- Hello, you guys.
I hope you're having a fantastic day.
I am officially 41 weeks pregnant today.
There is still a baby in this belly.
Atlas has decided to still wait.
He's taking his time.
He's gettin' extra strong in there, I guess.
I'm not gonna lie to you guys.
Today it is almost five pm and we are
just now starting the vlog.
It has been a tough day for me, honestly.
I don't feel very good.
Probably because my stomach is huge
and there's a ginormous baby inside me.
I'm just, I'm tired, I'm just blah, overall blah.
Do you guys ever have days like that?
Where you can't really pinpoint what it is
but it's just not the best feeling.
Chell has been runnin' around in a diaper
and well, the shirt she wore yesterday.
Whoa!
She has been a little sweetheart today.
Thank you for this.
But yeah, it's just, we haven't gotten around
and done much yet today.
My cousin Nicole stopped by earlier today
and we were chatting about giving birth and stuff like that.
She has two kids, her first kid, Patrick, I think she said
she was in labor for like 16 hours.
And then her daughter, Elizabeth, who's four,
a little bit older than Chell,
she had her in like 45 minutes.
Like, it was super fast.
She had the early labor for a little while,
for several hours, but then once she started
feeling the pain of the contractions
and everything got really serious, it was 45 minutes
and she was holding a baby in her arms.
She attributes that to red raspberry leaf tea,
which I have been drinking a lot of lately.
So I'm drinkin' another cup right now
since she told me that, but we'll see.
Hopefully that works and hopefully this one's quick.
Chell knows that Grangie and Grark are coming over
this evening so she is just waiting by the door.
They'll be here in a little bit.
It takes a little while to drive.
Yeah, they're gonna come visit and play.
I know. (giggles)
So the guys are in here cookin' our family dinner tonight.
But Cory, I have to tell you, I had a realization today.
After talkin' with Nicole, it's very possible that
you might be delivering my baby.
Our baby, technically I guess.
Nicole was only in hard labor for 45 minutes.
- Oh really?
- [Kristen] Yes.
- That's not enough time for the midwife to get here.
- Our midwife is in the same city we are,
but it's not super close and if I go into
active labor in the middle of the night
and she has to get up and brush her teeth and get dressed
or if she's grocery shopping and I call her
then it might take her a little while to get here.
- I have been studying so much.
But you know the midwife is not
the first one I'm callin', right?
- [Kristen] Who are you callin' first?
- Pizza, I'm gonna be hungry.
(laughing)
No, I'm gonna call them, Grark and Grangie
'cause they're gonna be here faster, I'm sure.
They've been waiting and after like I said, I'm fine.
I can deliver this baby.
I would much rather have the midwife here.
I'm not saying I'm not gonna call the midwife
just 'cause I'm proud or somethin', but...
Yeah, no I have priorities, I know them.
Hi, it's time for me to take a break from working
and stuff, we just finished eating
so that's not really working.
My brain's still working.
Let's go outside.
So I don't know if Kristen showed you this,
but this was the project that we finished two days ago.
Something like that.
We have a fenced in backyard.
Oh wow, look.
See the humidity starting to fog up the lens?
That is something I'm getting used to.
It is humid here in Oklahoma right now
and it's like crazy, but...
My gosh, it just keeps fogging.
It's like we're in Florida or somethin'.
How do I even...?
I guess I just wait.
What do you do with this?
Okay, that's a little better.
So yeah.
This is our new backyard.
We've always had it, but it's new
because now we have a fence.
This is Penny's new backyard where she goes to the bathroom.
This, these things are super noisy,
our air conditioning units.
We got another one back here.
And then we've got this gate.
There was like a bush here, we pulled that.
But yeah, it's a nice big area where Penny can just
come back out here and run around and do whatever.
And we can hang out at the back porch
and not have to worry so much
about poop or pee being on the ground.
But yeah, this is so handy.
I love this so much.
The only problem is, we can't open this all the way.
That's about as far as it goes.
Because there's this cable there.
That's literally our cable, like our internet and stuff.
It's the only unfortunate part but it's not that bad.
Oh, so I don't know if you guys saw it, I know most of you
probably haven't, but I made a new video for our
Just For Kids channel, which of course is just for kids.
And, dude, you guys have no idea
how hard that video was to make.
It was so ridiculous.
So the video that I made the other day, or actually today,
but I shot it the other day, yesterday.
It was about a little train that we bought Chell.
And we only had I think about 15, 20 feet of track.
I know I said yesterday that I had you know miles of track
or whatever I said, I don't know,
I was messing with you guys, but...
Every single shot of that video,
I had to move the tracks around.
And it was so hard, and it was so hot and muggy
as you guys saw, it's really humid.
And I think it was like 98 degrees Fahrenheit.
I don't know what that is in Celsius,
but it's just like blistering hot.
But yeah, I walked all around this yard
and all these different locations
like, building this track and tearing it down.
And building the track and tearing it down.
Plus, this little train, it kept going, right?
You just, there's no remote, you just turn it on
or you turn it off.
And that's it.
And so I'd have to turn the train on,
run to the camera, control the camera, stop the camera,
run back to the train, stop the train,
and then the train started to run out of battery
which is, you know, fun.
But yeah, I don't know if you guys
are gonna watch that video.
You should, it's a fun little video
and it's not really just for kids.
It's different.
Some people say it's kind of therapeutic.
