Good morning, guys, and welcome back to another Day in the Life vlog. It is finally the summer
holidays here in the UK, so we are done with homeschooling for six weeks. So I have a few
different things planned today. I think we're going to go out to the park this afternoon
and the boys KiwiCo boxes have just arrived for this month, so I will be showing you them.
They have kindly sponsored this video, and again, I have an amazing discount code for
you where you can get your first box for free. So I will be showing you more on those in
a bit, but first off this morning, I really need to finish off a vlog that is going live
tonight. So I'm going to do a little bit of work while Matt is playing with the boys in
the other room, and then I'll just take you along with us today.
Oooh, ooh, ooh!
You're up, mate!
Dad, look at, she's bouncing on the daddy pig's tummy!
(sings) Jumping up and down on daddy's tummy. Georgie pig, that's very naughty!
[inaudible 00:00:01:16].
I want a turn! I want a turn!
[inaudible 00:01:26] We need to make a different shape.
I'll see what I can do. I'll just do to the shops for three hours.
I did it! Jackson's having Cheerios as a snack today!
Rahh!
So tonight's video is all scheduled on my channel, and now I'm going to clean something
that I've been meaning to clean for a little while, so I thought I would show you guys
how I clean our toothbrushes. We have electric toothbrushes, and sometimes they get a bit
like yucky and gunky. Instead of switching out the heads all the time, I actually boil
them for three minutes in a sauce pan of boiling water that sterilizes them, and it gets them
nice and clean. And then what I also tend to do is, if any of the toothbrushes are a
bit gross, like on the actual handle, I tend to put them upside down in a cup of hot water,
and that seems to clean the top of them as well.
I'm just going to do that now. So now, we are going to do an activity with the boys.
Although we're not homeschooling during the summer holidays, we will be doing a few activities
with them and trying to keep some kind of structure and routine. That will be still
reading with them every night and trying to keep up their timetables. But we're super
excited today because their KiwiCo crates have arrived for this month, which is a highlight
of our month. They only come with three activities in them, so it really does keep the boys going
for a good few days. It keeps them entertained for hours and they're all educational, very
engaging, and it's just so nice to have something to get them off of their screen time, so I'll
show you what's in them this month. Jackson has the Koala crate, which is for three and
up. Caleb gets the Kiwi crate.
And Fraser has the Tinker crate, which is for ages nine and up.
Okay guys, I'm actually going to voice this bit over because as we were filming, our neighbors
started to chop down a tree and it was so very loud, but I really wanted to tell you
more about KiwiCo. We are huge fans of the brand, and if you follow my channel, you will
know that. And they're so relevant right now during the summer break while we're all trying
to keep our kids entertained for hours on end. So, if you don't know who KiwiCo are,
they offer flexible subscription boxes for kids of all ages. So, each month they will
send you out a box, and inside it will have amazing, hands-on projects and toys to keep
them entertained, and they're all designed by experts that expose the kids to STEAM concepts.
So that is science, technology, engineering, arts, and maths, and they just encourage kids
to be fearless innovators. The founder of KiwiCo is actually a mum herself.
She's got three kids and she really wanted to let kids be unique, be creative through
hands-on projects, so they're all super fun. So the kids don't actually realize that they're
learning, but they are actually educational in a really cool way. So their boxes start
out as low as $16.95 a month, and if you're in the U.S., they also offer free shipping,
but KiwiCo are offering my viewers their first month subscription for free, so you can test
it out for yourself, see what you think, and see if your kids love them, and all you have
to do is visit the link in my description down below, which is going to be KiwiCo.com/EmilyNorris
and KiwiCo will offer eight different boxes, so they have something for all ages, and the
best thing about them for me is that they come with absolutely everything that you're
going to need to make a project. There is no need to run to the store and buy
glue or tape or anything. It's all in there, and they also offer an educational magazine
with even more content in it. So, for Jackson's one, there is a story in it and then some
activities to do, whereas Fraser, being a bit older, it's a bit more of a magazine that
is also educational, so that's another learning tool that we can read and enjoy during the
month. Yeah, so it's different each month, but this time at Jackson's box was all about
music and he had three activities in there: he made a xylophone, a tambourine, and also
a gymnastics ribbon, and you can probably tell from the footage just how much his older
brothers love to help him. They all get involved in each other's boxes.
