- [Chris Ballinger] How was your first flight?
(upbeat pop music)
(quick mischievous jazz)
- Good morning, everybody.
Today we are going to Hawaii and it is
going to be super fun.
- [Jessica] You ready for your first flight?
- [Chris] Do you have any idea what's happening?
- [Jessica] (laughs)
- [Chris] Are you doing your fish impression?
- [Jessica] Flynn's gonna have fun
looking at you this week! (laughs)
- These are Cheerios.
I know it just looked like I was, like --
(laughter)
- [Chris] Just poppin' some Cheerios?
- Cheerios.
Kay?
- [Chris] I'm glad that you child-proofed the Cheerios.
- Well I was trying to find things that will
entertain my son on a five and a half hour flight,
and he likes --
- [Chris] Pill containers!
- Any -- No, just little containers
that are hard to open, he likes.
So I filled one with Cheerios.
I cleaned it!
Calm down.
(laughter)
- [Tim Ballinger] They're prescription Cheerios.
- [Chris] Prescription Cheerios.
Look at all these people that we're
bringing with us here to Hawaii.
So many people!
- Is the first thing you're gonna do
is go to your hotel?
- Yeah, we're gonna go to the hotel --
- And then we're gonna --
- and then I'm gonna put on my bathing suit
and going straight to the beach.
In fact, Flynn's bathing suit's in my backpack.
- [Chris] You excited, Jake?
- Yeah.
I'm just gonna, like, get inside and then just
slip on my suit and then just leave
to get in the pool.
- [Chris] What are you gonna do on the airplane?
- I don't know, maybe read or do dot to dot
if I have a pen and then TVs, maybe watch a movie.
- [Chris] What are you gonna do on the airplane?
Fly?
- Watch Mickey Mouse and go around!
- [Chris] Oh, I hope they have some
Mickey Mouse movies for you.
- Kay.
- [Chris] They might not.
- Kay.
- [Chris] If they don't, what are you gonna do?
Look out the window?
- [Colleen] He's gonna eat some --
- [Chris] Sit quietly?
- [Colleen] Crackers?
Oh, no.
(laughter)
- [Chris] Looks like Bailey's got a
very easy dot to dot going here.
- [Bailey] Isn't it cute?
- I'm trying to watch the Mickey Mouse movie.
- [Jessica] (laughs)
- [Chris] You guys ready to go?
- We are in the airplane.
And it was kind of a trek to get here,
but it was really good.
Like, the kids knew what they were doing,
and the little kids that didn't stayed close.
I was even nursing Luke, like, as we were
going through security
and they were really nice and helpful
and then I was nursing him, like,
the walk to, down the terminal.
And my sweatshirt had this giant
milk, like, spot on it, cause I think he
was just nursing and dripping
while he was doing that, but, that's okay.
Because he was happy!
He's been happy this whole time.
He was happy the drive to the airport,
and he's been happy for most of the
sitting in the terminal, so,
it's been good so far.
We'll see how the plane ride goes.
- So right now we're on the airplane
and it is so much fun.
Duncan is watching a little movie,
and me too.
- So we'll see how Luke does,
this is his first flight, so I don't know.
His ears might be sensitive and I'm
a little worried for him,
but we'll see how it goes.
- [Chris] Are we almost there?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] Was it a good flight?
Let's look outside, what's it look like out there?
Oh, pretty.
(slow happy electronic music)
- Look, right there!
- [Chris] Hawaii's out there?
(slow happy electronic music)
- We're here!
- [Jessica] We made it.
- [Chris] How was your first flight?
Did we make it?
(airplane dinging sound)
We made it!
- [Chris] We're here!
Ready?
How do you say "Hello" here?
- Hello!
- (laughs) You say "Aloha".
- Aloha!
- Very good.
- [Bailey] Are you gonna smile?
Big smiles!
Can you do a smile?
Aww!
Can you do a smile?
Yeah, big smiles!
Will you smile?
Yeah, you having so much fun mister?
- [Chris] Look at you!
- He was crying but they gave him a necklace
and he calmed down.
- [Chris] Look at you!
- [Jessica] Aloha!
(happy Hawaiian ukulele music)
- [Chris] He fell asleep.
You woke up!
What do you have, here?
What is this?
Is that yours?
Is it lemonade?
- Nope.
- [Chris] No?
Is this pineapple?
Have you tried the pineapple yet?
Take a bite of the pineapple,
see how you like it.
- [Bailey] Do you like it?
- [Chris] Do you like the pineapple?
- Yeah, but I like it so much.
- [Chris] You like it so much?
- [Jessica] It's got a stick in it.
- [Chris] Yeah, you don't eat the stick.
You can hold it, you can just hold the pineapple.
You don't have to have it on the stick.
Cause it'll fall off the stick and then you'll be sad.
There you go.
Let me see about a napkin please, sir.
(happy ukulele music)
- [Chris] What do you think, Duncan?
Are you gonna have fun here?
You guys wanna see the room?
- Oh my goodness, that flight!
It actually went way better than I had
pictured it before we went.
Because Luke has been so sad lately.
He's been really crying a lot.
So our doctor had said to try something
called Mylanta with him, and he gave us
the right amount for his little body
and all that, because it's not usually for babies.
And it helped him right away, it was so good.
