2671 - Splash Into Summer Part 4: How’s Your Summer Going?

Hello Lindsey, how are you? >> Good, Aubrey. How's it going on your end? How's everything? >> I'm great. What have you been up to this summer, Lindsey? >> Oh my gosh, I have been learning how to take care of my baby, my newborn baby. >> [laughter] >> Um hiking with him and getting active

out into the world, first baseball games, things like that. >> Amazing. Do you have um like a BabyBjörn or whatever it's called, some kind of carrier that you hold him in? >> we do. Yeah, so we carry him everywhere. He goes everywhere. >> I love that. I remember graduating from one that where I held the baby on the

front and then like a backpack when they're older they'd be in. So you're going to have to get go through all of the different carriers >> It'll be a yep. >> Oh, for sure. But I like the question you asked me, Aubrey. This applies to all of our listeners whether they have a

baby or not. You said what have you been up to this summer? What's different about this question as opposed to asking, "Hey, what did you do this summer?" or "What are you doing this summer?" >> Yeah, this is interesting. This assumes that you are right where we are in the states, right? Toward the end of summer,

but still in it. So, you know, you're not going to ask them, of course, a question set in the future or as if the summer is totally past. You're still in it, right? >> Yeah. So we use present perfect. We say, "What have you been up to?" And we have a few questions today that are perfect

for this time of year to ask someone what they've been doing over the summer. >> Oh yeah, so we're using present perfect. Good. Yes. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, and this is interesting because this happens all the time. Anyone that you run into right now, if you haven't seen them since the beginning of the