(Peaceful guitar music)
- Hello.
(baby babbles)
- Hi, guys.
Welcome back to my channel.
Today was a full face of makeup type day.
Jackson has taken to waking up at 5:30 in the morning,
so I got completely ready, even though it's only early,
to make myself feel a little bit better,
and he is actually already down for a nap.
It's only like 9:00 am, but he's already needing a nap.
So, I think he might be teething, I'm not really sure.
But yes, today is Sunday, the 28th of January,
and we're actually celebrating a birthday today.
It is Lego's 60th birthday.
So, we have been sent their 60th anniversary pack of Lego.
It's a really cool set of Lego
that comes with a Lego storage brick and loads of stuff
inside and different things that we can make.
So, the boys and I are just going to
play with that this morning.
My boys love playing with Lego.
It keeps them busy for hours, and whenever we play with it,
it really gets their imagination going,
and they create all kinds of different things:
cars, people, little houses for their toys and stuff.
And I love Lego.
I remember playing with it as a child with my sister.
I used to build all kinds of things.
It's like a timeless toy, isn't it?
One mum hack that I wanted to share with you:
something that I do at every Christmas is make sure
that we have a set of Lego on Christmas Day,
because not only does it keep the kids happy
and busy throughout the day, but also my husband.
Dads and mums love playing with Lego just as much.
I still love playing with the boys and making things
and creating little things with them.
It's one of those timeless toys.
We're gonna play with the gift set now,
and then we will show you their creations.
- Mummy, this is the car.
- [Emily] Is it?
What do you want to make, bub?
- A car.
- Let's get the instructions.
Everything you need, but there's not wheels.
(Plucky music)
It's a Loch Ness monster, a pink one as well.
Look at his little teeth!
(laughs) It's so cool.
And Caleb is busy working away on his monster truck.
Wow.
Right, so the pack came with loads of
different colored Lego bricks, and then
a little instruction booklet of different ideas
of things you can build.
It is crazy to think that Lego started
60 years ago with a Lego brick,
and even though it's changed over time,
the first ever Lego brick and the brick
that they use today would still fit together.
So, I just think that is so cool.
- Is that it?
Is that it?
- This one's like one from today,
but 60 years ago, it was still just about this Lego brick.
I bet you can still totally play with it,
because it never wears, does it?
Matt's mum still has his set of Lego,
and whenever the boys go over there, they still use it.
So, yeah, so cool.
60 years! (laughs)
So, here are the boys' creations so far.
Fraser build this drum kit, which is so cool,
because it's got fire coming off the edges,
and he put the 60th little brick
right there on the drum kit.
He also built this Loch Ness monster.
And then, this is Caleb's car,
and he just completely did this on his own,
and it is brilliant.
Look at all the bits that it's got on it.
- [Caleb] Mummy!
- It's even got a shell, hasn't it Caleb?
Right, so those are the boys' creations,
and while they've been doing that, I have made this!
I feel like such a geek now, but I made a little cake.
Because it's Lego's birthday, I thought that
the boys would get a real kick out of this.
So, here it is.
I did chocolate, pink, and white.
Matt's looking at me like, "What is wrong with you?"
(laughs) No, but it's chocolate.
- [Matt] But it's not pink flavor or white flavor.
- Pink. (laughs)
Chocolate, strawberry and icing.
- [Caleb] Vanilla
- But it's missing one little thing...
(children chattering)
Look at this.
- [Fraser] I need that one for the drumset.
- [Emily] I know.
Now, look!
Ta-da!
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy birthday, dear Lego ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you! ♪
- Yay!
- Someone's awake and climbing up the stairs.
We can hear someone practicing the piano.
- I taught myself.
- How to...
- Play the song Shape of You on the keyboard.
- That's right.
You can play Ed Sheeran's. - I want to show you.
- Yeah, let's see.
(Keyboard music)
Wow, that's awesome!
Woohoo!
Wow! (laughs)
So, Fraser has gotten really into music lately.
He does something at school called Rock Steady.
So, he's been learning the keyboard at school,
and then we bought him--
- But I haven't learned that song at Rock Steady.
- No, he's literally self-taught himself.
Self-taught himself?
But this week, on Wednesday, he is having
his first ever proper piano lesson.
