- Let's get those tonsils outta here!
(Jessica laughing)
♪ It's Vlogmas, Vlogmas ♪
♪ And it's time to celebrate ♪
♪ Vlogmas ♪
(bouncy music)
- Good morning, everyone!
- And I'm going to the allergist!
- You're not going to the allergist.
You're going to the phlebotomist.
- Why does it have a bottom in it?
- It's a phlebotomist, it's,
I don't know all the Latin to it,
but I think there's Latin involved,
and it means, it means that they take care of blood.
- Ew.
- Parker has to have his tonsils taken out,
and part of that is getting his blood tested,
so we're going to the phlebotomist right now
to get his blood drawn to find out
information about his blood.
So that's what we're doing right now.
- And I'm working on my journal.
- I can't believe you fit that jacket now.
That used to be Jacob's jacket all the time,
and it totally fits you.
He's growing up.
Before getting your blood drawn,
they're gonna have to give you like a little shot.
Are you okay with that?
- Yeah!
- You're cool with that?
For those of you who don't know,
Parker likes getting shots.
I don't know why.
Why is that?
Why do you like getting shots?
- I just like 'em.
- He just likes them.
I don't know.
- I just like,
uh, I just like getting lollipops after.
- Oh, it's all about the lollipops, is it?
- No, and I like the shot.
It doesn't hurt. - Okay.
So, the lollipop's a little added bonus, I guess.
We're gonna go earn a lollipop, I guess,
so let's-- - Are we gonna get a lolli--
- I don't know, we'll have to see what they have.
- Okay. - Okay.
All right. - Or I'll get a toy.
- Or he'll get a toy.
You ready?
Okay.
- Do you have a lollipop that I can eat after?
- [Woman] I don't have, but I have stickers.
- Thanks.
They took blood out of me!
- [Chris] They took blood out of you?
Oh my goodness!
You got a bandaid? - Uh-huh.
- [Chris] Tell me all about it, what happened?
- So, they have this thing that's connected to a tube
and then just (squishes),
they put it in your body,
it's a needle and they put it in your body
and then, for like 15 minutes or seconds.
I don't know, but it just happened,
and they took blood out of me,
and they're gonna put it,
so they're gonna put a shot in,
and then they're gonna put blood in somebody else.
- Not quite.
They took your blood
and put it in those two little tubes, right?
And they send those two little tubes
to a scientist, who tests the blood
for different things. They might put it in a centrifuge,
which spins it around
and makes the heavier stuff go to the bottom
and the lighter stuff go to the top.
They might put little chemicals in it
and see how it reacts to those chemicals.
So they're gonna test your blood
and see what kinda blood you have,
how it reacts to certain things
and make sure that you are healthy
and ready to go for your surgery in a few days.
- I'm scared.
I'm going in five days?
- Five days?
Something like that.
- Yeah, I am going in five days.
- Parker did very, very well in there.
He didn't cry, right?
- Uh-huh.
And the person said, "I wanna keep you forever here."
- Why did she say that?
- 'Cause I didn't cry.
- Yeah, she said that he did better
than most of the big boys that come in there.
- Yeah.
- Should people be scared of this?
- No. - No.
I'm glad you're so brave.
- I'm not brave.
- You're just a regular kid?
- Yeah.
How many band-aids did you get?
- Two.
- It says Super Kid.
And it's true. Because you are a super kid.
- No.
- Well I think so.
- No.
- Super Did Not Kid.
- Kid's got jokes.
All right, we are back home now
and it is time for us to do our advent calendars.
We're gonna start with Parker who has the Grinch.
- The Grinch.
♪ Mr. Grinch ♪
It's a present! Two presents in a row!
- [Chris] Wow, that one's cool!
That one's made out of plastic or something.
Ooh, it's got a gold bow on it.
I like it.
- Thanks.
- Jacob's turn, number five.
Ooh, got some pieces in there.
If you're just joining us with this,
Jacob is building a Lego set, a Lego technic set,
and it has a lot of little pieces,
and every day he opens a door,
and it's a little further down the instructions of the set.
Jessica and I made this advent calendar for him
because we wanted him to have something
where, at the end, he had like a finished product.
Same with Bailey.
We didn't make Bailey's though.
Bailey's just has a thing that she's building as she goes.
So, Bailey's is a charm bracelet,
and she's gonna open up number five.
- [Bailey] Wow, it's just like my pink one except it's red.
