♪ Tomorrow ♪
♪ I love ya tomorrow ♪
(cheerful bell music)
♪ It's Vlogmas, Vlogmas ♪
♪ It's Vlogmas, Vlogmas, and it's time to celebrate ♪
- Vlogmas!
- [Family] Yay!
(festive jazzy music)
- Good morning everyone.
Oh, got a strap in the way there (chuckles).
Camera strap.
(laughing)
Look at your pajamas.
Those are pretty cute.
- No, no, this is my shirt.
- [Chris] That is your shirt, yeah.
- Snarky.
- Today is a pretty busy day.
We've got a doctor's appointment for Luke,
then we have Annie, a matinee show,
and then we have Annie, a night-time show,
and that pretty much fills up the whole day.
No matter how late I stay up the night before,
Duncan wakes up nice and early,
and makes sure I get up on time, because he gets hungry.
He needs some breakfast.
Are you playing with the tripod?
- Huh, what is this?
- [Chris] It holds up a camera.
So you remember how we were making the intro the other day,
when we were dancing around in Christmas pajamas?
I put the camera on that so we didn't have to hold it.
- You put this, put it in here?
- [Chris] Yeah.
- Oh.
- [Chris] You want some breakfast?
- Yeah.
Waffles, waffles!
- [Chris] Okay.
Blueberry waffles.
- Ha, thank ya.
- [Chris] You're welcome.
Enjoy.
(chewing)
- We are off to Luke's pediatrician right now.
He is doing a weigh-in.
He does these a little bit more frequently
because I think our pediatrician's just
really wanting to make sure he gets up to a good weight.
Cutie.
I'm giving him a little bottle in the car right now,
because he was kind of sad,
so I'm back here in the back seat with this fella.
Bailey and Jacob are staying home on their own right now
because Bailey is 12, and we can do that.
So we're trying to, like,
dip our toe into the waters of leaving our kids,
but it is very foreign to us.
It is not something we've done before.
I think partly because we home-school,
so we're just extra used to having our kids around us.
So it's just that much more odd to leave them places.
Even at home.
(laughing)
But, but that's what they're doing,
so we'll check in with them after.
Hopefully they're all still alive and well
and the house is safe and good,
but we'll have to see.
(laughing)
No, I trust them, I think they'll do a great job,
but still it is different, and new to us.
(laughing)
This video should be called
Parents' First Time Doing Something.
We always do, like, Baby's First Time, but,
Parents' First Time
Letting Their Kids Stay At Home Without.
- So, today's a big day, and tomorrow,
because we have two Annie performances today,
and two Annie performances tomorrow.
I'm one of the orphans, and I really like being an orphan.
So, that makes, I'm in,
one, two, three, four, five, six,
six songs.
And then, like, 11 scenes, so.
(lips smacking)
The most likely we're gonna do next is Newsies,
and I'm super excited about it,
cause it's my,
one of my favorites,
my favorites,
and my aunt's favorites, and Jacob's favorites.
So, one of Jacob's favorites.
Wait, what?
Sorry.
I'm hoping that it's gonna be
one of our whole family's favorites.
So we'll see you next time, bye!
- Okay, we are done at the doctor.
Luke is doing well, his weight is still going up
in the same amount that it was going up before,
so he's actually seven pounds, eight ounces now,
which Chris and I were really happy about,
that seemed like a lot, from where he had been.
But his height, like, really took off.
So his height went up, and he's 21 inches,
and his weight, even though it's still going
in the same direction it had before,
it didn't follow the same, like, leap that the height did,
so our doctor had us go and do an extra blood test,
he wants to check his electrolyte levels,
and, like, a bunch of other detailed things.
I asked if there was anything we could be doing more,
right now, and the doctor was like,
"No, everything you're doing's great",
but he just wants to see if there's something else
that he needs to add or change, or I don't know,
doctor stuff.
(laughing)
Now we are off to, as fast as we can,
get the kids a little bit of lunch,
and get them ready to go do Annie!
- We are now at the theater,
and these little orphans are ready to get on stage.
This is Bailey's orphan costume,
and Parker's orphan costume.
Are you excited to do the show today?
- [Children] Mm-hm.
- [Chris] Yeah, is it cold out here?
- It's cold.
Like, 20 layers on me, it's still cold.
- [Chris] You have 20 layers on, it's still cold?
- Not 20, but like, a lot.
- [Chris] I like all that detail,
like all the patchwork and everything on your costume,
it's super cool.
- Hey look.
- [Chris] Whoa.
- This is my Annie costume
as well as my non-Annie costume.
See, I have my note in here too,
but it doesn't say anything.
- [Chris] Oh, you're giving away secrets to the show.
There's nothing on that note?
Your acting is so good,
I always thought there was something on that note.
And here's Duncan being an orphan.
Are you ready to go on stage?
Are you gonna have a good show?
Yeah?
All right.
(festive music)
Duncan did his first part of the show.
You did a great job.
- I do it one time.
- You did it one time,
and you're gonna go on stage again for this show, right?
At the end - Two times.
- And then, you're doing the show all over again,
so you'll do it a third time.
- Three times.
