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♪ It's Vlogmas, Vlogmas ♪
♪ And it's time to celebrate ♪
- Vlogmas!
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- Good morning everyone.
Today we're starting things off with some online classes.
Luke has actually already done two online
or Zoom preschool classes this morning.
In those, he does a lot of singing.
He learns letters. He learns a little bit of counting.
One of the classes is really focused on speech therapy
in addition to his preschool stuff.
So, he usually does a craft in that one.
And she goes over like colors and tries to get him to say
she was having him say, "up," today.
Trying to get that closed, "P," sound
before saying the next word.
So like, "up dog," or, "up balloon," stuff like that.
So they were working on that today and, uh
and he made a little craft and I wanna show it to you.
Can you show me what you made in class today?
What'd you make in class today?
- A Polar bear.
- [Dad] A polar bear?
- Polar bear.
- [Dad] Is that your polar bear? Oh my goodness.
Did you make it out of a plate?
- Yeah.
- [Dad] That is so cool. Can I see it?
- It's polar bear
- [Dad] It is a polar bear. I love it.
Should we put it up on the wall?
- Yeah. - [Dad] Okay.
- Paper.
- [Dad] We gotta find some tape.
Hmm hmm. - Hmm.
- [Dad] A roll. Here's an old dispenser.
Maybe we can make, make something out of this.
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I'm not feeling the end of this tape. Oh, there it is.
- [Luke] Oh. (indistinct)
- [Dad] Oh, don't do that. Don't do that. No!
It's tearing down the middle.
(loud knocks)
- [Luke] Hey. (indistinct)
(cheerful music)
(child coos)
- [Dad] Huh. Why?
(child coos)
(tape crinkles)
- Oh, on the pigeon.
- [Dad] You want it next to the pigeon?
- Yeah.
- [Dad] Okay. Got a little piece of tape here
And it's gonna go right here.
- [Luke] Next to the pigeon.
- [Dad] Next to the pigeon. So we've got your polar bear.
We have your pigeon with the hot dogs.
- Drawings right there.
- [Dad] And these drawings, did you do these drawings?
- [Luke] Yeah.
- [Dad] Those are nice drawings. What are they of?
- A lot of blueberries.
- [Dad] They're blueberries?
- Yeah. - [Dad] Yeah.
And then we've got your Turkey hat
that you made for Thanksgiving.
- Yeah.
- [Dad] And your corn that you made with Duplos.
You dipped Duplos into some paint and made this, this corn.
That's a really nice little wall of
of stuff you made there.
- Yeah.
- [Dad] You happy with it?
- Thank you!
- [Dad] Thank you for making our house so beautiful.
- Yeah.
- Parker has an online story class that he does
every once in a while and he's encouraged to do crafts
or projects while the story is being read to him.
It's a really cool class.
And he had like a kiwi crate? Is that what this is?
- Mhmm. - He had a kiwi crate.
He brought this contraption into my room, was like dad.
Look at this thing and I don't know what it does
but I'm excited to see 'cause it is a very cool
looking contraption. It's right here.
(plane buzz)
- [Dad] Whoa.
That is so cool.
- Yeah. So, you can also like adjust where it goes.
So, like, I can make it go up
and then I can also make it go down and fly.
(plane buzz)
Like this. Wow it flies a lot faster like this.
I didn't know I could fly this fast. Like...
(plane buzzing)
- [Dad] So you built this thing.
It was just little pieces of wood and like
like the straw and stuff?
- It was, I'm scared.
- [Dad] Did they get you? Did it break?
- I don't know. Wait.
- [Dad] Oh there it goes.
- What's that sound?
- [Dad] Yeah, let's stop it. Take a look.
Oh, it looks like this got pushed in a little bit.
Maybe that's what it is.
(propellor clicking)
Oh, we're having some Some engine trouble.
Little bit of engine trouble.
- I think I know what happened. Good.
(plane buzzing)
Ooh.
(Parker laughs)
It's down low. Oh my gosh.
It was like down low and it brought itself up.
- [Dad] I wonder if you could adjust like the tail
or the wings to make it start down low
and go all the way up. Like a real airplane does.
