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- Good morning, everyone!
- Mama!
- Good saying Mama!
- Can I do my math?
- Yeah, you can do your math, buddy.
We homeschool, but this is the first year
that the three older kids are officially school-aged.
So we've had more that we're doing at home with them
and that's why we've taken a little step
away from blogging a lot.
- [Parker] Mama!
- Yeah, sweetheart?
- [Parker] Does it say "draw your bean?"
- Yes it does, go draw that bean!
- Always putting some smelly stuff in it.
- [Jessica] Are you using a smelly marker?
- Mm-hmm.
- We are getting ready for Vlogmas,
which we will be vlogging daily during.
And we are so excited; we love Christmas season.
It's gonna be an especially great year for our family
because we're welcoming a new family member!
Christopher's sister, Coleen, is pregnant.
So this is the kids' first time in a while
that they're gonna have a baby cousin.
My sister Sarah has two daughters
and they're kind of between Parker and Bailey's ages.
(laughs)
They were born before and after Jacob.
And the kids play with them a lot and love them,
so we're really excited to have a new cousin.
Parker is loving math.
He always asks to do extra math,
all the time, and he loves it.
He's also doing a great job with his reading.
It's always so exciting for me to see my kids
when they're starting to read and understanding that.
It's so cool.
Let me show you our dining room table right now.
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Ooh, is that a mess!
We seriously clean off our table four times a day.
We use it for food, we use it
for school time, and we use it to play games.
Funny because, seriously, when kids are at home
all the time, as they are because they homeschool,
and they're little, and Duncan's age,
and just so excited about everything,
and doing so much, the house is always a mess.
Doesn't matter if it is totally clean at 10AM.
By noon it is a total mess again.
And then at one we totally clean it again.
It's kind of a constant cycle of cleaning and making a mess.
I promise, it gets spotless several times a day
and if we don't do that then things pile up
and you spill on your stuff, and it's really bad.
So I'm about to clean off this table because it is time.
And in a few minutes I'm going to have the kids
clean up the living room mess.
Because you can see the living room
starting to accumulate things as well.
And there are, Christopher and Parker
are doing some math together.
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(wordless singing)
- Good job, you guys, you did it!
As I was cleaning up the table
I was also making my own breakfast.
This is my typical setup.
So I basically always have two La Croix,
that's important to me, I need two.
I go through the first one really fast.
This is Twinings jasmine green tea.
I sometimes have celestial seasons morning thunder.
I really like that in the morning.
Sometimes a Yorkshire tea, so I can have a proper brew.
I have a little bit of mush for my breakfast.
Because I'm losing that baby weight.
Not a super exciting breakfast,
but it is working, and I'm getting to my goals there.
Slowly but surely. - [Bailey] Mush?
- [Jessica] Yeah, mush.
Are you working on math, Bailey?
- Yeah, so that I can work on typing,
because typing's my favorite.
- I'm sitting down to that delicious meal.
I'm about to do my morning stuff,
and get ready for the day.
It's hard to see this on camera,
but one of Duncan's favorite things to do
is to take a hair thing and shoot it across the room.
(bright quirky music)
- Can shoot rubber bands.
- Oh, almost.
Nice.
So Duncan keeps himself very much
entertained with that activity.
He does, it's really funny.
We just finished up lunch.
I should've filmed it for you
because that table, it was disgusting.
So right now we just cleaned it up again.
And it looks like this.
So, obviously not perfect, but clear enough for a game!
Just first finishing up washing the dishes.
We just put everything away from the dishwasher
before that and now it's dish time.
It's all a cycle.
- And then after.
- Over and over again, never gets done.
- And then after that I'm gonna
do one of my videos and then edit it.
- [Jessica] Yeah, what do you want to film today, buddy?
- I wanna do the same thing as the James Charles video
but I'm making my own makeup.
- [Jessica] So you're gonna do your own makeup design?
- Yeah!
- [Jessica] That's cool.
Do you know what you're gonna base it off of?
- I think I'm gonna base it on Mickey Mouse.
- [Jessica] Ooh, a Mickey Mouse makeup look?
- I think so.
- [Jessica] I love that, that's a great idea.
- So I'm gonna put black on my eyes right here
so it's gonna look like my eyes are black.
- [Jessica] That's fun.
- Because his eyes are black.
And when it's the final reveal, I'm gonna go like this.
(Jessica laughs)
I'm gonna try to make me look
like a Miranda Mickey Mouse.
I'm gonna put JoJo's stuff on,
but then I'm gonna put a bow in my hair,
but it's not gonna be JoJo, it's gonna be like Minnie Mouse.
- [Jessica] Tricks, tricks!
(laughing)
That's a great idea.
If you don't know what Parker's talking about
he's starting his own channel on Youtube,
and he's been filming his videos, creating his videos,
the concepts are all his own, and editing them.
And he's doing a really great job,
so go check out Parker's channel,
it's Parker King of Gymnastics.
- P R K E R,
and then K...
And then A
and then an N,
and that's it, and then, Parker king of gymnastics.
Guh, and then a G, I can't say it!
- That was really good though, that was good sounding out!
It's hard to sound out in your head
when you're just learning to read.
- It's hard.
- [Jessica] But you did great!
- Does the king sound, was the king--
- [Jessica] Yeah, there's a G at the end too.
Kin-guh.
- King.
- Guh, at the end.
- Kin-guh, kin-guh?
Kin-guh?
- [Jessica] Yeah, king!
- K, ih, n.
King!
