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Dec. 31, 1998 - Bill Cooper
02:00:06
New Year's Eve
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Light of the world, light of the world, light of the world, light of the world, light of
the world, light of the world, light of the world, light of the world, light of the world,
You're listening to the Hour of the Tom.
I'm William Cooper.
Sorry we signed on late tonight, folks, but we're all fried around here.
And I mean fried.
I forgot to turn on a key piece of equipment.
And in just a few moments, you're going to find out why.
Oh, my baby, oh, my darling, you're my heaven and my earth.
Oh, you're the light of my life.
Oh, baby, you're my heaven and my earth.
Oh, baby, you're my heaven and my earth.
I will love you forever. I will love you forever.
All day long. All day long.
I will love you forever.
Forever and ever.
Forever and ever.
Well, folks, I really don't know where to begin.
But, as in all good stories, I must begin once upon a time.
Once upon a time in the West, as a matter of fact.
Now, I don't... There we go.
Yesterday, I was busy.
Defragmenting hard drives and loading new fax and answering mailbox program, all that kind of stuff.
And Annie had gone to show Lo and Taylor to get the mail with Pooh.
And she came back and didn't say anything, and I just kept on working.
And then, lo and behold, about two hours before broadcast time, And he came in and said her stomach was hurting a little bit.
And I noticed that she was going up and down the stairs.
She'd go down to the kitchen, and then she'd come up to the mid-level.
We have a tri-level.
And then she'd go into the bedroom, and then I'd see her go back, and then she'd go down the stairs.
And I thought, you know, are you trying out for the Olympics in Atlanta or what?
And she said, no, I just don't feel good.
I don't want to sit still.
So she disappeared for a little while, came back and said she wanted to go to the doctor.
So I said, fine, and I've been through this before, so I told her to go pack her little bag and lay down on the bed and stay there for a little while and we'll see what happens.
Well, she kept going up and down the stairs again, and I finally made her go lay down And then, pretty soon, she said she had to go.
And then, then was when she told me that a major indication that a baby was going to be born happened in Taylor.
Way earlier that afternoon, her water broke.
And she was in the process of, at that time, telling me that she was having contractions Every five minutes.
Here it is, almost broadcast time.
And I had to hurriedly call Gary Bourgeois, who, by the way, folks, we owe a great round of applause because he's the one who takes care of our reruns when I can't be here.
And I want to especially thank him yesterday on such short notice that he did a rerun broadcast.
I apologize that it wasn't A more, less played rerun, but this was totally unexpected.
I mean, it wasn't unexpected, but it was unexpected, if you understand what I mean.
So it's 50 miles to the hospital on winding country mountain roads.
And of course, every police car in Arizona has a radar.
So I hooked up the ECM, the electronic countermeasures, and loaded Annie and Poo into the Bronco.
She's having contractions every five minutes and Poo looks like she's seen a ghost and
doesn't really understand what's going on.
Even though we had bought her a book explaining pregnancy and babies and all that kind of
stuff and I had read it to her and with her and she'd ask questions and we talked about
the questions and the answers and I thought she understood but she didn't really.
So that will be a little obvious a little later.
So Annie's in the Bronco and has a reclining seat on that side, but she doesn't want to put the seat down and recline.
She's got a seat belt around her and a shoulder strap and a womb full of baby And I knew she wasn't comfortable.
There wasn't really much I could do about it.
I had my hands full on the road.
And by the way, folks, at this time of year, it's not unusual to find big, giant, 2,000 pound elk standing right in the middle of the highway.
Or deer crossing.
And occasionally, even a whole herd of antelope.
So, I had to be very careful.
It was twilight.
So difficult to see things in twilight, and I was trying to exceed the limit, so to speak, without getting caught, knowing that if I didn't make it to that hospital, and she was already having contractions five minutes apart, that it's possible that that baby was going to be born on that road.
And the last time I helped give birth to a baby was in Vietnam many, many years ago, and to tell you the truth, I don't even remember what I did.
So we raced down the highway and ran into a whole convoy of highway repair, highway construction equipment.
You know, the ones that lay down the tar stuff and spread it and they creep like one half mile an hour.
It wasn't just one or two.
It was a whole long line of these things.
Now this, needless to say, made me a little nervous.
That made Annie a lot nervous.
And Pooh was trying to talk to Annie and tell her how much she loved her and she knew Annie was in pain and every once in a while Annie would yell out a few yelps like a wolf howling at the moon and poor Pooh would be beside herself wanting to comfort her mother and not really even knowing what was wrong.
And her mother, of course, at times, being in the condition she was, would snap at both of us.
Leave me alone!
Drive faster!
Oh, it hurts!
You know, that kind of stuff.
And it's not funny.
I mean, it wasn't funny to her at all.
It's kind of funny looking back on it for all of us, but at the time it wasn't funny.
And Pooh was beside herself.
And I'm trying to explain to Pooh what's going on and how her mother feels and where we're going while I'm driving and hoping not to come across an elk in the road or a deer or a herd of deer.
And then I had to pass this long line of highway construction equipment in the twilight, not knowing if there was some fool in the other lane coming toward me with no lights on in one of these sort of gray cars that you can't see during twilight.
And as we began to get closer to the hospital, her contractions began to get closer together until it wasn't five minutes apart, it was more like two minutes apart.
And I began to get very, very nervous.
And I and Annie and Boo, all of us, were extremely happy to get to that hospital.
And nothing had transpired up to that point except an awful lot of sweat and nervousness and screaming and yelling and all kinds of things.
But we got there and we got her in.
Went right into the room and they stripped her down and put her in the bed and put all kinds of wires and tubes and microphones and stuff on her and then it began to Become clear to everybody what was happening and just how far along it was, because right there on that monitor right in front of me was the baby's heartbeat.
And it was wonderful.
And then he was on the bed and the contractions were coming faster and faster and faster.
And the nurse looked up at me and she said, I need to examine her cervix.
She'd gone to the doctor yesterday.
He told her that he would check her dilation next week.
Little did he know, if he'd have checked her yesterday, we wouldn't have been up against the wall like we were.
But we were up against the wall because I took Poo out of the hallway.
Boo and I played Toss the Teddy Bear for a few minutes.
The nurse came out and said, she's going to deliver any second.
Would you help me wheel her bed into the delivery room?
So I did.
No sooner did we get into the delivery room and get her transferred over to the delivery table, I guess it's called, and get her legs in those weird things that she wouldn't catch me dead with my legs in them.
The doctor walked in and took one look, and he started bearing down.
And let me backtrack a little bit.
You see, when Pooh was born, this all really took us by surprise, because when Pooh was born, folks, Annie was in labor for twelve hours.
And it was just as excruciating for me as it was for her.
And there were times during that 12 hours where I swear I felt exactly what she felt.
And so last night was a big shock.
I mean we were expecting not as long because I've talked to many women who've given several births and they say that the second time isn't as hard or as long.
But I didn't expect it to be like wham bam thank you ma'am it's all over.
And neither did Annie but she was thankful for that.
But I'll tell you, I think Annie suffered a little more pain this time than she did with Boo.
I mean, the screams were primal.
They came from somewhere that I can't touch.
And so it touched me deeply.
And at one point, she took a deep breath and bore down and pushed, and then when she let out this breath, it's just this primal scream came out.
And in the scream, she said, Oh, honey, I'm hurt.
And I gotta tell you folks, something primal in me let loose.
I mean, I could feel the adrenaline rushing and I was ready to fight.
I wanted to kill somebody to stop her from being hurt.
And I don't know where that comes from, but I think it's in all of us.
