- [Jessica] Can you
taste anything right now?
- Sand.
- [Jessica] Sand.
(dramatic music)
Good morning everyone, today
is gonna be a lot of fun.
I am going to the Haters
Back Off writer's office
while the kids go with Parker
and his preschool group
to a very fun beach day.
So they're going to the
beach, I'm going to work,
hardly seems fair but
that's what's going on.
- [Christopher] What is going on up there?
- We're moving roomba to the dirty spot.
- We're trapping roomba,
we're playing trap roomba
so that roomba will clean up
the area of guinea pig food
that got spilled all over the floor.
- [Christopher] You're trapping roomba?
(laughing)
- [Jessica] Back up Bailey.
- [Christopher] Do you guys not know
about the spot clean function?
- [Jessica] Not really.
- [Christopher] Do you
want me to show you?
I don't know if you've ever used a roomba,
but roomba has a button
that you push that says spot
and then it just circles a certain spot
and makes a larger and larger radius
and cleans that area
but instead, they're like kicking roomba.
- Okay, it is beach day!
We're at the beach, I'm so excited,
the kids are running everywhere
and having a great time already.
- We found three dead lobsters.
- [Jessica] No way!
That is so cool.
Look at all this treasure
you guys have discovered.
- I found this, I think it's really cool.
- [Jessica] Lemme see,
that is really cool.
Awhile ago, Bailey used
to wear her swim bonnet
all the time, and people were always like
"why is she wearing that, what's going on,
is she allergic to the sun?"
She's not, she just, fashion,
she just loves her little swim bonnet.
We ordered these, I think
from somewhere in Asia
these swim suits from Amazon and
they come with swim
bonnets and Bailey's like
"yes, I'm gonna, swim bonnet",
so that's all that is, its just fashion
it's just what she likes to wear
she feels like a cutey
girl when she's wearing it.
I can't believe they found lobster,
like baby lobsters on the beach,
I've never even seen one before
so there must be something
going on in the waters here
that's killing off the
lobsters maybe, I don't know.
But, or, it's just like a season
I don't know what's going on,
but it is pretty neat
that they found this.
Parker's wearing some very
fitting swimsuit here.
- Parker.
- What?
- [Jessica] What are you doing?
- I'm going.
- [Jessica] Come here really quick.
Come here really quick, really quick.
- I'm going to swim.
- [Jessica] Where are we?
- I'm at the, I'm at the beach
and I'm going to go to swim, right now.
- Today should be interesting.
Yesterday we took the
day off and we all wrote
independently and worked
on different outlines
and beat sheets and stuff
and we're all coming together
today to talk about it.
And Colleen is supposed to be here today
but she's really sick so
she might not be here today
she might be skyping in.
So I don't know what's happening,
but I get to work on the show today
which is always fun, so, yes.
- I'm learning my five senses!
- [Jessica] Okay, and what
are your five senses sweetie?
Do you remember?
- Smell.
- [Jessica] And what are
you smelling at the beach?
- Sand.
- [Jessica] Sand.
- Touch.
- [Jessica] What are you touching?
- Mommmy.
- [Jessica] Mommy.
- My eyes see.
- [Jessica] And what are
you seeing at this beach?
- Sand.
- [Jessica] Yeah, anything else?
- Nothing.
Hear.
- [Jessica] Hear, what
are you hearing right now?
- Waves.
- [Jessica] So let's see, we did ears,
we did nose, we did eyes,
we did hand, what does this do?
- Lick.
- [Jessica] Lick.
(Jessica laughing)
Can you taste anything right now?
- Sand.
- [Jessica] Sand?
Do you wanna taste some seaweed?
- Yeah.
- [Jessica] Yeah let's
go taste some seaweed.
How are you doing little miss?
- I wanna go out in the ocean.
- [Jessica] Yeah okay, you
go out in the ocean, be safe.
- Yay!
- [Jessica] How does it taste Parker?
- Good.
- [Jessica] Good, you
wanna taste some saltwater?
- Yeah.
(drum beats)
- [Woman] Saltwater, is it salty?
Does it kinda feel like what
it tasted when you fell down?
- Yeah.
- [Woman] Yeah, someone took a tumble.
- I'm making a hole with my friend.
- [Woman] Whoah!
(upbeat music)
- [Jessica] Are you cold?
Are you happy?
- Yeah.
I love this!
(upbeat music)
- I'm making a hole and
I'm gonna fill it up.
