all the nails on your hand. Yeah. I can't believe you're not more on board with this for me. I'm like, shut. I thought you'd be like, send me the link. I'm doing the same thing. I'm just nervous. I'm just. because because I can already picture it myself like I have my nails that I like like they're in an area I can't imagine like having to store 150 nails somewhere and the paint and now you're probably gonna have to get the gel light and just like all this ordeal to do like the first like when I'm putting on my nails it's because I'm like ready for my nails so now you got to paint them you got to dry them you got to come back to them and then you got to do it I just I don't know well i've got an expensive i'm trying to offset the cost of my fisher price loving family you're true you're right you're right you gotta pinch penny somewhere i can't have weekly manicures and and okay tell the dollhouse i want this to work i do doesn't feel like you do this could be i just don't i just don't have a problem with my like i don't have a problem with my $6.99 kiss nails from Target. Like that's working for my lifestyle. But it's not a dollar manicure. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Well, we will. So thank you so much for listening to the Carpool Podcast. And we'll talk to you next time. See ya. Bye. Love ya. Thank you for listening to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Liz. make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode and if you enjoyed riding with us tell everybody you know there's room in the car for everyone