And I had to really hold that back because I think that's the instinct in men that has been bred over the centuries to protect our women.
And boy, there it was, welling up in me.
And all of a sudden, Annie became superwoman.
She almost broke my arm a couple of times.
And of course, she was holding my hands, and I was holding her hands, and trying to help her with her breathing.
And the next thing I knew, my arms were in positions that I never thought they could be in.
And of course, she didn't even realize she was doing it.
And then I saw the baby's head.
And I knew that it was almost over.
And at 8.36, last night, 8.36 p.m., our second daughter was born, and Annie was able to lay
back and breathe deeply and slowly, and a smile came over her face.
The doctor did all the necessary things that he has to do, and took the baby over and put
it in the bassinet.
And in the meantime, Poo had come to the delivery room with us, just followed the bed right
in there.
I mean, this is the craziest hospital I ever saw, because when Poo was born, they made
me put on all kinds of weird things and scrub and put on a mask and a thing over my head
and booties over my shoes and told me I could do this and couldn't do that, stand here and
don't stand there.
Thank you.
This hospital, nobody said anything to anybody at any time.
You didn't have to put anything on or take anything off or stand anywhere.
I mean, I could have done anything I wanted, which is a big difference between big city hospitals and rural hospitals.
And it was wonderful.
So Pooh got to see a little bit of the beginnings of the birth of her little sister.
And I think that after the explanation in the car while we were on the way to the hospital and all of that stuff, I think she was deeply impressed and has a better understanding of what life's all about now than she did before.
And at some point, one of the nurses took her by the hand and took her down and bought her a Coke and set her in the chair.
Poo sat there and cried for her mother for a little bit, because, as she told me later, she wanted to make her mother not hurt.
Poo is a good little girl.
She's always been a good little girl.
And then, after the baby was born, Poo came down, all by herself, pushed open the delivery room door, and came in to look at her little newborn baby sister.
And Pooh and I, because her mother had not been able to pick a name, had picked Allison Dovey Cooper.
Allison because Annie had expressed at some time within the last week that she liked that name.
And Dovey because that's my mother's name.
and Pooh chose the spelling. She liked it with a Y. So her name is A-L-L-Y-S-O-N Allison
Dovey Cooper. And Pooh stayed in the delivery room. After that, right up until the time
that we all helped take Mom down to her room where she could sleep for the night. Now,
when they put the baby in the bassinet in the delivery room after the baby had been
born, the baby began to cry and wail and scream bloody murder.
And she just turned beet red all over and clenched her little fist just as hard as she could.
And I knew that she needed somebody to hold her.
That was very clear to me, and everybody was so busy that finally I asked the nurse if she could get the baby, and she did.
She brought the baby over, and folks, I held that baby in my arms, and she stopped crying instantly and just Opened her eyes, and I know that babies can't see at that point, but they'd already washed out her eyes, and she opened them up, and had the biggest, beautiful brown eyes, and just appeared to be looking at me, but I know, I'm not deluding myself, I know that she couldn't see a thing.
I know that she could hear my voice, though, and Pooh and I had spent many hours talking to her through her mommy's tummy before she was born.
When I began to talk to her, she just soothed right down.
And I knew.
Well, I don't know where that came from.
I wonder if anybody does.
Well, I don't know where that came from. I wonder if anybody does. Let me just check
what I've got here. Because I don't even know what's...
Come on. Anyway, I held that little baby and she was just wrapped in a little blanket, I guess
it was.
And I held her for a long time.
Quite a long time, as a matter of fact.
And, uh... As I said, she loved it.
She loved every single second of it.
She loved to be rocked.
She just settled right in.
Sort of, uh...
Went to sleep, if you will.
But she really wasn't asleep, and then I held her down so that Pooh could see her little baby sister.
And Pooh began to talk to her, and she opened her eyes, and it looked just exactly like she was looking at Pooh.
It's the most incredible thing I've ever seen.
It was like she knew who we were.
And maybe she did, because of all the hours that we did spend talking to her through her mommy's tummy.
And so she was very comfortable with us.
She wasn't as comfortable with the nurse or with the doctor.
In fact, she didn't like that doctor at all after he had done what he had to do.
And then I stood back up with Allison and talked to her some more.
And this, folks, is what she said to me.
Ah, ah, ah.
Ah, ah, ah.
While tearing off a game of golf, I may make a play for the catty.
But when I do, I don't follow through, cause my heart belongs to daddy.
If I invite a boy from night to dine on my fine fillin' hatty, I just don't know what he's asking for more, but my heart belongs to Daddy.
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy.
So I simply couldn't be bad.
Yes, my heart belongs to Daddy.
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dad.
So I want to warn you, laddie.
Though I know that you're perfectly well.
That my heart belongs to Daddy.
Cause my daddy, he treats it so.
And that's the way that an I had to give her back to the nurse.
I didn't want to.
I wanted to take her home, but of course I couldn't do that.
Manny couldn't go home anyway.
So the baby went back in the bassinet, and the bassinet disappeared to the nursery.
For the baby to be all cleaned off and weighed seven pounds, one ounce.
And I forget how long she was.
But to a big man like me, she's not very long.
I don't care how long she is.
She's just a little bitty, bitty, tiny, tiny little baby.
And I just love her dearly.
I loved her before she was born.
And I'll love her Until the day I die, or the day she dies, and beyond, anyway.
So it really doesn't make any difference.
Now, Annie, everybody disappeared because all of a sudden we began to hear some screams from other parts of this place, and everybody, the doctor, the nurses, everybody disappeared.
And there's Annie still laying on this table, and not very comfortable.
And not finished.
And everybody disappeared.
And there's Pooh now, and I'm trying to keep Pooh entertained and talk to her and tell her what's going on.
And Annie doesn't feel too good.
I've got to tell you that.
She felt a lot better than she did when she was giving birth, but she didn't feel too good at all.
And she wanted some water in the worst kind of way.
I finally got her some ice water.
She did the first thing that you're never supposed to do when you've gone through tremendous physical effort and you're real thirsty and real tired.
She wolfed down a half of a big giant cup, and I don't mean cup like a cup of coffee, I mean big giant like you know these Super Wham-O, Whopper Deals, you get at Circle K or places.
It looked like one of those big giant cups that they brought her of ice water.
Well, she sucked down about half of that before you could even blink an eye.
And Boo and I played Toss the Teddy Bear and Talk to Mommy and Hold Her Hand.
And explain what happened and all that kind of stuff until people began to come back.
And then got Annie all finished and cleaned up and ready to go.
And we helped her off the table and into a wheelchair.
And that's when drinking that much water all of a sudden produced the inevitable result that all men who have ever performed hard labor in the sun and then have done the same thing, have discovered it all comes right back up.
And that's what happened.
So we spent a while sort of getting Annie back to normal and cleaned up from that little episode, and then down to the room she went.
Well, by this time it was pretty late at night, and actually it was about ten minutes till ten.
And I believe that he announced the birth of our new baby girl at the end of the broadcast last night, for those of you who weren't listening.
And for those of you who called today to congratulate us, I'm sorry we weren't home.
Pooh and I will tell you the rest of the story in a moment, but we weren't here, as you all discovered when you called.
And I want to thank those of you who sent flowers.
Wish us well and thank Anthony Hilder and Daphne who called and left a wonderful message on the machine.
I couldn't believe it.
They sang a duet together and it really sounded good.
In fact, it sounded so good I couldn't figure out who this was for a few minutes.
It was Anthony J. Hilder and Daphne, his girlfriend.
And it was wonderful.
