Mojo in the morning, I feel like a listener of the show. And the reason why is I've been gone for a week and I really haven't checked in and talked to you guys a whole bunch, except for when there was some station drama that was going on. But I saw a lot of pictures and things posted on our social and I have so many questions I would like to ask. Ask away. Well, my first thing I would like to talk about is, I saw that it was Lucy's birthday and boy, do I feel old. I think I feel old because I've got old kids. Shannon, when I saw the picture of you and Lucy and all the girls from the show yesterday at Lucy's birthday party, Lucy's a woman now. I know, it's so crazy. And she turns 12, thank you so much. She turned 12, but I had so many listeners DMing me or writing comments and they're like, I remember when you announced in the dirty that you were pregnant. And you said you had a celebrity baby story. It was like breaking dirty. And I know that's how I know and said I was pregnant. And they're like, wait, she's 12? I remember being here and going, God, she's got to have the baby before we sign off. I mean, we're so pissed when I deliver 54 minutes after you. Actually, no, it was like 24 minutes after you went up there. I stayed on as long as we possibly could. And then eventually it was like, I don't think this is, and Dr. Wuerth left like them on while you were giving birth. Oh, they called me every 20 seconds in the delivery room. Are you kidding me? I got Dr. Wuerter to pick up his phone just because I knew that Shannon and Lucy's dad were not going to pick up the phone. And so I got him to pick up the phone and I go, Mark, just give me a nod and he goes, it ain't happening. I'm like, tell her to double push. Oh, I did. And there was a, yeah, I did. I'll spare you. It's already, yeah. Well, happy birthday to her. You did it. What was the birthday? She had like a birthday week, man. That girl, she, I love being extra and going over the top for birthdays. It's just, it's so fun to me. So like she had her birthday was Wednesday. We did a scavenger hunt for like her gifts and stuff, which was awesome. Friday night I had my family over and we just did like pizza and cupcakes. And then she had her big birthday party yesterday, which we did puppy yoga and all the Anna and Lydia and Bianca came. It was so much fun. Let's explain this for two. The listeners that are not puppy yogaers, cause I don't know what it is. What is puppy yoga? Okay. So Lucy had heard about this, I think because my stepdaughter, Samantha, did it with some of her friends, where you go to a place and this place was in Ferndale. It's called release. And they do a yoga class, but they bring in a bunch of either puppies from breeders or local rescues will allow the puppies to come in for the day and be used or for the class really and be used. And so you, it's funny. You're supposed to be doing a yoga class. All these girls wanted to do yesterday was play with the puppies. There was very little yoga happening, but it's really cute. It was golden retriever puppies. I about died. I'm looking at these, they look at how cute these puppies are. They, oh my God. The craziest thing though is like, they weren't allowed to tell us where they were from or anything. Cause some of the girls were like, Oh, I'm going to get my parents to buy one, but they wouldn't let. Yeah, they're pretty. They're pretty tight lipped about that, I guess. I thought for sure, Shannon got another dog. I told the kids on the way there, do not ask me. The answer is no, we are not changing our mind. Mom is overwhelmed with three dogs as it is. Look at her holding that puppy. She's not letting that puppy go. Can I tell you something? I don't really, my mom, I grew up with golden retrievers. My mom's always had goldens. I'm very allergic to them. So I loaded up on like Ben and Jill before yesterday, but it was Wes who kept looking at me. And I was like, no, absolutely not. Are we adding a fourth dog to the craziness of our household? No way. I like doggy yoga better than like goat yoga. Same. That's exactly what I was thinking the whole time. Yeah, it was really fun. I mean, it was definitely the birthday extravaganza, as you say. Let me ask you, cause it's 12, right? So this is her last year before she becomes a teenager. Was it extra this year because of that or is it always just extra for birthday? I just love being extra for birthdays. And I had somebody send me a DM about like, oh my God, you did like this and this and this. And I thought about it for a minute. And I'm like, I love- Like a negative? Somebody was negative on it? Yeah, which is fine. I understand. But I love going over the top for birthdays in