- So Ashley and I are trying to be better about date night
because I've been terrible this year
with everything so busy, with YouTube and work and stuff.
I've been super terrible at taking Ashley on dates.
- He works all the time.
- So-- - He doesn't sleep.
- We're starting this new thing, it's a weekly thing where
we just go and hang out for a little bit without any kids.
- People are gonna be like, yeah.
That's what all normal married couples do.
- It's a pretty sweet date night, right?
Drive-through Starbucks.
(mellow electronic music)
Today we wanna tell you about
one of the best things that's ever happened to us.
And tell you about one of the dumbest things
I have ever said in my entire life.
So we have three kids, right, and in the movies,
in shows, you always see these really cool,
dramatic moments of when a baby's born.
♪ Love lift us up where we belong ♪
And our first two births were incredible experiences,
but the actual birth process was pretty straight-forward.
We had inductions for both of them.
- Yeah.
- So we scheduled them.
- No contractions until they come.
- Yeah, I don't know what was going through my head.
I just thought we needed a little more of a story
behind... behind our kids.
- Basically it'd make a really good vlog.
- Yeah, but, yeah.
That's not what I was thinking about, but sure.
We make a great vlog out of it.
This is my dream.
I want Ashley's water to break.
I want us to be like, we gotta get to the hospital!
And we're going in the car, and we're stepping on the gas,
and I'm running red lights.
And she's like, breathing in the seat next to me like,
I'm gonna--
- He wants to have the Hollywood experience.
- And then we run into the hospital,
and she throws in the bed, and the baby comes,
and it cries, and we all cry.
And I just think that would be awesome.
So if that wasn't the most cringe-worthy thing
you ever watched in your life...
- It was not funny.
- If you're a guy in my position
and you haven't thought about these things.
So I'll fill you in on what actually happens.
- I had had some on-and-off-again contractions that day.
So we're eating Panera in the kitchen, and I take a bite
of the amazing Panera chocolate chip cookies, which I love.
- Not sponsored.
- Oh no, not sponsored, but go get one.
Okay, it hit me in an instant.
So maybe that helps people go into labor, try that.
Really pregnant ladies, try that,
and then write in the comments.
- How does a chocolate chip cookie make you go into labor?
- I'm joking, but seriously,
this doesn't happen to Ashley Crosby.
I don't go into labor.
I get the camera like, hey guys!
We're in the kitchen, we're about to go and have a baby.
- And I'm trying to get to the car.
- The moment we get in the car, I realize that it is serious
because there's a certain look that came on Ashley.
I just had never seen that happen to her.
- Our light's weird.
- Our light is gonna be weird.
- Sorry for the weird light, street lamps.
- Let's turn on the light.
We start driving the car,
and I'm getting a little bit worried at this point.
In the back of my head I was like, dah,
this will be like a real baby kind of thing, but--
- Because the others were fake babies.
- Yeah, so sick of those fake babies.
So we start going, and then I realize
that we are out of gas.
- So as it turns out, things got pretty serious really fast.
Ashley started having contractions like crazy,
and then we are rushing to the hospital right now.
We just were out of gas, so I'm getting gas.
That's probably good enough.
Ashley's kinda dying.
- We probably wouldn't have made it to the hospital.
And the hospital was a 12 minute drive, so not very far.
- It clicked in my head,
oh, that light has been on for three days.
- That's so classic Dave Crosby.
- I was like, why didn't I fill my car?
I had no idea, so dumb.
- So I'm starting to feel a little bit uncomfortable.
I'm obviously very physically uncomfortable,
but thinking, wow what if we didn't make it?
- [Dave] I just hit the gas so hard,
exactly like I had dreamed up in my stupid fantasy scenario.
- Was it so fun?
- But it was not fun at all.
So, we get to the hospital, Ashley got out of the car.
She's walking in, and she's...
They had this handrail, luckily, because she could not walk.
And she was just leaning on the handrail.
They were trying to ask her questions to check her in.
- I got on the floor, right at the check-in desk.
- Yeah, she stopped answering,
and she just laid on the floor.
- I wasn't laying, though; I couldn't even lay.
I was crouched.
- I was like, uh, and aside answer the questions
to the best of my ability.
I know your name and birthday and stuff.
So it wasn't that hard.
- Best of his ability, what's your wife's name?
Cassandra, I mean, oh gosh, this one, Ashley.
- Please. So they're like, do you want the epidural?
And we're like, yes.
- I haven't heard them call the epidural yet,
and she's asking me things like, okay,
what's the value of the jewelry you brought
into the hospital?
I'm like, my jewelry!
(laughing)
Oh my gosh, get me my drugs!
- Because they were saying like, do you want to wait
and get the epidural, or do you wanna do this natural?
