Hello, everyone. Welcome to Why Mommy Drinks. This is Betsy Stover. I am so excited to be here with you today. I've missed you.

And with me is my guest co-host today, Alicia Gattis. Yay, fireworks glitter. She just put off a bunch of fireworks. It was crazy. There was fireworks and glitter. It was amazing.

I did. I'm so glad to see you. I'm so glad to be here. And we are also joined by a stand-up comedian, Alice Chan.

This lady is hilarious. I watched her bits before we came and they are good. All the bits. Just Alice, you're hilarious and smart and obviously apparent. So it's going well.

Yes, obviously I am apparent. And this is how I have so much content. Thank you for having me. Thank you very much.

So I have three kids. They're all boys. I have a six-year-old. I have a 10-year-old as of yesterday. And an 11-year-old. So six, 10, and 11. Alicia, what you got?

Oh gosh. I have a six-year-old as well. Six and a half. She will gladly tell you. And an 18-year-old about to graduate high school.

Oh, so a kindergartener and a high schooler about to graduate. That's great. You have a built-in babysitter. I have two boys. One is five and the other one is eight.

Oh, perfect. Two boys. Alice, hello. I see you as a boy, Mom. I see you.

It's a whole, it's a whole different ball game. It's a whole thing literally. It is. It's a different ball game. It's, um, which is not to say that, uh, having girls is not hard. It's just a different ball.

Yeah. I don't know if I could deal with a girl that's older than two because I think that's when they start like really being articulate about everything from what they want to wear to how they feel.

They've got, um, I can't deal with emotions. I think it's the boy who just like, they let me dress them still. That's easy, right?

Yeah, more or are pretty pain free. Yeah. I like that perspective. I've never really thought about it. I mean, I thought I'd be like, yeah, boy, like, I like that you look towards the ease of it.

Because you're right. Like, being a girl, Mom, being like in that way is like, uh, there's a lot of articulation and we are a house full of emotions.

And my husband's, I was like, do we have to talk about everything so intensely? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, we do. Do you want to talk about why you said that to me?

Do you want to know?

From five years ago, can we pick apart that conversation? We're ready to talk about that.

I can't even imagine then if I had girls because I feel like our house is already so like loud and emotional. Maybe it's because my 11 year old, as I like to say, is emotionally dynamic.

Uh, but, uh, you know, so maybe that's part of it. He's just, I got all the, the, the girl emotion with that one.

I'll wrap it in everything.

Oh, geez.

Everything.

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