(upbeat music)
- Good morning, everyone.
We've been doing so many announcements
and like gonna like the beach
and berry picking and stuff
that it's been a while since we've just been at home
with you guys.
So that's what today's gonna be,
showing you what we're working on here at the house.
And one of the things we're working on is here
in the garden.
We got tomato plants while we were berry picking
the other day from the farm.
And so we have a whole bunch of really cool
varieties of tomatoes.
This one's Suzy's Beauty Dwarf Tomatoes.
This is Cyril's Choice.
This is Green Zebra, Gold Nugget, Sun Gold,
and my personal favorite Cherokee Chocolate.
I think that refers to the color of the tomato
not the flavor of the tomato, which is unfortunate.
I'd like to grow chocolate tomatoes.
We'll watch their progress throughout the summer
and show you our tomato halls as they come along,
but I'm excited.
I love planting stuff in the garden and watching it grow,
and it's just fascinating to me that you can just
put something in the dirt, and take care of it,
but then food comes off of it, like edible food.
That's wild to me.
- For a while we've been preparing our puppy space.
Today is the day that we're really like doing kind
of a final push.
I wish I had kind of filmed everything before
but I think you guys know this living room of ours,
or I don't know if you'd call it a living room.
It's kind of like a small fireplace space.
There was a small couch here that we took out
and we have this game table and this couch.
- [Parker] I want to show you where it is.
- [Jessica] Parker you wanna show the new garage set up?
- Yes!
- [Jessica] Oh wow.
- Now we're going to sleep in here.
- [Jessica] (laughs) It's a little chilly, isn't it?
I guess not.
- Yeah. I'm not gonna sleep in here but...
- I'm gonna sleep in here tonight.
- [Jessica] So yeah, the kids have a little fun zone in here
and it's looking cooler.
- I'm gonna sleep in here tonight and...
- Me, me, I'm gonna...
- We're both gonna sleep in here.
- Oh yeah, yeah. (laughs)
- [Jessica] Good idea Jake, look what you started.
This used to be there a little play couch but now-
- I could sleep in here right now.
- No. Silly goose.
- [Jessica] You guys, wanna play some foosball?
- Yeah.
- Alright have fun.
We're planning on putting a crate in this,
like empty corner right behind me, but it hasn't come yet.
It's coming in a couple of days.
And then I have like dogs' stuff
which I think I'm gonna do a haul
of when we have all of it, because we have more coming.
Here are things that were under the couch
so working on that.
And we also actually this game table under here
look it's already starting, it's already starting again
but under here, we moved this table, like we just rolled it,
and there an exact imprint of the table of stuff
that I think every time we told the kids to clean this room
they just jammed and compacted underneath the tables.
It was really funny.
Like it was a table imprint to that height of just toys
and socks and shoes and just all kinds of things.
So we're working on that.
So our plan is to take the rug and put it away
for a while until we know our dog is
like more potty trained.
This is going to be dog space for a while.
So we'll have the crate
and then we'll have a little more space for her
and we'll slowly keep expanding her world
as she's introduced into our home.
But this room is gonna be more where she's spending
the most of her like potty training,
early, early puppy at our house time.
We have a sliding glass door right here where
she'll be going out to go potty.
Today we're gonna be doing the final push
of cleaning up that stuff
cleaning up this stuff, ideally removing the rug
but I don't know if we'll get there.
And then Christopher and I sorted through our games
we have significantly less games down here now.
We will reassess as appropriate.
So if something about this new setup doesn't work
when we bring the puppy home, we'll figure it out.
We always figure things out.
I think I've told you guys
I'm not really a house designer person.
I don't really get like having a pretty house,
like, sorry, I mean, I'd love one
but it's not like really how my brain operates as much.
So our homes are always more
like for function and livability and we adjust.
(laughs) So if something
about this doesn't end up working, we'll readjust.
But I think, I think we have a really good plan.
I've been watching so many videos and seeing a lot
of suggestions that I'm following this training
program that I really am enjoying.
I'm hoping that this is gonna be a really good plan for us.
- Clean up time. (gentle, upbeat music)
- Things are getting very moved around
and the large couch is the one couch we hadn't moved yet.
So lucky you guys get to see an idea
of the stuff that has ended up underneath these couches.
This one is not as bad as the other ones were.
