A Christmas tree. Is there two presents?
Presents! Oh wow, presents mummy!
Caleb where's the Elf? Where's the Elf?
Going to be a fun year. [crosstalk 00:00:27][inaudible 00:00:29]
We had this last year. Where's the Elf?
Is it Christmas? Nearly.
Hey darling, look
Is it Christmas
[inaudible 00:00:40]
Where's your number one Caleb.
Those ones are actually [inaudible 00:00:47]
What'd you get?
This!
Oh whoa, don't touch Caleb.
Two elves.
Oh my gosh, watch.
We're back. This year, Santa has sent two elves to watch you and report back on whether
you are being naughty or nice. Your new elf needs a name, can you decorate our mini Christmas
tree please. Love, Toby the Elf.
Hold up, we gotta name the other one. What we gonna call the other one?
Mr Wee Wee.
No, let's give him a nice name otherwise he'll tell Santa that's what you called him. Toby
and .., what do you wanna call your one Caleb?
Um, Caleb.
Oh, look there's two, there must be one for each of you boys.
Big present!
Wow!
Stickers?
An advent calender!
What advent calender is it Frazer?
Um
It's lego
Is it?
It's from Smiggle!
Wow. Jackson this is yours.
Oh yeah!
This is your advent calendar! Look, where's number 1?
Well done
That's your toy Jacks.
Look, Jackson's doing it.
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You all right Caleb? Do you need the toilet?
That festive hit.
This is Jackson's song.
Problem is, Daddy can't help but dance to this one.
[inaudible 00:03:44] Mama!
Jacksy.
Them arms.
Show dada.
[inaudible 00:04:22]
Good morning guys, and welcome to another day of Vlogmas. This morning it has all been
happening, as you may have seen from the beginning of this vlog that the elves came last night
and they put all of our decorations up, they do it every year. So whenever we wake up on
the 1st of December, we come downstairs, and all the decorations are up so that's really
exciting, and then this morning, I went to Caleb's school for his assembly because he
was getting a certificate. We didn't know what it was, we just knew that he was gonna
get one, and I just thought in my head that it was probably one for swimming, or P.E.,
but we got there and we saw them doing the special certificates and awards and things,
and he won musician of the week, or singer of the week for his singing and actions in
their Christmas rehearsals. So I was shocked, I was like wow.
All the boys do seem quite musical, like they love dancing, they love singing, and everything
is to do with music and I was saying to Matt that we could have the next Hansen group on
our hands with these three boys. Yeah, I was so chuffed, and obviously I couldn't film
because he was there with all his friends and his uniform. But he looked so shocked,
and so proud, he got up and held his little certificate. Yeah, it nearly made me cry,
I held it together but, I'm just so proud of him. He's doing so well at school and I'm
so pleased because we made the decision to put him in a preschool every single morning
because he is one of the eldest in his school year, and he was so ready and I feel like
we definitely made the right decision. Anyway, I'm going off on a tangent, today is Friday,
so it's just me and Jackson.
Jackson is just tidying up, as you can see, doing a speed clean. And, we're just gonna
hang out until we pick Caleb at lunch time, I was really hoping that he would have a nap,
because I have quite a lot of work to do. But, it really doesn't look like he's going
to. Does it? And, I gave him the tiniest bit of chocolate from my advent calender, and
I do not know how you've made the biggest mess with the tiniest bit of chocolate, how
have you done that? What a talent, ay? He's got a new jumper on which is really messy
already. What do you say, say hello! Say bye bye!
Jackson's in his favorite place in the whole world; the spice cupboard. What you cooking
with today? Oh, he's got the lid off. Uh oh. See this is what happens. He was just about
to dump that, weren't you. Honestly I'm gonna have no spices left. But he has so much fun
with it. You gonna put the lid back on? Good boy, you're clever! Can you smell it? What's
that smell like?
A bed!
A bed.
Hello
Hello. Can you say hello? Who's that? *singing* Oi! That's mine. Jackson! Put the parsley
down.
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Yes! I'm trying to show them that all I do all day is fold laundry. Ay? Who wears the
most clothes?
I do!
Yeah, you.
Dada.
Who? Dada? No..
Right we're back from the preschool pick up, and on the way home we stopped at Sainsbury's
to get some stuff for dinner, and like some snacks and everything. I'm actually out all
day tomorrow, so Matt's having all three boys on his own, so I was like I'm gonna stock
up on some supplies for him. So I'll do a little grocery haul shall I? I just realized
that this is the most random food shop ever, it's not like a weekly food shop, this is
like for a day and just some other random bits that I picked up.
I got a pizza, cause I thought that would be good for the boys' lunch tomorrow when
I'm not here. I got about four of these sucky things, Jackson really likes them, they're
basically yoghurt tubes, but there's no nasties, so we like them. And Caleb really likes these
for snacks. The munchies are for Matt. We got some milk, this is our favorite pasta
sauce from Loyd Grossman, it is tomato and chili and it was on special, so that's why
I got a few of them, but it's so nice. And, I got some method hand wash. The boys are
just there. Some actimels, cause the boys like them as a snack at school. And, I got
this chocolate orange for Matt's stocking, and the last thing I got was a new SD card,
and there is a reason behind why I needed a new SD card.
So, right, I just went to go and get Frazer from school, I am so done with school runs
now. That is the sixth school run that I've done today I think, because I took Caleb this
morning, and then I forgot his nativity costume, so I had to go and take it back, then I had
to go pick him up at 1, then I had to go and get Frazer, and it's just been.. I mean, I
feel so bad for Frazer, he's so good he doesn't mind but he's been in the car all day.