(bright music)
- [Chris] Oh, Bailey, your charm bracelet's coming along!
This is gonna be so pretty.
I mean, it already is pretty,
but it's gonna be like so cool when it's all done.
- Uh-huh. - On Christmas,
you'll come down jangling with your bracelet.
- Yeah.
- [Chris] We'll be like,
what are those jingle bells that we hear?
And it'll just be Bailey walking down the stairs.
(bright music)
That is cool.
- So, you can see on the front that I have made the base.
- [Chris] It's surprising that you've done so much of it,
and you're only on day five out of all of these days.
- Oh no, I just realized, Christopher.
What if the last one is like the bundle of extra pieces
that don't do anything?
- Oh, I put that in one just in case I messed up
setting up the thing. - Okay, you're smart.
- Typically, they give you a bunch of extra little pieces,
just in case you lose them or there was like an issue--
- An error, I don't know. - Yeah, something.
So you always end up with a bunch of extra,
really tiny pieces, and I put them all in his first day.
Just in case I messed up setting up everything
and didn't put something in a box,
he can go check one, and maybe it'll be there.
- If I had set that up,
that absolutely would've been the grand finale
because I don't understand Lego sets at all,
and it would've just been a disaster.
- [Jacob] Which one's 19?
- [Chris] Oh, one of these is 19, and one of them's nine.
We'll find out on day nine, okay?
Where's the one?
Did the one just disappear?
No, no, no, the one for the 19.
- [Jessica] Yeah, I think so.
I think I saw it yesterday.
We still haven't glued 'em on, have we?
- [Chris] And you know what, this could be 19
'cause the six could've fallen off,
and it was a nine back in the day.
- Oh, no, which one-- - Don't.
Okay, you're just gonna mess everything up.
This is tomorrow's.
- [Jessica] He wants the extra challenge.
Jacob's just trying to give himself an extra challenge.
- [Chris] Don't do it.
(Jessica giggling)
- Good morning, everyone!
And I'm super excited to have you here
'cause right now we are going to go in the rain,
and then we're going to go to Ralph's
and then get some stuff that is really cool.
I'm going to tell you when we get there.
- Parker and I are at the grocery store right now
to purchase some items
for his upcoming tonsil and adenoid surgery.
So we're finding nice cold things.
- [Parker] I found some stuff that I want!
- He's finding a lot that he wants.
We've received so many great suggestions
from you guys in the comments,
and we're really looking forward
to getting him the very best.
I found it really interesting
because some of the things you guys suggested are things
that our doctor doesn't want us to do.
We are being very cautious to make sure
that we're following our doctor's protocols.
There are different ways
of getting your tonsils and adenoids removed,
so I think maybe sometimes what works in some cases
is better than what works in others, and I think maybe
it's just because the surgeries are sometimes different,
so the recovery, I think, is different as well.
Some great advice we've gotten is to not get any red foods
so that you're not mistaking any blood
for the food that you're eating,
and people have cautioned us against dairy.
So we're gonna make sure that we're not getting
as much dairy-based ice cream
but leaning more towards like popsicles
and things like that.
In our instructions, it says to avoid crunchy things,
whereas some people have said that they had to eat toast
before even leaving their hospital or surgery center,
but it's looking like, for our case,
we'll be cautioned against toast, so we'll see.
This is all a learning experience, right, guys?
- But I can't eat those.
Those are red.
- Yeah, no red.
But, let's see, that's mango, that's lemon, that's lime.
I don't think you're gonna wanna do lemon or lime
'cause that's acidic, but you've got mango, lots of mango.
Coconut, coconut's one of my faves.
Chocolate, yeah.
That's not a popsicle though, dude.
We'll find you a chocolate popsicle.
I'm thinking maybe a fudgesicle.
Fudgesicles are the business.
Fudgsicles are so delicious.
I don't know if they're dairy-based, though,
so I'm going to need to figure that out right now.
Fudgsicles, it appears, are dairy-based,
but I'm still going to get them for him,
and maybe he'll have them later down the line
with the healing because this guy is a chocolate fiend,
so we're gonna make sure he gets his chocolate.
Look, this is chocolate, just fruit water, no dairy.
- [Parker] Yeah, let's get like 30 packs.
- [Jessica] We're not gonna get 30 packs,
but we've got a lot of those.
What's going on?
- I just love strawberries.
It's red flavor.
- [Jessica] I'm sorry.
- My mom said she found something that I might love,
but I might not.
- [Jessica] Oh, well, it's kind of acidic.