So Christopher has been sweeping,
looking good, looking good.
Then look at that. (imitates screaming)
See, this is the answer to where the shoes have gone.
What?
So all that's going away obviously.
Look how good it's looking though.
Look at our progress.
This we're gonna put back, I think, but like right now
this is what we're looking at.
There's a happy little puppy corner.
Yay. The move the couch moment.
Ah, lost a blanket. Oh
- Oh look a little tripod thing.
(Jessica laughs)
Found a treasure, found a treasure there.
- [Jessica] Oops.
- We got some shoes, some cards.
- [Jessica] Parker pants.
- [Chris] These are always vanishing somewhere.
- Oh! - Oh!
- [Jessica] Magician.
I know exactly where this fella goes.
This is great news.
(gentle, upbeat music)
Yes.
We had these two yesterday so they're somewhere.
Yes, horse.
Duck, we will find you.
Okay, all cleaned up and swept up.
So Duncan has been inspired to set up
a game of Ballinger family matching memory game.
(Jessica laughs)
Yes.
- Mama, I think I'm gonna win.
- [Jessica] I think you probably are too.
- Yeah, cause you are the hardest on this game.
- [Jessica] You beat me yesterday.
- Yes I did.
- Yes he did. Duncan is on a memory kick.
It's like all he's wanted to do the last month.
He's very good at it.
He definitely beat me yesterday.
Fair and square because we play hard with our kids,
but he loves it.
And he actually- - I'm gonna play hard on you.
- Oh!
I like when you win, Duncan.
It makes me very proud of you, okay?
- [Chris] Don't go easy on Mommy.
- Don't go easy on Mommy.
But we actually have, I think maybe four different versions
of memory now because I made one through Shutterfly.
It's very cute.
And then we have this one
and then he got one through one of his Kiwi crates
and it's bugs and he really likes it.
And I think we have some, a couple other things too.
I don't know.
He plays like every version of his memory games, every day.
Nice set up.
- I'm not done yet.
- [Jessica] Oh no, no, no.
- 'Cause. - Yeah. Yeah.
- Look, left. - Yeah, you got some left.
And this is what, can I turn it over really quick?
This is what these look like on the other side.
Pretty cool.
Okay. The game has begun.
- Well, I got these two.
They are Ballenger and Parker and Grandma.
- [Jessica] Okay.
Duncan already got his first match
on his second turn with this many things in play.
I'm very impressed. (chuckles)
Blueberries, aw man. This is blueberries,
oh Star Wars and Ballinger family.
I think Duncan knows where the match is to that one.
Oh boy lucky day. Let's see.
Aw, The Weiss Life, and Mama.
- You are my Mama - I'm your Mama.
Ooh. Yellow for Parker and Uncle Trent.
- I've been moving them.
- Don't move them, that makes mommy's brain get squishy.
Okay. What about this one?
(gasps) Cute attack.
- It's me. - It's you.
You're the cute attack, oh you're so cute.
And, oh, bonus cute attack.
- That's actually Parker.
- Oh, you gotta get Rachel?
Man, Duncan is on a role.
That was a lot. Duncan's got a ton all in one turn.
He has everything in a pile and I have mine in stacks
so it's hard to say who's in the lead
but we don't have a lot left, do we?
Let's see what about this one? Daddy and Auntie Panties.
Ooh, airplane.
Good job, Duncan.
Oh good job, Duncan.
Auntie Panties.
(Jessica laughs)
Hmm. Chef Jacob and sushi.
Jojo and Jojo.
I haven't seen that one before. Daddy.
(gasps) Oh, just missed it.
Okay.
Let's see, I got this.
And, ah!
I thought it was gonna get it.
I was too confident.
(gasps) Good job, Duncan.
And sushi, sushi. Okay let's count 'em up.
- One, two, three.
15, 15.
- All right I got 21.
You did an amazing job. Very good game.
Fierce competitor. Very tough game.
He definitely frequently wins.
This was a hard one too.
There were a lot of things to remember.
- All right, at this point,
the kids have a bunch of classes,
online classes that they're doing
including Luke's music class.
And I think Duncan's joining us today.
♪ It's our time to run with Luke ♪
♪ Run hello hello ♪
And stop.
Where's your stop sign?
You say, and stop. Good job.
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Luke has been using his sign language
a little more lately, watch this.
