I’m the CEO of 12 companies, a family man, and father to three sons under the age of 6. My wife stays at home and manages the house while I run my companies and work during the day. Last weekend she left me, all alone, with three boys at our home while she went on a girl’s trip to see her BFF in California. 

My youngest boy Colton, is only 4 months old. My other two boys Asher and Jax are 4 and 5 years old. The older two are no big deal to handle. They wash themselves, feed themselves and pretty much do their own thing. The little guy though, that’s a different story.

Since I work crazy hours, my wife wakes up and feeds Colton every day. She’s so awesome, I have not had to wake up once in the middle of the night to tend to him since he was born. So I was about to embark on a serious journey with the youngest one, and I was honestly a little nervous.

My wife travels a lot. We live in Texas but she’s from Arizona and before she became pregnant with Colton, she would fly out to see her girlfriends and family quite often. When she was pregnant with Colton, her traveling went on hold. This was her very first trip alone since he was born. 

I’d never even fed Colton before she left town. I had no clue how to mix formula or how often he eats. Sure, I hold him and play with him, but I had never fed him or stayed up with him. Like I said, my wife is friggin awesome! To say I was nervous is an understatement. 

When I arrived home from work on Friday I was handed off the boys from my assistant. From the second she gave me Colton, it was on. I was nervous and scared that I was about to be in for the longest weekend of my life.

The first night we ordered Pizza from Pizza Hut and the pizza gave me food poison. I was sick as a dog with three demanding kids not making my first 24 hours easy. I pushed though it though. Colton was a great kid and he’s 99% happy so all I had to do was get off the toilet long enough to feed him.

I posted on Facebook that I was all alone with these three kids and plenty of my friends offered to come help or come babysit. I declined all of them and never let anyone know I had the pizza poison. I wanted to do it all on my own. First to prove I could, second to make my wife proud and third to level up and be a man and handle my home business. 

The second night, the pizza poison faded and I had about 15 friends and their kids over for the Mayweather fight. Since I couldn’t leave and go to a bar to watch the fight, I ordered it at my home and invited some of my friends and employees over. They brought their kids over so my older two boys entertained themselves with other kids.

The following day, Sunday, I took all three kids to a big park in Dallas and also took them to feed the stingrays at the Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park. Yes, I loaded up all three kids in the Escalade and took them out in public. I wanted to prove to myself that I can handle anything. After two days, I was feeling brave. 

I had to change a really bad diaper at the park, but other than that it went really smooth. Turns out, my baby Colton is super easy to handle and mostly happy. He sleeps most of the night and smiles most of the time. 

The only issue I had is when my 4 year old hid from me and refused to come when I called him. I searched the house, the neighborhood and everywhere for that little rascal. I almost called the cops, I looked for him for a good 30 mins before I finally found him buried in his closet. My heart dropped 6 inches while I was looking for him!

Here’s my lesson for the dads out there. If you had to show up for your kids you would, so when you need to show up for your kids, you should. Don’t be scared, don’t say it’s a woman’s job, just show up. After spending 3 days with my youngest we bonded and now have a new love and respect for each other. Now when he cries at night I know what he wants. All because I didn’t hire a sitter and I just showed up.

Don’t fear your kids, they are easier to handle than you probably think. 

Don’t get me wrong though, soon as my wife got home I said “Hi honey hope you had fun. I love you. You’re back on baby duty now. I’m going to sleep”