(children laughing
(pounds table)
- Thank you so much!
(upbeat music)
( relaxed acoustic guitar music)
- Good morning everyone!
So, we are doing something so exciting today.
So basically we've been sheltering
in place since before
our governor even required it
and we're in California.
And really, like, just taking care
of our home
and the kids really miss their friends
and they miss a lot of things
but they've been doing really well.
And a couple weeks ago,
I was going through my Facebook
and I got one of those Facebook ads for something
and I clicked on it
and it was thing called Toybox
which was a 3-D printer aimed for kids
for like building their own toys and stuff.
And then the kids and I watch YouTube videos on it
and they, like, were so excited about it
and thought it was so cool
'cuase it looked like so exciting.
And they were like, "Can we have it? Can we have it?"
And they were so excited and wanted it so bad.
And I said what I always say to them which is,
"Put it on your birthday list.
"Put it on your Christmas list.
"Like, maybe, but, like, you have to wait."
And, (laughs) then I bought one
and they don't know.
And I just, I thought it was so cool
and I thought it'd be really neat
for, like, homeschooling
and for being able to be resourceful right now
and, like, make their own things
and also to learn about 3-D printing
and I think it's something we can use
for our business too.
Like, I'm hoping maybe Christopher can figure
out how to make guitar picks with it.
Who knows what?
I don't know.
And it just came (laughs)
and the kids have no idea.
Like they don't know at all
and this is really, really something they're excited about.
I'm gonna go downstairs right now
and we're gonna show them what we got
and we're gonna open it up and play with it
and it's really, really, really cool you guys.
It's a 3-D printer.
And there's an app
and you can print like anything you need
and there's so many cool things you can print.
So, that's what I'm doing right now.
This is not sponsored.
If anything it was something that I saw
on the internet
and I was like,
"I wanna buy that!" (laughs)
But I'm so happy right now
to be able to have this little,
like, craft distraction learning activity
that we can all do together as a family.
So, let's go show 'em.
- [Jessica] Is he waking up a little bit?
- I don't know.
No
(chuckles)
- [Jessica] Sweetie (chuckles) (mumbles)
What are you guys up to?
- We're reading.
- Reading
- [Jessica] Yeah (chuckles)
Was it a secret?
- Yes
- [Jessica] (chuckles)
- (mumbles) Advent calendar
- I want this Advent Calendar for Christmas.
This one.
- [Jessica] Jacob, did you have that one once?
- It has all of these characters.
They're so dressed up and they're so funny.
- I think I had this one?
I've had that one.
I think I've had this one.
- [Jessica] So everything but the one
that I thought you had?
- I might have had this one.
- It's only six 14.
It's a new Advent Calendar
- From year 2014 yes.
- [Jessica] Yeah, so we probably did it
that year for you.
And Jacob is almost done
with a very special book series
that he's been working on.
- [Jessica] What are you reading Jakey?
- Harry Potter.
- [Jessica] And which book is that?
- This is the last one.
- [Jessica] Oh my
goodness dude!
So we've been making our own bread
and doing all kinds of great things
around the house
and it's been a nice experience.
- [Jessica] Bailey and Duncan come on down!
(acoustic guitar plays)
- We're princesses!
- [Jessica] You are?
How does that work?
- He's a prince.
And I'm a princess.
- [Jessica] Oh yeah?
What have you guys been doing Duncan?
- We were playing a game.
- [Jessica] Yeah?
How do you play?
- I can't know.
- [Jessica] (laughs)You can't know?
You waking up?
- Hi buddy!
Ohhh hi!
- [Jessica] Hey cutie!
- Hey cutie.
- Hey sleepy head!
Oh! Okay, good burp!
- Good burree!
- [Jessica] (laughs)
- So what are we doing?
- [Jessica] Oh, just you wait and see kiddo.
- I can't wait!
(child whining)
- Here we go guys.
- [Child] What is this?
- This is our afternoon activity.
- [Jessica] I think Bailey will remember this!(laughs)
- Oh my gosh!
(children exclaiming)
- All right.
Let's see.
- [Child] Oh my gosh!
- Got a thing here.
- [Child] What?
- (gasps)Oh my gosh!
Oh my gosh!
Yes!
(laughter)
- You did not!
- What is it?
- A 3-D printerrrrrrr! (pounds table)
- Thank you so much - He is like what is going on.
- I'm getting it.
I am getting it out.
- We have the app and everything. (gasps)
- You aren't kidding!
