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Hey, you look like you're from Michigan.
One thing that the cameras did not see
was all of us kids went to Mackinaw
Island one of the days.
Kids.
Yeah, all of us kids.
TORI: It was such a fun day.
Yeah, that was a really fun day.
So we all went to Mackinaw Island, rented bikes,
went around the whole island.
There's no cars on the island--
There's no cars on Mackinaw Island.
--so it's only horses and bikes.
But it's a seven mile thing, and so we got to the other side
of the island and then we just got caught
in the biggest thunderstorm.
So cool.
And here in Oregon, we don't get that.
Like just watching lightning all around us and thunder.
Yeah, it was so cool--
just a huge storm.
And we're on the bikes and we got lost.
But it was so fun.
It was one of those trips that I feel like could have been
really bad because it was pour-- like,
we were soaking wet-- like soaking wet.
And so it could've been really bad, but it wasn't.
It was so much fun to get, like, trapped in a rainstorm
and just keep going. - Yeah.
Didn't we separate, too, towards the end there?
Oh, yeah, 'cause Audrey was like, oh, let's go this way.
Let's keep exploring, where, like, the rest of us were like,
uh, we're gonna, like, try to find shelter and be done--
- It's done, yeah. - --with this.
[laughs]
It was fun, too, 'cause all of us kids haven't hung
out like that in a long time.
That's part of family gatherings now is just
to kind of catch up, I think.
We don't see each other so much anymore--
and just to see where everyone's at.
Jackson, you want to say hi to cousin?
You want to say hi?
TORI: Get the babies together.
Yeah, get the babies together is always a fun thing.
Quote unquote, "babies."
We're so blessed to have Jackson and Ember four months apart.
Yeah.
I mean, they--
I think that, like, cousins are your first friends,
you know, and I think that definitely applies to them.
At least for me and Jeremy, we didn't
grow up near our cousins.
Our cousins were in California or Michigan.
And so whenever we went to family gatherings,
it was, like, two to three days to get warmed up,
and by the time you got warmed up, you left, kind of thing.
So for Ember and Jackson to be close
and to grow up together like they are,
I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Ember can open doors now and Jackson loves that.
Jackson--
They can go anywhere.
Jackson can't reach the door handles yet, I mean, but--
He won't be able to reach the door handles for a while.
Oh, yeah, but Ember can.
So you know, for--
Jackson doesn't like playing with other kids.
Like, he's very by himself kind of kid.
Yeah.
Especially over here, everything's mine, and like,
I'll just go play by myself.
But that was a game-changer Hey, Ember--
Once he found out cousin could open the door--
Yeah, I'll tolerate your presence.
Yeah.
You just need to open the doors I tell you to open.
Yeah.
And I'll get us to where we need to be.
Yeah.
Ember's so-- like, she's so loving.
Like, she just always wants to give hugs and kisses--
Yeah, she just wants to hold his hand.
--and hold hands.
And Jackson, just like, straight-up--
He wants nothing to-- yeah.
- --just like, no. - Yeah.
No.
And so--
[music playing]
Hey, guys. TORI: Hey.
Hey.
TORI: How's it going?
Well, there they are.
Grandpa's very active.
Nuts.
He's more active than we are--
- Yeah, he's 90 years old-- - --in our 20s.
--but he's healthy.
He's moving.
Yeah.
Him and grandma are very motivated, very driven.
They are just-- they wake up and it's go, go, go.
And so their cabin on Lake Michigan--
there's like 60 steps down to Lake Michigan.
TORI: A lot.
They're just going up and down that, like--
In the lake, he has a whole, like, pathway
so he can go out and go swimming,
because it's all rocks. - Yeah.
Oh yeah. - It's all rocky.
They'll go swimming in Lake Michigan
like it's no one's business. - Oh, yeah.
I'm just, what the heck?
Uh-oh.
[sighs]
Take your lunch with you.
They're very much, like, matter-of-fact,
to-the-point people.
They're very Amy Roloff.
Yeah.
Amy Roloff makes sense.
Best thing-- conclusion we came to this whole thing--
Tori was like, this all makes sense.
It makes sense why Amy is the way she is.
Why Amy's like the mannerisms, just the why, the--
everything makes sense.
The bruntness, the to-the-point, the--
Yeah. They're very nice people--
--no.
--very gracious hosts.
It's just a totally different culture than it is here.
That's when the guy kept following you home and just
saying nasty stuff to you.
Oh, horrible.
It was scary.
And then we got in the whole WWE wrestling match,
and he ended up giving up.
You know, it's tough to hear about mom's
story about bullying.
You know, I've heard the story a couple of times before.
I think the older I get and now that I have a kid,
it means something different.
I think before, I thought I was so cool how
Uncle Roger was a third-grader and he beat
up a fifth-grade-- you know.
But now that I'm older, like I apply it more to like, oh wow.
Jackson went through something like that, you know,
with his siblings.
We probably wouldn't send Roger.
But--
Yeah, but would his siblings stick up for him?
That's why I'm very big on him--
I really hope Jackson finds that friend
group where he can find some tight friends that
have his back.
And I want him to have like a wolf pack,
like not to be cheesy--
Well, if he keeps pushing people away, he's gonna--
Yeah, see that's the thing.
He needs to stop doing that ASAP.
--run them right out of here.
Yeah.
Like, he needs to find some good, tight three or four
friends, especially early on in school.
And I think that will help him with those social things.
Yeah.