- Good morning, everyone.
Today, we are going to share with you
the moments where we shared with our family
that Jessica is pregnant.
- Yay!
This is such a fun video.
I can't, like, looking back
and like, this has all been unfolding over months.
- Yeah, months.
- Because it's such a different time in the world
with all the COVID restrictions and everything.
We knew going into the pregnancy
that this would be kind of like a wild time with COVID.
And I feel like this is one of the first things
we've had to like, deal with,
is that when we're telling our friends and our family,
we just have to kind of embrace
the moments that we're with them.
And in the past, like when we told about Luke,
we were at a big family gathering
and we just kind of pulled people aside into a room
and told them one by one.
But this time it's been like, oh, can we,
we just want to tell them in person,
I just wanna tell so-and-so in person.
And I just think that's like,
kind of a really special thing about right now.
Like, this is a time capsule of like,
going through this experience
of being in a worldwide pandemic.
And I just think that that's really interesting
and a really cool memory, hopefully, for our little one,
as our little one grows and sees like,
what life was like in this time.
We didn't do any like, fancy, spectacle-y things.
We just, like, told people as we could,
mostly because we didn't know
when we'd be able to see them again.
The very first person we told
was Colleen, Christopher's sister.
And it was really funny,
because it all just like happened by chance.
And we told her before we told the kids,
which we've never done before.
We didn't know when we would see them,
because we knew that they were about to exit
our quarantine pod a little bit,
because Eric was going back to work.
We just didn't expect to tell them at all that day.
And we actually told the kids the next day.
Part of telling them was that the kids were asleep
in the next room.
And, obviously like, we all wanted to scream
and like, you know, be so excited.
You could tell Colleen was like, "Ah, I have to be quiet!"
But we were like, "Don't!"
We don't want the kids to find out from like,
hearing us talking about it.
So like, let's try to be quiet.
- So to set it up, our power went out.
We went over to their house for like an impromptu sleepover
and the kids went to bed and Jessica and I were like,
maybe we should tell them.
And we were kinda like trying to communicate with our eyes.
Like, is it a good idea?
Is now the right time?
And then we ended up setting it up with Colleen
and then Eric comes in later and this is the moment.
All of the children are in bed.
- [Jessica] Oh my gosh!
- So we're having adult time conversation
in front of the fire, with tea,
and it's a good time.
- So we gonna time-lapse?
- We're gonna, we're gonna build some sand castles today.
- Okay, and just let it record our conversation?
He said, he said "Scoop," but he was saying something else.
He's been like, "Whoop, whoop, awhoop,"
that's what it was.
- No, we actually wanted
to tell you something very exciting.
- Okay.
Is this what I think it is?
- I think it must because I'm kind of predictable like that.
- Are you pregnant?
(Jessica shushes)
(Jessica laughs)
- I'm not allowed to be loud about it?
- Nope.
(all laughing)
- I had a feeling, because you wouldn't eat the soft cheese.
I was like, "Why is she not eating the soft cheese?
"She's not eating the goat cheese.
"Why is she not eating the goat cheese?"
And I even was like, "Can babies have soft cheeses?"
And, can you even hear us?
- No.
- You're gonna have to caption all of this.
- And you were like, you were like, "I'm doing a test.
"Who likes this soft cheese?"
- No, that's not what I was doing at all.
- I know, I'm joking.
- No, but I didn't think it was,
I didn't think anything of it,
until Bailey was like, "Mom, eat the goat cheese.
"Mom, try the goat cheese."
And you were just like, eating your, like, hard cheeses.
And I was like, "Why would she not eat this?"
- I was like, "I'm pretty sure this is goat cheese."
- And I was like, "I think Jessica likes--"
(all chuckling)
Eric's right here.
Lovey.
Come here.
- [Eric] What?
- Do you know what we're talking about?
- [Eric] No.
(Jessica laughs)
- Come here!
- [Eric] What are you talking about?
What?
- You have to come, 'cause I cant say it loudly.
- Relax, relax Eric.
- We can't say it loudly.
- [Eric] What?
- There's a fetus growing inside of her.
- [Eric] Oh my god, really?
- Yeah.
- [Eric] Congrats. - Wait, how far along are you?
- Nine weeks.
- Brand new.
Who knows?
- You. - I thought you
were whispering about cheese.
