- [Christopher] Can you say dada?
Dada?
Yeah, dada.
- Dada.
- [Christopher] Can you say yes?
- Yes. - Good.
(lighthearted music)
(gentle guitar music)
Good morning, everyone.
Oh, good morning, Rue. Good morning, Rue.
Good morning, Teddy.
How are you?
Yeah, are you good? You standing up?
Look at you, look at you.
So it is August and that means
Teddy is gonna turn one this month.
I can't believe it, I can't believe it.
Teddy is up to all sorts of fun things these days.
He is crawling, he is pulling up to a stand.
So he'll use the couch or a gate or a chair
or the big box of blocks that we have,
and he'll pull himself to a stand and play.
He claps his hands.
(laughs) Hi, Luke.
- Hello. - Hello.
- The baby.
- Yeah, what's that baby's name?
Is it Teddy?
- Teddy. - He is bouncing.
Are you bouncing too?
We got two little bouncers?
Oh, is Rue gonna bounce too?
Nope, just giving me kisses.
Just giving me lots of kisses (laughs).
Did she give you kisses too?
(Luke giggling)
What happened to your face?
Did you get an ouchy? - No.
- Did you fall down while you were on the slide?
- Nope. - Nope?
Okay, he's denying everything.
Luke was playing on the slide
with Duncan out in his tree house,
and he got a little bonk on the side of his face.
But he's okay.
- A bonk. - A bonk.
Are you okay though?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, you're feeling better?
Yeah, but it's pretty bruise-y.
- No kisses.
- No kisses?
- No kisses.
- Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, no more kisses.
Teddy loves to play with his siblings.
Luke is learning how to be gentle with him,
and they play together.
They get along really well.
They always make each other smile real big.
Teddy was a really hard sleeper at first.
Like he would wake up every few hours.
But now he's starting to sleep through most of the night.
There are some nights where he doesn't,
but for the most part, he sleeps through the night.
He loves having the Hamilton soundtrack
playing when he goes to bed.
That seems to help him like feel calm
and go to sleep (laughs).
So there's always like this faint,
in the distance Hamilton soundtrack playing at our house,
especially during nap times or bedtime.
He usually takes two naps during the daytime
and then sleeps at night.
Oh, where you going? What did you find?
Yeah?
Yes, yes.
What do you think of our decorative pillows?
We've got Baby Yoda
and we've got Varian from the Tangled series.
Yes, yes, we put out the very classy pillows today.
- This white.
- [Christopher] Oh, the stairs are white now?
- Uh-huh.
- [Christopher] The rails?
Yeah, the stair rails are white now.
Did they change?
- This is white.
- [Christopher] Oh, the cabinets over there are white?
- This white.
- [Christopher] Yeah.
- [Luke] This chair is white.
- So most of our kids, when they were his age,
they didn't really go for like the tiny things,
the tiny, tiny things.
Some of them did.
But Teddy really goes for them.
Like, he seeks out and finds any tiny,
little thing that got left out.
We watch him really closely while he's playing,
and also we're trying to like teach the kids
not to leave little tiny things around.
It's a little bit of an adjustment,
'cause our past few babies haven't really done that.
But he'll grab stuff,
and he likes to explore it with his mouth.
He'll take a little thing and go,
hmm, does this taste good?
Are you reading a story to me?
- So Teddy's funny because he has this like
kind of calm personality.
But then all of a sudden, he'll be like (laughs).
And he'll get really excited.
And he just kind of does things you don't expect.
He loves Rue.
He's always trying to feed her from his highchair.
We're trying to have her learn not to counter surf
and like go for food and stuff like that.
And between him and Luke,
they're always like going, hey, hey (laughs).
And then Luke will hold out something,
and then he'll be like, no.
Oh, Luke, don't do that.
So it's really funny because we have to really monitor
these two little brothers.
They've got like a lot of high jinks
that they get into together.
Very cute.
We just have to keep an eye on them.
Teddy loves Rue though.
And he loves like being in his highchair,
and she'll walk around or like sit by him.
And he's always just like (gasps).
And like staring at her and trying to offer her things.
I just feel like I don't know what to expect from Teddy.
Like he seems very quiet and calm,
and then he does these things that you're like, wait, what?
(laughs) Like what's he doing?
And he just seems kind of
like adventurous and just expected.
I don't really know how to describe him.
He has this really mysterious persona to me so far.
Like, I guess we're just used to
like theater people who are very open and overt
with their emotions and their feelings.
And I feel like he's a little reserved.
But then he'll be like, gah.
(laughs) You're like, what?
Or he'll catch us by surprise
by like standing on something of a sudden,
and being like, oh, you can do that skill?
Like, that's wild.
Look at this little guy.
What are you doing? Are you building?
You got things to do?
(Teddy squealing)
(gentle music)
And I know that Christopher already said this,
but like it cannot be emphasized enough
how much he loves Hamilton.
Like, every single day, every single sleep that he does,
the Hamilton soundtrack is playing the whole time.
And he listens to Hamilton clean.
I don't know if you know about this.
But you can find something called Hamilton clean.
Bailey found this.