- Yeah, I wonder.
So what I'm trying to do is I'm starting it down low
and let's see if this changes anything to make it go higher.
Like a real airplane.
(plane buzz)
And it's going up higher
And yeah, that's how high it goes.
Well maybe it'll go higher.
It's like so close to my neck right now. Like, ooh.
Ooh. And then we can flip these down.
- [Dad] Oh and see if it'll go down?
- Yeah. Okay. Okay. Let's see.
(plane buzz)
No, I think it's just going across.
- [Dad] It's going down a little bit.
- Really?
- [Dad] Little bit. - Oh yeah. Huh.
- [Dad] That's cool. - Oh my gosh.
Yeah, it's going down.
I didn't think it would go down
because I thought it would just go across the way
but it's going down.
It used to be like up here and now it's, oops.
That's really cool.
- So Jacob has also been in several online classes today
but in between classes he sneaks up here
to my room and this is where my desk is.
It's a mess. I'm sorry.
But I've got some cool stuff here.
Like my very cool Lego picture.
And then I only have four of the kids up here
but somebody that watches our videos drew these
or painted these and they've been up on this wall
since we got them. And a very high powered computer
which is why Jacob likes it up here.
- Yeah.
- [Dad] What are you working on?
- Um. Blender.
- For those of you who don't know
Jacob is really into 3D rendering
and a little bit of animation
dabbling in that a little bit.
And he uses the program Blender, which is a free program.
It's like open source? Is that what it's called?
- Yup. - [Dad] Open source?
- Open source.
- [Dad] And he has become quite proficient in it.
And he has been building this little
it looks like a little like mech creature.
- [Jacob] Yeah. This is my little mech here.
It's not textured yet, but it's pretty, it's pretty cool.
Pretty detailed. Kind of experimenting
with some box modeling.
I just decide to kind of experiment with Eevee.
- [Dad] What's Eevee?
- It's a rendering engine.
So there's Cycles and there's Eevee.
Cycles looks like this.
- [Dad] That's cycles?
- [Jacob] Yep. That's Cycles. And this is Eevee.
- [Dad] I'd say Eevee looks better.
- I know you would say that
but if you were rendering gra... glass or something
Cycles is much better.
- I don't know. I'm not rendering anything.
- [Jacob] Shade sphere. Okay. So.
- [Dad] That ball just ate your, your mech.
- [Jacob] Yeah, I know.
I'm making a glass material to show you.
Okay. So I'm pretty sure this is, this is glass.
It doesn't, it doesn't look like glass
but if we change it to Cycles, looks much more like glass.
- [Dad] Okay. So if you want something to be captured
in a crystal ball like the labyrinth.
- Okay.
- [Dad] You've gotta use the Cycles.
- It's just a...
- [Dad] That's what I'm learning.
- It's just a better rendering engine.
It, it's not real time, but it's better.
This is a windshield.
- [Dad] So that'll be glass? The windshield?
- Yes.
- [Dad] So you're gonna have to use those Cycles.
Is is what my recommendation would be be.
- Um. I might have to use those Cycles.
- [Dad] Yeah, you gotta use those Cycles.
Oh Jake, that's, that's nodes.
- Yeah, that's nodes.
- [Dad] See I know some things.
- Here. - [Dad] I know all about that.
- Here's some more nodes.
- [Dad] So what is this? This is a different mech?
- [Jacob] Yep. Um. This is pretty cool.
- [Dad] Oh wow. Look at that.
- [Jacob] So yeah, it's kind of basic.
- [Dad] Kind of looks like, that looks like Cycles to me
is what I would say.
- Yep. This is. This is some Cycles.
- [Dad] Some Cycle nodes.
- It's not Eevee.
- [Dad] Uh. It looks like a video game in Eevee.
- [Jacob] Yeah. They render video games in Eevee.
- [Dad] Okay.
- [Jacob] Because it's real time.
- [Dad] Got it. Do they use Eevee for like
the Mandalorian backgrounds?
- I think they have just a really powerful computer.
- [Dad] Do you think they use nodes?
- Yes.
- [Dad] Do you think they use cycles?
