- This the door, and this the living room,
and this the living room too,
and everything's the living room.
(dramatic music)
- Hi everyone,
I'm a little irritated
because Jacob and everyone's in here
and everyone, one, one
is in here.
I want to put in on the monkey pod.
Hi, I got video.
- [Jessica] What are you guys working on?
Look! Look what Parker's set up for you.
- A thousand piece puzzle.
- We did the first corner, we're on the lollipop right now.
- [Jessica] And they're all adjusted.
(mumbles) you, that's good, do you like that?
Wow, you're a vlogger star.
- Hi, everyone,
welcome to our house.
Katherine's in California.
We're in Canada. (giggles)
- [Jessica] Do you miss Katherine?
- Yeah.
- [Jessica] I bet she'll watch this video.
- Thank you.
Dear Katherine, I love you so much
and I hope you see me healthy in Jesus' name, Amen.
I yeah, yeah, that's her (mumbles).
- [Jessica] Here's a picture of Katherine.
Here she is, see if the camera can focus on it.
Here she is. - Can I see it?
- [Jessica] What's she doing, Parker?
- Holding a baby.
- [Jessica] Isn't she doing a good job?
- Yeah.
Katherine's holding a baby right there,
it's a baby doll,
so she'll really (mumbles) because I with mommy and daddy
and Jacob and Bailey and my friends and my family.
Jesus' name, Amen.
I'm gonna show you everything, okay Katherine? Okay?
That's the bathroom, this the kitchen, okay, Katherine?
This the door and this the living room,
and this the living room too,
and everything's the living room, okay, Katherine?
Goodbye.
- So I'm starting to feel better,
I only have like one nostril kind of,
like one sinusy thing kind of stuffed.
My throat feels a lot better so we are having one last day
of sort of, at the house, chilling out, getting healthy.
We've been kind of quarantined for like a week now.
The kids have been having so much fun in the backyard
that I'm just very stoked on that.
They do this thing called Adventure Wars
which we've talked about before,
but it's like this whole world they've created
where Bailey's Ella, Jacob is James, Parker is Peter,
and they go to space and they fight monsters and bad guys.
Bailey, do you want to describe it any differently?
- We're just normal people but we fight bad guys.
- [Jessica] How do you fight them?
- With weapons. (giggles)
Like Ella (mumbles) a lot about monsters
and she knows how to kill a very bad, bad monster.
- [Jessica] How?
- She puts pepper in its eyes.
There's this huge monster, and all she brought with her
was pepper and a snack.
- [Jessica] (laughing) Okay.
- She ate the snack and the pepper
and she sprinkled the pepper in
the monster's eyes and it died.
- [Jessica] So that's Adventure Wars.
I secretly, homeschool mom hope that
they'll someday develop it enough that we'll make a book
or like turn it into a movie or-
- [Bailey] We are going to turn it into a movie.
- Yeah, the kids have big plans
and I'm hoping we stick to that.
So wait, what are you gonna do?
- Turn it into a movie.
- [Jessica] (laughing) When do we get to start filming it?
- Today, maybe?
- So my rule for them was I want them to write me a script,
it's a homeschool mom strategy,
but it's also organization and actually
getting a good movie,
like I'm trying to encourage them to write a script.
It's be really good.
- I don't really want to make a script.
I feel like we've got it all planned out already.
- [Jessica] I know but that's not true,
you have to write the script first.
It's really important.
Or at least get organized,
like write out your shots or storyboard it.
- I'll storyboard it.
- [Jessica] You'll storyboard it, okay.
Do you need some paper?
- Yeah. - [Jessica] Okay.
- I have some.
- Gotcha.
I figured I'd show you a little bit
of what we're homeschooling here in Canada.
I printed out these notebooking pages,
which are a lot of fun.
They kind of look like this, Wildlife.
So, they're basically a bunch of captions,
all about different things in this area.
Also, I have the Shutterfly app on my phone
which I highly recommend,
where you can take pictures of the day
and if you remember and are really organized
and have an album that you've already planned out,
you can go and upload that directly to an album that day.
