- [Christopher] Are you ready to see a show?
- Yeah!
- [Christopher] I like your fancy jacket.
- Yeah!
- [Christopher] Yeah, it's pretty fancy.
- Yeah!
(pleasant music)
(upbeat music)
- Good morning, everyone.
- Good morning, everyone!
- Hi!
(Luke babbling)
- [Christopher] What?
- I'm a blueberry!
- [Christopher] You're a blueberry?
- I'm a blueberry.
- [Christopher] You're dressed like a blueberry?
- Yeah.
I'm ready for my birthday.
- [Christopher] You're ready for your birthday?
- Yeah!
- Oh, that's like a year away.
You want another birthday?
- Yeah, another birthday.
- Another birthday?
(Luke screaming)
Yeah, you're so excited?
- Yeah.
- It is Friday, and we have a really busy weekend lined up.
- My birthday!
- It's not his birthday,
but we are gonna celebrate my sister's kids today.
- My birthday!
My birthday.
- Your birthday? - Yeah.
- Your birthday just happened.
They're celebrating the twins' birthday tomorrow,
Jacob has a Lego robotics competition this weekend and-
(Luke babbles)
I didn't catch that one, what did you say?
- Miranda.
- What? - Miranda.
- Miranda? - Yeah.
- You want to see Auntie Panties?
- Auntie Panties!
- Yeah, we're going to their house tomorrow.
- Oh, wow.
And tonight is opening night for Bailey's play.
Bailey has been rehearsing for "Matilda."
She is-
(Luke babbling)
Are you gonna see the play?
- Yeah. (babbles)
- You wanna go to the play tonight?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
Are they gonna sing and dance?
- Sing and dance.
Bailey is actually double cast in the play,
so some of the nights she is being like an adult
and like a mom and a kid, she's playing both those roles,
and then some of the nights-
(Luke babbling)
What?
And then some of the nights
she's playing Matilda's mom, Mrs. Wormwood.
Are you excited to see Bailey in a play?
(Luke babbles)
What are you doing today?
What have you been working on?
(Luke babbles)
What?
Oh, did you do speech therapy today?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
- It was good.
- It was good?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
(Luke babbles)
What?
You can hear it in Luke's voice,
he had a cold a long time ago
and it turned into an ear infection and bronchitis.
(Luke babbling)
Yeah?
He's on antibiotics, he's almost done with his antibiotics,
he's no longer contagious.
(Luke laughing)
Aw, Rue!
What's Rue doing?
Is she giving you kisses?
Oh, those are some big, slobbery kisses.
What are you doing right now?
(Luke babbles)
You're playing on the soft blocks?
Look at this.
He's set up a whole zone.
We haven't had the soft blocks out since you were little,
doing physical therapy.
We got them out the other day,
'cause Teddy started climbing, huh?
We thought we'd give him something soft and safe
to climb on. - You ready?
- Luke, I can put the table on my head.
- Magician.
- You're a magician?
- It's a refrigerator.
- Is that your refrigerator?
- [Luke] Uh huh.
- Oh, that's pretty cool.
Do you wanna make a castle?
- Yeah.
- Okay, let's make a castle.
So you can put this one here.
(Luke babbles)
- Here.
- Oh, that's a cute spot.
(Parker exclaims)
(Luke giggling)
Wow, that was a big castle.
There's our castle.
(Parker clapping)
- We are headed to the grocery store,
we're going to do our weekly grocery shopping.
We're also gonna get some treats
that will be a part of the concession stand
for Bailey's "Matilda" show
because it's opening night tonight.
And they're doing something that I think is so smart,
and they're actually getting flowers to sale
at the concession stand as well,
and I think that that's such a fun idea.
I've seen a few theater places do this recently.
One time Bailey went to a show,
she didn't even know any of the performers,
but she went and she bought flowers for the ones
that she was especially excited about,
and I just thought that that was really neat.
As a parent who really struggles
to make sure that I have the little bouquet of flowers
for my kids,
just because it's another thing on top of show night,
it's so nice to have that safety net there,
and then it's also really sweet
for people to be able to support performers
they don't even know.
I love the idea of it.
So we are getting flowers
as part of our concession thing as well.
And it's actually like a day early
for our grocery shopping for the week,
but I'm excited to get it done,
especially if we end up going
to the twins' birthday party tomorrow,
it'll feel nice having everything settled
and already taken care of.
So we're off.
Okay, great news,
because I thought I was gonna have to go to two stores,
but they have roses here today.
They don't usually have roses here.
And they didn't have other flowers, they have roses.
I'm so glad, I'm so excited.
So that saved us a trip, I'm so grateful.
- And something I'm really excited about is cranberries.
'Tis the season to get cranberries
and make cranberry sauce,
and they had a whole bunch on sale,
so we're loading up on cranberries this year.
Do you like cranberry sauce?
- Yeah!
- [Christopher] Yeah, it's delicious.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah!
- [Christopher] Mommy makes the best cranberry sauce.
- Yeah!
- [Christopher] Are you doing your ninja gymnastics today?
- Yeah. - All right.
Whoa, not in the store,
not in the store, at gymnastics, right?
Yeah, at gymnastics.
(upbeat music)
- Hey, I got this, it's for my bedroom.
So you stick these to the window
and when the sun shines on it, it's really pretty,
so I got it for my window.
And we're probably gonna take it off
and then get new Christmas ones,
but well, I have it for now, but yeah.
(upbeat music)
- Okay, we got everything we needed from the store
and now we are taking Parker and Duncan to gymnastics.
Duncan has his ninja class today,
Parker's got his regular gymnastics.
