J.K. Rowling TRANSPHOBE DRAMA, Motherhood Update, And What I've Been Reading ⧸⧸ The Scoop Is BACK!
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In this episode of The Scoop, I talk about what's been going on in my life since Mr. Baby is 7 months old! I m so excited to be back with you guys and can t wait to catch up with all of you!
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gonna happen every week i'm gonna make some decisions on kind of how often we're going to
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be posting the scoop but this is happening you guys asked for it and it's back if you are new to
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my channel i used to do a series on my channel called the scoop and every week i would talk about
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things going on in my life stuff going on in the news entertainment it was just a way for us to
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catch up enjoy each other's company and i loved hearing what you guys were up to in the comments
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so make sure to leave that down below i absolutely love hearing from you guys and just know i'm always
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reading the comments even if i don't get an opportunity to respond i really truly read
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all the comments so make sure to leave something down below but i'm really excited to be bringing
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the scoop back i'm trying to get into the practice of putting out a little bit more content on my
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channel here now that mr baby is old enough and yeah i think i'm going to start sprinkling in my
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motherhood updates into the scoop rather than separate videos um just because then i can also
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talk about other things but i am so happy to be back we're gonna i'm gonna give you the scoop on
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what's been going on and yeah let's hop into it grab a cup of coffee cup of tea maybe some seltzer
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let's get into it okay let's start off with my motherhood update so i kind of teased that i wanted
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to talk about my motherhood update just like in a video a couple videos ago maybe last video who
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knows when this is going up but yeah and i want to talk about it mr baby is seven months old i like
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legitimately can't believe it it feels like i just had him a day ago and now he's a full grown little
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boy he's the cutest he is so much fun he's got the biggest personality he's a sweetheart everybody loves
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him he is so much fun and he's a snuggle bug which i i love it i just love it and he's really the
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easiest baby i'm so blessed in that way although i will say my friend said something to me that made
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me feel so good because mr baby doesn't really cry when he wakes up from a nap unless he woke up hard
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normally he'll just kind of make noise and then i know that he's in there and i'll go grab him
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so when we were going to a friend's house for lunch he fell asleep in the stroller and we brought him
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into the friend's bedroom and i was checking on him every few minutes because i knew he wouldn't cry
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and i wouldn't know if he was awake so i mentioned that to a friend of mine and and he said something
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to the effect of that's a baby that's well cared for okay i remember exactly what he said when i was
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filming i couldn't bring it to mind but now that i'm editing i remember and what my friend said was
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that's a baby whose needs are being met and me and he kind of explained that it means the baby
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knows that his mom is there so he doesn't need to cry now i'm sure that's not the case with every baby
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but it really made me feel so good because often when you have an easier baby people kind of downplay
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it and they make you feel like oh that's an easy baby you're fine and for someone to give me credit
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in that way was just really really sweet so yeah he's he's really truly the best so he is eating
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solids he's really eating solids like two or three times a day now and he's eating purees mostly i bought
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a book on how to feed your baby and i know there's a lot of stuff on baby led weaning there's a lot of
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things on purees we kind of do mostly purees but some baby led weaning stuff and he just loves food
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for the most part although we have to try all these different techniques to like get him to eat because
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he's very picky about the way he eats so for a while it was only if he could like drink it out of a cup
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and now he wants to eat it from the spoon but then there was a time where he was only eating out
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squeezy pouches it's been a whole process getting to figure out like what and how he will eat um and
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it's different every day but i just started preparing his purees myself rather than buying
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them which i probably should have done from the beginning but i just couldn't wrap my head around
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it and i eventually actually bought a little puree maker which is amazing and i will post it down below
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i'm loving using it it's really fantastic and that's been exciting he's really been liking that
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um he's definitely getting ready to crawl he is on all fours and kind of scooches and then falls down
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but he's really close i think in like the next week or two he's going to be crawling which is
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mind-blowing um he's sitting by himself he falls down still he doesn't have like perfect balance but
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he's really very good at catching himself at this point i just have to be there just in case because
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he could fall and clock himself so he's getting really good at sitting by himself he has two teeth that
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have sprouted up from the bottom right here it is the cutest when he smiles we're doing family photos
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honestly i wanted to do family photos because i know how cute it is when he has those two little
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teeth i just wanted family photos with that big old smile and those two little teeth poking out
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so we're doing family photos actually today which i'm really excited about i hope my hair looks good
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but i'm excited about that and really truly the big news is that mr baby is in the 60th percentile
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for weight huge news okay because if you've been following my channel for a while you know we
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really struggled with acid reflux for him for a long time he dropped from the 63rd percentile when he
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was born down to the ninth percentile by week four because he just was spitting up so much he went on
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acid reflux medication which was amazing he went off at about two months ago now which is crazy to think
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about and he is thriving we figured out all of his breastfeeding stuff he's been eating solids he's
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doing so good he still spits up a lot so i do want to say the spit up doesn't go away but it doesn't
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matter because he's putting on weight and as he was climbing the percentiles for weight we were just
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over the moon because that was what stressed us out so early on so i'm so excited for that but that
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is really the update with mr baby motherhood is as good as ever honestly it only gets better and i i
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love it so much i'm so grateful i've never felt more meaning more fulfillment more purpose my entire
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life view has changed becoming a mom and i should i could talk about that ad nauseam and maybe at some