And thanks Swiss America Trading for the flowers that you sent, and Allison's first little stuffed toy, which is a little stuffed pink pig, and I bet she'll love it, and it'll probably be her favorite forever.
So to everybody at Swiss America, thank you dearly for that.
Well, after we got Mom to her room where she could get into bed and relax for a while and not have to meet anybody's expectations of anything, and all her tests were done and everything, it was late.
And I still had to feed Pooh, because we hadn't eaten anything.
And whether or not I was hungry, I had this little five-year-old girl.
Who had just been going like a lightning ball all day, and I knew that she needed to be fed.
So we said our goodbyes to Mom, and Pooh and I walked out in the parking lot and got the Bronco, and then we sat there and just talked for a little bit, because I wanted to make sure that she was OK with all of this, and there wasn't any trauma that was going to come up later.
Because really, I was really surprised, folks, that she could just go anywhere she wanted.
And she did.
Because we were all busy with other things, and nobody was really watching her.
Although I'm sure all the nurses were sort of keeping an eye on her, and if she'd have gotten in any trouble, they would have, you know, helped her out.
Whatever.
But this is a different kind of a place where we live.
It's one of the most beautiful places in this world.
And people here are more real people.
It's more like it used to be in other places in the country and is no more.
It's one of the reasons that I moved here.
This is like America used to be.
Everywhere, but it is only like this in some places like this across this country now.
And you'll learn a little bit more about that later in this story, because it's surprising.
So, Poole and I sat there and talked, and that's when I heard that the nurse took her down and put her in the little waiting room and gave her a Coke.
Actually, it wasn't a Coke.
It was a Nestle's Grape, is what it was.
She told me how she had cried for her mommy because she didn't want her mommy to hurt so bad.
So we just talked, and I just asked her questions, and talked to her, and explained things to her, and she asked me questions.
When she felt pretty good about all that, and I figured that it was all okay, and she was really happy with her baby sister, then we set off to get some chow, and some food, some stuff in the belly.
And there were some restaurants along the way.
But I don't know if any of them were open.
I know that we passed at Jack in the Box and McDonald's and even Pooh won't eat at McDonald's in this family.
We hate that place.
Two places we'll never eat.
That's McDonald's and Burger King.
Anyplace else is fair game.
But we passed at Jack in the Box and all kinds.
But Pooh didn't want to eat in any of those places.
She didn't even want to stop and check and see if a restaurant was open.
She wanted to go to the Sonic Drive-In.
And she really likes the Sonic Drive-In, and so do I. But I didn't suggest that.
That was her idea, and that's where she wanted to go.
See, we have a 58 Chevy, and the Sonic Drive-In kind of takes you back to the 50s, so every once in a while, I'd take her and her mom to the Sonic Drive-In and the 58 Chevy, and that just carried over into liking to go there all the time.
It's kind of like the old A&W Root Beer.
They have real good hamburgers, not junky hamburgers, but good hamburgers, and good drinks, and limeade made from real limes, and stuff like that, you know, not limeade made from something that tastes almost like Kool-Aid, but not as good.
So we went to the Sonic Drive-In, and Pooh ordered a hamburger and some fries and a Diet Coke, which turned out to be a Pepsi because they didn't sell Coke.
And I had a limeade and a steak sandwich and some onion rings.
And then we sat and talked some more.
Talked quite a bit, in fact.
Pooh and I talked probably last night as much as we've ever talked.
Talked a lot.
And, you know, Pooh and I have been friends from the day she was born.
Because when she was born, she was having some problems and she wasn't too happy for about a week or two.
And she had some digestion problems and so I would go to work in the morning and Annie would be with her all day and she'd clean the house and all that kind of stuff.
And when I got home in the evening I would sort of rest a little bit until it was time for Annie to go to bed and then I would stay up with Pooh all night.
And I mean all night.
Staying to her and hold her and rock her.
And we got to be best pals during that time.
And we've been best pals ever since.
And anybody that's ever seen us together will tell you that.
I mean, we're just good friends and always will be, and I hope that Allison and I can develop that kind of relationship also.
And I'm sure that we will.
And then it came time to drive home.
By that time it was really late.
I mean, really late.
And we had to get up this morning and then go and get Annie.
So we drove home, and being as it was so late and we were so tired, and I mean really tired, folks, really tired, and there was a possibility that there would be elk or deer or antelope on the road, and we did the speed limit exactly.
And Pooh was so tired and so sleepy and she just couldn't keep her eyes open, even though I'd asked her to help me keep an eye out for the animals.
At one point, she said, Poppy, I just can't keep my eyes open.
I'm just so sleepy.
I said, Are you going to help me watch for elk?
I just can't keep my eyes open.
And then that's the last I heard from her until we got home.
We live a long way from the hospital.
When we got home, I woke her up and we went inside.
Pooh went right to bed, and I tucked her in.
And then I made a couple of calls.
And I went to bed about thirty minutes later.
Out like a light.
Until about sometime around two in the morning when Sugar Bear began to bark.
He's a wonderful watchdog, and when he barks, you must pay attention.
Because he didn't just bark for nothing.
He's not one of these dogs that just barks.
He only barks if something's wrong.
So I got up at about two in the morning, and by golly, there were two cars up here where they're not supposed to be.
And they were police cars, and that made my heart race a little bit, because I had no idea what they were doing up here.
And I watched them for a little while, for about an hour, I guess, until I figured that they were on a stakeout on the houses below us, which they've done in the past.
And then, at a certain point, they both Turn on the lights and racing down the hill and spotlights all over the place so I know that somebody had reported a burglar down in the town off the mountain from where we were and they were just using that spot to do some reconnaissance, I guess.
Anyway, so that took about an hour and a half out of the night.
I went back to sleep and woke up this morning and by golly you really miss Annie when she's not around and you got a five year old girl to get ready to go because Pooh wanted a ponytail and try as I might I couldn't make a ponytail that didn't look funny and so we didn't have a ponytail this morning and Pooh couldn't find her socks and couldn't go to the hospital unless she had some socks so we We finally found her some red socks, and one of them had a big hole in it.
She was uncomfortable for a while, and she finally said, I'm used to the hole, Poppy.
We can go now.
So we did.
Oh, and she couldn't find any toothpaste, because her mother had taken the toothpaste to the hospital.
So we finally found some toothpaste and got her teeth brushed, and my teeth brushed, and off we went.
Driving to the hospital, and Annie is expecting us there early.
The nurses and doctors are expecting us there early.
And we get to the park where the night before we had passed this long convoy of road construction equipment.
Well, folks, they were back.
They were back with a vengeance and they were all over the place and the road was blocked and they had this guy out there with a red flag and a stop sign and they say, you can't go.
So how long is it going to be?
Oh, maybe 15 or 20 minutes or maybe 30 minutes.
Oh boy.
So Pooh and I sat there and talked about the baby, and about the night before, and about what we were going to do that day, and how nice it was going to be to get the baby home, and Pooh wanted to know how to hold the baby, and all of that kind of stuff.
That's what we talked about.
But it wasn't just 15 minutes.
And it wasn't just 20 minutes.
And it wasn't just 30 minutes.
And I was getting ready to pull all my press credentials out and slap that card up there in front of the windshield.
And put that Bronco in four-wheel drive and take down the shoulder.
When all of a sudden, out of nowhere, comes this follow-me truck.
And they let us all go.
And so we got there late.
And of course, Annie wanted to know why we were there late.
As if, you know, we weren't occupied with anything.
So we had to explain why we were late.
We went down to see the baby in the nursery, and they told us that Annie could go home, but the baby couldn't.
I said, whoa.
You know, I start feeling this adrenaline again.
