- Hey everyone, it's me, Colleen.
I am wearing a bathing
suit and sweat pants
because it's cold in my house,
but I'm about to go be outside
where it's hot in the water.
My son's not wearing his shirt
because he's gonna go
play in the water too
and he's eating bread because carbs.
- I love bread.
(kissing sounds)
- Okay, you ready?
♪ We're gonna test out crazy
things from the internet today. ♪
♪ We're gonna text out crazy
things from the internet today. ♪
(laughing sounds)
♪ We're gonna test out fun things ♪
♪ that play with in the water ♪
♪ We're gonna play in the water. ♪
♪ We're gonna play in the water. ♪
Wanna see? Let's see what we got, okay?
The first thing,
(surprised sounds)
a mermaid tail.
I've seen a lot of people do these online
and play with these online.
= (baby laughs)
- Yeah, I know. A mermaid
tail, Flynn, a mermaid tail.
- Coco
- Coco? He want's uncle Coco to open it.
Are you showing uncle
Coco the mermaid tail?
So let's go try it out.
Oops! He just smacked me in the face.
Okay, now it's time to
try the mermaid tail.
I'm excited about this.
So I've seen a lot of people use these.
I don't know if you are
supposed to put it on before,
but there's like feet-things.
This seems like a cheap one.
I'm sure there's like fancy
ones that actually work, but...
Oh my feet are wet, so this is very sticky
and hard to get on.
Oh, there's like holes for your feet.
Oh, this is the worst feeling having
your legs tied together.
Oh my God, this is horrendous.
Horrendous!
This is what we look
like in a mermaid tail.
I am so uncomfortable because my legs
are literally tied together.
I don't really feel
claustrophobic it would feel.
Do I look like a mermaid?
(laugh sounds)
♪ Up where they stay all day in the sun ♪
♪ Wandering free, wish I could be ♪
♪ Part of that world. ♪
This feels so weird!
- [Eric] Don't do it in the hot tub,
do it in the pool.
- I'm gonna get in the pool.
How. Do. I can't walk.
I have to go this way.
- [Eric] Flynn, mommy, he's a fishy.
(gurgling sounds)
- All right, here I go, Flynn.
Whoa!
Oh my God, I'm swimming a
lot faster, that's for sure.
(splashing sounds)
Whoa!
That's crazy!
- [Eric] It like actually works?
- It actually does work,
but it's just like very
claustrophobic feeling
'cause your feet are tied together.
Do I look like a mermaid?
- [Eric] You're fulfilling.
- A flailing mermaid? A mermaid whose.
- [Eric] You're fulfilling
some sort of fantasy here, yes
- I have fantasy hair?
- [Eric] Nevermind.
- Oh, for someone's fantasy?
Oh, kinky?
- [Eric] I said you're fulfilling
some sort of fantasy here.
- For you?
- [Eric] I didn't know
I had a mermaid thing.
(laughing sounds)
(splashing sounds)
- This thing's crazy. It's kind of fun.
(orchestral music)
That thing is really fun.
It's not practical, like I don't know why
you would ever need it or use it,
and it was kind of expensive,
if I remember correctly.
Flippers kind of do
the same thing, though.
Maybe you just can wear flippers?
I'll never use it again, but it was fun.
Alrighty, let's do the next one.
A sprinkler play mat.
Now this one I got specifically for you.
Look, Flynn, you can
create priceless memories
for your family, it says.
Why are you going under the table?
♪ I have a toddler. ♪
Can you tell me what animal this is?
Look, it's a lion.
What does a lion say?
- (lion roar)
- (lion roar)
You want me to open it up?
He just wants to eat his carbs.
- (baby sounds)
- What is this?
- More?
- More? Okay.
He's saying, "More" and signing, "Please."
- (baby talking)
- He's going to be so
disappointed when it's open.
All right, so apparently you
fill this thing up with water,
and you attach it to, like, the sprinkler
and it, like, sprays water everywhere.
Ooh, it's bigger than I
thought it was gonna be.
Ooh, there's animals all
over it, Flynn. Look.
(elevator music)
- [Flynn] Mama?
- Okay, he's just dangling off the table,
so let me deal with that.
Oh my goodness, Flynn.
- [Eric] Whoa!
- Look at that! What do you think?