This is like the best!
- (laughs hysterically)Oh my gosh!
Oh my gosh!
Duncan doesn't even know what it is.
- [Chris] (chuckles)Look at Duncan.
He's like, what are they freaking out about?
- Duncan, this thing
makes toys. - Oh my god! (squeals)
This makes toys - Oh my god! (squeals)
Do you wanna have toys?
Yeah?
- [Parker] Do you wanna have
a tea party? - Ohhh ho ho
- [Parker] (laughs)Oh!
Hey no!
Are you kidding me?
- [Jessica] (laughs)
- This is epic!
- If you guys want,
this can be my birthday present, okay.
This can be my birthday present to me.
I don't want you guys to worry about it.
- [Chris] Why, why don't we make mommy birthday presents
with the Toybox?
(laughs)
- [Chris] You're gonna get so many tops!
(laughs)
- Okay Jacob.
Put it on your iPad.
- Wait? Tops? You're making?
- [Chris] I don't know.
I just figured it was an easy plastic toy to make.
- Yeah, I like tops.
- I don't think there's (mumbles).
- Okay, so that's the printer food.
That's kind of like ink for a printer
but this is a 3-D printer
so it's plastic.
- [Chris] Look at these little bears!
Do you wanna make little bears Duncan?
- Oh my gosh!
- [Parker] I'm so excited!
- [Chris] But wait!
There's more!
(children exclaiming)
- What?
Two printers?
- Wait, what?
- What?
- Why two? (gasps)
- Oh my!
(children exclaiming)
- Oh my gosh!
- So you guys have all of your favorite colors.
- Thank you so much!
- (laughs)You guys, you guys wanna show
what your favorite colors are?
- (sniffs package)This mint definitely smells the best.
- These are my two favorite colors.
- We can smell it?
- My favorite one!
- [Jessica] (laughs)
- My favorite color. - My favorite.
- I'm starting this up.
I can't hold it
anymore - I can't hold it in.
- [Chris] You guys wanna make that gummy bear?
- [Jessica] Yeah, let's do something that takes
only a couple minutes.
- [Chris] Okay, so we're gonna do a gummy bear.
It's a six minute gummy bear build.
And we're gonna use Duncan's color first.
It's peach.
- [Parker] Ooo it's peach! (squeals)
- [Jessica] (laughs)
- This is crazy.
I actu... like, I thought
- [Duncan] Dad!
- That - [Duncan] Can you do mine?
- This is like a birthday present.
- [Duncan] Can you do mine
- But now, but like, you just gave it to us?
That's crazy.
- Well we aren't leaving our house
and we're inside all the time.
I thought this would be a fun activity.
- What I wanna make is this thing
that can help the Corona Virus.
So, I'm gonna do that one.
- So the kids and I were so excited about this
that we actually downloaded the app
and we looked through all the different things
that you could make
on the app before we had it
and we before we even knew we could have it.
Because we were just having a lot of fun, like,
looking through the app of what you could make.
And one of the things is a ventilator splitter.
It said in the app that they would, like,
work with whatever hospital is near us
and that we could actually make
these ventilator splitters for them.
So that's one thing I would love to do
is call our hospital
and figure out if this actually would
be something that they could use
and that we could make for them.
I think that would be a really cool way for us to help.
That will be something I'd try to figure out tomorrow.
I don't exactly know who to call
at the hospital
but I guess, maybe, someone will know the answer.
I don't know.
- I'm excited about, like, personalizing my own stuff.
This seems really cool.
- [Jessica] So Luke has been working on
kind of prop sitting.
He'll do it for a second where
he'll sit on his own.
- Here, hold on.
- [Jessica] But I, yeah. (laughs)
Hi! Hi big boy!
Ooo are you sitting?
Almost!
- [Jacob] With my thumb on him
- [Jessica] Almost (laughs)
You happy boy!
- [Jacob] He wants to
- [Chris] So Jacob just put the plastic in here.
(energetic music)
(sad trombone)
- [Chris] So this is our gummy bear.
- It's not a gummy bear.
- [Chris] It's not a gummy bear?
- [Parker] There's still some more.
There's still stuff.
- [Chris] Yeah, I'm not.
So we canceled that print
'cause it didn't seem like it was working.
- [Jessica] It's just like a pancake.
The first pancake's always a mess.
- [Chris] That's the gummy bear we got.
We're gonna try it again.
That was our first attempt
at 3-D printing right there.