Uh-uh.
No, no, no.
You're messing with my family.
What do you mean my baby can't go home?
And she had an elevated white blood cell count.
Something else.
I forget what it was.
I knew perfectly well what it was this morning, and I knew perfectly well what it was before I started this broadcast, and now it's just disappeared right out of my brain cells.
And I'm still very tired.
I haven't had any sleep today.
And about the only one that's had any rest, and the one that needs it most, of course, is Annie.
And she should have a lot of rest.
But anyway, the gist of the thing was, is we had to wait around till 11 o'clock to find these tests that came
through to see if we could take Allison home.
Thank you.
And if everything wasn't really right, I didn't really want to take her home.
But if we could, I did want to take her home.
I don't know if you understand what I'm talking about.
I wanted to take my baby home.
But I didn't want to take her home if taking her home was going to endanger her in any way.
So we waited until 11 o'clock.
And eleven o'clock became twelve o'clock, and finally we began to ask questions, and they brought all this paperwork in for us to do.
And one of the indications, folks, that this is still like America used to be, they gave me all this paperwork, which I told them to take and stuff it, you know, where the sun don't shine, but not in those words.
It was very nice, because these are very nice people.
They're all nurses and doctors who are just doing what other people tell them to do.
But very nicely, I told them to take this stuff and stick it where the sun don't shine.
We don't give social security numbers.
We don't fill this stuff out.
We don't sign birth certificates.
We don't do these things.
We don't dance.
And you know what?
Nobody batted an eyebrow.
Nobody cared.
One of the nurses says, Oh, you don't pay any taxes, do you?
I said, I pay all legal and lawful taxes, which I am required to pay.
But I am not a taxpayer.
And she just smiled.
The other nurse says, well, is this the, you know, when I gave her some papers that she wanted me to sign and stuff, and I said, well, we don't, we don't do these things.
And she said, is that your personal preference, or is there some other reason?
I said, well, I've done a lot of study on these subjects, and we don't sign these things.
She said, okay, and left.
And I love it.
So, the baby stayed because the white blood cell count had actually elevated, gone up quite a bit.
So, what that means, basically, is she's either been exposed to an infection in utero, or utera, or however that's pronounced, in uterine, before she was born.
She has some kind of small infection, which could be a large infection if it's not treated properly.
So we left her there to have it treated properly, and we'll go back again tomorrow.
Whether she's ready to go or not makes no difference.
I'm going back bright and early tomorrow morning to see my little daughter and hold her and tell her that I love her so she's assured that she's not alone in this world.
And I saw the nurses there who were very, very nice ladies, and they were holding the babies and talking to them and treating them very well.
So when we left, we had ordered a crib from J.C.
Penney, and they had promised that it would be here last week, ladies and gentlemen.
But the girl who took Annie's order neglected to put it into the computer, so the crib will not be here until Tuesday.
So when we left the hospital with Annie, we went down to the flower shop where I had already ordered a beautiful bouquet of roses specially done just for her.
And because we have to drive so far back home in Arizona, I had them put these little glass vials of water and some kind of special thing in there that keeps them fresh for the trip home.
And then I had to go find something for the baby to sleep in until Tuesday.
Because I'm not the kind of father that just pulls out a drawer and throws his baby in the drawer.
I don't do that.
This is my daughter.
You've got to understand this is my little child.
So I had to have something nice.
At least a picnic basket.
Something.
And actually I bought her a beautiful bassinet.
So she'll be sleeping in that bassinet when she comes home, hopefully tomorrow.
If it's not tomorrow, it will be very soon.
And I'm just as pleased as Punch.
Pooh is just as happy as can be.
In fact, about three hours ago, Pooh came down and said, I want to give Allison a present.
And I thought that was really nice.
So Poo disappeared into her bedroom.
Then she came back and she said, what kind of present can I give her?
And I told her it had to be something very small, but bigger than her mouth, because babies put everything in their mouth and you can't have anything that will fit in their mouth.
And it had to be soft and cuddly and something that she would really feel good touching.
Because that's what babies do.
For a while they just touch, you know?
And mostly, they want to put something in their mouth.
And it's usually a nipple or a bottle, and that's all they care about for a while.
Well, Pooh disappeared into her room and dug into just about every box and corner and hole that she's got in that room and came out with this cute little stuffed animal that was just perfect.
And she was so proud of herself, and she went over and put that in Allison's bassinet alongside The pig that came from Swiss America.
So Allison now has two little stuffed toys.
And I spent the rest of the evening getting ready for this broadcast.
And you know, this broadcast was so important to me to talk about this and tell everybody out there who's wanted to know when Annie has the baby and all about it.
And I was so rattle-brained and so tired and really excited and a little disappointed that my baby is not here, that I forgot to turn on one of the key pieces of equipment that lets the broadcast out of here to go to where you are.
So you had some dead air time at the beginning, and, of course, that's the way it goes, moving She is a beautiful little girl.
Big, fat, chubby cheeks.
In fact, she looks just like Pooh did when she was born.
So, who knows what she's going to turn out looking like.
Pooh had a fat head, fat cheeks, puffy eyes, and a little flat nose, and a lot of black hair on her head.
And she just, you know, looked like babies look like.
They all look cute and pretty and cuddly, and especially if they're yours, they're just beautiful.
And that's all there is to it.
But, you know, in the first week they changed an awful lot.
At least Pooh did.
And I think most of them did.
There's a lot of trauma in being born.
And there's a lot of baby fat that comes off because you're not fed as steadily or in the same way that a baby is fed by its mother in the womb.
So, the first two weeks, there's a big adjustment there in the body, and the swelling goes down from the birth trauma and all that kind of stuff, and the baby actually changes color.
She's changed color.
From last night to this morning, quite dramatically as a matter of fact.
Last night she was beet red and almost purple and her nose was blue.
This morning she looked just like a normal pink baby should with all the normal color and no more purple and blue.
And no more beet red.
And of course they Put their little hands in like little, I don't know what you call them, mittens.
Mittens, I guess.
Because baby's fingernails, folks, are sharper than knives.
And she had already scratched her cheek, so.
She had on these little mittens.
Which Pooh thought was kind of funny and always wanted to see the baby's fingers and then put the mittens back on and see the baby's fingers.
We spent a few hours with that baby this morning, and I spent the most time with her, I guess, holding her and rocking her and talking to her.
Pooh can't wait to hold her, but of course she hasn't been able to do that yet.
It's just a little too soon, and I want her to get used to it and sit down on the couch and have me right beside her and Annie right beside her so that we can make sure she's holding her real good.
I think that will just tickle Pooh Pink.
By the way, her real name's not Pooh.
It's Dorothy Marie Cooper.
And for a while, a couple of weeks ago, it wasn't Pooh.
She said she didn't like that name anymore.
She wanted to be called Dorothy.
And then, back to Pooh.
So I guess we'll call Allison Alley.
And I hope that I have told you this story in a good way, and I hope all of those of you who have asked over and over again about Annie's pregnancy and about the new baby, I hope that this satisfies all of that curiosity and delivers to you the best of the best of the last two days. And we'll keep you posted on how the
baby's doing and all that kind of stuff. I know she's going to be fine. She just looks as
healthy as can be to me. She doesn't look like anything's wrong with her. And she doesn't
act like anything's wrong with her. And I think it's just a normal body immunological
reaction to all the stuff that she's been through. But we'll find out tomorrow morning.
And of course, I can't let you know tomorrow night or Sunday night, but I'll certainly let you
know Monday night, how all that goes.