King, king king, okay, okay!
Bye bye, uh...
Daddy!
- [Jessica] What game are we about to play, Bailey?
- Pandemic Legacy season two!
- [Jessica] Season two!
- February!
- [Jessica] Yes, we've gotta save that world!
Queen of setting up the world. - Don't look!
- Don't look, spoilers, don't look there's spoilers!
Don't look at that!
- Hello and we're here
to present the aqueduct!
- I haven't been in this vlog at all
and I got hijacked right away.
We're number 15!
- Yeah.
- For what, for what kind of food?
- Pizza!
- Pizza, which is a real treat for us
because we have not been eating out at all
since we got back from Europe,
we've been just cooking at home, and it's been awesome.
But tonight, Bailey and Jacob have
their D&D club, Dungeons and Dragons.
How excited are you about Dungeons and Dragons?
- Really excited, it's my favorite game.
- I've never been to this before.
This is the first time I'm coming to this.
So they've done this three times already.
They love it.
- It's really fun.
- This is my first time experiencing it.
Basically they're the only ones that are old enough
to do it, because you have to be young enough
and old enough, and they fit in the window.
- [Jessica] No, any age, you could play.
- [Chris] I could play?
- Yeah, you can. - [Bailey] Yeah, you can!
You just have to pay five dollars.
- I can play, but I don't have five dollars to spend today.
We're gonna stay here, we're gonna
eat pizza and get some work done.
Jessica brought several computers with her.
- So I, it's my turn to edit.
Watch this.
- [Chris] What, you got a trick?
- I'm gonna show you this floating.
See, it's floating!
- [Chris] Wow.
- [Jessica] Do you want to tell them
what your video was, that you're gonna be editing?
- [Chris] What video are you editing?
They've probably already seen it.
- This!
- [Chris] Oh look at those nails!
So you're going to show how you made
your nails look that way?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] That's pretty cool.
- But it is a short video. - [Chris] Short video?
- I did my feet too, and this one's
this feet, and this one's this.
- So they match, the pattern matches?
- Yeah, but-- - Criss-cross.
- Yeah, it's funny.
- It is funny.
- So, I'll show you, so it's like this.
- [Jessica] Hey, feet off the table, dude!
Feet down, feet down, feet down.
- It's like that. - Feet down!
- The Dodgers, I think, are in the finals
and they're on the screen, and so Jacob's really excited
that he gets to see that before he goes
and plays Dungeons and Dragons, right Jake?
Dodgers?
- [Jessica] He's not gonna look away.
- No, he's glued to it.
Gonna blow on your pizza?
Is that hot?
Blow on it, good blowing, good job.
Couple updates for you.
The kids went to Dungeons and Dragons,
I got a bunch of writing done,
Parker has been editing his video,
with Jessica's help, and I got the baby to sleep.
And the Dodgers are winning, so it's just
all around a great night so far.
Parker, what are you making right now?
- My name. - [Chris] Your name?
- [Jessica] He's working on his thumbnail.
- [Chris] You're working on your thumbnail?
- Yes.
How did Dungeons and Dragons go tonight?
Good, who won?
- There was someone on first base, a Dodger,
someone on third base, and Puig was up to bat.
- Oh, he hit a homer?
- He did, and the Dodgers are going to the World Series.
- Yeah!
Yeah.
- How much points did the Dodgers get
and how much points did the--
- So it was five to one, Dodger victory, Jacob.
- And last game it was two to seven.
The Dodgers lost that game.
- But how was Dungeons and Dragons?
That was my initial question. - It was awesome!
- It was awesome?
- The Dodgers are awesome too.
- I became unconscious.
- You became unconscious?
In real life or in the game?
- The game.
- Oh good, good, 'cause we, we would've liked them
to come get us if you went unconscious
during the game in real life, so.
- Well, I did go unconscious during the game
in real life in the game.
- I'm so confused.
Okay, we're back home now, and I wanted the kids
to introduce you to the characters
they're playing in D&D.
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So who is this?
- His name is Philip, but I'm gonna make
a different character later.
That, I don't know what his name is yet
but I'm thinking of Scar and he's a Dragonborn.
- What species is Philip?
- It's a...
human, and he's a Druid.
- [Chris] Did you paint this character?
- I'm borrowing this character from Bailey
until I get an actual character.
- So the first night that they did D&D,
Bailey had brought some money with her
but Jacob hadn't, and so she bought him his character.
Because yours came in a two-pack, right?
Is that how it worked?
And let's see your character.
- Mom gave me this bag.
Inside there's my character and my dice that I got.
This is my dice, and this is my character.
She's an Aasimar, and...
she, or an Ah-siamar
a whole bunch of people call her different things.
And her name is Ivory, and she's a Druid.
I painted her.
She's been my D&D character since I was,
since I was nine, so a year, or almost two.
- Wait, I thought you just got this thing.
- I used the same character, just not this.
- Oh, okay, I see, so the character
that you wrote down on the sheet is the same character.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, Bailey played Dungeons and Dragons
with Jessica and me, really late at night one night.
She got to stay up late one night and play.
Was that fun?
- Yeah.
- And now she plays it with this group of friends
at this place where they have lots of games
and they play Dungeons and Dragons.
And you're having fun with that, right?
- And guess what they have there?
My favorite game's expansion.
My favorite game besides Dungeons and Dragons.
- Which games is that?
- Mansions of Madness, it's basically the same thing
except the Dungeon Master is the iPad.
- We're big nerds.
(giggling)