- If Jacob isn't in this blog much
it's not that he isn't here,
but his head is in a hole.
Because he's digging a hole, all day long
this is what he's been
doing is digging a hole
and I'm not gonna interrupt that.
Oh, here he is.
- You can actually stick
your head through it.
- [Jessica] In what?
- My hole.
(Jessica laughing)
- [Jessica] Oh my goodness.
How much of your body
can you fit in there?
- Uh, Uh.
(upbeat music)
(Jessica laughing)
- [Jessica] So we can cover you all up
and you'd just be a head
sticking out of the mountains.
- Really?
- [Jessica] Yeah, think about it.
Oh my goodness.
- I was doing that so
much when I was digging,
so the sand came down
and go all over my hair.
- [Jessica] Oh my goodness.
(Bailey and Parker laughing)
- [Jessica] Whoa.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
- [Jessica] How was the beach?
- Good, I have tar all over now.
- [Jessica] Show me.
(Bailey squeals)
- [Jessica] That'll be fun to take off.
- And there was a big hole that I made.
- [Jessica] Pretty cool.
- I got tar on my finger and my foot.
- [Jessica] Lemme see your foot.
Yep, did you have fun?
Oh my goodness.
- Cool!
It was really fun, can I have
a baby wipe because I have.
- This is Crystal and guess what?
Not only is it beach day,
which is her favorite thing in the world,
but it's also her birthday!
So, go to her channel,
she has a channel called
the Solomon Family and you
can write happy birthday
all over it and spam her and be like
"happy birthday from the Ballingers".
- So it turns out Colleen is super sick
and she will not be coming in today.
But she is gonna skype in later.
Everybody else needed a little bit of time
to kinda clean up the
writing they had done
over the weekend, which is great,
because it gave me time to edit this.
So I'm just working on the
new intro for our blog.
I animate a new one of those every month.
It takes quite awhile to do it.
But it's a lot of fun because
I get to kinda go in there
and make the blog fresh
and new every month.
And now I've got the intro all done
and I'm gonna start working on the outro.
(electronic music)
I just got home from work
and now it is time for
our bedtime routine.
The kids have a bedtime routine
that they do every night.
And it consists of them
putting on their pajamas,
brushing their teeth,
getting some cuddles,
going to bed, saying their prayers
and then I read a story to them.
- I got on my pajamas
that grandma gave me.
- [Christopher] Did
she make those for you?
- For Christmas
- I think it's really pretty.
- [Christopher] Wonderful.
It is really pretty.
- How to make buttons.
- [Christopher] you're gonna show me
how to button your buttons?
(piano music)
(unintelligible)
- [Christopher] It's kinda what?
- Instering.
- [Christopher] What?
- Instering.
- [Christopher] Instering?
(piano music)
- [Christopher] Um, Parker?
I think you missed a button.
(piano music)
- I am doing that button with a started.
- [Christopher] Well
I think you might have
put the wrong button in the
wrong hole when you started.
- Oh.
Now where's the button?
- [Christopher] This
button goes in that hole.
- Oh, this hole.
Oh, this hole.
Then, that's how to make buttons.
- [Christopher] That's
how you make buttons?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] Is it easy?
- Yeah, it's really easy.
(piano music)
(piano music)
(clicking)
- Parker likes his night light set to
"rainbow mode", right Parker?
- I love these stars,
they're on the camera.
(piano music)
- Now we've gotta say our prayers.
No cameras for this part.
This is the book we've been reading
it's called "Steel Drivin' Man John Henry:
The Untold Story of an American Legend".
And it was written by
Scott Reynolds Nelson.
And it tells of the legend of John Henry
and then goes into the history
that is actually supported
by documents and accounts.
Kinda tries to separate the folklore
with the actual man John Henry.
And it's very interesting.
I'm having a really good time reading it.
A lot of really sad stuff in here,
but I think it's important for us to learn
about our past and learn from our past
and learn about the injustices that have
happened in the world and try
to learn from those mistakes
and make the world a better place.
I always lie here in
this corner, right here.
Jacob's rooms in here.
Parker's rooms in here.
Bailey's rooms in here.
And all three kids can hear
me if I sit right here.
So that's what I'm doing.
Hi, let's talk about
what we learned today.
(guitar)
We learned that if there's
a mess in your house
just use roomba like a soccer ball.
We learned that the five senses are smell,
hearing, touch, sight, and lick.
And finally, we learned
how to make buttons.
Thanks for watching everybody,
we'll see you next time.
(upbeat music)