I wanted to get Annie on the radio, but as usual, Annie won't come near this microphone and probably will never come near it for the rest of her life.
I don't know, but that's her choice.
And Pooh, maybe if she wants to, will tell you about her experiences.
In all of this on Monday night.
But that's up to her, too.
If she doesn't want to do it, then you're not going to hear from her, because we don't make people do anything around here unless it's a matter of something that's important, and only then in a good way.
And that's why our daughter is such a good little girl, is because when she needs it, she gets the discipline that's required.
Never heavy-handed.
And only when it's required.
In fact, to tell you the truth, folks, while I'm not against spanking, we don't do it in this family, when Pooh does something wrong, she goes to her room.
She has a wonderful room, full of toys and everything.
And when she wants to go in there and play, she just loves her room.
And when it's time to go to bed, she loves her room.
But when she does something wrong, you send her to her room, she hates it.
She stamps her feet and slams the door and kicks the wall.
And then after a while she comes out and apologizes and says she wants to be a good girl.
So that's how we do it in our family and anybody who's ever seen Pooh knows that she is well behaved and she says yes sir and no sir and thank you and please and may I and all of that kind of stuff.
And she's a good girl.
And Allison I know is going to be just as good.
Well, I thank you for putting up with my new father babbling tonight.
I am just as proud as Punch.
I am so happy and so tired and uh...
There's a calm surrender to the rush of day When the heat of a rolling wave can't be turned away
And a chandelier is moving and it sees me through It's enough for the dreaded warrior just to be with you
And can you feel the love tonight?
It is way beyond the knees It's enough for the wide-eyed wanderer
To bare three gods at once And can you feel the love tonight?
I would let you rest It's enough for the king and the vagabond
To keep the love within It's enough for the wanderer
It's enough for the wanderer If they only learn
At the twisting glass door move the doll and turn.
There's a rhyme and reason To the wild outdoors When the harvests of dark-roofed forager Feed the kind with yore Can you feel the love tonight?
Is where we are In the night, the wide-eyed wanderer
That we've got to follow Can't be without love tonight
I will let you in If not, we can make heaven back upon the lips of heaven
If not, we can make heaven back upon the lips of heaven You're listening to the Hour of the Times.
I'm William Cooper.
And I'm Pooh.
Hooks, tonight is going to be kind of a special program.
Some of you who really aren't into this kind of stuff may not like it, but those of us who have families and understand what this fight is all about probably will love every single second because, folks, this is what it's all about.
And, you see, why would we be interested in a future world in which we're not going to If we didn't love our children.
And it all started, folks, like this.
We're not mad at Mother Waters, can't keep her mind on nothing else.
Still thank the earth for the good things she's found.
If she is bad, he can't see it.
She can do no wrong.
Turn his back on his best friend if he's hurt her down.
When I'm done, I'll move on.
Then he said, let the time come upon us for a deed.
Keep your one and only, sleep on in the grave.
If you say that today, it'll all be.
Well, it's me, Lord, I give you everything I have.
I'm no longer today, baby, please don't keep me there.
When I'm gone, Lord, I'll be.
Don't be mean to me.
He can break me with his mercy If he is ready to come for me
He's the man I want to know more Love and I can never do
When I'm sad and I'm lonely He can do a lot of wrong
He can never walk on my heart Yes, we're a family of the heart
I know it's not easy Maybe, maybe, maybe
Oh, I don't know where to start We're a family of the heart
Well, I bet this is just about the craziest radio broadcast that you've ever heard, folks,
because you never know what you're going to hear on the hour of the time.
But you can always be sure that it's from the heart, and it's the product of something that we really care about whether we're talking about our family life or whether we're talking about the research we've done or whether we're talking about the future.
Pooh has expressed a desire to be my co-host tonight.
Good evening, Pooh.
Hi.
Thank you for sitting in with me tonight to help me along with this.
You're welcome.
We've sort of had kind of an exciting last few days, haven't we?
Yeah.
That's the way our relationship is, and I certainly believe that's the way my relationship is going to develop with the new addition to the family.
And I know you're all eagerly waiting to find out what's happened with that little baby.
Well, she's home.
In fact, we brought her home, I believe it was Saturday morning.
But you see, folks, you have to understand that the medical profession sometimes gets in the mode that they believe that they're God.
And they didn't want us to bring the baby home for some reason or other.
In fact, there were no doctors there.
The nurses in the nursery were talking about a ten-day regimen on antibiotics and the baby would have to stay in the hospital for those ten days.
And of course, many of you know that I wasn't going to go for that, not in your wildest dreams, because there was no justification for it except to put more money in the doctor's pockets.
So I started asking questions and demanding to talk to doctors and people and administrators and everybody else.
The upshot of it was that nobody bothered to check the culture in the lab and there
was nothing wrong with the baby and there was no infection and there was nothing groaning
in the culture and so we brought the baby home.
She's healthy, she's beautiful, she's very, very happy.
I was absolutely amazed the first night.
She slept all night long, didn't cry, didn't wake us up, anything.
The second night, she woke up, I guess, about two or three o'clock in the morning, probably more like three, for a feeding, went back to sleep, and slept all the way through until morning.
So, that's the way that goes.
You know, we were so proud, I was so proud, and I know Annie was too, and I was so proud of Annie when Pooh was born.
Annie went through twelve hours of intense labor and, you know, it started out her going through all the pain and ended up with me going through the pain with her in that first birth.
The second birth was all Annie and I was helping her through except for a couple of times when she almost broke my arms.
But, you know, Pooh, when she came back from the hospital, by the way, her real name is Dorothy Marie Cooper.
Pooh is a nickname, as in Winnie the Pooh.
What are you laughing at?
Do you like your nickname?
Uh-huh.
Do you like Dorothy?
Yeah.
You were surprised when you saw a movie and there was a Dorothy in that movie, too, weren't you?
Remember the Wizard of Oz?
Oh yeah.
I know you only forgot for a second because you're not the forgetting type.
It's not about stuff like that.
Well folks, let me tell you something.
When Pooh popped into the world, there was about a week or two weeks, I forget which, but it was at least one solid week where she was having problems with her digestion and She just wasn't feeling good.
She couldn't sleep and she would just cry and cry and cry and she couldn't keep any food down and the doctor said there was nothing wrong with her.
And so Annie would watch her and take care of her and take care of the house and cook the meals all day and while I was at work and then I would come home and I would rest for as long as I could until Annie was so tired she had to go to bed.
Then I would get up and spend the night holding poo.
And singing to her and talking to her and holding her and rocking her and throwing her up in the air and everything you can think of.
I did just as much to keep her company as I did to keep myself awake so that I could watch her and take care of her.
Changed her diapers and tried to feed her and everything like that and eventually she was okay.
Do you remember that time?
But honey, did you really throw me up to the air?
Sure I did.
I still do sometimes.
You mean like you did this night right now?
Yeah.
Oh, you mean like that we used to eat?
Uh-huh.
But you don't remember those days, do you?
Well, we developed a pretty good friendship started at that time and it's just continued right up until now, huh?
Yeah.
You like that friendship?
Yeah.
It's pretty neat, huh?
Yeah.
Oh, she's giving me the secret sign.
She made up her own secret sign just for me and her, just for our friendship, folks.
And, no, we're not part of any brotherhood or anything, but I guess Pooh had been listening to my broadcast for so long, she felt that was absolutely necessary.
So, anyway, this is sort of how Pooh and I do it.
Everything here's got a groove to it.
I call you up and I'd like to go with me and say we're moving in.
First I said no.
Got some plans for tonight.
Then I stopped and said alright.
Love's just kind of sweet.
