♪ Happy birthday now, ♪
♪ it is so your birthday! ♪
♪ It's Vlogmas, Vlogmas and it's time to celebrate! ♪
♪ Vlogmas! ♪
- Good morning everyone!
Happy Thanksgiving. It's Thanksgiving for you.
It's the day before Thanksgiving for us.
But it marks the very beginning of Vlogmas.
And we are so excited about Vlogmas!
Aren't we Duncan?
- [Chris] Are we excited?
Are we excited? You look excited.
You look excited. Are you excited?
Yes?
How excited are you? Oh, so excited?
You may have noticed that
we haven't been daily vlogging, in a while,
and we were gearing up for this.
We are doing Vlogmas and we are doing it right,
and we are going to have so much fun,
and we hope that you don't miss a single day
because it's going to be a blast.
- [Mike] But right now we got to eat, right?
We going to eat? Yeah?
- [Chris] Hey! What are we doing tonight?
- To Aunty Panty's house?
- [Chris] What? Why are we going to Aunty Panty's house?
- To celebrate her birthday
and to celebrate Thanksgiving because it's tomorrow.
- [Chris] Are we having a sleepover?
- Yes.
- [Chris] Let's doing it! High five?
- [Chris] Yeah!
- [Chris] It's really good.
- [Jacob] Dada.
- [Chris] Spoon-cam!
- [Jacob] I need help, a finding emergency.
- [Chris] Spoon-cam!
- [Chris] Ohhh!
- [Chris] Oh no!
- [Jacob] (laughing)
- [Chris] Spoon-cam!
Duncan is doing such a good job with solids.
- [Mike] He's loving eating, aren't you?
You love eating.
He had his first solids at Bailey's birthday party.
And now he's just, he's eating away.
He eats at least two meals a day.
And then a lot of mommy milk in between.
Anyway, I gotta focus and feed him the rest of his food.
- Happy Vlogmas! Parker and I are doing a
reading lesson right now.
He's actually doing very well.
Hey buddy!
- I'm done.
- [Jessica] Did you finish your "I"'s?
What sound does that make?
- Eeeee!
- [Jessica] Good boy.
Bailey's doing some math and Jacob's working on typing.
We are homeschooling today.
I know a lot of people are on, like,
Thanksgiving/Fall break.
I don't know if we,
I don't know if I've talked too much about this
but we work on weekends, we work in the summer,
we just work sporadically because of what we do.
so the homeschooling doesn't always look the same
as the regular, like, public school hours and days.
But it works really well for us to do it that way.
So that's why we're doing a little school today.
- [Chris] Okay, we've just set up
all of our advent calendars.
Which we are not going to open yet because it is not
December 1st but on December 1st we are going
to start opening those up every single day.
And, the advent calendar we made for you
is going to start opening up
at the beginning of our videos.
That picture is an advent calendar
and we're going to share with you some cool, like,
past videos from the last year,
every single day so you'll get a little treat
every single day in our vlogs.
How fun is that?
But first, let's go to Colleens house!
- Okay, we are at Colleens house for her birthday party
and for some reason she has presents for us.
I don't even understand it, but I'm for it,
I'm excited, they're from Australia.
I love you Australia people!
And New Zealand.
- [Chris] There was a critter that just ran past.
Who is this? Who are you? Hello!
Hello! Sorry I got distracted by a cute kitten.
- [Chris] Hi! You woke up?
- You did so well in your car ride!
- [Chris] Yeah, he slept the whole drive.
It's your birthday.
- It's my birthday.
- [Chris] Or was yesterday.
- Yeah.
- [Chris] And so we got you some gifts.
- Thank you. I have some gifts for you too.
- [Chris] We want to give you the gifts that we got for you.
- I have gifts for you guys though.
Someone gave you a bunch of books.
I think these are for Parker, and for you guys all to read.
But they're all from Australia.
- Oh my goodness!
- Oh this is for Parker.
- What?!
- [Colleen] Inside is a gift from a fan though,
for you and Bailey.
Someone made bows and they gave them to Parker and Bailey.
And addressed them to Parker and Bailey.
- [Jessica] That is so cool!
- [Colleen] And then Jacob, look at how cute that guy is?
- [Chris] It's a kangaroo disguised as a koala.
- [Colleen] So these, I wish I could take credit for these.
But these are from fans.
- [Parker] Hey Bailey.
- [Bailey] Yes.
- [Colleen] These are from viewers, these aren't from me.
You know what these, are these these the things
that you're so excited about?
- [Jessica] Ehhhhhhhh! Duncan!
- [Chris] Ohhhhhh!