Oh my goodness, look at this water.
Do you wanna go try it out?
What do you think, Bubba?
What's that?
Is that fun?
(circus music)
He's dancing.
So basically you just
plug your hose into it,
and it fills the middle
part up with water,
and then just like a sprinkler.
How fun!
(baby laughs)
- [Colleen] Is that fun?
(playful music plays)
(Flynn laughs)
(splashing sounds)
- Oh
(laughing sounds)
(Flynn laughs)
- Wow! He loves this thing.
We have a lot of products to test today,
but I guess we're not
going to get to them all,
because I don't think
we're going to be able to
play with anything else.
He's just too excited about this.
He's having so much fun.
What do you think, Flynn? You like it?
(splashing sounds)
This product was so
highly rated on Amazon.
Anytime I tried to search
any kind of water toy
or water game for kids,
a million different
versions of this came up.
Everyone said this is
awesome. And they were right.
'Cause my son is losing his mind.
We literally have a huge pool right here
and it's garbage compared
to this little thing.
So if you are looking for some water,
small thing to do with your kid,
like he is losing his mind,
he is having so much fun.
I highly recommend it.
- It's fun.
- [Colleen] Is this fun?
All right, Flynn's going to
lose his mind over this one.
So this came in a nondescript box.
I can't even remember what it was
until we started to open it.
But Flynn...
- Dar-dar
- A dar-dar. He calls cars, "dar-dars."
So this is like a backpack
(baby talk)
He's losing his mind over the dar-dar.
This is a backpack that you can wear
and then squirt things with. I don't know.
It's like supposed to be, it's a kid toy.
But it came with a dar-dar.
But I will say, that the
backpack has like gunk on it,
it's like dirty and scratched.
It's like very scratched.
It's like kind of nasty looking.
Gross!
But he loves the dar-dar, so he's happy.
- Dar-dar!
- Dar-dar!
Hey everyone, it's about a week later.
I'm giving you an update.
Uh, we did try to make the backpack ,
water squirty thing work and it didn't.
It's broken. So I don't
know if we got a bad one.
It looked used. It was like
tattered and scratched.
So I don't know if that
had anything to do with it.
Um, maybe we just got a busted one.
But it did not work at all.
So I have no footage of me using
it because it doesn't work.
Let's move on to the next product.
Okay, the next one is, I
don't even know what this is.
- Dar-dar!
- Oh, I remember now.
This is so exciting.
It's a pool floaty.
It's retro. It's cool.
Most of you watching won't
even know what this is.
It's a cassette tape.
Let's blow it up, Flynn. Let's blow it up.
Check it out.This is cool!
This is cool!
For all of you that
don't know what this is
it's a cassette tape.
And I used to pretend to
record like radio shows
and stuff. Did you have one
of those, like a recorder
- [Eric] Yeah
- You record on cassette tapes.
- [Eric] I made mix tapes.
- Mix tapes were the thing, man.
They were the snot.
What I used cassette tapes
for the most, ,growing up,
were for my voice lessons.
I would record my voice lessons
so I could practice warming up at home
So that's how cool I was.
Um, but I'm going to get on
this bad boy and see how it is.
(techno music plays)
It's mommy!
I like how big it is.
I usually don't like how
tiny these things are.
(indistinct)
Is this fun?
- Buh-buh
- Boat, boat.
(baby talk)
(splash)
(warning siren)
- [Colleen] That worked well.
Ooh, we all fit.
- The whole family fits on it,
but the problem is, Flynn doesn't like it.
So, we're done.
You want me to get that
toy for you that fell?
(baby sounds)
(splashing sounds)
There's cars at the bottom of my pool.
It's pretty awesome, though.
I think this is one of the
best pool floats we've had
'cause it's so huge.
- Just blow up an air mattress
and put it in your pool.
- Uh does an air mattress
look like a cassette tape?
I think not. So this is much better.
Next one is this face mask.
Revolutionary, full dry snorkeling mask.
I don't know if I'm going
to be able to do this one,
I might have to make Eric do it.
- Dar-dar
- Every time Flynn gets
a new toy that's a car
or has wheels, this is what
we hear for about an hour:
"Dar-dar." Dar-dar.
So this apparently
covers your entire face,
you can snorkel underwater
covering your whole, freaking face.
