- [Chris] Whose birthday is it?
(babbling)
- [Chris] Jacob's birthday, that's right!
- Yeah!
- [Chris] Yeah.
(upbeat music)
- Good morning, everyone. Today--
(babbling)
- What?
(Luke babbling)
- It's Jacob?
- Jacob's birthday.
- Jacob's birthday. That's right!
We are at the mall right now, and we're going to go shopping
for Jacob's birthday. So come on, we just got here.
Let's go inside!
- Come on.
- Come on! Come on!
- (both) Come on! Come on! Come on!
- Come on, now!
- So I have Luke, Bailey, Duncan, and Parker.
Teddy stayed home with Jacob and Jessica,
and that way Jacob won't figure out what we're getting.
Good plan.
I haven't been to this mall in a very long time,
but I called ahead and there's a store here
that has a present that I want to get for Jacob.
And it's a very specialized store, it's the Lego store.
So we've got to figure out where that is
on this very big map.
(music playing in mall)
- Oh, I found it!
- [Chris] Oh, you found it. There it is.
Level one, which is where we are.
- [Parker] Okay.
- [Chris] And it is 32.
- [Parker] 32.
- [Chris] Thirty-two is right there,
so we're just right around the corner from it.
- [Parker] Oh, yay!
(upbeat music)
- All right, so I gave each kid a budget
and now they're going to look through the store
and pick out a present that fits within that budget
for Jacob. And they each get one present.
And this is really the store to go shopping for Jacob.
He loves Lego, a lot!
- I decided what I'm getting him.
- [Chris] Okay. Let's see it.
- Um, this!
- [Chris] This, so we've got to talk about
our budget here, because--
- Jacob said this is the present that he always wanted!
- [Chris] Okay. Alright. Well...
We'll have to talk about our budget.
- It's pink!
- [Chris] Pink. Yeah.
- This!
- [Chris] Okay.
- And this, this!
- [Chris] Okay.
- Okay!
- [Chris] Okay.
- Okay! This, this, this, this.
Animals!
- [Chris] Animals!
You got something? Okay, what do you got?
- This!
- [Chris] Oh, a looping roller coaster.
- Yeah, I think he'll like that.
- A car!
- [Chris] A car?
- Uh-huh!
- [Chris] We've got to pick out a present for Jacob.
What present do you think he wants?
- Oh, this, this, this, this!
- Dad, I got a present. It's this.
- [Chris] Oh, that's a pretty good one.
- [Parker] That thing's giant!
(babbling)
- Look at the elevator?
- [Chris] That elevator?
- The cross is an elevator.
- This, this, this, this, this, this!
- I'm going to get him this train.
- [Chris] You're getting him the train?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] Okay, sounds good.
Did you find something? Not yet?
- This, this!
- [Chris] You want to get him an owl?
That's a pretty cool owl.
- Dinosaur.
- [Chris] Dinosaur?
- Dinosaur.
- [Chris] Ooh, that's cool!
- I found this. It looked really cool.
It's in the budget, and Jacob loves Iron Man. So...
- [Chris] Do you want to get this for Jacob,
or something else?
- This for Jacob.
- [Chris] That for Jacob?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] Oh my goodness.
We picked out the coolest gift!
Are you excited?
- Yeah! Yeah.
- Yes? Okay. All right.
Yeah. I'm really excited about it.
You'll see it, on Jacob's birthday blog.
(babbling)
I don't want it to potentially slip what we got him, so.
Whoa! That is a big one.
(beeping)
That's a big one.
Uh-oh, do you hear the alarm?
All right, they just told us that somebody
pulled the fire alarm, but that it would be okay.
It's not real. So we're just going to hang out right here.
- Okay.
- Until the fire alarm stops.
- All right, we are back in the car now.
We did end up, kind of, calmly evacuating.
(babbling)
The fire alarm kept getting pulled,
and the employees there were saying
that it was a kid that was pulling the fire alarms,
but they kept doing it over and over again
in different places in the mall.
So the fire alarm kept going off,
and there was like an alarm, and lights flashing,
and so we just decided, you know what?
Let's just get out of here,
because we already got the gifts that we need
so we'll just... we wanted to do more shopping.
