- Should I free it, should I free the beast?
(laughing in the background)
- I liked it better when you...
- Yeah, looks good!
- What about me?
(crossover dialogue)
- That's a quality mane.
(laughing)
- Do I look more free?
(music plays)
- What about my flowy hair?
(kids laughing)
(intro music plays)
- Good morning everyone!
It's one of those early mornings where Luke's the
only one awake.
You're the only one awake!
Want some breakfast?
Do you want some food?
Well, he's kind of awake.
He's keeping us awake.
So, I wanted to show you how I make him breakfast in the
morning, but first, coffee.
(soft instrumental music plays)
(coffee maker sounds)
(coffee dispensing)
(sigh of contentment)
Much better.
Now I know this might sound weird, but I actually use the
same exact coffee machine to make Lucas breakfast.
Huh, buddy.
(Lucas coos)
Think he's hungry.
So we make and freeze our own baby food and we typically use
these trays here, like this, these are actually, I think
for making cookies but they portion out food pretty well for
the baby as well.
And so, in here, we've got a puree of vegetables,
I think there's zucchini and kale and carrots in here,
and I add these to a bowl first thing
in the morning for him.
(soft instrumental music plays)
(baby food clinks in the glass cup)
These ones are sweet potato.
(baby food clinks in the glass cup)
Then I use a bowl that fits around the bowl I'm prepping
the food in.
And either Jessica or myself will make Luke a big bowl like
this in the morning, keep it in the fridge,
and we'll scoop out some of it and put in a smaller bowl
and give it to him all day long.
But this coffee machine has a hot water tap.
So, I'll put this bowl in first,
put a little bit of water in here,
(coffee machine sounds)
like this, and then the rest of the water goes inside the
big bowl.
Do you like watching your breakfast get made?
So, now this bowl has boiling water and I'll put this inside
of there, and that'll help all of this frozen vegetable
mix in here melt and become baby food.
(soft instrumental music plays)
- [Jessica] Duncan just woke up and he dresses himself
in the morning and he does such a good job.
And Duncan, can you tell me what your shirt says today?
- Museum.
- [Jessica] Really?
- Yeah.
(Jessica laughs)
- [Jessica] Sound it out for me.
- Oh.
- [Jessica] Can you show me how you read it?
(Duncan attempts to sound out the word)
Museum.
(Jessica laughs)
- Museum?
(Jessica laughs)
- [Jessica] He walked into the bedroom this morning and
he's like..
(baby sounds)
- Where's "mu"?
- [Jessica] It actually doesn't say museum,
you wanna know what it actually says?
- Mm hmm.
- [Jessica] It says, awe-some, just like my dad.
(Duncan giggles)
- [Jessica] What do you think of that?
- Good.
Anyway, I thought it was really cute because He walked right
up to me and I was like, "What does your shirt say Duncan?",
and he was like, "Museum".
And I don't know where he came up with that.
I wasn't necessarily expecting him to know that it said
"awesome just like my dad" because we just pulled this out
of the old Parker clothes, because Parker used to wear
that shirt.
Did Jacob wear that too?
- I think so.
- Yeah, the other boys wore that shirt..
(Jessica laughs)
and it's new to Duncan.
(Jessica laughs)
He was so confident that it said museum.
- Do you think he was reading the "w' upside down?
- Maybe?
- .... upside down, so he was like, "mm, mm",
museum, obviously!
- Maybe.
That was so cute.
- [Jessica] Come here kissy-bug.
(Jessica laughs)
I love you.
- Bye!
- [Jessica] Where you going?
- I'm just getting some food.
(Jessica squawks)
- [Jessica] What kind of food?
- I don't know.
(Jessica squawks)
- [Jessica] How about, oatmeal?
How 'bout cereal?
How 'bout eggs?
- Oh, cereal!
- [Jessica] Oh, okay, let's get you some cereal.
(Duncan giggles)
(spoon clinks and Duncan chews)
- [Jessica] Remember, where do you put your chin,
when you're eating?
That's right, over your food, good boy.
Good job, how's your food?
- Good.
- [Jessica] Does it hit the spot?
(Jessica laughs)
- Oh, something else I feel like I should mention is,
Parker's not with today.
He went to his grandma and grandpa's house.
We kinda did a switch, because Jacob had been spending time
with his grandma and grandpa for a couple days and,
when we went to Queen's house, they gave us Jacob back and
took Parker.
So, now Parker's getting his grandma and grandpa time.
If you haven't seen our past vlogs about how we're
quarantining so that we can mix our families
a little bit more, go back and check those out because
we kind of explain it more detail,
I don't wanna spend a whole lot of time talking about it
right now, but it has been nice having the kids be able to
go to their grandparent's house and spend time with them
in a safe way, so.
That's what we're doing every once in while and,
they're all really enjoying it.
- We attended an online toy convention/conference thing
called "Sweet, Sweet at Home", like a week ago?
And now, a bunch of toy companies are sending us
free samples of things, which is really cool.
This company is called "We cool toys", or "Oddly satisfying"
or "Compound Kings", I can't tell because all those things
are written on a bunch of the boxes so, I don't really know.
One of the things they sent was this do-it-yourself
aroma dough kit, and I figured we could make this together
and then when Duncan wakes up, we'll have some fun dough
for him to play with, and we're just basically, right now,
just going through everything and having a lot of fun.
(playful instrumental music plays)
- Are you just gonna use those colors?
- I think I might use this too, I think I'll use
blue and pink for one of them.
- [Jessica] Do they each have their own scent?
Is that what's going on?
- I think so.
This one's like soap.