general, but especially for the kids because I think about this, she's 12 now. I'm probably gonna get three, maybe four more birthdays where she's actually going to want a party, you know, with her friends or like me doing all these things. And then after that, it's probably gonna be like, mom, I'm gonna go out with my friends or then she's gonna go to college. Then she's gonna be like, I know my brain is crazy for thinking that way, but I'm like, while I have her and I'm able to do this and create these memories for her, I'm going over the top. I don't, I'm blowing it out of the park. But- I also, I will, by the way, it's good, good from somebody that has kids that are in different cities and stuff like that. You get it. That sounds really bad to say that. I sound like a- Cause they are adults and they have their own lives. I sound like a bad dad. I got kids in every city. But like Wes, my husband, Wes never had even one single birthday party. Wow. Well, that's not crazy. Never one. His parent, he grew up with a single mom. His dad was kind of in and out of the picture and they did not have money for birthdays. So like he, I think he gets where I'm coming from too with this. So that's what, that was gonna be my question to you. Did your family not do big birthday for you or is this kind of- I mean, I definitely, I keep using the word extra. I definitely go over the top with it. But like my mom, we always threw birthday parties. My mom and dad did. Yeah. Cause a lot of times I think when I parent and Chelsea parents are boys, I feel like we try to either A, stop the genuine generational hurt that happened when we were younger and not do something that our parents did or try to overcompensate for something that our parents didn't- No, my mom, my mom and dad were really good about birthday parties and themes and- Then here's my question. If you have a husband and has never had a birthday party before, why have you not done puppy yoga for West? He does not like celebrating his birthday. I think you need to change that narrative. So his holiday that he likes to celebrate and be celebrated is Father's Day. That is really important to him because he had a dad who was not present in his life and he prides himself on that role, that part of his identity. And so for him, Father's Day, I'm already fricking stressed about Father's Day. But what if you gave him the, this is what you, you know, we want you to know that you shouldn't have to live where your birthday is not an important day. It's important to us and did something big for him. He would not like it. I had this conversation with him. Try it. No, cause I need to- Just do it out of the blue. He doesn't want to like it. He would not like it. Let him have it. You do emojis, throw a Western birthday party. I'll do it for him. Yeah, well, I'm adding. I'm not going to go on a puppy yoga. See, I'm bringing all the puppies. I ain't getting in yoga here and, you know, sneezing. I saw an Instagram post last week and it reminded me of kind of like, what I think is the emotions that you're experiencing right now. Cause I feel the same way about Josiah with just about your kids getting older and not having that time. Once Lucy turns 13, we're like Josiah's now, you have five more summers with your job. Oh yeah. And when you like think about it like that, it's a blip. It, it, it, like I, I feel like such a sap. I'm a very emotional person anyway, that I think that way. But like you, it's going to go like this. So whatever I can do to make it, you know, fun and memorable. All right. So, and I like doing it, but. So Shannon has a, you know, her old, this is 12 and your youngest is what, eight or nine? Yeah. He's eight years old. So she's got only like Kevin just said, five more. How many? Yeah, five more. He is 13, five more summers. That's it. The Instagram profile is that you only get one summer with your baby, three with your toddler, nine with your child and five with your teenager. Wow. And that's if you lucky, cause once they turn 16 or 17, it could start again. That's what I'm saying. You know what, I'm out of here. They don't want a party. They want to go out with their friends. So then is, is that for a parent who has a teenager whose kid sleeps all day? Is that like we need to spend some time? Immediately. There's this, this over. They're not sleeping away this one summer. I have luck with you. Over. Eight, four, four, Mojo live. Eight, four, four, six, six, five, six, five, four, eight. Any other listeners ever had this where they do this with their kids, like they're go a little extra with their kids because they know that they just don't have, you know, all the time in the world left. Or are there any