- [Chris] Yeah,
that is a look.
(upbeat intro music)
(acapella version of "The Star-Spangled Banner")
Good morning, everyone.
- Happy 4th of July!
- [Chris] Oh my goodness,
it's the 4th of July
and you guys all got dressed up.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yep.
- It is 8:00 AM.
They are ready for the day.
- [Chris] They are ready for the day.
- And we are ready to take Rue of the groomer.
So,
do you guys want to do a quick fashion show?
- [All The Children] Yeah!
- [Parker] Let's go!
- [Duncan] Let's go!
(Jessica laughing)
(upbeat music)
- Just dropped Rue off with her groomer.
She was very excited.
She had a lot of puppy energy,
but she also seemed like she was very happy to be there
and very comfortable.
And they said that they might need a little extra time
because they want to make sure that everything they do is
like a slow, happy approach for her.
So,
I think we're supposed to pick her up at about two
to two and a half hours.
And they also said that they would text me and like update
me with anything they needed to.
- It's weird. Right? It's like
dropping your kid off... - Dropping of your baby.
- It's like you're dropping your kid off
at summer camp or something like,
(Jessica laughing)
whoa, what is this feeling?
Where's my dog.
- Yeah, it was, it was, you know,
we're like, "oh, should we just stay?"
(Jessica laughing)
We're not,
we're not the kind of parents. - Can we just watch,
we'll just watch through the window.
- Yeah, we kind of did like,
but overall we aren't the kind of parents
that like do a lot of leaving.
Like we usually are with our people and our dog people.
So this is a little different.
I know it's good for her.
So that's good.
And now,
we are headed back home to get ready for our big
4th of July barbecue.
So Colleen, Flynn, Eric,
and Gwen, Tim,
and I think Trent,
he was invited,
and I think he's coming,
and not Rachel
because she's actually having like her own barbecue.
She,
I think bought a barbecue,
like she's very excited.
So she's having a big friend party,
but she will be missed,
but it's more people than we got to see last year.
So very thankful for that.
- Hi, I really wanted to put on makeup today
because it's the 4th of July.
So I'm going to show you my final look.
So here's the before and after.
I did some makeup and I think it looks pretty good,
but one of my eyes looks like I have a black eye but,
I don't know.
- [Jessica] No, it's great.
Looks like 4th of July.
4th of Ju-l-eye.
- I'm also going to do makeup, so here's my before,
and this is my final look.
I hope you noticed that there are some bread crumbs
because,
no some chip crumbs,
cause those are,
these are really important for my look,
these help,
so you better use these.
- [Chris] It's a very seasoned look.
- Yes.
- Okay. I think we're all ready for our family gathering.
- There's the parents.
- Oh.
- They just drove past us.
- Christopher's parents just drove past us,
and they're going to our house,
and we're going to pick Rue up
because I just got a call that she's done with her groom.
So I'm getting her now.
And then we will drive and meet everybody else back
at our house, I guess.
- Yup.
(upbeat music)
- [Chris] Sit.
Yes. - Oh, pretty girl.
- [Chris] What a pretty girl.
So pretty. - So fancy.
- [Chris] So fancy.
- [Jessica] Oh, what a fancy little lady.
- Yeah, you're such a fancy.
She's such a fancy.
You.
- [Jessica] You guys have matching hairstyles, huh?
- Not matching, but...
- [Jessica] Yeah, not matching, but you guys both
got fancy hairstyles today.
- Yeah.
- Doesn't she smell nice?
- [Jessica] Oh, I'm so glad,
she was starting to get kinda smelly.
Aw, she's such a love bug.
- I love her little smell, when she's like,
(child loudly sniffing)
- I love her bow. It's the greatness.
- [Jessica] I know. It's so cute.
- [Chris] It's so tiny. Tiny little bow.
My sister's here, there,
and my mom's here,
and Eric and Flynn are over there,
and Trent's here somewhere.
- [Gwen] He went with dad on a...
- Oh, oh, okay.
My dad and Trent had an errand to run so,
they are out,
but they'll be back.