So the end of each day, or even right away,
when we take a picture of something in Canada,
like I take a picture of Bailey with a flower or something,
I save that to the Shutterfly album
and then I'm hoping at the end of the trip
I'll have all the pictures just like,
ready for me to, I think I'm just gonna print them out
and then have them glue them to this notebook
and have this great collection of our trip.
And I might also make like, an actual album, but we'll see.
One of my goals in my life is to be better
at photo organization and albums
because, I mean, we already have all these videos
so it's kind of like we don't need to,
but I always as a kid loved looking through photo albums
so it's important to me.
The new age of cell phones taking like a zillion pictures
and all your pictures come out really good
and you just put them on Instagram,
I feel like we don't, or at least I don't,
organize my photos very well.
They just kind of disappear into cyberspace.
So that has been one of my goals the last couple years,
to get better at it, and I have been improving,
but I do have a ways to go.
I really do love the Shutterfly app
because we learned about it in Jacob's
little preschool program that we do with him,
which is a Mommy and Me Preschool,
we have to make an album for it for the end of the year
which is a lot of stress for me,
but I'm really glad they make us do it,
and that worked really well for me.
Because it was a weekly program, so every week
I would just upload all those photos
and now I have an actual album.
And I also have an album of Parker being born.
Don't have one of Jacob or Bailey yet,
because I wasn't as good at these sorts of things
and you have to grow as a person.
The other thing the kids are doing
is that they've decided to make a healthy cookbook.
- And the other thing is we're also
making a new movie as well that's called, Critter County.
- [Jessica] Weren't you calling it Critter Country?
- [Bailey] Critter Country.
- The kids have been developing their Critter characters,
so they've been doing this cookbook,
and it's just healthy recipes that we're making
and basically I make breakfast or something with them
and then they write down the ingredients at the end.
They made this first of all, which is really cute,
that's the cover.
Let me show you what Bailey made me.
This is so sweet.
That's me and her and she captured
the bags under my eyes really well,
and then she wrote, "Whenever I'm with Mommy I'm happy."
I love that, I want to frame it and put it somewhere
where they wouldn't spill on it.
Here's one example of their notebooking pages.
This is Jacob's, it looks like it did get spilled on.
So he drew some snails and other,
he tried to write "snails" which is really cute,
he wrote other insects that he has seen here.
And then here is Bailey.
She researched the geography.
We found out that Canada, it's not a Democracy
and it's not a Monarchy.
It's actually a Federal Monarchy
and we were trying to like, figure that out.
It's very interesting and confusing,
but I'm glad that question was asked
because we wouldn't have asked it otherwise.
Okay, here's Bailey's banana smoothie page.
Banana Berry Smoothie.
So this is what we had for breakfast one day.
"Banana Berry Smoothie: Two Bananas,"
and she wrote "contains milk" as the allergy warning,
"One Apple, Four Cups of Spinach,
Two Cups of Frozen Berries, One Cup of Kefir
and Half a Cup of Coconut Water."
Bailey invented this, this was her idea.
So "Banana Sause" and that is,
she wrote, "good for rice cakes",
that's what we did with it,
and she wrote, "contains peanuts", little allergy warning,
"Two Bananas, Three Spoonfuls of Peanut Butter,
blend well, enjoy."
So we used up our vitamix and
it came out really good actually.
I think all the measurement are actually what we did,
I kind of guessed when I was telling the kids what to write
because that's how I do it,
I just kind of throw in whatever I can
and we made this like, it was kind of creamy and fluffy
and it was really nice so, Bailey loved it.
We spread it all over a bunch of rice cakes
and then Bailey finished the rest
by just eating it out of the container that we put it in.
So that's what we've been up to in Canada.
- Hi, let's talk about what we learned today.
We learned that Parker loves to use the Monkey Pod.
And if you don't know what a Monkey Pod is,
it's this thing here, I'll just show it to you,
it's this, one of these, so let's put that back in there.
I like to use it too.
We learned that everything is the living room,
and finally we learned the Bailey is really good
at capturing all the little details
of a person in her drawing.
Every baggy detail.
Thanks for watching everybody, we'll see you next time.
(giggles)
John, Lee, Joshua, Corey and me.
That's a lot.
I offered to take the middle seat,
how are you doing in the middle seat?
- I don't mind, I'm in between two of my favoritest people.