- I'm the first person to know?
(Colleen squeals softly)
- [Chris] Yeah, we haven't even told the kids yet.
- Oh my god, now we can do the app together.
The daddy app.
- Are you expecting? - What's it called?
No, I'm definitely not.
- You just wanna do the app? - Oh, did you think
that this was gonna be a double?
- Well, I don't know, when you're like,
we can do things together.
- I was not pregnant when you did the daddy app last time.
What's it called?
HiDaddy?
- HiDaddy. - HiDaddy.
(Colleen gasps) HiDaddy.
Wait, I'm the first to know?
Wait, is that why you guys wanted to come over?
Was your power out?
- [Chris] No, our power is out, our power's out, but, like,
we took the opportunity, because we didn't know
when we were gonna see you in person again.
- How long have you known?
- Since three weeks and three days.
- Are you dying?
Oh, I have hair in my mouth, I'm like, freaking out.
- [Eric] How are you feeling? - It's been my worst by far.
- [Eric] You feeling okay? - It's been your worst?
- [Chris] And you had ginger tea, which is good.
- Oh, I'm so glad I had that.
- I think the kids suspect. - I'm like shaking right now.
- The kids ask me everything.
- They said, when we were on the trampoline,
the first time I came over to your house
to go on the trampoline,
I was like, joking around, and I was like,
"What's the weight limit on this thing?"
And we were like, going through everything,
and I was like, "Ope, you can't have drugs or drinking,
"Parker get off!"
You know, we'd do like, each one.
We got to like, "Can't be pregnant.
"I guess I'll get off."
And they're all, "What!"
I was like, "I'm not pregnant.
"I'm just kidding."
And Jake goes, "We should make Mom come on here
"and see if it works."
And I was like. - They keep testing--
- Every day.
- [Chris] They keep doing stuff like that.
They go around like, "Do you want some ginger tea?
Then they go, "How's the baby?
"Aw, there's a little baby in there."
- Yeah, tonight, I was like, "Okay,
"why would she not have soft cheese?"
I was like, does she,
and I didn't want to ask, I didn't wanna be like,
"Why wouldn't you, do you not like goat cheese?"
'Cause I was like, "What if?"
- I haven't been able to move or function for eight weeks.
(Colleen gasps)
Well, since like, the beginning of it.
- Wait, so what about a doctor's appointment?
- [Chris] She's kind of been in bed.
- What's going on?
Can you go to the doctor?
- That's why I went to the doctor last week, remember?
- Oh, yeah, so did you see it?
Oh my god.
- [Eric] Congratulations, guys.
- So I love that the Colleen reaction
has so much of our just, like, conversation.
'`Cause I feel like that's what it was.
It was just like a very casual hangout,
telling somebody you love something,
and then like talking about all these weird details
that probably made no sense to you,
so I'm sorry, but they made sense to us.
- So this next one is telling my parents
and my brother Trent.
And we were going over to their house
because two of the kids were gonna go spend the night there.
And we all drove out and we told the kids on the way there,
like, just go in calmly, sit down in a row on the couch.
Don't say anything about babies.
Don't act too surprised or excited or whatever.
We don't want to tip them off.
And, and they all sat in a row
- Yeah, we're all in such, like, a funny configuration.
Cause we're like.
We're all just so excited to like, tell them.
And the kids were really excited to tell their grandparents.
Like, they were very, very, very much looking forward
to telling them.
- So this is the moment
- We just made it to my parents' house!
- [Children] Woohoo!
- So we're gonna hang out for a little bit.
So we have something to tell you guys.
(family laughing)
- You are not, you are not!
You are not!
- Yes, she is! - [Grandma] Oh my goodness!
Number six!
- I guess I'm just that predictable in this way!
- I was thinking, going, they're lined up,
something's going on, what's happening?
- [Chris] Oh, I was gonna say, we're ordering pizza.
(family laughing)
- Oh no!
I feel awkward.
- [Grandpa] Thank you!
(family celebrating)
- No, this guy wanted to tell you that he's a big brother.
- Wow!
- Thank you.
- He's a big brother!
- [Grandma] When is little one coming?
- Well, it's actually very planned out
to be a birthday present for you.
(Grandma gasps)
- No way!
- [Jessica] Well, August 24th is the due date, but--
- No it is not!