Like a lot of the videos that I've been making
on that channel, I'm making them for kids,
but strangely enough, they're becoming videos
for adults as well.
Like, my last puppet video or whatever it was,
I don't remember the name of the video,
but it's a really good video for adults too.
I'm just having a lot of fun on that channel.
All the channels, I love all of this.
I feel like lately I've gotten my love for YouTube back.
Not that I stopped loving YouTube, it's just that things
have changed a lot and so, you now, it got hard.
But now it's like, it's getting super easy,
it's getting super fun, and things are happening
that you guys are seeing all the sponsorships,
all the branded deals we're getting all all that stuff,
it's a great thing for our family and it helps us
to continue going and thank you guys so much
for allowing us to do that.
But yes, I am loving YouTube again, it is amazing.
What's not amazing is this. (laughs)
This is where the old fence was for the backyard.
Look how small it is.
Now you guys can really see how small it was.
I have to pull all of these poles out
and they are so ridiculously hard to pull out
because they're all concreted in and they're super deep.
This one we tried to just break the concrete off
and there's some of the concrete.
But it's still super far down there
and it's not even budging.
I need to just get a backhoe and just dig that thing out
or somethin', I don't know, but, yeah.
Oh man, it's so hot, but it's so beautiful.
Look at the sky.
I love the sky, I love clouds.
It never gets old.
I feel like everywhere says their sky is the prettiest
but you know what?
That is a true statement.
The sky is beautiful everywhere you go.
It doesn't matter.
The sky does it's own thing
in all different ways everywhere.
I just love the sky.
I love things.
I love beautiful things.
I'm such a nature nerd.
'Cause I love nature.
Is that nature?
Is that considered nature?
It's mother nature, it's, yeah, I guess so.
Hey, what does that look like to you guys?
It's like a dragon swan.
Or maybe like a moose Loch Ness monster.
Kind of.
It's spreading its wings that are, this one's not attached.
You guys see that?
So like, that's the nose.
All right, maybe he caught a big fish,
maybe it is a short-snouted, what do you call,
a short-snouted antlerless elk that is eating a seal
that dove into its mouth and this part of him is
(laughs) some sort of sea creature.
Oh, here's a fin.
He's a shark.
You know, I really need to come out here
and watch clouds with Chell.
I bet she'd enjoy this, her imagination is just blossoming.
Like, really, every day she's thinking of new things,
saying new things.
She talks on the phone by herself
which is like huge imagination 'cause if you're talkin'
on the phone, you gotta be talkin' to somebody
and it's, you know, somebody up in here, but...
As if that's a bad thing.
Okay, I'm pretty sure our short-snouted
antlerless elk is now eating what looks like a rabbit.
He just has the rabbit head in his mouth.
And he's, like, spread out.
This is definitely a dragon now.
Yeah that's totally a dragon.
Now it looks like he's breathing fire
except it's just smoke.
Okay, he's breathings smoke, he's not breathing fire.
And that is some sort of Star Wars fighter.
That's definitely a Star Wars fighter.
Am I thinking, like, x wing?
Is that what that is?
No, wait, that's a biohazard sign.
Biohazard.
I was gonna be run and be stupid but I don't feel...
(humming)
You locked me out.
- I love you.
- [Cory] Aw, you love the doggie.
- [Kristen] Doggie's for Atlas.
- [Cory] Oh, doggie's for Atlas?
Well--
- [Kristen] It's okay, you can love it.
- [Cory] You can give the doggie lots
and lots of love until Atlas gets here, yeah.
(laughing)
- A baby, ha ha.
A baby doggie.
- [Cory] Baby and doggie, yeah.
- Woof woof woof.
- [Cory] Ruff ruff ruff.
(laughs)
(speaking gibberish)
Can you make the doggie clap his hands?
How do you make the doggie clap his hands?
Clap his feet?
Yay.
Can you make the doggie say hi?
- Hi.
- [Cory] Make the doggie wave his hand hi?
- Hi.
- [Cory] She really likes that little dog.
- Yeah, she does.
- [Kristen] Oh, doggie.
Good hug, oh my goodness.
- [Cory] You are gonna be the best big sister.
- Yes, she is. - Big dog.
- She'll be gentle with him.
- [Cory] Yeah.
- Oh, mimi!
(laughing)
- [Cory] I think you spoke a little soon there.
- Gentle, yeah.
I am still feeling super, super odd.
I feel like my Braxton Hicks contractions
are continuing and there's like a lot of pressure
and just weird, weird stuff happening.
This is probably why I feel so odd.
(laughs)
But I don't feel like I'm in labor yet
so Cory and I are going to watch a movie.
Cory, you just gave someone a seizure.
- Sorry.
- I gotta high school teacher that like,
that would give him seizures.
- You ready? - Yeah, yeah.
For reals, for reals.
We're gonna watch a movie--
- Yeah.
- And yeah.
- We're watching my friend's movie.
- Yeah. - Mmhm.
- It'll be good.
Cory set up a bed for me in the movie room
so I can actually lay down and not have to sit
'cause I'm just super uncomfortable all the time.
I feel like I'm gonna have a baby soon, but just,
I mean, in general, I am going to have a baby soon,
'cause he has to come out eventually.
Say goodbye, Boo Boo.
- Say goodbye.
- Buh bye.
(cat meows)
- There you go. - Bye.