kitchen work day WITH A NEWBORN

[Applause] [Applause] that's a pretty m [Music] I [Music] [Music] well Louis is getting ready to turn 3 weeks old tomorrow and I am ready to get back to YouTube I'm feeling some normality oh boy ever's not going to over and um I'm starting to feel more like myself again the first week obviously was spent being in the hospital in the NICU and then coming home and really having a hard time adjusting to being home still overcoming things like jaundice still being worried about um all of that and um the second week I was still feeling super sleep deprived um having to get up because he wasn't nursing well what do you need buddy you want a snacky want a snack our Travelers have been a handful as they've adjusted to new baby you might need a I might need to take a nap and then finish talking to you guys I it's 12: mhm can he climb up and see what you're doing so the second week I was super sleep deprived um he was not nursing well not really nursing at all I was having to bottle feed at that point just pump and bottle and so night time was like instead of just kind of nursing half asleep like I usually do with my newborns it was getting up and trying to get him to eat um because he needed to and so we battled through that the whole second week now tomorrow he turns 3 weeks old he's nursing I'm still doing some bottle just to make sure he gets enough because we're still trying to get that weight gain weight back up um to where I want it to be and um and yet he's doing really good with nursing and I'm starting to feel alive again so exciting um Elsie and I are doing some kitchen work Bella had to run to our thrift store because um yeah we needed her to run look for something for uh the office and she took Jeremiah and James and Lydia and Benjamin so it's really quiet here right now other than Everett getting fussy um I think I'm going to have to feed a baby soon he's laying here next to me just being cute are you just laying here being cute so tiny you guys so tiny I tried putting a newborn um sleeper on him and it just hung off his feet and His Hands cuz he's so little I don't have any preey clothes but it just seems like silly to get preey clothes when you know they're only going to be in them for tiny bit who what do you need buddy you go night night is going to join us when she gets back with some kitchen work but right now you want a drink thirsty right now Elsie's helping me get started we have some preserving things to do first of all she's going to finish kombucha which is under there she's going to put the liquid in get that going La in it no and then um Bella's watering glass and some eggs back there we got a lot going on in the kitchen right now we were given broccoli okay so our our neighbor who's a farmer um she said that she was done with the broccoli crop and we could pick whatever we wanted that was left she'd taken what she wanted to sell she does Market gardening stuff and so we went down with the intention I didn't go Jason and the kids went with the intention of just picking for animals which we did get a ton for animals but look at all of this and it's delicious we cooked some for dinner last night it's delicious but I Al I would have gotten this into the freezer right away cuz that'd be Peak nutrition they picked it last night but it just wasn't happening so you know you got to do what you can do it's been sitting out here it needs to now be blanched and put in the freezer I'm just going to get the kids going on a process where we have a big pot of boiling water and we have I have a strainer we're just going to put it in for a few minutes take it out put it in ice water then move it take it from the ice water and put it into Ziploc bags and throw it in the freezer that's what we're going to do with as much as we can this is obviously a ton but you just do what you can do some of it went most of it went to seed and we couldn't Salvage it right but this is a lot of broccoli and it was so so good we did like four or five bucket loads tractor Lo um tractor of the tractor bucket of [Music] the um of the ones that went to seed and of the ends that we cut off to give to animals right so you can imagine how big a tractor bucket is they gave like three or four is that you said four and then the cat cows and pigs and that was yesterday uh what are you doing just finding stuff to additionally I have enough cucumbers to water bath a batch of pickles so I'd really like to do that too all right you guys ready to help me no we do it at I'm thinking 3:00 I'm thinking that's a yes these guys are getting ready to leave Leo Silas and Samuel are going on a kayaking trip with Jason tomorrow and they leave tomorrow night are you excited yeah leave tomorrow night and we'll get there in the morning we'll get there in the morning no no you'll get there tomorrow it's 2 and 1 half hours away what 2 and2 hours we're getting they're going to the