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I'm waiting for the dust to settle. Okay so you had a new child on Friday Thursday Friday

morning. How we feeling? Good. Thank you. So when we had Kobe in February 2017,

I think it probably, it took me a while

to get there emotionally, something that I was told

that dads are not told.

And obviously it's different for everybody, so I don't want to speak too

broadly but for me personally it took a few months for me to develop like the emotional

connection with him for mothers it's instantaneous for obvious reasons but with Logan the new baby it was a very different emotional

reaction that I felt immediately tears everywhere because I know what it's

going to turn into.

So it was definitely different for me.

That is one of the good parts about the second time around is you know what to expect a little bit.

There was so much in that first time where you're just, you're totally blind.

We spoke about this and maybe I

blocked it out but it was funny because Robin's like oh I can't believe we have to

wake up every three hours and I was like oh my god I forgot about that. So we went to sleep on

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