I thought I would just give you a little move update.
I have a huge surprise for the boys.
The best day of my life.
I'll believe it when I see it. Caleb wanted this.
Whoa.
A veggie Thai Curry. There's actually a ghost.
No! Now we're going to do the coin challenge.
The results are in. I can't believe that they've been getting
it wrong this entire time. Hi guys, welcome back to my channel and to
another day in the life vlog. This morning, I have a huge surprise for the boys that I
know they're going to love. I've recently received an email asking if we would like
to test out the new Lego Super Mario range. And I don't think I've ever said yes so quickly
to anything in my life. As soon as I saw the subject line, I was like, "Yes", because the
boys love Mario. I don't know if you guys remember, but Fraser has had Super Mario birthdays
in the past. Matt and I grew up playing it as well. And the boys are just crazy for Lego.
So put the two together and they are just going to love this so much. So the Lego Super
Mario range will be available from the 1st of August, and there are some really cool
features like an interactive Mario. So I'm going to go and surprise the boys now and
I'll show you the range as well.
What is it?
Loads of Mario Lego that I'm going to do. It's the best day of my life!
You're not meant to have seen this yet. Best day of your life?
Because I'm really good at Lego and I really like it.
Look! How cool is that?
Oh daddy look! They all go together.
Yeah they can all like extend. That's what's really cool.
So while the boys are building the Lego sets, I thought I would show you a bit more about
the Lego super Mario range and how to use it. The first really cool thing is that all
of the instructions to build are on the Lego super Mario app. So all you do is scan the
QR code on the box of Lego, and then the instructions will pop up. They're really fun and so simple
to use for the kids. And there's also cool features on the app. Like they can share their
creations with other Lego fans. So this is what we're going to be testing
out today. And the first set that I wanted to show you is the Lego super Mario starts
a course. This one is really important because it's the only set that comes with the interactive
Mario, which really does unlock all of the game play.
You also get so much in this starter course. You get Junior Bowser, a little Goomba, mushroom,
a flag at the end, and there's loads of coins that you can collect. So the coolest thing
about this, I think is the little Lego super Mario, because he's interactive, his eyes
light up. There's little screens, his mouth as well. It reacts. And if you put it on a
green brick, it has a sensor on the bottom to show it's on grass. If you put it on blue,
it's on water and there's really cool sound effects and same for red for fire. And you
can see he's just died. So it has a really, really cool like interactive element to it.
It makes so many noises when it collects coins and it has all of those like Nintendo sounds
that make us also nostalgic. It plays the music. It does the little like Italian voice
and it's really, really a cool feature. So once you have your star, to course, you
can also get expansion sets, which combine with your course and make it that bit longer.
So we got this Desert Expansion set, which had this really cool feature. We also got
Mario's house with Yoshi and more ways to collect coins. We also got this boomer expansion
set, which had this really cool, dangerous, like twisty element to it. But the one that
took the longest for us to build was this very impressive Bowser's Castle. This is so
very clever and very similar to the Nintendo level where you need to knock Bowser off of
the bridge and then jump on him to kill him. So it was really cool. You can even get these
little power up suits a week up the fire one, but you can get the cat one and others as
well. I also wanted to say that, although they give
you instructions on how to build each element of the course, they don't actually tell you
how to lay the course out. So it's completely up to your kids and their imagination on how
they build it. And they're really good thing about this is that it encourages them to keep
changing. The course, keep rebuilding and collecting coins as well. They can keep a
track of how many coins they collect on the Lego Super Mario app. And it also shows up
on his tummy, but it's great because the boys have been playing with it a lot, and I think
any Lego fan will really love their sets. Oh my goodness. We have been so busy building
this course, but it looks amazing now. So now we're going to do the coin challenge because
to celebrate Lego Super Mario, they have launched a coin challenge. So you get 60 seconds on
the little Mario to go around the course and then it counts up how many coins you collect.
So we're going to do parents versus kids. So between me and Max versus the boys, and
we're going to see who can collect the most coins.
Me and Fraser are going to win. Okay. You got it. Yay. Aw I got 105.
Let's do this.
Yeah. Oh, he's using the cloud.
Oh yeah. I'm going to fly all the way to here. Get myself some more time. 60.
Are you ready? The results are in. It was actually our first
go of doing the whole course. So Caleb went first. He got 42 coins.
Woo, woo yeah, woo, woo!
Fraser, what did you get?
74.
74. Then I went, I got 105, but I think I was at an advantage because I got to watch
the two boys and how they got all their coins, and then daddy, what did you get?
I got 60.
60. So the parents are the winners this time.
What's the punishment?
We're definitely going to have a rematch because Caleb, I feel bad because you went first didn't
you? So you were like practicing how to do it.