- [Jessica] Duncan got some presents. That's for you buddy.
- Is there anything else in here?
- [Mom] No.
- What?
(everybody laughing)
- [Colleen] For Jessica.
- No way! I got a present for me?
- It's like reasons they love you.
- [Parker] What?! What?
- No, way! This is so sweet!
Thank you guys. Thank you Amber, and Alicia, Jacqueline.
Thank you.
- [Colleen] It's a kangaroo Avery.
You can grow your own kangaroo.
You put in water and a kangaroo hatches.
So if you guys want to do this for me
so we can see what it is?
- Yeah!
- [Jessica] That is their jam!
- [Chris] Wait. Jake do you know how
to take care of a kangaroo?
This is a big responsibility.
- [Jake] Um ... I keep it in water.
- Yep.
- [Chris] You know how to do it? Okay.
- Hey sport, if you want some fancy sunglasses?
- [Chris] Oh I always want fancy sunglasses.
- [Colleen] But someone gifted me these and I was so ...
- I need you guys to decide, is this my new look?
Is this happening?
- [Jessica] Yes.
- Is this me or are these ladies?
- [Parker] Yes, they're ladies.
- [Chris] They're ladies glasses?
- And Australia tattoos.
- [Chris] Ohhhh!
- Oh thank you. Here. I'll sit down.
Woah, that's heavier than I ...
- [Jessica] Yeah sit down and relax.
- [Chris] And Mom and Dad are here. Hi Mom and Dad!
- [Parker] I didn't even know
everybody was going to get me.
- That's fancy.
Oh, that's so pretty.
And I need one of these.
- [Mom] Yes.
- I don't have one of these. Thank you.
- [Chris] It's a spoon rest.
And then this is also for you.
- Thank you. Oh it's heavy.
- Chris was excited about this one.
- [Chris] I'm excited about this one.
- Is this my favorite scent?
Oh my gosh!
Oh my God, it is so everything.
This is amazing, how did you? Did you make this?
- [Chris] They do it at the store.
- They do?
Yeah, balsam cedar is my favorite scent.
- [Chris] That's us on the candle there.
- [Parker] It smells like nail polish.
- [Chris] ♪ It is so your birthday. ♪
- It smells like a Christmas tree.
- [Chris] Bailey made this gift here.
- This is amazing! Did you draw this.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
- Dear Aunty Pantys, I love you so much. Happy Birthday.
Sorry I didn't have enough money
to get you a birthday present but I
worked really hard on this huge thing.
By the way, inside the pocket is a kitten
that I drew and cut it out.
It's supposed to be Daisy.
Thank you so much for being an amazing ...
- [Jacob] That's from Parker.
- What's this? Oh, there's two of them. Okay.
Let's see which is first.
This one? Ruby's World! What is this beautiful book?
- He wrote it.
- I wrote it.
- You wrote a book?! I'm so proud of you.
A Pocket Full of Poems by Bailey Ballinger.
I didn't know you were writing books.
I knew you were always working on books,
so I've never seen a finished product.
- [Colleen] A poem about blankets.
- There's a lot of poems in there.
- I didn't know you wrote poetry.
At the beach ...
- [Chris] Are you with grandma? Are you with grandma?
So much fun being with grandma.
Oh it's so much fun!
♪ Happy birthday! Happy birthday! Happy birthday! ♪
♪ Happy birthday now! It is so your birthday! ♪
Whoa!
- One of the cool things about coming to Colleens house
is she sets up the kids to paint outside
every once in a while.
I got to paint one time too
and it was really, really cool.
But, the kids are painting this right now.
Well, yeah, these two kids.
Half the kids.
And what is ... this is beautiful.
What is this?
- It's gonna be a sunset but I think,
right now, it's an ocean.
- [Chris] Right now it's an ocean?
Is it going to be super realistic or kind of stylistic?
- I want it to be super realistic.
- [Chris] And what are you working on
on your side of the canvas?
- I don't know.
- [Chris] You don't know?
- I don't know what I'm going to work on.
- [Chris] Just feeling it out?
- Yeah.
- [Chris] Look at this pallette!
(funky syntho music)
- [Colleen] What? It wasn't in the frozen section.
- It's pretty solid.
- [Colleen] Really?
- [Colleen] I put it ... I got it ...
- [Colleen] It wasn't in the frozen section!
- It's not frozen. It's okay.
- [Mom] We can run some water on it.
- [Colleen] Hot water?
- [Mom] No, well warm water.
- [Chris] It's got a little feather still right here.
- [Colleen] Ewwww!
- [Colleen] That's the grossest. I'm out. Goodbye. I'm out.