And I think that's really what made the flight
extra magical, because he was a lot calmer,
a lot happier than he's been in a long time.
That's, like, that's what I'm saying. (laughs)
Like, the fact that it took a six hour plane ride
for my baby to just be happy for
that length of time was, I dunno, kind of funny.
I was anticipating it being a really rough flight.
And no, it's not the same as flying alone as an adult,
when you're flying with five children
and one of them is an infant,
and one is a toddler who is potty training.
(laughs)
There's still a lot that goes into that,
but Christopher and I, I think have already,
our expectations are not, you know,
a luxurious flight to Hawaii (laughs)
where we just,
you know, watch movies and sip on our drinks.
Like, we're kind of always managing a child
and, like, shifting back and forth
and that's what we do while we're on those flights.
But this one actually did feel relaxing.
I did have a baby on me for most of the time
and he was asleep for most of the time.
That was amazing!
Like, it just felt so wonderful to have him,
I've got him right now actually too, see?
He slept for the takeoff, he didn't even
nurse at takeoff, like I always do with my
nursing babies.
Because it kind of helps with the ear pain
that you can have at takeoff and landing.
And he was too sleepy.
He had already fallen asleep,
so he didn't nurse, and I was, like, ready
in case he woke up, but he didn't wake up.
He slept through the whole thing.
And I'll also sometimes use pacifiers,
just so you know, just for that tip.
If you're worried about your baby
at takeoff or landing, I recommend nursing,
bring a pacifier or a bottle or however
you can help them to kind of activate that,
like sucking or chewing motion.
Our bigger kids chew gum at takeoff.
We got up in the air.
Duncan was actually the hardest, I'd say.
He really didn't wanna follow airplane rules
and I wasn't expecting that.
I thought he'd be a little better behaved,
but we have to work on that with him.
He kept taking his seatbelt off and unbuckling it
and kind of wanting to run around a lot
and we had to really teach him that, you know,
you've got to stay in your seatbelt.
And I think he still needs to learn a little bit there.
But he did do pretty well watching movies
and things like that, so that was good.
Jacob was really helpful.
He sat in between me and Duncan
and he helped so much with Duncan.
I was really proud of him and he's just,
he's a really good kid.
He paid such good attention to what Duncan needed
and he helped him, like,
adjust the screen for the video
and he helped him buckle up, like, a million times,
and he helped him with all of his food.
Duncan spilled a little bit at one point
and Jacob didn't get upset or complain
that he got a little spilled on.
So it was really sweet of him.
And then Duncan went to the bathroom
every single time he needed to.
He didn't wet his pants or anything,
even though he's still in early stages of potty training.
I was really proud of him for that.
He did need to change his pants
because he spilled on himself.
But it wasn't pee!
Or anything else.
Bailey and Parker, I feel, like I didn't even hear from.
They were sitting in front of me
and they were sitting next to Christopher,
and I feel like they had a really chill trip.
Christopher was assisting me a lot of the time.
Christopher and I were both on the aisle,
and I would, like, lift my leg up and
nudge him because I couldn't move my hands
and he had headphones on, so I couldn't
say, like, "Christopher!" So I would nudge
him with my foot in the middle of the aisle
and get his attention, and I ended up
kind of doing it a lot, but he would get
things out of the diaper bag for me
and stuff like that, because it was by his feet.
He was helping me and then also helping with Duncan
when Duncan was getting too out of control.
That's how the seating arrangement went.
I thought it was perfect.
I do think, other than me nudging Christopher,
I think he had a good flight,
and I think Bailey and Parker had a great flight,
and I actually watched two movies!
Two movies all the way through.
I have not done that on any flight
since we've had children.
Like, how is it that we've got a newborn
and five children total and I'm watching
two movies?
On my way to Hawaii?
It felt like a dream flight, and really really
we needed that, so I'm just really grateful
that it went so well.
Looking back, I'm like, "Oh my gosh,
how did that happen? That was amazing!".
I don't know what the flight home will look like
(laughs) but this was really good.
This is setting a whole new standard for us.
We're gonna be like, "Okay, kids.
Remember that time we flew to Hawaii
and it was amazing?
Let's do that again.". (laughs)
But I will say, the one time when
things were really, really rough was
when we landed
and Luke did not like that.
Like, I could really tell it was affecting
his ears, and I was trying so hard
to nurse him, but he wouldn't nurse
because I think he was so full.
So I think his ears were just, like, really,
really hurting him and he was crying
and crying and it was like he invented
a new way of crying because he had a whole
new sound that he'd never made before.
So I could tell that he was really upset,
so that was hard.
But even then, for that to be the only thing
and the only major bout of crying was, like,
really amazing.
And now we're here!
Aloha!
(upbeat ukulele music)
- [Chris] What are you gonna do?
- The slide!
- [Chris] The slide?
Okay, let me see it.
You must be pretty brave to go down
this treacherous slide.
- [Parker] I'll make an example.
- [Chris] For you or for them?
Whoa! (laughs)
- That's what I mean!
- [Chris] Don't do it that way!
Sit down and then slide, don't jump.
No jumping.
- [Jacob] Ready guys?
- [Tim] Yeah, just sit down and go down the slide, okay?
(slow happy ukulele music)
(laughs)