But anyway, I wanted to tell you the story about this new SD card. Basically, I got this
because something happened to my old one, and that is that a couple of weekends ago
I went to meet up with Louise Pentland, who is sprinkle of glitter and we did a collab
together. And I was so excited, obviously she is a much bigger YouTuber than me, she's
done it for so long. I was just so excited that she wanted to work with me, so anyway
I went to her house and we did some filming, and then we went for some afternoon tea, and
it was just really lovely, she is just so nice, so witty, and just exactly like what
you see on the screen, she is like that in real life.
But, anyway, we had a really lovely day and then I came home and I unpacked my camera,
and equipment and stuff, and I needed to take the card out of my camera to do an Instagram
or whatever, and the next day Caleb was walking around and he had something in his mouth that
he was like chewing and I was like "What's in your mouth?", and it was my SD card and
I was just thinking oh my god that I knew I hadn't taken the files off of the videos
of the collab that me and Louise did together and I was like oh my god I bet it's ruined,
he's been chewing on it for like however long.
Anyway, I took it from his mouth and tried to dry it as much as I could, put it in my
laptop and it was like, no - memory card error. I was like oh my gosh I was freaking out but
trying not to panic, I put it on the side and I was looking online for all these forums
of what to do if an SD card gets wet. There was a couple of people that were like when
it dries out it should work that they're really hard wearing and stuff. So I was like oh my
god I was really panicking because I've only met Louise once, I cannot call her and say
Caleb ate my homework. Like, sorry. She's heavily pregnant and due to give birth this
month, that was literally the only time we could meet up and do this collab.
Anyway, I was literally panicking so much. So I waited a couple of hours and then I put
the SD card in my laptop, and there we were but there was no sound. So it was me and Louise
chatting away and with no sound. So I was like oh my god, I can't use this. I'm gonna
have to contact her. Anyway, I left it overnight, and then I put it in my laptop, and it worked!
I have the files with sound and everything. So it all worked and as soon as I had the
files I edited them, I backed them up onto my hard drive, I put the video on YouTube
as unlisted, it's coming out very soon. It was like a real stress, Louise doesn't even
know this story, I hope she's not watching she'll be like that's really professional.
But, anyway, yeah, so what was the point of this, yeah so that is why I have a little
SD card. Because Caleb ate my last one a little bit.
Good boy! Well done!
Anyway, I'm now gonna start making the boys' dinner, they're always starving at about 4
O'clock. So I'm gonna start their dinner now, and they'll normally eat it like four thirty.
I'm making jacket potatoes with beans and cheese this evening, because both of them
have hot dinners at school. They've both had fish fingers and chips and whatever at school
today, so I'm just gonna make them jacket potato because they enjoy it. Although it
is actually a really easy dinner it is actually quite nutritional and fills them up and because
it's Friday, we're gonna have a bath and also a movie night, so that should be fun. Sorry,
I feel like this vlog is already like a little bit boring, I hope this isn't too boring for
you.
Dinner, dinner time!
Jackson is having some of this tomato pasta, but even though he used to love pasta, he's
being a bit funny with it.
Daddy, Mummy, Fraser, Caleb, Jackson!
Jackson, Caleb, Fraser, Mamma, Dada!
It goes in age order.
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Okay, so we show some of our baubles. It's like a very home made looking tree, because
it's all stuff that the kids have made. Aw, look at this one, this one is Caleb's first
ever Christmas. So that is his hand print it's so tiny!
Mama, show this.
What's that one?
2016
2016, so that's all of us last year.
2011
2011, so just Frazer was born.
2015
So that was just the four of us, that was before Jackson.
I remember
And look, I've made these ones myself with pictures of the boys. That is Frazer's first
ever nativity play.
Yeah, Jackson! Stop doing that!
Yeah, so every year I make my own Christmas ornaments, I buy like the paper ornaments
from Hobby craft and then I like midge podge pictures on. So this one is from 2014 and
I've done a picture of what Frazer looked like that year, and then also what he wanted
that Christmas. So it was an Angry Birds soft toy, power rangers, puppet theater, play-doh
and sweets.
Frazer made this one.
What about this one. Oh that's sharp!
That was Caleb when he was a newborn! Have you noticed, that all the good ornaments are
at the top of the tree, so that Jackson can't pull them off. And it's just all like the
non breakable ones at the bottom. I bought this tree skirt from the great little trading
company, but then I sewed on..
Jackson's tryma take the camera. I sewed on the Norris family myself. Jackson wants the
camera. But yeah I literally just did like a really simple straight stitch.
*laughing*
You can't handle the tickles. I gotcha, I gotcha. Gotcha.
Your poor nose, you've got a stinking cold haven't you.
Santa Claus!
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We're all out of the bath, and we've come down for a movie night. Poor Jacksy is just
full of cold, his little nose is just streaming isn't it and he's not feeling very well, and
so I think I'm gonna put him into bed a little bit early. Aren't I bubba, are you okay?
All the boys are in bed now, and I've just had a shower, and something to eat. I am now
just gonna chill out, hopefully just edit this vlog and watch I'm a celebrity over there.
I feel like I'm losing my voice, I feel quite rough to be honest, so I'm probably gonna
get an early night as well. But, thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you tomorrow!
Bye!