- Oh no, oh no!
I need a book!
I need to have one right now!
This is my most important book!
(laughing)
(guitar music)
(kids talking)
- Pizza!
- [Jeremy] It's not
pizza, it's aebleskivers.
- No, pizza!
- [Jeremy] Say aebleskivers.
- No, pizza!
- [Jeremy] All right,
apparently we're having pizza
for breakfast.
Laura, how's your pizza?
- Good.
- [Kendra] Say, aebleskiver.
- Is.
- [Jeremy] That's pretty good (laughing).
- So I was working with Elise on something
and I noticed Laura was missing.
I mean, she'd been missing
for all of five or 10 seconds,
and look where I found her.
Laura,
what did you do?
- I hiding.
- [Kendra] You're hiding?
That's one of our non-washable
dry-erase markers.
I found her hiding
behind the door coloring.
- I'm gonna clean it off.
- [Kendra] Are you cleaning it off?
Oh good, it's coming off!
Oh my goodness!
I did not think that was gonna come off.
- I'm cleaning this.
- [Kendra] You're cleaning this?
- Uh oh!
All clean!
That's done.
- All right, well I
ended up being a mean mom
this morning.
The kids were not behaving
well while we were getting
ready to go and they were
dragging their feet and teasing
and fighting and complaining
and they wouldn't get their chores done
and they knew we were going somewhere fun,
so I'm like come on guys, let's go.
Anyway, by the time we
were finally ready to go,
we were running late
and so Jeremy and I were like
why would we take you guys
somewhere fun when you're
not behaving appropriately
and so we decided to stay home
and you know what, it
feels like almost more
of a punishment to Jeremy and I.
We don't get to go take the
kids to do something fun
and instead we have to stay home
and give them consequences
for their behavior
and it's hard.
Like it'd be much easier to
just keep going with our day
and ignore it,
but we can't do that because
we want to raise children
that know how to behave,
at least that's the
effort, that's the hope,
that's the dream sometimes.
I'm a mean mom today, didn't even go,
and now we're just staying home
and just getting school work
done and I'm especially bummed.
I love leap day.
Like we had really fun plans for today
but
(grunts).
What are you doing?
- I'm doing a headstand.
- [Kendra] Yes, you are doing a headstand.
You're doing a headstand on my body.
- Oh yeah.
That's the way I like to do it.
- [Kendra] Can you do it without my body?
- Yeah.
- [Kendra] Show me.
- But I can do it longer than that now.
- [Kendra] What?
What?
What?
- With my hands, I just push myself up.
- [Kendra] How do you balance?
- It's just a lot of practice.
- [Kendra] Well, good job.
You're still standing up!
You're still going!
What'd you make?
- I make my smoothie.
- [Kendra] Is that a smoothie?
- Yes.
- [Kendra] So for lunch today,
the kids are having salads.
- Grown up salads.
- [Kendra] Grown up salads.
What's a grown up salad?
(eating drowns out speaking)
- Because it's things together like
some carrots and
- [Kendra] Caleb, we can't
understand you 'cus you're
talking with your mouth full.
(exhales)
Okay, what's a grown up salad?
- So, you like put broccoli in
and carrots
and lettuce
It's really yummy.
- [Kendra] I'm glad you like it, buddy.
I'm really grateful that our
kids aren't picky eaters.
I know they have their
picky moments but overall
they'll eat pretty much anything
and I'm really grateful for that.
It's kind of a proud
mommy moment to see them
eating so healthy and
being happy about it.
- Just to tell you,
in the comments spot.
What kind of favorite foods do you like?
My favorite,
my first favorite is salads.
- [Kendra] Yeah, do you
wanna know what they like
in their salads or do you wanna know
what their favorite food is?
- Favorite food is.
- [Kendra] Okay, all right.
(guitar music)
- Woo!
- So Elise is using this
math manipulative today
and the assignment that I
gave her was to put them
in stacks of five
and then she's going
to be counting by five
and she did that for a little
while and we were doing stuff
and then I left and I came back
and look what she was doing.
What were you doing Leesy?
- Playing house.
- [Kendra] Tell me
about this, what's this?
- [Elise] Dad, mom,
older sister, older brother,
the baby.