They'll be here.
Everybody's here.
We're gonna have a party! Let's do it!
4th of July!
- And then... - And Jacob made this hat,
which he stores a beverage in
and drinks
out of this straw here. - Wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
- [Chris] What's wrong?
Oh, there it is.
Okay, so that's the
inner workings of the hat. - You smell me Lukey?
Are you smelling me? - How's it working?
Good, once you start sipping can you stop?
Or does it keep coming at you?
- It's hard to breathe.
- [Chris] It's hard to breathe?
- When it comes down at you.
- [Chris] Okay.
- But, yeah, I can,
I can manage.
- [Chris] Okay.
- And I also have this.
- [Chris] That's this guy helping you out?
- Yeah.
Yeah he... - Can I have a drink?
- [Jessica] Much easier than just holding the drink
in a hand.
- And Duncan had a little gymnastics accident.
He was playing on the bar,
the gymnastics bar,
on the lowest setting,
but he still fell and hit his face. So,
poor little guy,
but you feel okay now?
- Uh-huh.
- [Chris] Alright.
And how are you doing?
You got some chips?
You chilling with chips?
- [Bailey] He stole my chips.
(Jessica laughing)
- [Jessica] Did you steal Bailey's chips?
- [Chris] Oh those weren't even your chips.
(Jessica laughing)
- [Bailey] Hey.
- Pregnancies!
- There's four babies,
and I'm four,
and it's the 4th of July!
- [Chris] So many fours!
And who are the four babies?
- Luke, mom's new baby,
and auntie Pandi's two babies.
- [Chris] Good addition.
- [Jessica] Oh,
and Christopher made food,
but we forgot to film it too.
- Oh, yeah.
We were too busy cooking and eating.
- [Jessica] But we've got some,
here you go.
Duncan, how was your meal?
- Good, I'm still eating.
But Lucky, he ate all his food quick.
- [Jessica] What a good penguin.
- The first magic show that I ever did
was at the Elks Lodge in Santa Barbara
on the 4th of July.
So this is the anniversary of my first ever magic show,
doing magic in front of strangers.
And I haven't done magic in a really long time,
but I used to take this case
to all my magic shows.
I thought it'd be fun to take it out today and just
try some of the tricks.
We'll see how it goes.
I haven't practiced
in a very long time, so we'll see.
We'll see
what it looks like, but, - Can I bring that
chair over here?
- [Eric] You can, yes.
- let's have some fun.
- [Chris] Red,
white,
and blue.
Say the magic words,
abra cadabra,
and then - The blue's not in there.
- It turns into
- [Bailey] You dropped one.
- an American flag.
- [Group] Uh-oh.
- Oh, no, he dropped one. - He dropped the blue one.
- Oh, no! - He dropped one.
- Okay, well I'm going to put it back in
and I want everybody to yell as
loud as I can, "abra cadabra".
One, two, three.
- [Entire Group] Abra cadabra!
- That was really loud.
- [Jessica] Oh man.
- But I think, I think it worked.
(female gasping)
- [Colleen] It worked.
- I think it worked. Look at this.
- [Female Voice] Uh-oh.
- Oh, it's too loud, it's too loud.
- [Female Voice] Could you imagine...
- Too loud, we got too much blue on there.
(female gasping)
There's nothing else in here.
- [Female Voice] Whoa.
- What did we do? Did we (indistinct)?
- [Duncan] Yes.
- Good job Duncan. - Yay, we did it.
- Yay. - Good job.
If you hold it like this, it looks like three,
there's not really three dots there,
it just looks like three.
And if you hold it like that,
it looks like one.
So if I hold it like this,
it looks like there are six dots there.
They're not really six dots there,
but your brain thinks that there are six dots there.
- [Male Voice] Wait.
- And on this side, - What the heck.
- it looks like there are three dots here,
but that's just your brain
is thinking that there are three dots there.
And on this side, I don't know what you're thinking.
That's way too many dots.
(group clapping)
- [Child's Voice] What?