- [Grandpa] No, it's the 22nd.
- I know, that's the thing,
we'll probably be a little early,
so if you didn't have birthday plans already.
- No, I don't.
- Oh, excellent, 'cause you'll probably be hanging out
with a bunch of grandkids.
- [Chris] Yeah, you might have five kids at your house.
- And that's fine.
We'll probably be at yours.
- Or you'll be at ours, yeah, celebrating.
- [Grandma] I'll be at yours.
- That'll be wonderful.
- Wow, you're not the baby anymore!
- It is very sad. - I'm still shaking.
- I don't know why, but I'm still shaking
from the day they told us.
- [Grandma] When did you guys find out?
(children talking over each other)
- It was on the 24th.
- [Chris] We thought--
- [Grandma] You guys did a good job keeping up.
- [Chris] We thought Duncan,
we thought Duncan was going to tell you
during grandma's story time.
- Duncan literally told, Duncan's just like,
"We're having a new baby!"
- Duncan did a lot of things, but I was like,
"Duncan, you can't tell grandma during story time."
And he was like, "I will."
(family laughs)
And I was like, "Duncan!"
And he was like--
- [Grandma] You did a good job, buddy.
You did so good. - He didn't say anything.
- We were legitimately worried that Duncan
was gonna spill the beans early on to my parents.
'Cause they do Zoom every single day.
They do a grandma's story time.
And the day that we told Duncan, he went into a class,
and the first thing he said was,
"Hi, I'm having a baby!"
(Jessica laughs)
And we were like, "No!"
So I was so worried that he was just
gonna casually talk about the baby,
and he totally kept the secret.
My parents had no idea.
- And I feel like Duncan too, on camera, has been very like,
almost like stiff, like just kind of quiet about everything.
But when he's off camera at home, he's like,
he's it's actually like, really, really adorable,
because he's very focused on like, having the baby correctly
and like, being a really good big brother,
and like he's really, really, really excited about it.
But it's like, he's--
- He's very thoughtful about it.
- Yeah.
- He's like, "I am going to make that baby a pony."
- Yeah, like, and like in the video
where we revealed it to the kids,
you can't really tell, but what happened was,
he was like, "I, I have to go."
And he, he left like right in the middle of us telling them,
and he was like, like drawing a pony.
And he had, he had all these plans for like,
- Bringing in dolls.
- Things he wanted to do for that.
He was like, "This is what we have to do.
"I need a pony for the baby, because I have a pony
"and I'm going to have a matching pony."
And then he was like, "And we can't do anything else
"until I have a name for the baby."
And that's why he, like, he brings back this paper
where he wrote the baby's name.
Cause like, he was like,
"We need to write down the baby's name.
"Like, whichever they could be.
"Like, we need to figure out the names."
And he's been very like, action based.
Like, these are the things I'm going to do
and not going to do, so I can do this correctly.
And it's like, it's really, really, really adorable.
But it's very like, I don't know.
He's very, he's taking it very seriously.
What's coming up next are my dad and my sister
and her two daughters.
And this is really cool, because we actually like,
we don't film my family that often.
And I also haven't seen them that often during COVID,
because the quarantining stuff hasn't lined up as well
with their side.
So we haven't been able to see them as much,
but this just happened to be one of the times
when they came and visited.
And what's really funny about it, with my family,
is that my dad has a sibling,
and his sibling has one child.
And then my dad has my sister and myself.
So he has two kids.
And then my sister has two kids.
And I'm out here like this wild child of his,
just like, reproducing.
It's just like, not, not how his side of the family,
like, that's not their style in the same way, so.
- That's probably one of my favorite reactions.
- And my dad, he always reacts in the funniest ways.
Like I think when we told him we were having Bailey,
he said, and this was the first grandchild of his, he went,
"Hmm, why am I thinking about cheese right now?
(Chris laughs)
"I don't know why."
And then when he first held her, he was like,
"Oh, it feels like, like you're holding some ham."
(Jessica chuckles)
Like, I don't know.
I just think he's really funny.
Like, he's a funny response.
So, here we go.
- Okay, my dad is here, and we've got something to tell him!
My sister's here too, but we already told her on the phone.
We have some pretty exciting news
to share with you, Dad!
- What?
- [Jessica] We are expecting another baby!