Would you like the strawberry?
What do you say?
Good saying please.
Good job. There you go.
Yummy strawberry.
Thank you for saying please.
- Mm, da? - Yeah, is it good?
He's sucking the middle out of a strawberry. (laughs)
What's your plan there?
Pretty yummy.
What's happening out here?
- We're setting up a tent.
- [Chris] Why?
- 'Cause I wanna sleep in the wilderness.
- [Chris] Okay, enjoy the wilderness tonight.
- [Parker] Thank you.
- [Chris] Wanna give me a tour?
- Okay, so here is the bedroom.
Actually this whole thing is the bedroom
because there's gonna be a mattress down here
that has Duncan's place in it.
- [Chris] Another one?
- Yeah. I like laying on this like comes up and it's cool.
This time because it was just me, one side was bigger
than the other so it rolled me and rolled me
and it was funny.
And, here...
Ta-da!
- [Chris] So you're setting this whole thing up by yourself.
- Not by myself. Faith helped me with this, pulling it up.
Jacob also helped me with this and this mattress
but I did this mattress all by myself.
- [Jessica] Oh boy, we got our first of
the little like puppy, baby gates.
- Oh no we did not!
- [Jessica] Yeah we did!
- Wanna help, you wanna pull on that side?
- [Parker] Do you wanna help?
- Okay, there we go, now we're getting somewhere.
- [Jessica] You guys got this.
- Now we're getting somewhere, whoa.
- [Parker] Okay I really tried on that so.
- [Jessica] This will go around the crate.
Yes, just like that.
We can eventually use it to make barriers here or like
we can use it for here. - It's really long.
- [Jessica] It's tall because she's gonna be
tall eventually, so...
- No it is really tall.
- So this is how much space she has in the beginning?
- [Jessica] kind of she'll, her,
she'll actually start more with her crate sapace
and then hopefully pretty soon thereafter
this'll be more her space.
And then we'll get another one just like it that's short
so we can walk over it for like potty and stuff.
You guys excited?
- I'm stuck. (Jessica laughs)
Setting up the tent!
- [Parker] Jacob, I did it I did it!
- All right, we got another box too though,
I don't know where-
- [Jessica] Oh boy, what's in the other box?
And then she got this little bed
but she's gonna outgrow it so fast.
She's already so big
but I wanted her to have a cozy puppy spot
that we train her in the beginning with,
so she's gonna have that.
And then a lot of this stuff here is actually
like packing our puppy diaper bag,
but I'll show you guys all that in a future video.
That's her bigger bed!
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I think that might fit the crate exactly.
I remember that was something I had thought about,
but it's not necessarily to use it.
It's more for like
that's something we can move around the house and like have.
- Are we gonna sleep in here tonight?
- [Jessica] Yeah you can.
(children screaming) (Jessica laughing)
- And I might have already shown this
but we already have our little sleep schedule set up.
This is our new puppy sleep schedule
and like our plan for our day, our schedule
that way we can all just like at any moment
look at the schedule and reference it.
And the sleep schedule will just help me
because I have a feeling there's gonna be so
much to learn and so much going on
that my brain will be a bit mushy throughout
the next week process when we do get her.
But we're getting prepared, making some plans.
So I am hoping to do a puppy haul video
where I show you all the things
and what we're planning on using them for.
It's by no means everything ever,
but it's kind of my puppy prep stuff
that I've figured out we need.
It's a lot, but I'm excited.
I hope that it's thorough
and it's what we need for when we need it.
And things like that, so expect that coming soon.
- Another thing that we've been doing
and not specifically because we're getting a dog,
but I think that the dog will benefit
from us doing this, is we've been going on daily walks.
Every single day we walk and Luke points out all the flowers
- Da. - Flowers. And all the dogs.
- Da, da, da.
- You see a dog? And all the birds.
And then we stop at a park
and he runs around at the park for a little bit.
And it's a really great way for us to get some exercise,
get into the routine of doing this.
And when we have the dog,
we'll be able to do it with the dog.
Once the dog's all immunized and everything,
you gotta be careful with puppies.
But once it's safe, the dog will come with us on
our walks and we'll have a lot of fun.
- Da. - Yeah.
(gentle, upbeat music)
(Duncan laughs) - Kisses.
Mmm mm, mwah. I love you.
(gentle music)