(group clapping)
- [Chris] Should we do another one?
- Yeah!
- [Chris] Okay,
he hasn't seen magic before
I don't think. - Ever.
Is this your first magic show Duncan?
- Yes!
- [Chris] Okay,
I'm going to give you this and you just hold onto it,
don't open it.
And this is a sketchbook.
And the cool thing about this sketchbook
is you don't have to draw.
All the drawings are already there,
but it's cut into three.
So what you can do
is you can choose whatever top of the head you want,
whatever middle part of the face you want,
if you want the face to look like that,
or have some cool glasses.
(baby chattering)
But you guys are going to choose
what the face is going to look like.
Okay?
So Bailey,
you're going to start.
Say stop wherever you want.
- [Bailey] Stop.
- Right there.
Okay, a little twirly hat.
Flynn, do you want to say stop?
- [Colleen] Yeah, ready?
- Just say stop whenever you want.
I'm gonna go through and you say stop.
- [Colleen] Say stop.
- Stop. - Right there.
- Right there?
Ooh, two
blue eyes looking that way. - Oh, blue eyes like you.
- Very cool.
- [Duncan] Can I do one now?
- You want to do one?
Okay you say stop wherever you want.
- [Duncan] Stop.
- Right there.
Oh, a little crooked smile, I like that.
Now, if you had said stop
one page earlier.
You would have stopped right here
at this smile.
Parker's been holding this the whole time.
- [Colleen] No way.
- It's the exact same.
- [Colleen] How'd you do that?
- [Eric] How did he know?
- [Chris] Good job.
- How did you do that?
- [Chris] Alright.
Should we do one more?
- [Group] Yeah!
- [Chris] Okay, one more.
This is a confusing trick cause I have
three different size ropes.
I have a small one,
I have a medium sized one,
and I have a long one.
That's a lot to keep track of. Right?
It'd be a lot easier if all the ropes were the same size,
right? - Oh.
If I had one,
two,
three ropes all the same size,
but this is a confusing trick,
so I have one small one,
one medium size one,
and one long one.
- [Male Voice] Wait.
- [Jessica] Yay.
(group clapping)
- Uh, Flynn,
which color do you like the best out of these colors?
- [Colleen] Which color?
- [Chris] Do you like the red one,
The green one,
or the yellow one?
- [Colleen] Which one?
- Which one.
- [Flynn] A red one.
- The red one's going to jump over the other ones.
- Whoa. - Whoa.
- [Child's Voice] I would say
the yellow one.
- The yellow one's gonna go under the other ones.
- Whoa. - Oh.
- And if we try and do both at the same time,
it looks like this.
(female laughter)
- [Male Voice] Wow.
- [Chris] Alright,
so the juggling balls go inside of this container and I have
a little instructions on how to put them in.
So we'll put green in first.
What goes on top of the green?
- Yellow!
- Yellow, we'll put the yellow one in.
- [Colleen] And then?
- And then what goes on the very top?
- The red.
- Red.
Okay.
So what's in the middle?
- Yellow.
- Yellow, right,
but these are juggling balls.
So they're always mixed up. - What?
- [Colleen] They got mixed up.
- It goes in first,
then the yellow one,
and then the red one we'll put over here,
away from it's friends.
Okay.
But because they're juggling balls,
they like to stay together and stay in threes.
So this one goes away
and ends up
mixing everything back up. - Whoa.
- What?
- What.
- [Flynn] The green go in there.
- [Colleen] The green goes in there, yeah.
- Alright.
That's all I have today,
but thank you guys.
- [Group] Yay.
- [Chris] That was fun, that was fun.
(group clapping)
- You guys know all those? - Flynn wants that little
stick with the colors on it. - Yeah.
- [Male Voice] But you upgraded the wheels
on your face. - Bailey,
did you know all of those or were there any new ones.
- [Chris] (indistinct) I got this case...
- [Jessica] Yeah, you knew em all.
- [Chris] So,
I don't know if we really explained it before,
but Jacob made this hat
and now he's added spinny wheels to it.