current river I thought you guys were just going down the Big River NOP they going to the current river in Missouri and they're going to stay there and then kayak going to Oklahoma no that's what I got told stus what no they said it would be nice to go toah I asked if Jason would bring the camera along to show you guys some of their trip cuz I think it's it's going to be fun um and I don't I don't know that I should send the camera on the kayak that sounds a little scary that might be we should get a water that might be the end of the camera [Music] [Music] really cute with the oh and I got this pop never responded but I thought it's cute way I'm trying to collect some coffee cups for him to have a cute coffee cup assortment and I got some cute shirts fabric basket what did you get Lydia oh yeah she picked out a little set fun Spyro grass I used to have one of those no one can do it very do it it it's so fun [Music] one buddy bunnies both bunnies have two [Music] eyes we made a mess of mother cat's kitchen floor splash splash splash clean up with nine moms five mops are red two are green and two are yellow James and Jeremiah just came in from picking a whole lot of weeds I'm paying I'm paying kids 5 cents for each one of these that they pick is this weed spy is terrible it's has thorns on it we did not have this when we moved here it came in I don't know well ask Bella where she thinks it came from maybe it was some hay that we got and it came in with it and now it's popping up all over the place and it's so quickly so everyone they pull out they can earn a nickel how much money did you make $310 yeah each of them made $310 but they came back in to hold a little baby right how do you feel about this new brother he's cute he's pretty spoiled loved Mom me he's laughing smiling at you Mom Bella's been handling the broccoli for a while so mommy could rest yeah when can we eat you want to get some broccoli or you want to eat leftovers it's good broccoli is it is really good I never faor of the leftovers but my favorite vegetable broccoli is your favorite vegetable yeah no no carrot my favorite vegetable is cake ha me too no I like cupcakes guys are fun you really like your new toy don't you she sat outside on the picnic table with her for a long time ah he blinked he blinked I won no steing contest the blink is over they're having a staring contest they're seeing who blinks first does Ls blink or do they blink for I won Mom oh he won what's the timer for is this the next batch you got to go wide wide I wanted to show you guys some of the gifts that have come over the last weeks and with all the craziness I just haven't even opened some of them they've just been sitting here waiting for me to get back to normality so this one let's see here this is is really sweet this is a natural rubber pacifier this will be really nice to have thank you Mara we also have this here I I looked in the name on this I think this is from my friend Elizabeth and you know what this is it's actually going to come in so handy for some of our things that we have coming up it is a a mosquito net for the stroller Kelly is one of our longtime YouTube friends and she sent us several packages I'm going to just start showing you some of the things she sent because some of it the kids got into while I was gone and it was a huge blessing for them um there is a toy okay these are all nursing nursing dresses look at this no that's a shirt Okay I lied that's a nursing shirt which is awesome because just lift up like that but it still looks dressy here's a dress I looked on the tag and I said nursing dresses this actually um is open because I wore there's a real pretty flowered one and a black one that came with it too and I wore it I went on my very first date night out with Jason after our 2 weeks I'm just like we have to leave the house I hadn't I hadn't left the house since the ncu and it was I wore that flowered one it was so pretty now this I just opened right before I turned this camera on look at this this is just like a comfy black dress again nursing dress so it's like looks like just a cute you know top but underneath you can access for nursing and this one too look at this oh this is so pretty and sleeveless so that'll be great for summer oh thank you um anyway one of the things that she sent is this toy that's a bath toy but the kids have also been like throwing it making it stick on the windows and things I will show it to you because Bella said while we were gone she had a day where everybody was so fussy and she went in the boxes and found that toy and it entertained them for such a long time she was so so tickled oh this must be for Jason I'm going to let him open that when he comes home papa bear hat how cute okay that's not all that's not all from Kelly she sent a bunch of clothes and then she sent more clothes because she said once she found out that he was born premature and was so tiny