Caleb's was all about exploring the stars, and he really loved learning about the moon
and how it spins around. And Fraser made a light up planetarium. So,
it's just really nice to get them creating and building and just getting them out of
the summer brain drain that is screen time overload. I feel like, even when we were homeschooling,
there was just so much screen time with class videos and online learning and stuff, so it's
really nice to get them to do this. So anyway, the links are all in the description, if you
guys want to test it out for yourself. So we're off out this afternoon on a little
outing, and we're going to a park that we tend to go to in the summer holidays. They
have a discovery center and some really cool stuff for the kids to do. So, that should
be really fun. We've got our masks with us as well, but I keep doing this thing where
I put my lipstick on and I get ready to go, and then you have to put your mask on and
I keep getting lipstick inside the mask, but one good thing about wearing this is that
it covers up my huge spot that I have right here. But anyway, let's go.
(music) So, we are at the park and it's so lovely
we just keep walking and we've also brought the Segway cause there is a lot of walking.
(music) So we're just sitting on a bench, watching
Caleb play in a sand pit. Fraser thinks he's rubbed against stinging nettles because his
arm is a bit sore now, but luckily we've got some Piriton on us just in case he needs anything.
But yeah, it's really weird that where we are a few of the playgrounds are blocked up
with... What's it called? Project tape. Yeah, but then a lot of them aren't. So, I'm not
sure why some are, why some aren't, but Caleb he's playing in the sand.
So, we're all done at the park now, and it is about 4:00 PM and we're all starving, so
on the way home we are actually going to stop and have dinner. This is going to be the first
meal that we've had out for five months as a family, so we're going to go to our favorite.
We're going to go to Pizza Express and have some dinner and then make our way home.
Where are we? What would you like to order, sir?
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What pizza are you getting, Jacks? Pepperoni?
No!
Will you have anything to drink, Jackson?
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Tell Daddy what you want to be when you grow up.
Sonic the Hedgehog. And I'm going to be blue.
All right, so we're home now, and I'm absolutely stuffed, but it was so nice to go out, and
it was very quiet as well, so it felt like the whole restaurant was ours, but we're back
now. It's about 6:30 PM, so it is straight upstairs to the bath, and we're going to just
put the boys to bed. They're so tired, they were trying to fall asleep in the car on the
way home, and we were like, stay awake, stay awake. But tonight a new book has come up
for Jackson. He is obsessed with Trolls. You may have seen in my other videos, he just
loves to play with them, so I ordered him a little Trolls book. So, we're going to read
that tonight. So the two little ones are in bed now, and
we've just been doing some chores and I wanted to show you these, they arrived today. We've
got new recycling bags. They're almost like bag for life material. We've got one for cans
and plastics and one for cardboard as well. So I guess they're trying to cut down on plastic
recycling bins. So the idea is that we will wash out cans and things that we use, put
them into here, and then these will be emptied and collected every week when it's garbage
day, rubbish day, whatever. So, it will definitely take some getting used to, and I have no idea
what we're going to put them in our new kitchen. Maybe we could like design a place for them
in the house. So anyway, I think we just going to tidy up
and then chill out. But I wanted to quickly get Matt because I forgot to say in my last
video that we celebrated 11 years of marriage and you may remember last year, it was our
10 year wedding anniversary, and we went abroad and we renewed our vows and all of that, this
time, last year, and it was very nice. But this year we're back to forgetting cards-
one of us, me, I forgot, the card didn't I? And present and the date. So, we're well,
and truly back into that until our 20th anniversary. I'm sorry. But yeah, what's the secret to
a happy marriage?
Not being bothered by people forgetting the wedding anniversary.
It's true.
Pretty much my mind.
And if we can get through lockdown.
Yeah.
We can get through anything.
Prepare to clean your kitchen 350,000 times in your life.
Yep.
There isn't a secret. Just-
The secret is never giving up, no matter what, even though you want to.
[crosstalk 00:14:51] from the start, then you're on the right track, aren't you?
Yeah, we knew. When you know, you know. But anyway, I think I'll sign off here. Thank
you so much for watching this video. I hope you really enjoyed it and don't forget the
KiwiCo link and code is in my description, so you can check it out if you want to. Thanks
so much. And I'll see you soon!
See ya!
Bye, guys!