Hey everyone, it's Dylan Dreyer from the Today Show. Excuse my voice today. Spring allergies are in full swing and I am definitely feeling it. I'm so excited though to let you hear a little bit of my new podcast. It's called The Parent Chat. It's a judgment-free zone where I get to talk with other parents and friends about the wild, wonderful and yes, messy world of parenting. You're about to hear the first few minutes of

my conversation with Aaron Andrews on the roller coaster journey to motherhood. I hope you enjoy it.

It's so great to talk to you. I feel like also being a mom in this world of social media,

where you're working, you're traveling, you're trying to do it all. And somehow you do figure out how to do

most of it all, right? But what is the best part to you of being a mom to Mack? Well, it's amazing

you said all those things because what I'm trying to work on with myself is not think how much of a

failure I am. And I've heard from multiple women, this is going to happen forever.

He just started saying, mommy. It went from, Mama, Mama, to Mommy, Mommy, and that gets me.

And I didn't think I would be such a softy, Dylan. But yeah. I'm not a softie either. Oh, my gosh.

It takes a lot to make me cry. I'm not an emotional person. But when it comes to my kids, all of a sudden, this just these different emotions just hit you. Every single day, everything they do. He's really big into like he loves when he wakes up in the morning and after we get him already, he loves to run to the TV and he lays there like a slug as they say in a Christmas story. He lays there, and he wants you to tickle him. And then I do the he and he starts laughing. And he's like, Mommy, Mommy! And then I stop, and then he points because he's like, do it again. He knows, yeah. It's a crazy age, too, but it's also really, really fun when people say they can react and interact with you.

I notice I get emotional when I think about, oh, when Calvin was a little baby and I loved when he was that age, but like I love him at this age now.

Like you think you're going to miss where they were before, but every day just gets better and better.

Yeah, it does. Although a lot of people said to me, when he hits two, you're going to know. And holy cow, I did. Whoa, baby. And it just

came like a tornado. I know. It's like a defiance. You know, they're testing those boundaries. They're

kind of pushing your limits. Looking at you when they do it. They know exactly what they're doing. And for me, there have been

times where Oliver needed to eat a green bean, right? And he, I don't really care that much if you eat

this green beans. I don't really love green beans either. But I made the statement, you can't leave the

table until you eat that green bean.

And now I have to stick to it because otherwise everybody says if you pull back, they're going to

know that they could take advantage of you. I mean, so what kind of... So I'm going to ask you the

questions. Welcome to my podcast. What do you do? You said eat the green bean, screaming ensues,

and we're in our own home, so it's okay. What are we doing now?

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