Look at a little girl like you.
You always keep me guessing.
I never seem to know what you're thinking.
And it's a very lucky cue to show you that I'm on my way again.
I get confused.
I don't know where to stand and smile.
And oh my, love is kind of sweet, spooky little girl like you. Spooky little girl.
That's it.
Well, that's kind of the way it goes with us. We do things together.
We go places together.
We talk to each other.
We're really pals.
We play.
We play a lot, don't we?
Uh-huh.
What kind of games?
What do we play anyway?
Um... You have your computer.
We do things on your computer.
Yeah, and... And we do things on my computer.
Yeah, like, um, games too.
Uh-huh.
What were you doing last night?
Um, playing airplane games.
Playing airplanes?
Boy, you are playing airplanes.
Folks, this girl is a pilot.
She was flying a Learjet on Microsoft... It's the Flight Simulator.
And she can really fly really well.
I mean, she can take off.
She can fly.
She can turn.
She can change altitude.
She can control the engines.
And this is just like flying a real plane.
I mean, as close as you can get without dying if you crash.
The only thing she can't do yet is land, but she knows how to click on the right button to make the program land for her if she wants to.
And, you know, she's not doing bad because I can't land yet either.
So we don't worry about it.
What else do we do?
Well, we catch ball.
Yes, we do.
We take walks with Sugar Bear.
Yeah, and he sometimes doesn't want to walk with us, but he's checking around the tree sometimes, so that's why we have to call him to come with us to take a walk.
You like that dog?
Yeah, he sounds like, his name sounds like sugar.
Well, it does.
It's sugar.
It's sugar bear.
Yeah, it is sugar bear.
Well, folks, Pooh, since she was just a little over, I guess, a week, almost two weeks old, has traveled with us.
She's been everywhere that we've been.
She has met an awful lot of people.
She has learned to be a good little girl under all kinds of different circumstances.
For a while, we called her Traveling Baby.
And she has grown and I'm just so proud of her.
I'm pleased as punch.
And we were both really not expecting another addition to the family.
Back then I'm pretty sure Pooh thought she was going to be the only one for a while.
And I think her mother and father did too.
Although I did kind of wish in my heart of hearts for another child so that Pooh wouldn't be alone a lot of the times.
Because we travel a lot, folks, and she's there with us by herself.
And when we get somewhere, it's usually adults who attend these functions, and so she doesn't get to meet a whole bunch of other children.
And, of course, we live up on the mountaintop.
There are no next-door neighbors, and so her greatest playmate is her father and her dog.
And when her mother's not too busy, her mother, too.
Her mother doesn't play with her as much as Sugar Bear and I, but her mother Probably loves her more than all of us put together.
And we certainly love her.
And so anyway, one numerable tart, we just, you know, rediscovered how much we love each other.
And, uh... My love must be a kind of sadness.
I can't think anymore but you.
To a lover.
I love you.
Killin' love.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Killin' love.
I don't know if it's love or lies. I won't believe that lie.
Lie.
You know that, Annie.
I've always only had eyes for you, and I only have eyes for you now.
In fact, I love you very, very much.
I don't know yet where it is I'll find it. I wonder if I'm the father then.
You are here.
And you are mine.
Maybe millions of people do.
You are here, come on and join my band.
Come on, maybe here you'll feel the blues, come on and join my band.
But they all need nothing but you.
And I only have eyes for you.
I gotta be careful around this song.
We might end up with three.
I think it's the she-bop-she-bop that does it.
I'm not sure.
But it wasn't too long after that that Annie announced that she was pregnant.
And actually, she kept it secret for a while.
And when she announced it, we were all just as pleased as punch.
And Pooh said, what's pregnant?
And what was it?
A baby?
That's right.
And where was that baby?
In the hospital.
No, no.
And Annie was pregnant before it was born.
Where was the baby?
In the doctor?
No!
Before the baby was born.
Where was the baby?
Don't you remember?
We used to feel?
And the tubby?
That's right.
Did you feel the baby move?
Yeah.
I, I, sometimes I didn't feel it move somewhere.
But sometimes we did and we talked to that baby, didn't we?
Yeah.
I mean, well, you know what?
It's sort of kind of, um, it doesn't feel like, um, Nothing in the baby's tummy, you know what I mean?
You mean in the mommy's tummy?
Yeah.
It just felt like a lump once in a while, huh?
Yeah, because it felt, I mean, feels like something different.
Like it's not a boy or a girl, huh?
We didn't know for a long time, did we?
Yeah, um, I thought it was a girl and then Well, I was a girl.
I was right.
You were right.
But there was a while when you wanted a little brother, huh?
Yeah, but... But you wanted a little sister too, huh?
Yeah, because so... so we could change dresses together and look pretty.
Oh, that would be a lot of fun.
Yeah, so nobody... so I don't have to button my buttons up.
Oh, you mean your sister could help you?
Yeah.
Well, that's wonderful.
Well...
Let's get into your story.
You know, Annie was pregnant for nine months with that baby, and we felt the baby move, and we talked to the baby through Mommy's tummy.
Where should I start?
Well, why don't you start on the night that we went to the hospital.
How did all that happen, anyway?
You and Mom went somewhere that day, didn't you?
Where did you go?
I think we went to Shiloh.
You went to Shiloh.
Did you go to Taylor?
I think so.
And then you came back home sometime around, what, three o'clock?
I don't know.
And then what happened?
Well, and then her tummy was, um, um, feeling pretty bad.
And then what?
And then so she said, well, let's go to the hospital.
And so we did.
And then it really was hurting in the car.
And it took a long time to get there, didn't it?
Yeah, it was the twilight bark.
The twilight bark.
Now folks, that's how she refers to twilight time.
Because twilight bark is what the dogs do, you know, in the morning they talk to each other in twilight, and at night they talk to each other in twilight.
And so, who calls it the twilight bark?
Andy.
We went to the hospital, and then she sat down on the bed, and then it was coming.
It was coming on Thursday night.
Yes.
What happened?
How long was Mommy in the room with the bed?
Not very long, huh?
Yeah, but then they took her to the other room, And we played Catch the Teddy.
Yeah, Catch the Teddy, and... And then Poppy helped take her to the other room.
Yeah, and so I had to stay in the other room, so I did, and then, um... Well, not for a while.
I mean, you were in the delivery room with Mommy for a while.
Yeah, and then, and then, um, a girl came and said she, I mean, I mean, she brought me And then, um, she said, can she have some, I mean, crackers, grab crackers and some, um, grape juice?
And so you said, so my dad said, yeah.
And so she brought me to the front desk and she let me have it and call her.
And then what happened?
Well... Weren't you kind of worried about mommy?
Yeah, and then I was, I was crying for my mom because I really love her and I care about her.
I was crying for that because I really, really love my mom.
And then what happened?
And then, um, the, the same girl that want, want me, want me to go check your mother and so she did and then, um, She said it was a baby girl when she came back and I said, I knew it was a baby girl.
And the next thing I remember is you were opening the door to the delivery room and you were standing right there with me.
Yeah, and I was just staying with my baby sister.
She looked very happy with the hat on her.
She had a little hat on, huh?
Yeah, so she won't get hot.
I mean, so her head won't get cold or anything.
And what did you think about that?
Well... I don't know if I think.
You don't know?
Were you happy?
Yeah, I was happy.
And what was Mommy doing?
Um, she was feeling better.
She wasn't yelling anymore, was she?
Yeah, because she was really yelling when it hurt really bad.
And then she said, can I get her up, honey?
And then Poppy said, no.
I mean, you can't get up because you have to stay in the bed.