But we're back in the car now. Nice and safe in the car.
But I did want to show you what everybody got.
So Bailey, what did you get?
- I got this Iron Man set.
- [Chris] That is going to be awesome. Very cool.
- I got dinosaurs.
- [Chris] It's dinosaurs?
- Uh-huh.
- [Chris] Does it have a baby dinosaur?
- Baby dinosaur.
- [Chris] What else does it have?
- Daddy dinosaur.
- [Chris] A daddy dinosaur?
A daddy-saurous?
- A mama dinosaur.
- [Chris] And a mama dinosaur?
- Baby dinosaur and a mama dinosaur.
- [Chris] Yay! And Parker, in the last minute,
picked out his gift. What'd you get?
- I got him a Mandalorian set.
- [Chris] That is so cool.
- This arm moves.
- Daddy!
- [Chris] That's really cool.
- So it can move.
- [Chris] I remember that scene in the show.
- Yeah, I do too.
- [Chris] Yeah. We all, all three of us watched it together.
You, me, and him, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- [Chris] Yeah. That was fun. And Duncan, What did you get?
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba... train!
- Train.
- [Chris] A train! That is such a cool train.
It comes with four train cars or just two?
It comes with three?
It looks like it comes with two
and it connects to a different one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Bailey] It connects to the same one.
- [Chris] Oh. So if you had two of those,
then you'd have four. That's math!
- So I guess I'll talk about my gift in a second.
We've got to find a bathroom, so let's...
we're going to go do that right now.
Okay. We did it!
We went to the bathroom.
We went to the Lego store and I got Jacob a gift.
Jessica told me which one to get,
and they had it, and I went and got it!
And I'm excited about this present.
Like, this present is so--
- [Bailey] It's awesome!
- Yes! It's very cool.
And I don't want to say too much to-
I don't want to give it away in case Jacob spies this blog
because it's a big gift, like it's a big, it's big!
It's exciting.
But I'm excited about it, for reasons that I can explain
in the future because right now, I don't know.
I don't want to give it away!
I don't want to give away the reason I'm excited about it.
But it's good, right?
- Yes.
- Yeah, yeah. It's good!
Okay. So now we're going to drive home and then
we're going to wrap our presents and then, you know,
go to sleep. Or maybe go to sleep,
and then wrap our presents.
I don't know the schedule completely.
This was kind of wild that we drove out here and did this.
And now it's time to head home.
- All right. It's a couple days later
and we are wrapping Jacob's presents right now.
Bailey's at school right now,
but these guys are wrapping their presents to Jacob.
- Daddy, dinosaur.
- [Chris] Do you think Jacob will like it?
- Yes. Dinosaurs.
- [Chris] Dinosaurs.
(slow guitar music begins)
- Jacob is a supportive brother,
that helps me with like, everything.
And he's really good at cleaning.
And when my mom and dad ask him to do anything,
he does it right away.
And I think that's really nice of him.
(slow, cheerful guitar music continues)
- [Chris] Do you need some help, Luke?
- No.
- [Chris] Okay.
- Pull, pull.
- No, it's four sets! I think Jacob's a really good brother.
I can't believe he's a teenager now. He's really good.
Whenever he does anything he's really, actually really good.
(cheerful guitar music continues)
I picked out this present because it has two layers
and it can move into three- four layers.
- [Chris] Did it get stuck to your thumb?
You want help?
Oh, looks like you got it.
You can see the dinosaurs.
You want to keep it a surprise,
so you fold this, fold it, fold it.
So now you can't see the dinosaur,
and you put a piece of tape right here.
- I chose this gift because I had a really fun time
watching The Mandalorian with Jacob.
And I felt like it would be a cool little thing
that I could get him, because he loves The Mandalorian.
And I love The Mandalorian.
(cheerful guitar music continues)
- [Chris] Are you all done wrapping your present, Luke?
- Uh-huh.
- [Chris] Why do you think Jacob will like that present?
(babbling)
- [Chris] Because it's a blue present?
- Uh-huh.
- [Chris] Oh, that's a good reason!
- Yeah.
(giggling)