Does your baby need shoes? Great question. We answer this and many other pressing inquiries on the special First Birthday edition of The Rookies. It's been awhile since we podded, so this ep is a great recap of the past seven months.

Sooooo....you'll hear us talk at the beginning about the lost episode (4 Month), which you've probably already heard, and thus figured out that we ended up finding after we recorded this 5 Month episode. So disregard that little detail please. Month 5 covers the normal topics, plus a few very special new segments that we are excited to share and hopefully make part of our episodes going forward. We also have the very special interview with Mike's college roommates Kevin and Adam. They have a particularly interesting point of view because they got a front and center view when we first started dating, all the way through now to our parenthood. Hopefully other people will enjoy this interview as much as we did. See you next month (we promise!)

So, here's the deal. This episode, recorded just before Halloween, was thought to be the great LOST episode of the Rookies. Right after editing, I uploaded the podcast only to find the entire episode was blank. Literally 45 minutes of nothing. No sound. So we got discouraged, took some time off, and forgot about what we did. Turns out, I FOUND THE LOST FILE. So please enjoy. PS I was too lazy to edit in music.

We celebrate Colin's 2 month anniversary of being alive with talk of drive thrus, meteorologists, things you don't want your in-laws to know you did last weekend, smiles, whether or not Colin speaks a foreign language, and plenty of other banter. Easily the best episode of The Rookies yet.

In this episode of The Rookies, we recount the highlights of the first 6 weeks of being parents. If you've been dying to know about Mike's music choices for the podcast, this is the episode for you. Mike realizes that sometimes the music choice can send the wrong message. We discuss lots of updates covering topics from doctors, to footprints, to pooping, to crying over spilled milk.

Ok. We have a baby. We're home. Now what the heck do we do with him? Are we allowed to take him to Chipotle? Does he even like us yet?What the heck are we going to do when it gets dark out?

We labored. We birthed. We're Parents now. On this episode of The Rookies. we cover the birth of our first son, Colin.

In Episode 2, "Padsicles and Puppy Pads," we discuss our final preparations for parenthood. The bags are packed. The doctor's appointments are completed. The final preparations have been made. Hear us in our final episode before we become parents. Oh boy.

Before you begin your journey with us as we begin our journey with parenthood, get to know the two folks behind the microphones.

In our first episode, we touch on the many joys of pregnancy.