Yeah, the doctor wasn't quite finished with her, was she?
Yeah, but, but then, um, she wanted some ice water when she was in the next room.
And so, ice water!
And this girl came and got her some ice water, and so she drank it.
And then, um, I got a taste, and Poppy got a taste, and then, um, This cup came and then she throwed up from the water.
She drank too much water.
And then?
And then she stayed at, she had to go, um, she had to stay at the hospital so we had to go home and spend the night, one night.
The next day, we... Wait a minute, what happened when we left the hospital?
Oh, yeah, I forgot!
What about all those talks we had, and where did we go?
Why don't you talk about that a little bit?
Okay.
And then we went to the Sonic Drive-In, our jack-in-the-box, and I told him maybe, maybe, um, the Sonic Drive-In was open.
So I was right!
So we ate there, and then, I mean, we ate there, And then we were talking about lots of things, like when I was crying about Mom, and then all those things.
And about the little baby?
And about the baby was born.
And the name?
Yeah, and the name was Allison Dovey Cooper.
And you figured out how to spell Allison.
Yeah.
You added the Y instead of the I, huh?
Yeah, because we sort of liked the Y, me and Poppy.
That was a lot of fun, folks.
And, uh, we came home and it was pretty late, wasn't it?
Yeah, so Poppy told me to go to bed first, and then he went to bed, and then he tucked me in, and then he said, um, don't you really, are you excited?
And what did you say?
Yep, I'm excited!
And I was excited too, folks.
In fact, we couldn't wait for morning, could we?
Yeah, and then I was still sleeping at night, and then the next day we went to pick up Mommy, and so we did.
And then we... But we missed her, didn't we?
Yeah, I really missed her that night.
And it was kind of rough in the morning.
Yeah.
Because I couldn't make a ponytail and you wanted a ponytail really bad.
No, I don't like ponytails on me.
Really?
Yeah.
That's not what you said that morning.
Did you change?
In fact, you've got a ponytail right now.
But when the next day we went to pick up Mommy, and so we did, So, we had to wait for the baby to come with us home.
Yep, and it's time to take a break.
You remember Craig Smith?
Yeah.
Remember his daughter?
Yeah.
Remember Jean Miller?
Yeah.
Remember all those nice folks up at Swiss America?
Yeah, she had a little girl named Katie, and I got her picture in my room drawer.
You played with Katie one day for quite a long time.
Yeah, because she had to swing to go swing and back.
So I played out with her and swing and a lot of things I had to do.
I pushed the cradle and her baby.
They're pretty nice folks, aren't they?
Yeah.
We like them a lot, huh?
Yeah.
And now we'll get back To our broadcast.
That little baby.
Boy, we looked at that little baby and we knew there was a future, huh, Phil?
Yep.
That was... Boy, that was the next one in line.
Now there's four of us.
Yeah, because we've got one and two and three and four.
And little Allison, you got to hold her today, huh?
Yeah, because I'm, um, I mean, I'm baby, I, I was, I mean, when, when, when we, we were going to, um, the Pine Top Play, at Shovel, and we stopped by Arby's to eat something.
We were in, in, Poppy told me to fix my own stuff, but Mommy was holding the baby, she, she just eat with one hand, and drink with one hand.
And how did you feel about holding that baby?
Well, tonight, Daddy showed me how to hold her.
And I hold her just by the neck.
Well, you didn't hold her by the neck.
You supported her under the neck.
In the head.
Yeah.
Where was your other arm?
By the feet.
Yeah, and you held her pretty good, didn't you?
Yeah, now I know how to hold her, but she's kind of heavy.
Yeah, so you didn't hold her too long, huh?
Yeah.
But you're helping Mommy?
Yeah, but I don't know, because Mommy wants to help me, I mean, help her to change the diapers, but I don't know when I'm going to change the diapers.
Well, it won't be too far off.
You have to remember that she's She's just been born and she's so tiny.
And she's so little, you can't, I mean, you can't even play with her or hurt her when she's a little baby.
Yeah, we just kind of look at her and boy, this is what we think, huh?
Yeah, that's what baby, it's called, isn't it?
Only you Can you make other clouds seem right
Only you Can you make the darkness right
Only you Can you cause all clouds
Can feel Yeah.
You want to sing along with this?
Yeah.
Okay, go ahead.
You want to sing along with this?
Yeah.
Okay.
When you hold my hand, I understand the magic that you bring.
You're my dream come true.
My one and only you.
You are funny And there's a place in me
For you You are my friend please
When you hold my hand I understand The magic that you do
You're my dream come true My one and only you
My one and only you Hey, that was pretty good.
Thank you.
You know, you haven't done that in a long time.
I was worried you wouldn't remember all the words.
You didn't rehearse today.
In fact, I haven't heard you sing that in over a year.
Is that the first time?
Yeah, because I like this show tonight.
Boy, me too.
I really like this show because I love my family.
I love you, I love Mommy, and I love little Allison.
Well, I wouldn't leave without you and Mommy and Allison, and you wouldn't leave me and Mommy and Allison, and Allison wouldn't leave without me and Mommy and Papa.
And Poppy and Mommy wouldn't leave without me and Poppy and Allison.
That's absolutely right.
And I'm glad you understand that because you don't have to feel insecure all the time, do you?
Yeah, because Mommy doesn't like me to ask a lot of questions.
About what?
That's not true.
Mommy doesn't mind you asking questions.
Unless she's really, really busy, and then that kind of gets on her nerves, huh?
Yeah, but, you know, my, well, I'm wearing this pretty, pretty dress today, and, I mean, tonight, right now, and it's, and it's really pretty.
It's, it's got, um, uh, whatever you call this, this blue... A vest, a blue vest.
I got a blue vest and I got a shirt that's white and it's got a little flower on it and I got this blue shirt that's got a blue dress and it's got pink, yellow, red, orange, I mean yellow and that's all the colors I got on my dress.
And where did you get that dress?
At Walmart.
And I got two pants that got a pink and white pants.
And how did you get them?
Well, I got them at Walmart too.
Mommy said that if you be a good girl in Walmart, she'll buy me something.
So I did.
And she bought me earrings.
Uh oh, that's why I didn't see those, huh?
Yeah.
Well, why don't you tell us, what does the little baby look like?
Can you remember?
Well, Mommy said it looks like her, but I said, what about me?
She looks like you, too.
Actually, she looks very much just like you looked when you were born.
But she looks like a Spanish girl, Susie.
Really?
What makes you say that?
Well, she looks like those Chinese girls you know what I'm talking about.
Uh-huh.
Well, she's half Chinese.
Yeah, because she's got those eyes.
Well, she's got those eyes right now because She's a baby right now and she's got those eyes that look great.
Those eyes?
What do you mean by those eyes?
Say that again.
No, you tell me what that means.
Those eyes.
Does she have any hair?
Yeah, she has the same hair that I got, black hair.
And how about her fingers and toes?
Well, it looks like mine, too.
And are they little, big, medium-sized?
Little.
Her fingers are tiny, little, and Poppy told me their fingernails are sharpened.
Very sharp, huh?
Yeah, because I saw this thumb, I mean, her thumb, and her fingernail That was really sharp, Dad.
Yeah.
How about her head?
Can she hold her head up?
Yes, I hold my head up.
Can Allison hold her head up?
Yeah, she can hold her head up.
She can?
I mean, she might.
Well, she might, but she hasn't yet.
It flops around like it's attached to a rubber band, huh?
That's why we have to put our hand under her head and neck to support her.