- [Chris] Is that a hair tie?
- Yeah!
- ♪ Ballinger way! ♪
- It was on my wrist. It's very convenient.
- [Colleen] It's only been in her hair, for like,
for probably six months.
- My dog might have gotten a hold of it at some point.
- [Chris] You just took this beautiful turkey
and messed it up Rachel.
- [Rachel] I did it's weave! Calm down!
- [Colleen] Okay so now we need to make sure
this is fully submerged.
I did it!
- You did it Colleen!
- [Chris] Oh, we got a turkey
and it's brine-in! It's brine-in!
Look who's here? My friend, my cousin.
Andrew's here.
We'll have to talk. About lots of things.
- Oh, many, many things.
- So many things.
Good conversations.
Colleen's set up this table for us. It's in a giant T.
I don't think she meant to do this
but I'm gonna say it's set up this way
because T is for Thanksgiving.
("Nutcracker Suite" by Tchaikovsky)
- Daisy's under there.
- The kids are going to put on a play
and I can't think of a better way to end the day
than with a play.
- [Colleen] Is everyone ready for the con ...
- Welcome and thank you so much for coming.
(Audience claps and whistles)
At first everyone is going to sing 'Silent Night'.
Jacob, Parker, um, Aunty Panty.
- [Colleen] Oh I'm singing? I'm too ... okay.
- No, you're playing the piano.
- ♪ Silent Night, ♪
Holy Night,
♪ All is calm, ♪
♪ all is bright. ♪
♪ Sleep in heavenly peace. ♪
(Audience claps and cheers)
- [Audience] Ohhhhh!
- [Colleen] Okay. Ready?
- ♪ Joy to the ... ♪
- [Colleen] Oh. Five, six, seven, eight.
- ♪ Joy to the world, the Lord has come. ♪
♪ Let earth receive her King! ♪
- [Colleen] Ready?
- No ... no.
- [Colleen] Oh sorry, sorry.
- [Audience] Whoa!!!
- [Chris] How unexpected!
- ♪ Dashing through the snow, ♪
♪ in a one horse open sleigh, ♪
♪ O'er the hills we go, ♪
♪ laughing all the way, ♪
♪ Ha, ha, ha! ♪
♪ Bells on bobtails ring, ♪
♪ O'er the hills we go, ♪
♪ laughing all the way, ♪
♪ Ha, ha, ha! ♪
♪ Bells on bobtails ring, ♪
♪ Jingle Bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, ♪
♪ Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh, ♪
♪ Hey! ♪
♪ Jingle Bells, jingle bells, ♪
(laughing)
(audience claps and cheers)
- Okay, next we have Feliz Navidad.
Rachel, Stephanie and Daddy.
- [Chris] What? Wait! What?
I did not know I was cast!
- [Mom] You're on the program buddy.
- [Chris] How did I? How did this happen?
- [Jessica] This is on your knees.
- [Colleen] Yeah on your knees.
- [Jessica] On your knees.
Stephanie, you can stand.
- I remember you were angled.
We were angled like this.
- [Jessica] You can stand.
- Oh we're doing hand motions?
- [Jessica] Hand motions!
- I feel like this might not be perceived well.
- [Colleen] Ready? Five, six, seven, eight.
- ♪ Feliz Navidad, ♪
♪ Feliz Navidad, ♪
(noise drowns out singing)
- Just like we rehearsed.
♪ Feliz Navidad, ♪
♪ Feliz Navidad, (mumbles) ♪
♪ I want to wish you a Merry Christmas, ♪
♪ From the bottom of my heart! ♪
- That's the only thing?
♪ I want to wish you a Merry Christmas, ♪
♪ From the bottom of our hearts! ♪
- [Audience] Whoa!
- Retreat!
- [Bailey] (laughing) Sorry!
- I'm Joseph.
- [Colleen] Okay.
- (yelling) I'm an angel!
- [Colleen] Stand up there so you're flying.
- I'm Mary.
(audience talking)
- Ohhhh!
(audience laughs)
- Ohhhh!
(Bailey laughing)
- [Colleen] Is that baby Jesus?
(Bailey laughing)
- ♪ Away in a manger, ♪
♪ no crib for a bed ♪
♪ The little lord Jesus, ♪
♪ Lay down his sweet head, ♪
♪ The stars in the sky, ♪
♪ look down where he lay, ♪
♪ The little lord Jesus ♪
♪ asleep on the hay. ♪
♪ I love thee lord Jesus, ♪
♪ look down from the sky, ♪
♪ And stay by my cradle, ♪
♪ 'til morning is nigh. ♪
(applause)