And it's a playlist of all the Hamilton songs
with everything that might be
inappropriate for young ears removed.
Rue, my little cuddle bug.
Look at how cute she is.
Look at what a cute little cuddle bug this angel is.
Hey, sweetie bear.
You wanna say hi?
You are so cute, you are so cute.
But the Hamilton music really works to get him to sleep.
Like, and it's specifically the first song
does a really good job with it.
He'll be in his stroller and crying,
and we're like, oh, my gosh, he's crying.
We don't know what to do.
And then I'm like, oh, yeah, Hamilton.
And I turn it on, and he will stop crying
and be asleep in like 30 seconds.
And I feel weird even saying that.
Like, I don't know if it'll always happen.
But it's happened a lot.
Like, it's not a coincidence.
It happens and it's wild.
So I think that's like my favorite
like really special interesting thing
about Teddy at this point in his life
because it's very, very interesting.
I don't think we've ever had that before.
Especially since it's like this specific music.
But you can tell he really loves music.
He'll start like dancing and stuff when music turns on,
and it's really cute.
He's just a sweetie.
He likes being held.
He likes to like hold onto people
and reciprocate in hugs,
which is really cool and special, I think.
He just really likes to wrap his arms
around you and like hold you.
And like, he'll lay his head on your shoulder.
Not all babies, especially at this age, will do that.
Like a lot of them are more alert and like looking around.
He is alert.
You can see he's like climbing
all over the place on these blocks.
But when he's with a person, he just like molds into them.
And it's like really, really sweet.
So for awhile, Teddy was pretty small.
And now I would say he's a little bit more typical.
Our babies are like that though.
Like, our babies usually are born on the larger size,
and then they go pretty small like on the percentiles.
His pediatrician wasn't very concerned.
More recently, we had like a nurse practitioner
one day instead of our typical pediatrician.
And she was like, you know, he needs to start formula.
And we're like, okay.
That's when he started his formula,
which he does like almost 100%
as far as like liquids go now.
So I'm transitioning out of nursing him mostly.
Like, I do maybe once a day, kind of.
But really, not much.
The pediatrician, I saw him the next time,
and he was like, why is he on formula?
Like, I thought you've been nursing him.
And I was like, oh, yeah,
the nurse practitioner said to switch.
And he was like, oh, you didn't need to.
And I was like, oh, we thought we did,
'cause she made it sound like we did.
And he was like, yeah, I don't know.
And so, it was kind of like it had been like that.
I don't mean like either was wrong.
What I mean is like Teddy has been on the fence situation
for a long time where it's like,
does he need it, or does he not?
But he is in like six to 12 month clothing now.
And I'm about to transition him
into his like 12 to 18 month clothes.
I think they might be a little large,
especially since that clothing size
handles a larger spectrum, like a larger age range.
But I do think he's kind of ready.
The bin is out, and I'm ready to transfer all the clothes.
So that'll be happening soon.
But I don't know how big everything's gonna look on him.
(laughs) We'll see.
So, Parker, what are some things
about Teddy that you really love about him?
- His love.
I love that he
loves to jump and like stand.
Like, he's trying to skip the crawling phase of his life.
He's just trying to stand up.
- [Jessica] I'd say fast forward through it.
He's already crawling.
So he's not gonna be skipping it.
- Yeah, sometimes Luke wants something
and Teddy's holding it,
so he comes up to Luke and like makes a face,
but Teddy understands it.
He like understands Luke's language of speaking.
He's just like the best.
He's so smiley and cuddly.
He's so sweet.
He loves playing with our dog, Rue.
If Luke like does anything, he's like, whatever.
I'll just deal with it.
Whenever you're like crying or something,
he comes up to you and like hugs you and stuff.
- [Jessica] Teddy does?
- Yeah.
- [Jessica] How does he come up to you?
Like he crawls up to you?
- He like crawls up to you.
And sometimes he's like.
And he like tries to hug you in the air.
And I just think it's so cute.
He's just like the best baby ever.
Some new skills that I've noticed
that he has are like squatting.
Like he goes up to fences like this.
He holds onto here and then just goes.
And like, it's so slow.
His squats are like this low to the ground.
- [Jessica] What surprises me is that he gets back up.
- Yeah, he gets back up, and it's awesome.
- He did that the other day, and I was like, what?
Like, where did that come from?
How is he able to do that?
I feel like I get a Parker kind of vibe from him.
And I don't know what that is,
but even like since the day he was born,
he reminded me of like baby newborn Parker.
He just like gives that sense to me.
I just feel like he has a bit of Parker personality to him.
So we'll see, as he grows up.
But I could see him being a lot like you.
You guys have a special bond already, huh?
- Yeah, I love him.
- He just wants Rue.
He loves Rue so much (laughs).
I actually think it's so interesting
because Teddy and Rue were born in the same year.
And he got Rue while I was pregnant with him.
And I just feel like they have this interesting little bond
where they're like twins kind of (laughs).
Like, they've grown up together
and they've always kind of been in each other's lives,
in a sense, you know.
I was pregnant when Rue met us.