Yeah, because, um, well, tonight I was just holding her, and I hold her by her neck, and, and, and Papi told me I, you gotta, um, uh, support her, like, like I did by the counter, um, downstairs.
Folks, she doesn't really hold her by her neck.
What she means is that she holds her hand under her neck and head like we showed her so that the baby's head doesn't flop around and fall off.
Babies just don't have any muscles in their little necks and so you've got to do that.
And what about the top of her head?
What's the rule?
Don't ever touch it really hard.
I mean, just don't touch its head.
Yeah, right on this hot puck, because the bones haven't come together yet.
Yeah, because it doesn't really come together.
Yeah, it's got to grow a little bit, huh?
Yeah, it's got to grow a little bit, then you can touch your head.
Yeah.
Yeah, but when you get five or two, I mean, I mean, I mean, I'm talking about if you get four or five on the edge, And then you can touch your head when you grow big.
How old are you?
Five!
Boy, and are you real big compared to that baby?
Well... Makes you feel all grown up, huh?
Yeah, because today I don't know what to do.
I mean, today I didn't know what to do, but I did know what to do.
I just think about it, because yesterday I did the same thing today too because I just pretended I went to school and I did a lot of things really good because I like going to school.
It's a lot of fun.
Now when you said just pretending, that's because you really don't ever go to a school.
You learn here at home, huh?
Because it's not really a school.
It's just my room.
It's her room.
It's got a lot of stuff.
And boy, she learns how to read with the real phonics, folks.
She doesn't get into this whole word baloney that has so many illiterate people running around.
Well, this day, Um, I mean, I think this happened a long time ago, not pretending.
I learned my Huston Phonics, and it's got three more pages to go to read the other letters, so don't practice anything, like those, you know what I mean?
Uh-huh.
Like that stuff, and the...
Like the way you pronounce the alphabet?
Yeah.
Are you going to help teach Allison when she gets a little older?
Yeah, but when she gets 5, I'll give her a quarter and when she gets, I mean, when she's 5, I'll teach her how to be an artist and write and all that stuff.
You'll teach her how to be an artist and write and all that stuff?
Yeah.
You can write, huh?
Well, you see, I write, um... And you are a great artist.
Yeah, I am!
And... And, um... I... I think I write, um... P-R-P, I think.
And... Is that a word, honey?
Well, you know that's not a word.
You know what words are.
You can spell.
And you can write, and you can count.
Yeah, and I can count all the way to 20, I think.
Yeah, 20.
One day you even went to 30 and you surprised me, but you haven't done that again yet.
Well, I'll show you how to get to 20.
I know you can do that.
Okay, let me do it, okay?
Okay, go ahead.
Okay, everybody?
Okay.
Okay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, um, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 12, 20?
20, that's right.
You did good.
Guess what?
I hear your little sister crying.
8, 9, 10, um, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 12, 20?
20, that's right. You did good.
Guess what? I hear your little sister crying.
Yeah, because she's out there in her white cradle. It looks really good.
And it's even got a cushion with it.
And she likes it a lot, huh?
Yeah, because she likes that cradle, but when she gets a little older, I can play with her.
Yeah.
You know, I was really proud of you when you decided you were going to give your little baby sister a gift.
And you made that decision all on your own.
What did you give her?
Um, a little tiny rabbit.
It's got claws on it.
And that was one of your little favorite rabbits, too, huh?
Yeah.
Well, that was very nice of you, and it was very selfless, and I'm very proud of you.
Thank you, everyone.
And I'm very proud of the way you conducted yourself at the hospital, and I'm very, very proud of the way that you've handled all of this, And the way that you treat your little sister... Honey, but what about the way I act?
Well, that's what I'm talking about.
But, you know what?
I think you're starting to get a little bit silly, like children do sometimes when they're getting a lot of attention.
What do you think about that?
Well, you know, folks... I don't like vegetables.
I like macaronis.
I don't like...
I don't like bananas anymore.
When did that change?
This morning?
Yep.
I think so.
I think I said I don't like no bananas now.
Well, you know what?
I think it's about time for us to get out of here.
I've just about run out of things to talk about and you're getting a little bit silly.
So, why don't we do that?
How about we talk a little bit more?
No, we're out of time, babe.
Now, when Mommy gave us this little baby, we decided that she was our hero, huh?
Yeah, so we went to the gift shop and then we told Mommy that we're going to get you some cactus, not even flowers.
That's right, we told her we were going to get some cactus, huh?
Yeah, and then we went to the gift shop and then the flower shop and then Mommy was staying in the car So she wouldn't see the surprise.
So we got her some pretty, pretty flowers.
And then she said, wow, that's beautiful.
Thank you.
Because we bought her that because she was our really, really hero.
That's right.
And she brought us a precious little addition to our family.
Oh, I really love my mom and she's, she's Really beautiful.
She is and she's very special.
Time to say good night.
Good night folks and I'm a princess and God bless you all.
Good night folks.
God bless you and Annie, my dear, this is for you.
We love you very much and thank you so much.
You are our hero.
Let me have my meal.
I need you, my dear, I love you.
I love you, I love you, I love you.
Something is inside.
Can I be denied?
I'm...
...in...
...the...
...moon...
...today.
Let's go there and find
all we love are blind
birds!
you I'm tired.
You must take a lie.
Look into your eyes.
Oh, I care.
Your eyes are beautiful.
Oh, I tell them and I say to them, If they say good-bye.
Yet today, my love has turned away.
Yet today my love has turned away Far and without a smile
Oh, I'm lost in every grainly rhyme Yes, I cannot hide
Oh, I'm fading When your lovely days are through
No gasp in your eyes No gasp in your eyes
No gasp in your eyes Have I told you lately that I love you?
Could I tell you once again somehow?
Have I told you who I'd like to share my love forever?
Well, darling, I'm telling you now.
Have I told you lately when I'm sleeping?
Every dream I dream is you somehow.
Have I told you why the night's so long when you're up with me?
Well, I'm telling you now.
My world would end today if you refuse me.
I'm no good without you anyhow.
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Well, darling, I'm telling you now.
Have I told you lately what I'm sipping?
Every dream I dream is you.
Some kind.
Have I said with all my heart and soul that I adore you?
Well, darling, I'm telling you now.
My world would end today if you refuse me.
If you refuse me, I'm no good without you anyhow.
Have I told you lately that I'd love you?
Well done, I'm telling you now You are my destiny
You're the moon, you're everything That makes my heart feel free.
To be with you is all I really need.
You are all I really need You're the one
You are my shining star You're the one.
And I want to be where you are.
And I want to be where you are And if you let me be with you
Until my life is over It will be complete.
Cause darling, you're the one.
I've been so lonely.
I've been searching.
I've been needing someone to lean on.
I've been hoping.
I've been straying.
I've been dreaming of someone like you.
Like you Because you're the one
You are my destiny You're the one.
You're the one, and you mean the world to me And if you let me be with you until my life is done
Until my life is lost It will be complete
It will be complete, cos darling, you're the one who does And if you let me be with you
Cause darling, you're the one who knows You're the one who knows
It will be complete Cause darling, you're the one who knows
You're the one who knows Been so long and I've been searching
I've been needing someone to lean on I've been hoping, I've been praying
For someone like you Because you're the one who knows
You are my shining star And I'm a little late for the ladies, that's why.
And if you'll let me be with you, until my life is lost, we'll be complete.
Cause darling, You're the one
Oh Oh
Oh, my dear, my love, my life, my life, oh, how I love you!
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Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!
He's not there, I think. I wonder. I wonder. He's not there.
Oh, my God.
the the
the He'll take us home.
He'll take us home.
And grace will lead me home.
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