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point i will just sit down and just share all my thoughts because i've shared a few different videos
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on it but man i've got so many thoughts and feelings about it all now that i'm a mom i got this shirt
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for my birthday my birthday's coming up um it's a sweatshirt and i was gonna wait and wear it a little
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bit later but i wanted to wear it in these videos so i'm wearing it it says mama i've been waiting to get
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this sweatshirt i mentioned it in a video established 2022 i love it so cute so as far as the house we are
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house owners which we've mentioned which is so cool um i i love being a house owner we try to do
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projects ourselves but we've also got a handyman who's really wonderful really nice and he comes
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and helps us sometimes um but we just ordered some furniture so we ordered an outdoor table which we're
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really excited about because we're in florida like how much out of the year are we going to be eating
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outside a lot um and it's a 10 seat table so we can really host and have our my whole family here
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and we can have big big groups over from our community so i'm really really excited about it
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it's being delivered tomorrow so that's exciting and we also ordered a bed which was something that
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we've been wanting to do and we wanted to wait until we got a house so we've had the same bed since
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we got married it was just a cheapy thing we ordered on amazon but this is the first time we're buying a bed
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that's like really beautiful and it's upholstered and it's really amazing and i can't wait so that
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is coming tomorrow also i think so we've got some furniture coming in um the house is coming together
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but it's definitely a process and a project i still need to do a house tour so let me know if you guys
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want to see a house tour in the comments down below if you're a homeowner what advice do you have
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share it i'd love to hear if you have shopped for furniture where did you shop for furniture
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what kind of furniture did you shop for first when you got a house i'd love to hear your thoughts in
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the comments i also wanted to talk about my curly hair journey so i recently talked about how i got
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a haircut and i styled my hair today because we're doing a photo shoot tonight but i really didn't want
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to because this morning when i woke up i washed my hair i only washed my hair twice a week and i washed
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my hair last night i used a moisturizing conditioning mask my hair was straight up curly today that has
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never happened to me i love this hairdresser so much i need to go there and give her a hug because
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i'm so stoked about it but i have to share my my curly hair like hacks because i've got just two products
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that i use that have made a really big difference in my hair and then the conditioner and the shampoo
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that i use which is a new thing so all of these things together these products i feel like have
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really brought out my natural curls plus my haircut so that's been really cool okay so things i've been
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reading i recently got the newest kindle during the last amazon prime day and it is a game changer i love
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reading on this kindle it makes reading a joy and i have all my books at my fingertips which is awesome
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i'm reading some books on homemaking because for next month's book club i want to do a book on
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homemaking um people have been asking about that topic plus for me i'd really like to get good about
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it so i'm reading like three different books right now on it and i'm really excited because i think
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they're really great i love a book that tells me how to home make i love a book that tells me how to do
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really anything i like instruction books so these are really i'm really enjoying them and then we're
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reading treasure island for book club which is a fun adventure book and what's funny is is it keeps
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reminding me of the way that joe march wants to write in little women but then chooses not to
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that's what it feels like to me but um it's a lot of fun and i'm enjoying it so if you aren't already
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subscribed to my book club make sure to subscribe so you can join we're discussing it soon so you
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should definitely sign up last but not least something i saw in the news again was jk rowling
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again so jk rowling has she's the author of harry potter but she's also come out against
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the idea of transgenderism erasing women and womanhood which is awesome if you ask me
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but she's very clear i don't hate transgenders i have transgender friends it's nothing like that
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i just think that men and women are different and that women are being erased
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she's right obviously but of course everyone wants to call her a transphobe including why
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she's up in twitter again in the twitterverse again uh daniel radcliffe the star of harry potter by saying
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that you know i know that trans this book is really important for a lot of trans people
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and it really makes them feel seen because harry was an outsider and they're outsiders and jk rowling
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is just a transphobe okay so let's talk about this idea of transphobe this psychologization right
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the idea that you're afraid of transgenders the people who oppose transgenderism are not afraid of
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transgenders they are morally opposed to it they are saying that it is wrong that it's erasing women
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they're saying that it's used on children and that it's genital mutilation they're not saying
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they're afraid the idea that you have to psychologize this that you have to say that
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people are afraid rather than that they think that something is wrong that something must be wrong with
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them if they're saying it don't let anyone push you into that corner don't let anyone try and tell you
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that you are a transphobe you are not you are morally opposed to something and that is a perfectly
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legitimate reason to stand up against it jk rowling is not wrong and for the people who suffer with
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gender dysphoria it's awful and it's not downplaying that but it's saying that that doesn't mean that
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women and men are now the same because you a man say you're a woman in a man's body you do not have
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a woman's lived experience you are not a woman men and women are different there are biological
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differences between men and women and it is wrong to erase women and say that men are better at being
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women than women are and in any case it's ridiculous that daniel radcliffe is coming out against jk rowling
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when the only reason daniel radcliffe has a career is jk rowling and harry potter is amazing i enjoy it i'm
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sure you enjoy it i can't wait to go to harry potter world at some point very excited about it when it
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happens i also really enjoy the books personally but that's it for today's video i'd love to hear
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