Yeah. You showed everyone how to do it.
Yeah, so if you guys take part and do a little race yourself. Make sure you use the hashtag
so that we can see the results and try and beat our scores. Let me know how you get done.
Okay. So now I've just taken the two little ones out for a little bit and we've actually
dropped Fraser to a football camp for a couple of hours because Matt has someone coming to
the house to do one last survey of our house. Apparently this is like the last thing that
we need to do to get moving. I can't believe how long this move process
is taking. Obviously it is in the middle of a global pandemic, so that's not really helped
the situation at all. But in the UK, I think house moves do tend to take longer than in
the U S and in Canada. I'm pretty sure over there, you have to be like pretty set up when
you make an offer, like you have to have your loan in place and your mortgage and whatever.
Whereas here you can actually put in offers and then go and get your mortgage sorted and
stuff. And there's just so many things. Like there's been so many emails with solicitors
and all this stuff. So it really is taking a long time. I think we put the initial offer
in, in December. Then we were supposed to be in, in April. Obviously, then the virus
happened. Now they're saying August, but I feel at this point, like, I'll believe it
when I see it. So that's where we're at with the move. I thought I would just give you
a little move update and yes, cross everything for me that it does happen in August because
I don't know, I feel really sad about leaving our house, but then also, like we also feel
ready and really excited as well. So anyway, let's go to the park boys.
Right. So we're back from the park and
the
boys had such a nice time, we actually ran into one of Jackson's little friends that
we haven't seen for years. When he was a little baby, we used to go to this rhyme time at
the library and he had a little friend there, but then she moved to New Zealand and now
she's back again. And they were like, reunited. So they were playing together though. So I
don't know how much I've vlogged because they were just hanging out loads. Do we see Mable
jacks? You saw Mable. He was running around. Are you so tired now? Thinking of inviting
Mabel to your birthday?
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, so swapped numbers again, and we're going to meet up for sure. But anyway,
we're back home now let's pick Fraser up in a minute and Jackson's just eating the lunch
that he didn't eat in the cafe. So I brought it home. So he's going to try and eat it now.
Okay. So when we went to the park, there is this little farm shop right next to it. So
we went in there and Caleb wanted this for a snack. So I'm going to cut it up and I'm
going to show you how I'm going to cut it, because it's quite an easy way.
I want a pineapple.
You want some as well? So I'm just going to take the top bit off. Then the bottom bit.
Then cut it in half. Then we're going to take the core out.
Yum Yum.
Got some Mario characters.
Who is who?
Bowser, Bowser's and the ghost, but this is just Mario and the skeleton and that guy called
yellow and this guy is called Yoshi yeah. And these are just friends. And up there is
always hanging up there [inaudible 00:13:57] all the way up to the flower.
So tonight for dinner, Matt is making a veggie Thai Curry. Very spicy and healthy and like
the main base of it is like, obviously veggies, but cauliflower as well. We've found cauliflower
is really like meaty. So it's quite a good one. And also like having curries is a good
way to have meat free dinners. Like you don't really miss the meat for some reason when
we make curries. So I think it's a Thai green one isn't it? Yeah. So he's going to make
that now. The boys aren't having this dinner because it is quite spicy. So they're having
quesadillas and chicken tenders and vegetables, bit random.
Right. So we've just done bath time, and now there's actually a ghost. A ghost in Fraser's
room. I'll show you
What's going on under there? Who's that? Who's that?
Ready, one, two, three. One, two, three. Whoa! Watch the ceiling. I'm just dying. Okay. Ready,
go. What a touch!
Mom now I can tickle you.
No! Don't you tickle me! Right. So I've just put the two little ones
to bed and come downstairs to tidy up. But I'm actually going to leave the Lego out on
the table because I know that they'll play with it again tomorrow. But before I say goodbye
on tonight's vlog, I wanted to tell you something that has literally blown my mind, and I don't
know how many people know this yet, but NASA has actually found a 13th star sign, like
astrology sign. So apparently it's been wrong this entire time, and there is now a new star
sign called Ophiuchus, and I looked at our birthdays and what star signs we are now,
and pretty much all of us have changed except for Matt. So I used to be a Pisces, and I
would say that I was a very typical Pisces, but apparently I'm now an Aquarius.
Caleb was a Scorpio, but he's now a Virgo. Jackson was a Virgo, but he's now a Leo and
that's actually quite nice cause his middle name is Leo. So there's quite a nice link.
Fraser is the brand new star sign. The Ophiuchus one. So I'll need to look at what that entails.
And the only person that stayed the same is Matt. He's still a Sagittarius. So I'll put
a link in the description. If you want to check what your star sign is now, because
it's all changed, and I just found that out. But anyway, thank you so much for watching
this video. I hope you really enjoyed it and I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.