We're gonna pull them a little early today,
because Bailey has her big performance, her opening night.
So he's gonna check out a little early
and that'll get us there on time, hopefully.
We'll see.
It's a lot of running around.
This is pretty typical for us though.
I feel like most of the day,
I'm driving a kid to a place,
or driving a kid from a place to another place.
It's just me, part dad, part chauffer.
(upbeat music)
You ready for ninja?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] Yeah?
What do you think you're gonna do today?
- Monkey bars.
- [Christopher] Monkey bars?
That sounds fun.
Looks like they got a lot of cool stuff set up
for you today.
(upbeat music)
How'd it go today?
- Great.
- Okay, I've got Bailey in the car now.
- Hello.
- Which means we're in a rush.
So we're rushing Bailey to the theater,
so that she can do a final rehearsal,
and then we're all meeting here back at the theater
for the actual performance.
So she's getting there about two hours early to rehearse.
- So I love this show so much.
When I was 10, I saw it at the West End for the first time,
and I fell in love with it.
I love the show so much.
I read the book, it was one of my first chapter books,
I think, when I was around four or five.
I really love this musical and the story
and I'm just so excited to actually get to perform in it,
because ever since I saw it
it was like my dream to be a part of this musical,
so this is really cool.
- [Christopher] Do you feel ready for tonight?
- No.
- [Christopher] Oh, no.
Do you think the rehearsal...
It's a good idea that you're doing a little pre-rehearsal?
- Most likely. - Okay.
But tonight, you're ensemble
and on Sunday you're Mrs. Wormwood.
- Yes.
- [Christopher] And do you feel more ready for tonight
or more ready for Sunday?
- Tonight.
- Oh, okay.
Well, at least you got a couple extra days to prepare.
(Bailey chuckles)
You're gonna do great.
You're gonna do great, it's gonna be so much fun.
All right, I got to her rehearsal,
then I came back, picked up Parker from gymnastics,
he's eating now, pizza bagels.
It's supposed to be pizza movie night,
but it's gonna be pizza play night tonight.
(Luke babbling)
You like that food?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] What is that?
What is that?
Is it a pizza bagel?
- Pizza.
- [Christopher] Did you get a pizza bagel?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] Yeah, is it yummy?
That's what I thought.
Did you get some pizza bagels?
- Yes, I did, I already ate them.
- [Christopher] Did you make the pizza bagels?
- Yes.
- [Christopher] Thank you, Jacob.
- I stuck them in the oven.
- [Christopher] Chef Jacob strikes again.
- It is opening night,
and this has been quite the juggle
to get all the kids to the places
where they needed to be
while also getting Bailey to the show,
and then us back to the show, and all the things.
But we did it!
At least, we've done it so far.
We haven't made it to the show,
but I think we're going to.
We're okay with time so far.
We do need to get in the car like right now,
so let's go.
- [Christopher] Are you ready to see a show?
- Yeah!
- [Christopher] I like your fancy jacket.
- Yeah!
- [Christopher] Yeah, it's pretty fancy.
- Yeah!
- [Christopher] Yeah, are you ready to go in?
- Go in!
- [Christopher] All right, let's go in.
This way, it's over this way.
It's this way, over here.
- This way.
- [Christopher] Oh my goodness, are you excited?
- Yes!
- [Christopher] Is this your first show
that you've ever seen?
- Yes, my first...
What's it called?
- [Christopher] Live show, musical.
- Yes, my first musical.
- [Christopher] Are you gonna clap?
You're not gonna clap?
- I'm just kidding!
- [Christopher] Oh, good joke.
You're gonna clap?
- No!
- [Christopher] You're not gonna clap?
You're supposed to clap.
Are you gonna stay up late?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] Yeah?
You gonna watch the show?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] Are you watching the show?
- Yeah.
No.
- [Christopher] No?
Is it intermission?
- Intermission.
- Intermission, yeah.
It's intermission right now.
Everybody's doing a really good job.
Are you liking the show?
Teddy's clapping every time there's an applause.
Yeah, he claps his hands.
- I want a water.
- [Christopher] You want a water?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] Okay, I'll see if I can get you a water.
How are you enjoying it Jake?
- Good.
I like it, yeah.
(Luke babbles)
- Are you enjoying the show?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] Yeah, it's fun.
(Luke babbles)
Oh, is that the show?
Did you find Bailey on the stage?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] Did you find Bailey, was she singing?
- Yes.
- [Christopher] What?
- No.
- [Christopher] Was she singing on stage?
- Yeah!
- [Christopher] You liking it?
Oh, you give it a thumbs up?
Two thumbs up?
It's a fun show, huh?
- And also my nose is up high.
- [Christopher] Oh.
They're doing a great job, aren't they?
Did you see Bailey up there?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] Yeah?
- See, this says up.
- [Christopher] Oh, you're giving it two thumbs
and a nose up?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] Oh, cool.
- And a thumbs up for nose being thumbs up.
- [Christopher] Cool.
- Can we watch some more?
- [Christopher] Yeah, there's a second half.
You wanna go sit down and watch some more?
Great job, Bailey.
Did you have fun?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] That was so much fun.
It's so good to see you on stage again.
- [Parker] I can't wait to go back on stage again.
- How was Teddy?
- [Christopher] He was good.
- He was dancing.
- Yeah, he was dancing. - You were?
- [Christopher] He clapped every time everyone else clapped.
- That was Duncan's first musical that he ever saw.
- [Christopher] Yeah, Duncan loved it.
- He said he wished there was more.
He wants more shows about Matilda.
- [Bailey] Oh.
(Parker giggling)
(light music)