- No, I don't think they use Cycles
'cause they have a different...
They use something like cycles. I'm pretty sure.
- [Dad] Look at that little guy exploring
on a dusty martian landscape.
- [Jacob] Yeah. The landscape I'm still working on.
- [Dad] You know a lot about this stuff.
- Yeah.
- [Dad] Are you making a video, uh, with Blender right now?
- Oh yeah. I was actually just editing it.
- [Dad] So this, is this premier? Is this premier?
- [Jacob] Yeah. This is Premier.
- [Dad] This looks very familiar to me.
- [Jacob] I'm, I'm editing.
- [Dad] So you're making some Christmas balls?
Decoration balls, ornaments? - Ornaments. Yeah.
- [Dad] That's probably the right term.
(Jacob giggles)
- It's pretty cool because, um, it's a video
or a short on YouTube that's gonna be airing
on, um, the first on December 1st.
- [Dad] Okay. So this will probably go up
the day before that.
- Okay.
- [Dad] So, so you gotta go subscribe to Jacob.
- Gotta go subscribe to me.
- [Dad] So that you can see his short when it pops up.
And that way you can learn how to use Blender
and make Christmas ornament balls.
- Yeah. And when you duplicate the ornament balls
watch this. See? Okay. I'm gonna make a bigger screen
so you can see it a little bit better.
See how they're turning different colors?
- [Dad] Oh that's fun. Whoa.
- It went, it started over.
- [Dad] It's the end of the, end of the video.
- End of the video.
Yeah, but it's looping, so that's pretty fun.
But also I made it so the top of the ornaments
also when you duplicate it, watch, see?
- [Dad] Oh yeah, they changed color too.
- [Jacob] Yeah. There's only gold and silver.
You can see down here, with nodes. That's nodes.
- [Dad] That's some nodes.
When Jacob starts talking about Blender, he usually goes
into a whole different set of vocabulary words.
I find it really amusing personally.
And I try and use the vocabulary words
and I feel like that's how I learn the vocabulary words
is I use them and assume that I'm gonna get it incorrect
and then sometimes I hit, hit it
and I act like I know what I'm talking about.
And it's funny to me because I feel like these
very specific genres of interest
end up having their own vocabulary words.
I'm the same way when I get together with magicians.
If I sit down with a table full of magicians
we start saying things that make no sense to anybody else
that is not a magician that overhears what we're saying.
But to us it all makes sense
because we've all read magic books
and watched magic tutorial videos.
And I also think that's super fun
'cause like you can meet somebody for the first time
like Jacob could meet somebody
and find out that they do Blender
and they'll both be able to talk to each other in that way
even though they've never talked to each other before.
They'll be able to like communicate
with this whole different set of vocabulary words
from somebody who's never used Blender before.
And I just think that's, that's really cool.
It's like a cool like bonding thing that happens
when you have a special interest.
Hey you! I like your outfit today.
(baby coos)
Yeah? Do you have snowmen on your outfit?
(foot steps)
This little guy gets around all over the place now.
Where you going?
You going for the staircase?
What are you doing? Why are you going up the stairs?
(women distantly talking)
- [Women] Oh you're standing up. Are you standing up?
(baby coos)
- I see that you brought your book out.
- I did.
- Bailey got this book for her birthday.
What, uh, how far are you into the book with the reading?
- I finished it like, two days after I got it.
- Oh. Well.
- And I reread it like multiple times.
- Oh, how many times have you read this book?
- Maybe twenty?
- You've read this book twenty times since you've gotten it?
- Yeah, but I've read one chapter in particular
more than that.
- How'd you, so you, you didn't like it then?
- What?
- You didn't like the book?
- I love the book.
- Oh, I know. I'm just saying like
you only read it twenty times so.
- Oh no, I loved it.
- Bailey, do you remember when you used to do
Bailey's bookshelf?
- Uh. Yeah, that was a long time ago.
- That, if you do a little book review right now
it'll be like a mini Bailey's bookshelf.
- Hello and welcome to Bailey's bookshelf
where we books, answer some questions and read a book
and tell it to you.