people that are in like Wes's case where they never got a birthday party? Like it was never that the case. And so when your birthday comes around, you either do one of two things. You either don't want to deal with it or maybe you overcompensate for it. Cause I know people that like their birthday is a countdown clock. Yeah. Like it's at eight, four, four, Mojo live. Eight, four, four, six, six, five, six, five, four, eight. Texture seven, three, four says Mojo should throw Wes a bro day party. Yeah, bro. A bro day party. I never heard of that before. I think that's shit, man. I like that idea. It's so funny. I only remember as a little kid, one birthday party that I had. How old were you? What was it? We went to a ice cream place, Friendly's. Oh my God. Okay. Loved Friendly's. Which it was Friendly's slash the purple, something ice cream place. Like it was like a place like that. And you would go inside and you basically had your birthday party there. And that was it. Because I basically had my sisters, for most of my life, cause my mom was home sick. And I remember my mom threw the party and everybody was there. But it was a fun party. That was there. I did hate, by the way, that I got the smallest piece of the ice cream cake. How does that happen? I don't know. Cause I got the first one and they always cut it, the first one's small because they want to make sure they have enough for everybody. And I'm looking at everybody else getting overcompensated. Was your name on it? Yes. Cause that's birthday rules. You gotta get the full name. You get the whole name. You got your name. You got your name. Oh, I did not know this. That's the rule, bro. You gotta eat your own name. Do you want an ice cream cake tomorrow? No, no, no, no. It's Kevin's birthday. I'm gonna de-cue today. We gotta talk later about Kevin. We gotta make Kevin's birthday special. What's going on, Jenna? Hi, good morning everybody. Good morning. I was just dropping off my daughter at school who was a year older than Lucy, but I'm super extra with birthdays. She's a December 19th baby. So she shares her birthday with a really big mom. But the bigger thing was, was you guys talking about how fast all this goes? I will never forget the day Shannon called in, dropping Lucy off at school for her birthday at kindergarten. And she said, our job is to raise them to go live in this world without us. And it has stuck with me all 12 and a half years of my parenting. So, just like she said, we blinked and I have a middle schooler and we almost have girls that are 13 and... It's crazy. Yeah, so without shame, I am super extra for every single one of those birthdays because it's coming gone so fast. If you really wanna cry, when we go into a commercial break, go on the I Heart Radio app and put Keith Urban's Don't Blink as a song on. Oh, I'm not even listening. I'm not even listening. Yeah. It's just it is. Yeah, I'm telling you, you listen to that song and you think about your kids as they're walking into school as a 12 year old and you realize, holy Christ. What's going on, Tina? The morning, third time long time. Thank you, Tina. What's happening? Hi, guys. I just wanted to comment on Shannon. Shannon, I go hard for my children's birthday. I have three kids. I have a 22 year old, 14 year old and my son just turned 18. So on a birthday, we do a big. That's awesome. We do well. We get zaps on. We go out to dinner. I love that. We throw some at the house because as a child, my mom threw me a birthday party every year. Wow, that's great, mom. So birthdays are very special for me. So I just, I extended to my children or whatever and they love it. They be ready. Tina, have you ever gotten to a fight with another family at the ZAP zone? Oh no, we don't do that. I got. I had that happen on one birthday. One birthday we got into a fight. One of the kids was being obnoxious from one of the other parties and he was constantly getting Luke out. So I was like, hey, we ain't the same party. I ain't playing here right now. We paid the same amount of money you played here. You don't keep getting. Luke would cry every time. It'd be like, I got out again. What's going on? How you doing, Amy? Hi, hi, Maljo. Hi. I'm doing good. What's happening? So growing up, I would spend one year with my mom in Canada or in Lansing and then one year with my dad in Canada, like as a child. And so I never really had a birthday party or anything like that growing up. But I didn't really like, it's not like a sad story for me. Like it sucks, but the only time that it was an issue for me was when I turned 30 and I told my kids to not say happy birthday. Don't bring up my birthday because I just did not want to turn 30. I was in