- [Jessica] Soap, okay, soap.
What's that one Bailey?
- This one is, lush?
- [Jessica] Lush?
So also they feel really nice actually.
They're really smooth.
What's this one?
- Uh, the clothing softener or whatever it is.
- [Jessica] Fabric softener, okay.
So we've got fabric softener, bath bombs,
and this was soap.
And what's orange?
- Stronger soap.
- [Jessica] Stronger soap?
(Jessica laughs)
Oh, that's the ehh.
- Oh, that's the stuff.
It's popcorn mixed with soap.
- {Jessica] Okay.
(Jessica laughs)
So, personalize your aroma blend with a fun name.
- This is frittata.
If you watch our live streams, you'll get it.
- Uh, this one is going to be ice cream swirl I guess?
- [Jessica] Ice cream swirl but it's gonna taste like soap?
No, don't taste it, don't taste it!
This ended up being more simple than I thought,
and I feel like Duncan very likely could have actually
done it but, it's okay, he'll enjoy it as it is.
So there we go, we made some dough.
- Yup.
- Tada!
- Where's this frittata?
- [Jessica] Hmm?
- It works pretty well.
- The fritatta's gonna have some hearts too.
- Works pretty well actually.
- [Jessica] Yeah, that's nice.
(instrumental music plays)
- [Dad] Hey, did you take a good nap?
- Yeah!
- [Dad] Oh, excellent.
- Stand on the stool
and, do you wanna see what I made you?
It's right over here!
- Yes!
That looks like (unclear word)
- [Dad] What is that?
- I don't know.
- [Dad] Do you wanna tell him what it is?
- Do you want a, it's like slime, like this.
Is it squishy?
- Thanks Jacob.
- You're welcome.
- [Dad] Look at all these sparkles on your hand!
- Yeah, see!
They're sparkles.
- Okay, it's about eight P.M. and our two littlest kids
are in bed, so Luke and Duncan are in bed,
which means, right now, since Parker is at his grandma's
house, we have four awake people.
That's the perfect amount of people to play our favorite
card game, "May I".
So this is a game that Jessica
played with her family all growing up and then when I was
in high school and we started dating,
she taught me, and now, our kids are at the right age
for them to learn, so.
- It's my favorite, it's such a good game.
- Mm hmm, we're starting to teach Parker,
but Bailey and Jacob are very good at it now,
and it's played with two decks of cards,
and two of the Jokers out of those two decks of cards.
- And it has elements of Rummy,
if you've every played Rummy.
Is it called Gin Rummy?
- Gin, gin rummy, rummy, go-fish, it brings in all
the games.
- Um, yeah, but it's played in six rounds?
- Yes, six rounds.
- [Bailey] And Uno, it's a mix of Uno.
- Uno, war.
- Cards, anything with cards.
- Crazy gates.
- Poker.
(Jessica laughs)
- Not poker
- Yahtzee?
- Yahtzee.
Pinnacle.
- All games, that's the common, monopoly?
We're just naming games at this point.
- Chutes and ladders.
Hi ho cherry o.
(instrumental music plays)
We're about to start our third round of May I,
each round is a little different,
and Jessica just completely..
- [Bailey] Dominated.
- Got lucky.
- I don't know, I, like, that was devastating.
- [Jacob] Here's the thing.
- Here's the score, here's the score.
- [Jacob] And by the way, the score is, you don't wanna
get points.
- Yeah, you don't want points; you wanna have the least
amount of points.
I have 190 points, Jacob has 262 points,
Bailey has 113 points, Jessica has 58 points.
- It's a (unclear word) based-game still.
It's a long game.
- You say that so we'll keep playing with you,
that's what it is.
- I say that because I've played this for many years.
- Jake's gonna try and cut the exact amount of cards
that it, no counting.
- I'm not counting, it's impossible to count, like.
- [Dad] Okay, oh, oh!
And Bailey's going to deal the cards out.
And we'll see if Jacob got exactly the right amount
of cards.
So everybody's supposed to get 11 cards except for Jessica.
She gets 12.
It's getting close, Jake.
Oh boy.
Aww, two cards off.
We have played a couple more rounds.
New scores are in.
Jacob has the highest score currently, at 557.
- [Jacob] Woohoo, high score!
- Followed very closely by me at 442.
Bailey is staying pretty steady at 173,
and Jessica has 70 points, 7-0.
Hasn't even broken 100 yet.
- Don't hype it.
- She is..
- There's no way you can not hype it, okay?
- Yeah, just reading the score is hyping it.
The game just ended; I did not win.
Thank you for asking.
(Jacob laughs)
But guess what?
Neither did Jessica.
- I told you I wasn't going to.
- She's coasting with 70 points for like the whole game.
You know who won?
(Bailey giggles)
Bailey, she swooped in..
- This is her game, she wins every time.
- [Jacob] You know who lost?
- Oh, well.
- [Dad] Well, Jacob got high score.
- [Jessica] Everybody but Bailey, everybody but Bailey lost.
- [Dad] High score, that's pretty good, right, high score?
From all of us here at the Ballinger house and
Jessica's hair.
(Jacob laughs)
- [Bailey] And avocados too.
- It is it's own zip code.
- Thanks for watching.
- Wait, should I free it, should I free the beast?
(laughing in the background)
- [Jacob] I liked it better when you..
- Yeah, looks good.
- [Jacob] What about me,
- That's a quality mane.
- Do I look more free?
- What about my flowy hair.
(laughing in unison)
Just goes right back where it wanted to be.
- [Bailey] What about this one?
(laughing in unison)
- These kids need to go to bed.
Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time.
(baby laughing)