- That was pretty close.
♪ Hello, welcome to Bailey's bookshelf ♪
♪ Where I answer your question then read a book ♪
♪ and tell it to you. ♪
♪ Perfect. ♪
- You know what's funny is you sang that just like
- Just a song that I made up.
- Yeah you just sang it once
and then I took a little pretend piano
like it's a xylophone piano that has like...
- Four keys.
- And I tried to find the keys that matched your voice
as closely as possible and did it a few times.
And then that was your theme song.
- Yes.
- Way back when you did that in like 2013.
- Which book is this?
- Oh this is the, the last book for now.
There's gonna be another one I think.
And then that's gonna be the end, which is really sad.
This is Keeper of The Lost Cities Stellarlune.
I think I started reading this book series
like five years ago?
I really love it. It's really good.
- I have not read this book series.
Should I start with this book?
- No
- I'll read it twenty times.
- Read it twenty times, but read the first one first.
- Okay.
- I really, really enjoyed it, um, especially the end.
The first part wasn't very interesting, mostly because
there's a certain character that wasn't there
and I was really upset. I really missed him.
Okay? And no spoilers. No spoilers.
I'm trying not to spoil anything.
- Are you gonna keep it quiet about that one?
(Bailey laughs)
- Okay, nevermind.
- I just know which characters you like in these books
and if one was missing, it's probably that one.
- I really loved the last half. It made me very happy
uh, and I, I loved it. All of it.
Just the last half was the best part.
It's really good book, book series.
It's worth reading all nine and a half books.
- There's a half book?
- Yes.
- Do they cut it in half this way or this way?
- Not sure.
- This way. That way. Okay.
- No. You like cut it the the inside out.
- That makes more sense than what I was gonna say.
- And then there's like a little tiny bit of book left
that's there.
- I think if I was gonna write a half book
I'd just do it this way.
So you make a really thick long book but not this side.
'Cause this side would just fall apart.
You gotta have the binding side in order for it to work.
- Yes. I could go really in detail
with all these book reviews but like I definitely shouldn't
because spoilers and this guy.
- Don't wanna spoil it for me.
- No.
- So Bailey has read all of these books
and if there's anybody out there that has also read all
of these books, please let us know in the comment section
what you thought of it 'cause Bailey will talk about this.
- I will. - For a long time.
- Hours.
- And she's always looking
for somebody that knows something about the books.
- I am. Yeah.
- So she's the person to talk to.
- Talk to me.
- She's the expert.
- I'm the expert.
- I'm ready for gymnastics!
- [Dad] You're ready for gymnastics?
- I'm at gymnastics!
- Yeah. You're at gymnastics, huh?
- Yeah.
- [Dad] Are you gonna do a good job?
- Good job.
- [Dad] A good job? Okay.
- Right there.
- [Dad] You're gonna stand over there? Wait your turn?
- Yeah. - [Dad] Okay. Go for it.
(upbeat music)
(high screaming)
- [Dad] How's gymnastics going?
- Good.
- [Dad] Good? Are you working on your forward role
in gymnastics?
- Yeah.
- [Dad] Are you working on the balance beam?
- Yeah.
- [Dad] Are you working on the trampoline?
- Yeah! (indistinct)
- [Dad] Do you go into the foam pit?
- Yeah, I jump in the foam pit.
- [Dad] You jump into the foam pit?
- Yeah. - [Dad] Yeah.
You look like you go into the foam pit very confidently.
- I wear blueberry 'nastics clothes.
- [Dad] And you wear your blueberry gymnastics clothes.
Did Jacob get you those for your birthday?
- Yeah. - [Dad] Yeah.
- Thank you.
- Hi. - Hi.
(guitar and banjo strums)
- Let's talk about what we learned today.
- Yeah Let's talk about what we learned today.
- We learned that clear plastic tape is the actual worst.
We learned some cool new Blender terms.
And finally we learned that when it comes to book reviews
Bailey's still got the chops.
Thanks for watching everybody.
We'll see you next time.
Take us out Duncan.
- Okay.
(Banjo strums)
(quiet giggles)
(baby giggles)
(cheerful music)