I feel like you need these on too.
- [Child's Voice] Those are way too small for you.
- [Chris] Just finish the look is all I'm saying.
Yeah, that is a look.
My sister's family,
my parents and Trent have all left a little while ago,
actually.
I've changed into sweatpants because
(dog barking)
comfort.
We've been cleaning up,
eating leftovers,
playing.
We played a card game, which was really fun.
And it's starting to get dark out,
which means the fireworks are gonna start up.
I'm not sure if we're going to be able to see em from our
house this year.
Last year, there were a bunch of
illegal fireworks that went off around town
and we watched those,
but I'm not sure if this year
there's going to be a lot of that,
or a little of that,
or big city funded thing.
I don't know.
So we're going to keep our eyes open.
See if we see any fireworks.
Hopefully we see some in a safe and legal sort of way.
We certainly won't be shooting anything off.
That's not really our style.
We just kind of watch from a distance and go,
"ooh,
I hope that doesn't land on something flammable."
This is also Rue's first year with fireworks.
So we're going to see how she reacts to that.
Hopefully she just sleeps through it.
If she doesn't,
we've got a lot of treats to feed her
and we'll just try and use it as a training opportunity
that loud sounds and pretty sparkling lights are okay.
There haven't been too many fireworks yet.
- [Child's Voice] Yes!
- Oh, you saw some? - I see some.
- Whoa, I saw one!
- [Child's Voice] Whoa.
Whoa!
- Whoa!
Whoa.
(children giggling)
Whoa, look at that one.
And that one.
(calm music)
- So there's like an overwhelming rumble
that's just kind of happening in the background constantly.
I think the sounds are just sort of echoing
between the clouds and the ground
and just rumbling.
Like everything's rumbling.
- Dad! Dad! Just wait it.
(indistinct)
- Just wait it.
(children screaming)
- Whoa, did you see those over there?
- Uh-huh.
I saw it, it was over there.
- Oh are you seeing those ones?
- Uh-huh, I...
(children screaming)
- So everything up to this point has been
like impromptu fireworks.
I heard
that there is actually going to be a formal firework
show,
but I'm not quite sure where it's gonna occur.
So we're kind of like at the top of our hill,
scanning the horizon,
waiting to see where the best vantage point is.
- Oh!
- It's happening over there.
- [Chris] Oh, there it is.
Okay, so let's go up here.
See if we can see a little better.
- I can see them very well from here.
- [Chris] Oh yeah, this is the spot right here.
- Oh.
Gold.
- Whoa.
- Whoa, look at that one.
(rock version of "The Star-Spangled Banner")
- It's a good show.
- [Chris] Do you like it?
- Yeah, it's...
- There's still
fireworks going from... - Yes.
at the end, at the very end,
you just hear,
pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
And you couldn't see anything,
it was so weird.
- [Chris] Yeah, cause the sound travels
slower than the light does.
So the light gets to your eyes before the sound gets to your
ear.
- Oh.
- [Chris] Did you like the fireworks show?
- Yeah!
- [Chris] Was it fun?
- Yeah, like,
the whole, there was a whole bunch at once.
- [Chris] Yeah,
what was your favorite kind of firework?
- The whole bunch at once.
- [Chris] The whole bunch at once?
- Yeah,
the whole bunch at once. - Yeah.
- I like...
- I like the whole bunch of, at once,
and when that's like going up,
and then,
pow.
- [Chris] Yeah, those are cool.
- I liked the ones,
I call it the alien spaceship one
because it would go out,
but it would also have like a rain,
and I thought that kind of looked like
an alien spaceship,
but dad thinks it's like a rain,
like a rain that you put on your hair,
but yes.
I like those.
Happy 4th of July.
- Well, it was really good to see family today.
It was fun to have like a proper firework show.
Oh, it was also fun doing magic.
I haven't done that in a long, long time.
So that was a lot of fun to do too.
Hope that you enjoyed today's episode,
happy 4th of July,
and we will see you next time.
(children giggling)
(calm music)