(energetic music)
(sad trombone)
(energetic music)
(sad trombone)
- [Chris] So apparently our tray isn't calibrated right.
So I got an allen wrench
from my Christmas gift
and gonna tighten this.
Ooo ooo.
- [Duncan] Gummy bear purple
- [Chris] Okay.
And now it's just sort of a trouble shooting game
and we're gonna try this again.
I got a good feeling about this one
or maybe the next one.
(child laughs)
- [Chris] But certainly one of those
next few.
- [Duncan] I found it.
- [Chris] We're just.
We're not gonna give up until we can do it right?
- [Kids] mmm hmm yes
(energetic music)
- [Family] ohhh!
- Oh it is!
It is!
- What?
(children exclaiming)
- [Chris] We have a gummy bear.
- [Child] Can I hold it?
- [Jessica] Not to eat though.
- [Chris] It is not edible.
- What do you think Duncan?
- It's a big one!
- It's a big one.
That's your new toy.
Ohhh.
- Feels so good.
- It's a, it's a toy.
- [Chris] You can make like game pieces
and stuff out of this Jake.
- Yeah, thinking about it, yeah.
- [Chris] All right, Jacob is now gonna do this sword.
So go ahead.
Make it happen.
- [Jessica] Yea! - So I plan is this
- [Chris] You press the big print me.
- Print me.
Okay.
- [Chris] And now, now it's going to work.
(bouncy music)
- It makes a sword.
- [Chris] It's gonna make a sword?
All right (mumbles)
(machine whirs)
(bouncy music)
- [Chris] All right, there is Parker's spider.
- Our third not mess up. (giggles)
- So one of the really cool things
about this is the plastic
that this company uses is made
from some sort of, like, corn material.
So it's natural and biodegradable.
It's not edible.
So don't eat it
but it is a biodegradable.
It's not gonna, like, clog
up our oceans with plastic.
So, I think that that is a super cool feature
of this thing.
- So overall, with the sheltering in place order,
our lives haven't changed too much
because we were already working
from home and the kids were already homeschooling.
However, we did a lot of outside the house activities.
Like, aside from the fact that we did travel.
So, it's been a really good opportunity
for us to get back to the basics around our house.
To instill, like, a schedule
and really get better at doing chores.
And we've also been having a ton
of fun as a family
doing, like, family TikToks and stuff (laughs)
which I would not have expected
before all this.
It's something we've done before
but like, we're having so much fun
with it right now
and really using it, almost as
our form of exercise
because we'll go out
and we'll like dance for an hour a day almost.
And it's just, like, a really great time
that we've been having.
- All right.
We have been trying to do this specific TicTok
for like, three days.
We've tried to record it several different times
and we just haven't been able to get the timing right.
I think today is the day.
(upbeat pop music)
- One thing that we haven't done at all
during this time of staying at home
is we haven't gone to a restaurant, obviously,
or gotten take out from a restaurant.
We haven't done any drive through,
no take out.
No food from another place.
So.
- It's gonna be so weird driving to a restaurant
and going to a restaurant later.
- [Chris] You think so?
- Yeah, can we do it? - [Chris] Maybe
Maybe we just won't do it anymore.
I think we've figured out home life.
- I'm not doing that.
I'm going to a restaurant on my birthday
no matter what.
- [Chris] Okay what restaurant are you hoping
to go to? - Denny's
- Denny's?
And I know a lot of people eat at home most
of the time
but we weren't one of those people.
When Jessica and I were first married,
we lived in Los Angeles.
It was kind of a big city.
Eating out was a little bit more
of a thing that you do.
And because we were constantly traveling, also,
we got kind of accustomed
to going to a restaurant
or getting take out
or whatever.
But it's been really good
to just sort of get back to basics
and cook meals in our kitchen.
So, anyway, it's time to make dinner.
(light happy jazz music)
- [Chris] Okay! Here's the finished product.
We've got a seven grain bowl sort of thing.
Thai peanut, there's some salmon in there
and some snap peas.
And then we've got, up here,
we've got some roasted cauliflower
and these are just some ranch flavored chic peas.
That is the dinner for each kid.
They each get one of these.
Not Luke, though.
He doesn't get one of those.
He's strictly on the mommy milk.
And while the kids eat,
they get to watch a boat being built.
(machine whirs)
- And after that,
it's gonna be Duncan's Mickey Mouse train
which will take four minutes.
- [Chris] Oooo
- And after that, I don't know.
- [Chris] After that it'll probably be bed time.
(laughing)