like birthday denial. Yeah. But I throw my kids the best birthday parties that I can. Like decorating the house and whatnot. One year I put up, it was my son's denial birthday. And I put up a big sign in front of our house on the porch and it said, honk it's Naly's birthday. And all that day everybody was driving by and they would think, oh my God. I love that. Your neighbors probably hated you, but I love that idea. Oh my God, yes. But that was when we lived in Grand Rapids and we were kind of on a busy street, but still, yeah. There was probably a couple of people annoyed. That's all. You know what? It is, it's awesome that, you know, you can recall some of these stories, but man, moms make birthdays. Like Chelsea every single year would always go to that party city and go get like a bajillion balloons. And I know it stressed her out to make sure she had all those and trying to fit them in the car and all that stuff. But you know what? It meant everything to the boys when they would wake up and the whole house would be loaded with them. Yeah. So it's so cool to see this. What's going on? Hi, Kelly. What's up, Kelly? Hey, I can totally really wish Shannon, but I actually come from being a single child. So when I had four kids, I knew exactly, yeah, I was an only child. So when I had kids, I knew that I was gonna go above and beyond for their birthdays, no matter what. See, I thought that an only child would get everything. Like I would think it would be the opposite. Oh, for the top. Yeah. Like I was youngest to six. My brother, he was the middle kid, used to complain all the time. No, not all the time. My mom was a single mom. So it was kind of hard sometimes. So I could have relate to that, but no, when I had the kids, I go above and beyond. And my mom still yells at me about it. She goes, I don't understand why you have to go above and beyond every year. I mean, I'm Hispanic. So when my girls turn 15, they're gonna get a big concern anyway. So fun. I wanna go to a Kingston year up. I always, as a kid, always wanted to A, B, Jewish, because I wanted a bar mitzvah, and B, B, Mexican, so I can have a kinsen year. Can you imagine if you're a Mexican Jewish person? You get both. You're Mexican and Mary. Oh my God. What's up, Ashlee? Hello. Hi. Hi, Mom Ty. Hey, I'm a folk. I'm literally walking around the office right now. But I was calling because of the, definitely going all out for birthdays. One year, I just themed. So there's that. And then one year, I did a circus theme for my... Interesting. She turned, I think she turned five, and I made all of the prize things out of cardboard boxes. I think probably had 42 cuts, but it's fine. And I also dressed up as a clown for her. Oh my God. See this? And I had, I was playing that, like, did it, did it, did it in music, and I came out with the hat. And the crown nose. Yeah, you're gonna get that. And then I have like, there's a little flower and the squirting, like people with water. Let me ask you a question, Ashlee. And I'm trying to, yeah, yeah. Just a quick question, because you sound, how old are you? You're like 30 maybe or something? What are you? You're really good at that, yeah. You sound cute too, by the way. Would you like to come to the party I'm gonna throw for Wes and we'll have you dress up as a clown? So don't. He's definitely, definitely afraid of clowns. Yeah, like, no, Joe. Yes, if we go to any sort of event and there's clowns, he will stand outside for a little bit. I was gonna actually have her do this because I... Oh, yeah, happy clown. I was gonna have, she sounded like she was cute. I was gonna have her be like a sexy clown. I was thinking of her for Wes's party. No, we ain't out. Don't. We never got to have a bachelor party for Wes before he got married. We're gonna double up his bro birthday party or whatever the texture said, but I guess we won't have that. He's afraid of clowns. How about naked clowns? Is he like naked clowns? I don't even think he would like naked clowns. Christina says birthday suck. Why birthday suck, Christina? Well, put it, so my birthday's the day after Christmas. Oh, geez, that's what I'm saying. I get it. Yeah. So... In one year, I walked out in the living room in the middle of the night and I seen my mom taking one of my Christmas presents away because she forgot to get me a birthday present. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. That's terrible. She robs from saying it. Change the wrap. The only good thing about having the day after Christmas as a birthday is your parents got a great discount on all the gifts. They go to the mall the next day and get 50% off on everything, right? But that would suck. Thanks, Christina. Take care.