- [Kendra] So that's the
family and where do they live?
- In this house.
- [Kendra] Oh you
designed this as a house.
- [Elise] Mhm.
- [Kendra] Well that's really creative.
- [Elise] This is a
bathroom and if you push
on of these things
it comes to a shower
or a bathroom.
- [Kendra] Whichever one you need?
- Uhu, and this is where
you wash your hands.
And this is all the family's bedroom.
- I just love the creativity of kids.
I would've never thought of
playing house with this toy.
Like this math manipulative
but I'm glad that she does.
Like that makes me really happy.
- Hi Laura!
- [Jeremy] This is Laura.
- Hi daddy-oh!
- [Jeremy] No, this is Laura!
- But, it's you daddy.
- [Jeremy] No, this is Laura.
- Daddy!
Stay calm!
- You stay calm!
(laughing)
- [Caleb] No, you stay calm!
- You stay calm!
- [Caleb] You stay calm!
- Okay.
(upbeat music)
- [Jeremy] Swing your legs.
Crazy monkey.
There she comes!
Woo!
- Wow!
Jeremy just has this
big old grin on his face
and I'm like you're such a big kid.
Like he's just so happy
to have little Isaac
to be playing ball with.
It's so fun.
Isaac is running through
all of the toy equipment
and we're trying to avoid
the other people here
who are having fun
but we're
so like, for example, look right here.
He's trying to catch it through the gate.
Oh!
- [Kendra] So close!
- That's just fun.
How old are you?
- I'm four!
- [Jeremy] What?
No, you're not four.
You're five!
- No.
I'm four.
(laughing)
- [Kendra] Who are you talking to?
- [Jeremy] I love you.
- I love you!
- [Jeremy] I love you more!
- I love you more!
- [Jeremy] I love you super duper!
- I love you
too!
I princess, mom. I'm
- [Kendra] You're princess?
- Yes!
- [Kendra] Well that's cool beans.
- Let's go dad!
- Should we go?
- Yes!
- Do you like eating Panda Express?
- Yes.
- Dad too.
- Come on, Isaac.
Let's go.
Hello!
(screaming)
Mommy's here!
(laughing)
- So we came in different cars.
Laura's pretty excited that mama got here.
- Mommy's right here.
- [Jeremy] She's here!
- [Isaac] Got orange chicken!
- [Jeremy] All right, Laura's
figuring out chopsticks.
She's pretty much an expert already.
- So Elise wanted to try chopsticks.
So once we got them for somebody,
now everybody's eating with them.
- [Jeremy] You pretty much got it.
(grunts)
Watch, you can go like this.
There you go.
We are trying the two-handed method.
Nailed it.
(laughing)
- So me, I just stick with a fork.
It's just the more effective
way for me to get the food
into my mouth.
- [Jeremy] Elise upgraded
from wooden chopsticks to
fork chopsticks.
(laughing)
She outsmarted the system.
- So we're having a little family lesson
and mom is demonstrating
what the lesson topic is about tonight.
Oh no!
Oh no, I need a book!
I need to have one right now!
This is my most important book!
(everyone laughing)
I'm going to die if I can't find my book!
- Mom had the brilliant idea
of letting each of the children
try to do it calm and try
to do it overreacting.
So that should be fun.
- [Kendra] Hey Isaac, it's time for bed.
- Can I read this book
for a little bit longer?
- [Kendra] You can probably
have one more minute,
that's fine and then it's
gonna be bedtime, okay bud?
Hey Isaac, it's time to get ready for bed.
- I don't want to!
- [Kendra] I know but we have
to get ready for bed at night.
(yelling)
Okay, you can stop pretending!
(laughing)
So which one got you a better result?
Staying calm or overreacting?
- Staying calm.
- That's so funny!
All of us have had better
results when we stay calm.
Dad's turn.
- So tonight, Elise and Kendra
had an important discussion.
Elise came to Kendra about
something about how she
was feeling about herself
and from their discussion,
we decided to make that
a separate video all on its own.
It's a bonus video you
can get a link to the card
or in the description box.
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- And what is that you came and told me?
- That
I was fat.
- Doesn't that just break your heart?