And I thought Ashley was just incredibly brave,
and was just like, let's do it.
And I was just like, oh...
I will just say this.
Natural childbirth is the...
- It's amazing.
- I would never in a million years plan for that experience.
I would never in a million years want
to have that experience again.
But I will say this about that experience.
I have never in my life felt so much love for you.
- Wow.
- We've been married for ten years.
I know the hard things that Ashley's gone through,
and that was something I knew was on a different level
that we had never seen before, like how hard it was.
And I'd never felt so helpless about it.
I literally can do nothing for her but just sit
and just root for you and cheer you one.
So I remember just holding your hand,
and being just like, you can--
- [Ashley] We got this.
- [Dave] You can do it, you can do it. (baby crying)
- [Nurse] You did it!
Congratulations.
Say, hi dada!
Little girl.
(baby crying) - [Dave] So proud of you.
♪ And it's almost nine o'clock here in Seattle ♪
♪ And the stars invite a midnight in New York ♪
♪ And if that's true then I guess ♪
♪ We could head straight west ♪
♪ And if we outrun the sun and all these moments ♪
♪ We won't have to miss ♪
♪ Because I don't think that life could ♪
♪ Get better than this ♪
- When June was born, it was so proud.
I was so proud of you for doing that without anything.
You just did it.
One of the hardest experiences of my life.
That sounds so stupid for me to say, but also
the moment I have felt
the most truest form of love
ever because I just watched her go through that.
There's a lot of religious connotations if you're Christian
of Christ and pain and watching someone else
go through pain on behalf of you,
and how that makes me feel.
And I kinda felt a lot of that religious...
I don't know how to say it other than
it was like feeling God's love for me.
June was born.
- Just the sweetest, I say it all the time.
I think that my baby June is made of powdered sugar
because powdered sugar is the most delicious thing to me
in the world, and I just-- - Really? I didn't know that.
- It's...powdered sugar is delicious.
- [Dave] I would have guessed brown sugar
over powdered sugar-- - [Ashley] No no no no.
- June has been the happiest baby.
Just the sweetest, smiliest--
- She's exactly what we needed right now.
- [Dave] Such a little teddy bear.
And so the reason we're telling you all this today
is because we are celebrating June's first birthday.
So this is all exactly one year ago.
I guess we'll just end this video with a little bit
of June's birthday, we just celebrated June's birthday.
So we'll end this video by showing you a little bit
of June's first birthday.
Happy birthday, Juney!
- Happy birthday, baby!
- Today is June's birthday,
and we're gonna have a huge party.
My Nana and Papa are coming here.
We're gonna eat lemon cupcakes and eat cake,
and play games, and we're gonna play with June.
It's just gonna be so fun.
It's her birthday.
June, are you excited for you birthday?
Yay!
She says she's excited.
She... is very special to me,
and she's just like a gift from above.
She learns things so quickly that now she can almost run.
(giggling)
Here's the baby! Hi!
(giggling)
(baby fussing)
Time to party!
- [Dave] Mikael isn't too loud.
- Nana and Papa is gonna come,
and we're gonna eat cake with June.
I think she's gonna smash her cake.
She can play with me, and I play with her, and she gets me.
- [Dave] Alright little birthday girl.
(baby gurgling)
Alright little birthday girl.
You ready for a party?
- [Ashley] Let's do our birthday girl's hair real quick.
Oh your dress looks so pretty.
- [Dave] What are you guys doing?
- We're listening for the door.
- [Dave] How come you're listening to the door?
- Listening.
- We're listening to it
because our Nana and Papa are coming.
- I'm too, too, too, too, too excited.
- Oh my goodness!
Hello!
♪ Now I'm feeling great ♪
♪ Feel the sun peaking through on that cold winter day ♪
♪ And if I could change a thing you know ♪
♪ Nothing would be changed ♪
♪ Because I love you so and I'm glad you came ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you, ♪
♪ Happy birthday day dear Juney, ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you! ♪
- Okay, blow!
You wanna help her?
(cheering)
- Can I--
- [Nana] Oh yeah, she did it, Mamma.
- She took it.
- [Nana] Oh, I don't know that she likes it.
(sister laughing)
(baby crying)
- [Ashley] Wanna give her the present you got for her?
♪ I'll take care of you better than any other man ♪
♪ And hold you until we all go ♪
- [Brother] Maybe Dad would...
♪ As you my sweet oh you save my soul ♪
- Alright, Juney.
- Say night-night.
- Did you have a good party, little girl? Did you have fun?
- She just ripped it off.
Are you a teenager already?
Say night-night.
Oh!
Say night-night!
- [Dave] Say night-night!
Night-night Juney.
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