- And then, you'll go on stage two times during that show
so then you'll be going on four times.
- No.
Four times and three times.
- Four times and three times.
I should explain that Jessica and I have been
kind of going back and forth with the baby,
so some performances she's been staying with the baby,
some performances I've been staying with the baby,
and today I get to watch parts of the show,
and help out with Duncan
when he gets a little restless in there.
(Duncan cooing)
What?
- A park!
- A park?
Oh, there is a playground over there,
we're not gonna go over there right now though.
- I'm not going--
- Did that, was that a surprising playground?
You're surprised by it?
- Yeah. - Whoa.
- I wanna go on it.
- You wanna go on it?
We're not gonna go on it right now,
it's raining right now, so, we can't go out there.
- I'll go on it later.
- Later?
Okay, sounds like you got a plan.
The kids are doing a great job in the show.
Parker and Bailey have gone on stage several times.
The scene changes have seemed quicker and more seamless,
and I think that has something to do with Jacob.
And then Duncan did a great job on stage.
Didn't you do a great job?
Did you do a great job?
- I don't sing.
- You don't sing?
What do you do?
♪ Tomorrow ♪
♪ I love ya ♪
(Chris laughing)
- That was really good!
That was really good.
- No, no, no.
(laughing)
No!
- I love you so much.
I think for tonight's performance,
Jessica and I will both be here with Luke.
But it's kind of challenging having a baby in the audience.
You feel bad for everybody that has to hear the baby cry
when the baby needs something.
'Cause that's how babies communicate.
So we've been switching off
but tonight I think we're gonna brave it,
both of us are gonna come.
- The grandma, no no,
the baby says wah, wah, wah.
- That is what the baby says, that's true.
All right, one show down, one to go.
Bailey, great job.
Are you excited? - I'm excited!
- Gonna play a whole completely different role.
- Yeah, I'm so excited.
- You ready to be Annie?
- Yes!
- Ready to be Annie? Yes!
- Yes!
♪ Tomorrow ♪
♪ I love ya, tomorrow ♪
♪ You're only a day ♪
♪ Away ♪
- [Chris] How are you guys doing, you ready to go?
- Mm-hmm. - We'll go get Mommy,
and the baby,
and we'll do the whole show again.
- [Parker] Except different characters.
- [Chris] Except different characters,
we'll be different characters.
- Not for me. - I will be reprising my role
as audience member.
- [Duncan] Not for me, though.
- [Chris] Hey, are you transforming from an orphan
to an Annie orphan?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] 'Cause Annie's an orphan.
- Yeah she is.
- When she's a plain orphan - Spoiler alert!
(laughing)
- [Chris] Oh, spoiler alert, oh, you're right, you're right.
Have you enjoyed having red hair this whole time?
- Yeah!
- [Chris] Do you think you're gonna keep it?
You're gonna try and keep it? - Yeah.
I'm gonna keep it for Christmas and wear a green dress.
- [Chris] Oh, color coordinating the hair with the dress.
(laughing)
- Ballinger's take Christmas very seriously.
♪ I'm doing the dad bounce ♪
♪ The dad bounce ♪
Pretty sure moms do this as well, but--
- [Jessica] I was gonna say.
- But, I call it the dad bounce when I do it.
- [Jessica] You're claiming bouncing, huh?
- No, I'm not claiming bouncing,
I'm not claiming bouncing, I just,
I am bouncing and I'm a dad.
- [Jessica] You're dadsplaining bouncing.
- I'm not dadsplaining anything!
(Jessica laughing)
Leave me alone!
Good luck tonight.
(chattering)
(baby crying)
You're missing a boot!
- Yes. - 'Cause she was just
in a rush, she has it.
- Good luck tonight.
Have fun.
The show's about to start, I got him to sleep,
but we'll see how long that lasts.
I don't have a great track record during plays.
♪ I think I'm gonna like it here ♪
♪ The pulse, the beat, the drive ♪
- [Chris] This little troublemaker.
You're a little troublemaker. - He's just singing along.
- You singing along?
(laughing)
It's intermission right now. - Yay!
- And I think Duncan wants to do the entire show,
in the lobby.
♪ N-Y-C ♪
♪ It's the hard-knock life, for us ♪
(mumbling)
The tomorrow one.
- [Chris] You're gonna do the tomorrow one?
Okay, well, how does that one go?
♪ Tomorrow ♪
♪ I love ya tomorrow ♪
♪ I love ya ♪
(babbling)
♪ It's the hard-knock life, for us ♪
♪ 'Stead of treated, we get ♪
♪ Kicked ♪
♪ It's the hard-knock life ♪
Done!
- [Chris] You know all the songs in this show.
(soft theatrics music)
(audience applause and cheering)
(chattering)
- Thank you!
- Good job today.
Did you have fun up there?
- Do I have a flower?
- What?
- Do I have a flower?
- Do you have a flower?
- [Jessica] He called you on not bringing him a flower?
- [Chris] Yeah, he called me on not bringing flowers.
- I think there's a meet and greet line forming for Bailey,
so let's get in that.
(soft theatrics music)
(laughing)
(festive jazz music)