And he is so excited. - Yeah!
- He's gonna go every week on a Wednesday after school.
We have the most loveliest lady that is gonna teach him
So, yeah, you excited?
- Look at Jacks.
(dissonant keyboard music)
(Emily laughs)
He's playing the G.
- [Emily] Do you want lessons?
- He keeps playing a G.
- So, Fraser's written all the keynotes on the piano.
Yeah, so he's getting really into music,
and he says that when he's grown up, what do you want to be?
- A musician!
- A musician.
So, that is really cool, because my uncle in Canada
and my grandpa as well, were both professional musicians.
So, it might be in his genes.
So, hopefully, he'll enjoy the lessons,
and he can start grading in piano,
and he's really keen on the drums as well.
- You want to play?
(dissonant keyboard music)
- (laughs) That's it, Jacks!
Right, we're just gonna have some lunch now.
The boys have got some cheese sandwiches.
We've still got all the Lego bricks out.
I forgot to say, I will link the 60th anniversary pack
in the description file below,
and Jacksy is having some hummus and breadsticks.
Hummus is his favorite food,
has been since he was very little.
And he also has a soft cheese sandwich as well.
Right, we're on our way to the soft play now,
and we're going to one that is really quite big.
Because Fraser is seven now, soft plays
don't always do it for him,
so we have to go to quite big ones that have loads going on,
and this one has go-carts and monkey bars, rock climbing.
It's got it all.
So, we're going there now, and it should
keep all three boys entertained.
We've made it to 360!
(Cheerful music)
Jackson, are you doing fancy dress?
Who's in the vet's?
Are you with the doggies?
Are you a vet, are you?
We are in the soft play, and the boys
are having the most amazing time.
We love coming here, because it's so big,
and upstairs, there are loads of different little shops
that have toys in them for role-play and stuff.
So, the boys are really having a good time.
Fraser is currently queuing up to do go-carting as well.
- Hi!
- [Matt] Are you waving?
- [Fraser] Hi!
- Hi, Frase!
Hi, Daddy.
Don't be scared.
He's got really good.
Look, whee!
(Jackson babbles)
- [Matt] There he is!
(children shout)
- [Emily] Here he comes.
Hi, Frase!
- We're gonna have lunch at Pizza Express.
(Faster Car by Anders Lystell)
♪ One, two, one, two, three, four ♪
♪ I've been feeling so small ♪
♪ Watch the clock ticking off the wall ♪
♪ But tonight, I'm letting it go ♪
♪ Spend my coin for sure. ♪
♪ I'm gonna be myself, ♪
♪ Or I could be someone else, ♪
♪ No one's stopping me now, ♪
♪ I'm gonna skip my breaks, ♪
♪ I'm gonna make mistakes, ♪
♪ I just wanna feel alive ♪
- We're all done at 360 and Pizza Express as well,
and we are just on our way home.
I think when we get home, we are going to try
and watch a film with the boys,
because it's about 4:30 now, so just before bed,
we might have a little bit of a chill out.
We've given Caleb the phone to try and keep him awake,
because he would easily fall asleep
at this time of day in the car.
Speaking of the car, I completely forgot to update
that we now have a seven-seater.
You remember, on a Sunday, I'm normally
squished in the back with the kids,
but now we have a seven-seater,
so it is so much bigger.
You can see Fraser's right in the very back at the moment,
Jackson's there, Caleb's there,
and I am actually at the front.
We're really pleased.
It was a real change in driving,
because it does feel so much bigger
than the car we had before, but luckily cars nowadays
have all these sensors, so when I'm parking,
things will beep at me, so that's really good.
Yeah, we're really pleased, and we're on our way home.
We're just at home, watching the Emoji Movie.
All right? (laughs)
Look how big he is.
Look at your hair!
What's happened?
What's going on with your hair?
We're just having an after-bath dance party.
The boys will often do this now with the Google Home.
(energetic music)
(boys laugh)
♪ There is somebody ♪
- [Matt] There is?
- We're gonna go and put these crazy boys to bed now.
Thank you so much for watching this video,
and we will see you soon!
Bye!
You can tell Jackson is so tired.
Will you say bye-bye?
Will you say bye-bye? (laughs)
- Bye!
- Good boy.