But I get claustrophobic.
I don't even like regular snorkeling,
so this one kind of freaks me out.
But Flynn still loves his dar-dar
and that's all that matters.
But I'm going to make
my husband try this one.
(baby talking)
- [Colleen] Eric is
looking at this face mask.
It looks terrifying.
We can't really figure out how it works.
Okay, he got it on. Now go under, I guess.
Oh my God. Terrifying!
Are you breathing?
- Well, it works.
- [Colleen] Does it work? You
can breathe out of your mouth?
- Yeah
(scary music)
- [Colleen] Flynn's not a fan.
(elevator music)
- I mean, it's not, it's
not comfortable. You try it.
- [Colleen] I'm not trying that!
I get claustrophobic. I
can't even snorkel normal.
Like that stresses me out.
- [Eric] I'm gonna keep going.
Okay, keep going.
Ah! A bee, a bee, a bee!
So I guess that thing works.
Just, I don't know what
you would use it for,
or why it's better than a regular snorkel.
Leave in the comments below,
do you know of this thing,
and why it would be better
than just a... I guess you
don't have to put that
thing in your mouth.
It just covers your whole
face, you don't have to like,
'cause I guess that maybe is
the worst part of snorkeling
is like having that huge thing
in your mouth to breathe through.
You can breathe through your nose
and your mouth with that thing.
So that's kind of nice. But I still,
snorkeling makes me so claustrophobic.
I really can't do it.
So you can breathe out of your nose
and mouth with that thing.
- You feel like, this, like,
intense pressure around...
- [Colleen] Your whole face?
- Your whole, so it's like really,
it's even more claustrophobic now
- [Colleen] It's worse? Oh no!
Well Flynn still loves
that one little car.
So, there you go. That's the review.
I'm gonna go swimming.
This one, a turtle. Look, it's a turtle.
- A turtle?
- Yeah, it's a turtle.
Can you say, "Turtle"?
- Turtle.
- Yeah! Good boy.
He's at this really fun stage where, like,
he's learning how to talk
and so he can say basically anything,
but he mostly just says, "Dar-dar."
So this is like a silly sprinkler,
sorry guys, if you're
used to my videos where
I just like talk to the camera
and there's no other noise,
those only happen when I
film it at like midnight,
but I have a toddler in my house,
so if I film a video during the day,
this is what you get. It's
just going to be loud.
And you're not really going
to be able to hear me.
It's going to be chaos.
- [Flynn] Dar-dar!
- So this is, I guess it's a sprinkler.
Look at this, Flynn. Look, it spins.
Look.
(surprised gasp)
- Turtle.
- He's so smart.
So, we're hooking up the turtle now.
And Flynn is still obsessed
with his big pool mat thing.
So I don't know if he's going
to be interested in this.
(laughing) Oh, my God. Is that fun, Flynn?
I don't know how interested
he's gonna be in this
when he has this.
Oh, there it goes!
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Woo, that's silly.
What do you think?
(splashing sounds)
No. That is...
Ah!
(sinister music)
Oh my gosh, it's going everywhere!
Bubby, it's too much!
Turn it down! It's too high!
- [Eric] There's no settings.
- [Colleen] Well turn down the
water pressure of the hose.
- [Eric] He's got his butt up in the air.
How's it feel?
- [Colleen] What are you doing?
He doesn't know where it's coming from.
(scary music)
Well, Flynn's starting to get upset
so we had to turn off the turtle.
But it was also terrifying.
I feel like that might
be fun for older kids,
'cause it's so wacky and
it sprays everywhere,
but I did notice that some of the, like,
tubey things were not really working,
they were just kind of limp noodles.
That one, I don't know, that might be fun
for my niece and nephews.
But my son just did not like it.
In fact, my husband is trying to, like,
turn it off and take it
away and he is, like,
crying at the sight of it.
So,
(Flynn crying)
Yeah, I know, it's okay. We turned it off.
Um, he's so suspicious.
♪ Don't be suspicious,
don't be suspicious. ♪
It's okay, pumpkin.
The turtle was a bust,
but he does love this play mat,
so we're just going to
turn the play mat back on
and he'll be happy again.
This is a Bluetooth stereo
that you can put in the water,
which I thought was really cool.