I was thinking this frozen lemonade.
No, okay, I'm wrong.
- And let's get this.
- Okay, put that in the thing.
- That one is like filled already.
- Salted caramel ice cream bar.
On Parker's doctor's orders, he's allowed to have dairy,
but just a lot of people recommended that he not,
so I'm going to listen to you guys and be very cautious
moving forward with dairy,
but I'm gonna try a couple things too
or at least have them on-deck.
As he's healing, I'm gonna have them around,
so I found this one.
It's like Low Cow, so maybe there's less dairy.
I don't know, I'm gonna try that. Look at this.
- What is it?
- It's dairy-free peanut butter flavored.
- Peanut butter?
- It'll be yum, yum, yum.
It's good. - Is that mold?
- No, it's not, it's just ice, goose.
- So, this is brown brown chocolate
'cause I love brown brown chocolate,
and I don't like not brown brown chocolate
'cause it just doesn't make me happy.
- Okay, put your brown brown chocolate in the cart please.
People also said sherbet works.
Yeah, you grab that. - What is sherbet?
- That orange stuff.
Oh, and they have rainbow.
You wanna try rainbow?
- Yeah!
Where is it?
- Right here.
Okay, onto the Jell-O aisle.
Okay, here's your aisle, dude.
- I've never had Jell-O before in my life.
(Jessica giggling)
- This is exciting, huh?
- I wanna get each kind.
- Okay, pick out whatever you want, just not red.
- These ones aren't that heavy.
- No, it's not that heavy.
It's mostly water when you make it.
I have to make it, sweetie.
- Oh.
- Do you wanna try blue?
- I am going to try that one.
That's one of the best superheroes I've ever seen.
Wow.
(Jessica giggling)
- Okay, put it over, that's not our cart.
You gotta put it in our cart.
This is, I guess, sipping soup, so we're gonna try that.
- So we put it in the fridge, take it out of the fridge,
and then put it in the oven.
Open this and then, sip it out.
(Jessica giggles)
- I think it's a little different than what he said
but the open it and sip it out.
That, yes, that's the goal.
And it's butternut squash and sweet potato,
so I'm hoping it's a soup that he'll enjoy.
Won't be too hard going down
but it's a little sweet, so, we'll see.
So we found some Miso soup.
(Jessica giggles)
- So, we'll have that too.
This says Miso broth, so grab that,
and why don't you grab the coconut broth too.
Maybe that'll be good.
Oh, also, another difference that I found
was a lot of people recommended
pineapple juice and pineapple things,
but pineapple was actually on our doctor's list
of a food to avoid.
So, I don't know.
I think it's just maybe what to avoid
for the first couple days
and then maybe it's good to add it.
I don't know why things are so different.
I'm only assuming it's just because the
different methods of surgeries.
Loadin' up on that applesauce?
- Yeah.
Need more.
- Okay, coconut water.
- One jug.
- Wait wait wait, did you see?
That one's chocolate flavored?
- I get all of these ones.
- And Parker, you know what, I've had that before
and it's delicious.
- All these ones (Jessica giggles)
- Okay. (gasps)
Wow.
- Alright, we're at gymnastics now.
Everybody's doing gymnastics today, no ninja stuff.
Are you ready to flip and do the rings
and trampoline it and all the things?
- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
- What's your favorite thing to do in gymnastics?
- Uh, flips.
(lively music)
- [Chris] We might make it to the top today.
Is he gonna make it to the top?
Oh my goodness.
I have never seen him get all the way to the top before.
That's impressive.
So this is going to be Parker's last gymnastics
before he gets his tonsils out.
So he's trying to soak it in.
He went all the way to the top of the rope.
- Bailey.
- You wanna see Bailey? - Yeah.
- Let's go find Bailey.
(lively music)
Whoa. (baby giggles)
You see Bailey in there?
- Yeah.
- Yeah? Where is she?
Oh, there she is.
(lively music)
Parker, how was gymnastics today?
- Good.
- I saw you doing like a floor routine.
It was pretty cool. - Yeah, I do floor routine.
- Jake, how was gymnastics today for you?
Whoa, whoa.
Does that mean good, what does that mean?
- Yes, it means good.
- Oh, okay.
What are you working on?
- I'm showing Duncan the baby video that I promised him.
- Who's that?
- Bailey made this little slideshow for Duncan
and he loves watching it, so,
she's showing it to him right now.
(music)
(Duncan laughs)
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