- No way!
(family laughs)
No way, not even true.
- [Jessica] So true.
- You already have a bunch of them.
- [Jessica] We do, we have several.
- [Chris] We decided the set wasn't complete yet.
- So the person who we took the longest to tell
was Christopher sister, Rachel,
because we kept holding out
to hopefully see her in real life.
And it just didn't work out.
So we, I feel like we waited as long as we possibly could,
and maybe even too long,
but I just really was hoping that we would see her
and it just didn't work out this time.
But we did FaceTime her and I love her reaction.
She's such a sweetheart and she's so supportive.
And it was like a very weird, random time
that we ended up on the phone Face Timing with her.
'Cause I think I had tried a few times before, too.
And it like, all the kids were all excited and like,
and then like, the FaceTime doesn't connect,
and we're like, "Okay, I guess we'll try later."
We have not told Aunt Rachel yet about the new baby.
- [Child] I can't wait to tell her!
- So we're going to try to FaceTime her right now,
but I don't know if she'll answer.
- I need to make a head and then put it right there.
- No, you don't need to make a head.
Are you excited?
(baby laughs)
- [Chris] Over it?
(phone ringing)
- Hopefully she answers!
- Wait, can you put it sideways?
- One second, like this, so we can all, I think,
does that work?
- Or like--
- Just wait, just wait.
I'll see if she even answers in the first place.
(phone ringing)
(everyone gasping)
She answered!
(everyone cheering)
- What's up?
I'm in an underpass so I can't hear you.
- [Jessica] Oh, well-
- [Rachel] Wait, are you pregnant?
(family laughs)
- Give me a chance to even say it!
- Never!
I'm so happy!
I love you!
- [Child] You had the same exact reaction me and Jacob did.
- [Rachel] Really?
- Everybody just expects it.
(Jessica laughs)
- I'm just so excited for you,
'cause I know you love that and that's amazing
and I'm so happy for you!
- What happened is, I'm just like, you're having a,
so what happened is so we were having Advent calendars
like regularly every single day for Christmas
and she was pregnant and I was like, "You're having a baby!"
And she's like, "No, we've got a new Advent calendar."
And then, but she was literally pregnant when that happened.
(laughs)
And so, we also did Advent calendars because Bailey,
so I was like, "Are you pregnant again?"
And she was like, "Yes, I've been pregnant
"since you've told me."
(Jessica chuckles)
- [Rachel] How far along are you?
- Like almost 14 weeks
(Rachel screams)
- That's so exciting!
- I know, baby soon!
I think I'm due August 24.
So your mom's birthday, basically.
- Love it.
Congratulations, you guys, that's amazing.
- It was really fun telling everybody with the kids,
because the kids always had more to say this time.
It's like they're little adults now.
And they like, express their experience with it too.
So it's been kind of fun.
And we've actually told a bunch of other people
through FaceTime or Zoom that we didn't end up filming,
but it's just been a very interesting year
with that element of it
and talking with and connecting with people
in a different way.
And we've just tried to embrace it this year
instead of fight it.
And it's been nice.
It's been, in terms of like, connecting still.
- A little more scattered and random, but it's been nice.
Like my sister, I didn't film at all.
It wasn't even like, visual.
I was just talking to her like, on speakerphone.
And then I was like, I think I went to Christopher like,
"I'm gonna tell her!"
I just wanted to tell her, you know,
I just didn't want to deal with anything else.
So I told her and she was so excited.
And her daughters were there and they like,
they were, like, screaming,
And it was just like, so sweet and so fun.
And we also told Jojo and she was backstage on set.
Like she wasn't even supposed to be answering the phone.
And we were like, "Okay, we just have to tell you!"
And she was super, super sweet, but we didn't film it.
And I dunno, it's just how it's been.
It's like, sometimes we film stuff,
sometimes we don't and when we do film stuff,
it's completely unprepared.
- So thank you for going on this unprepared journey with us.
We, we really appreciate you guys
and have been having a great time reading your comments.
- And I think we're going to be posting
a gender reveal video pretty soon.
So look out for that.
It'll be like, in a couple videos, I think,
- In about a week.
- Yeah, we'll see. - Somewhere in there.
Thank you guys so much for watching
and we'll see you next time.
(baby laughs)
(upbeat music)