But I feel like she kind of knew he was there.
It's neat seeing them being like
the ones that grow up together in this house.
- He's my little daredevil.
(Jessica laughing)
He does whatever we tell him not to.
And I think that's funny.
Like I don't know why he does that.
But it's what he does.
Thank you.
Do you want it?
- I feel like that's what I was trying to say earlier
when I say that he's so calm,
but we also don't know what to expect from him.
And that's been really interesting.
Like, we've obviously had a lot of babies.
But for some reason, Teddy kind of catches me off guard.
And we have to keep a little extra eye on him.
I don't think we always will,
but like right now we're just like,
wait, what's Teddy doing (laughs)?
Like, what's he getting into?
Wait, get that out of his mouth.
And there's just all these things that I'm like,
oh, okay, like we definitely have to watch that.
Like right now, what are you doing, goose?
(laughs) Here, we don't feed those sticks to Rue.
Rue likes to get to these.
Rue does not do much damage.
Like she doesn't rip up her soft toys or anything.
She's like a very gentle dog.
However, these KAPLA blocks, she really likes these.
And she has destroyed like one or two.
And it's funny because I just saw Teddy
go up to her with one of these blocks
like ready to feed it to her (laughs).
And that's what I'm saying.
Like, he'll be very quiet and unassuming.
And then all of a sudden,
he's like feeding the dog things that she shouldn't eat.
And you're like, what are you doing?
So I don't know, he makes me laugh.
I feel like I wanna make sure
like I'm not coming off as saying
that like he's like not good.
'Cause I think he's totally sweet
and genuine when he's doing these things
that you're like, wait, we have to protect you, dude.
(laughs) That's not safe.
What Rue is chewing on is yak cheese.
And it's pretty cool.
The pet store introduced them to us to it.
And like, you can get it just about anywhere,
I think, that they sell pet supplies.
But I had never heard of them before,
and she really likes them.
One thing that I love is him and Luke together.
- Yeah, that's so cute.
- [Jessica] I'm actually really sad
we haven't filmed that much of this in the last year,
but Teddy and Luke is like the sweetest thing ever.
And Luke loves him.
He's always like, baby, baby.
And he like loves his little baby.
And it's very, very sweet.
We have to be careful with them,
'cause sometimes when Luke loves big,
he gets so excited that he does like some sensory seeking
and he can pinch and he can even bite,
and he does that like all of us.
And it's when he's happy.
Like, he's not upset.
It's just like he gets to this point
where like is so excited
that we have to be really careful with him.
But he loves Teddy.
And he's so sweet with him.
And he just like loves him with his whole heart,
and he's so, so sweet.
I really love seeing them interact together,
and I can't wait to see them be
like best buddies as they're growing up.
'Cause I really feel like they will be.
Like, they have a special bond already,
and that's very cool.
He's getting a binky?
- [Parker] No, no, no, don't eat that.
- What did he eat this time?
Like, I swear I feel like Christopher
when he was describing the way Teddy grabs things
and it's on the ground,
he made it sound like we're just like leaving messes.
And I feel like that's the thing with Teddy
that it's that's we aren't leaving messes.
Like, look at the floor right now, okay?
See that floor?
Like, there's paper here, obviously, but see that?
Okay, he will go crawl around,
and he will, I guarantee, find like
at least five things over there.
Like, it will be spotless and vacuumed,
and we're like, there's nothing there, he's fine.
And then all of a sudden, you turn around, and he's like.
And you're like, what's in his mouth now?
And it's so funny because like, every time.
He will always find things.
He's really good at it actually.
Like, hopefully that carries into like longterm
because we need more people in this household
that are really good at finding their things (laughs).
But I don't know, maybe he's just really good
at finding little tiny things that he shouldn't have.
So like, I don't even know how he did that.
But he just found like a bunch of--
I guess it was from Rue's,
the thing she was chewing on.
It was the stuff that like crumbled off.
He was trying to pick up just now.
But Parker caught it.
So he's vacuuming.
(laughs) He's like.
(laughs) You're taking all my stuff.
What are you doing?
(Jessica laughing)
Treasure.
- I love Teddy because he's just so happy all the time.
And he loves to play.
And he really loves to knock down the towers that I make.
(Jessica laughing)
And he's so curious.
Okay.
He likes to throw things too.
(Jessica laughing)
He's very adventurous and fast.
And he will like, we'll see him,
we'll be watching him,
and then we'll look away for like a second,
and then we look back
and he's all the way at the other side of the room.
It's really funny.
- [Jessica] Oh, he's like, let me show you an example.
(laughs) Hi.
- Oh, he loves Rue.
He'll take care of her.
He'll hold her leash.
- [Jessica] (laughs) He will.
- He pets her.
He gives her a lot of food.
(Jessica laughing)
Pretty much his food.
- I love him very much.
And also, I love him.
Teddy likes Hamilton too.
And I like that about him.
I love being with him.
It's really fun, 'cause he's just so cute.
He smiles the biggest ever.
He's kind of heavy for me, but I wanna carry him.
I love you, Teddy.
You're the sweetest one ever.
(kids giggling)