We sometimes will just turn our phones on,
like we'll turn Spotify on, like our phone
and put it in, like, a cup by the pool,
which is terrifying.
So this will be awesome, if it works.
Let's try it out.
All right guys, it's a
couple of days later,
I couldn't do all the pool
things on the same day,
just with a one year old
and, it was just impossible.
So that's why I'm in a new
suit, in case you're wondering.
We are gonna test out
the stereo right now.
- [Eric] Stereo?
- Turn. Yeah, is that
not what it's called?
What is this, a boom box?
- [Eric] Bluetooth speaker.
- Bluetooth speaker. Whatever, I'm old.
- [Eric] Stereo?
- Get over it!
So it seems to work pretty well.
Out of the water, it lights
up, it looks really cool.
♪ In the house. Let's
break it down y'all. ♪
♪ Hey you over there
with the porny hair. ♪
♪ I know what you need. ♪
- [Colleen] I mean, it works.
And you're directing it,
you're using your phone to turn it on
and make it paddle.
- [Eric] I don't know why it stopped.
- [Colleen] Oh, it stopped?
- [Eric] I think maybe the battery died.
- It does work. It's really cool.
I think this would be cool at night,
if we have pool parties
with all our friends,
um, meaning if Eric and I ever
go in the hot tub past 8pm.
Um, because it lights up
so it looks really cool.
(techno music)
- [Colleen] Ope.
(laughing sounds)
- We are in the pool
almost every single day,
and we use our phones to listen to music,
so to have, like, a
speaker in the pool with us
is pretty awesome.
So, actually I think this thing is cool,
it works nice, you just have to charge it
which is annoying, but you
have to charge any electronics,
so how's that different
from anything else?
This one's a win.
I think we're gonna use this
one a lot. Don't you think?
- [Eric] Yeah
- We also have rainbow cloud
just in time for pride month.
It's just a drink holder float.
I tried to find cool floats,
but floats don't really do much
they just float, so I try to
find stuff that does something.
And this holds drinks and
it floats around the pool.
And I always like to bring, like,
a whipped coffee or water
or something with me
out when I go to the pool.
So it will be cool to have
something floating around
that you can just be like,
(smacking sounds)
Alrighty, here we have
the rainbow cup holder.
You're supposed to fill this with ice
and then you put a bunch of drinks in it
if you're having a party, but
we don't have any friends.
So, we do have family members,
so if that might be good
when my family comes over.
But we do have Flynn's juice.
And we do have my tropical juice.
And, um, it floats.
Like, it's super cute to
have this floating around
and if it were full of
drinks, as it floats around,
you could, like, grab a drink.
I think it'll be nice
when we're in the pool,
we always have, like, a
coffee because we're parents.
We usually have a, like, an
iced coffee or something,
don't mind my son and husband
having a blast behind me.
Today we're having a
little bit of a, like,
pretend vacation-at-home day,
so we're drinking tropical drinks.
Yeah, this could be cool. Maybe
we'll put our food in here
or something so we can have,
like, snacks in the pool,
which I know you're not supposed to do.
Don't come for me.
I know they say you're not
supposed to, like, go swimming
after you eat something,
or something like that.
I don't really remember the rules,
I just know as a kid it
was a torture to eat food
and have to sit outside the pool
and wait, like, twenty minutes before you
could get back in the pool.
So don't worry, we won't do that.
But like, that would be a cute idea
to have our food in there.
Who wants soggy chlorine
food, you know what I mean?
But this is cute. I mean
nothing too exciting.
It's just like a floating
rainbow to hold your cups.
I think we'll use it.
Do I think it's worth it? Probably not.
You could just put your cup
on the side of the pool.
But, it's cute.
All right, Flynn's running
outside, so I gotta go.
Thanks for watching this video.
If you like it, give it a thumbs up.
Let me know which product
was your favorite down below.
And tell me if there's
anything you want me to try
or do next on this channel.
♪ I'm running out of ideas because ♪
♪ Quarantine is killing me. ♪
Just kidding, I'm very lucky.
I have a house, I have a job,
I have all the wonderful
things that you need
to survive a quarantine.
But I'm getting stir crazy,
so tell me what else I can do.
All right, love you guys.
I'll see you next time. Goodbye!
(guitar music)