she had to send clothes in smaller sizes so we have this these SE are sleepers I haven't even opened this stuff yet look at all of this sleepers in the 0 to 3 months so those will be coming up for this winter cuz he'll probably be in 0 to 3 he's not there yet but he'll be there probably by winter look at all of these oh my goodness there's another one here all of these are like a two pack or a three pack what does it say Wow and then this was her original box look at all of this is adorable clothes oh so cute this is going to be adorable grow buddy grow oh these will be nice right now oh here's here it is I stuck in here to show you it's called bunmo and if you have kids you need you need this toy I can link it but they're all of these they're just it's very basic they're just all shapes and they stick so they have little suction cups now of course our kids you know they always go the extra mild don't mind my Blackberry stained hands here um they like to push things to their limit so they did not just play with these in the bathtub they were throwing them in the house and they stick to the ceiling and fall down and I have to say it's really fun and it doesn't damage anything so if you you might want to pull this out in the winter like you know when your kid stuck in the house and with high energy there's a whole bunch of them in there there was more than that but they were playing with them very very fun she also sent a game called Quirk which we had played once with friends and loved it and now we have our own cirkle game so it was just a package of fun for everybody look at all these little sleepers Kelly you went all out oh my goodness look at all this more sleep uh sacks what do they call those little brother a so cute oh this one I like this one the honey bear that's adorable and a little summer outfit and then she sent this which I had never heard of these before this fire blanket she said she has one and just keeps it in the kitchen literally just open it up and throw it over a fire so it's just this really cool safety thing never heard that so this is the really wonderful thing that Kelly got us it's this bassinet and the kids set it up for for us while we were in the hospital with Louis it's just can sit right next to our bed here and I put the the New Zealand sheep skin in it so he has that to lay on it's you can read about sheep skin benefits for babies it's so amazing isn't it wonderful I'm so grateful she sent it thank you thank you Kelly it was just so sweet to have it all set up and ready to go when we brought him home and you can raise and lower it too whatever height you need it so I have it right there here so that he's nearby me and I just think it's so sweet so one thing that we did differently on our chour uh chart is I have a meal helper of the of the week so Jeremiah's my meal helper this week so he made um no bake oatmeal bars I wrote out a recipe cuz he thought we should make a triple batch which I agree so this is the Triple B from the original recipe these are going to go in the refrigerator and we're going to cut them and a triple like fills up this pan May the half by 11 pan or whatever it is 9 by3 actually I think it's 9 by 13 okay what did we put in it do you remember uh 7 and 1 half half cups of Oats m one and a two and a/4 2 and A4 peanut butter mhm and one and a half Honey yep and then a teaspoon each of vanilla and salt vanilla and salt and that's it so you heat the peanut butter and honey for 30 seconds uhoh got sad what's the matter both of us what's wrong oh my I think it's quiet time yikes okay I'll talk to them but anyway you just kind of heat the peanut butter honey and then you mix it all together press it in your pan and stick it in the fridge right don't for getet Pap that's right okay stick that in the fridge and let me go see what's the matter with these [Music] two I want to see what they're now okay so you're sad because you didn't get to go along with the older kids right now I understand is that why you're sad too why don't we do something fun together the older kids went to pick up milk from us our cow is dried up we can play been picking up milk from a friend and they're feeling sad hey what about Candyland okay well adventures with Jeremiah oh he's willing to play adventures with Jeremiah with you [Applause] anybody it's 6:00 we have a mess everywhere but we're making really good projects we have a whole bag of broccoli bags whole bag of broccoli bags ready to go into the freezer yes there was and I have a roast made for dinner and Bread's going in the oven and then broccoli of course on the side so who cares if we have a mess right we'll get cleaned up eventually they're also starting to pack for their trip tomorrow so just a lot going on here [Music]

Channel: Jason & Julie

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Length: 21min 24sec (1284 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 03 2024