Inside a Farm Boy’s 5th Birthday | PLUS 3 Year Flashback

There he is. You know what today is? What?

My birthday.

It's your birthday. How old are you? 5? Give me 5.

Papa, he's a whole handful.

You are a handful. Give me 5. Yes! You want to do chores with me this morning?

Uh, yeah.

I'm gonna move the ICYs and then we're gonna work on the sheep shawl.

Okay. So I can get that.

Put it in the living room and then we'll come get it before we do the sheep. 5 years ago today, Rebecca. Yup. Gave birth to him in that very bathtub. That's right. I caught him. Yours and Gideon's 5th anniversary.

That's right.

Congratulations.

Thanks.

Well, God bless you.

Come here.

That was the first time me and you looked into each other's eyes.

Did we have lessons today? I looked into your eyes.

Yeah, it's Tuesday.

I said, well, hello.

I can only work until 10.

Now, do you remember that? When we looked into each other's eyes?

Yes.

You do?

And I remember when I was a baby too.

Do you remember when I picked you out of the bath? Bath water and held you and said, "You can cry all you want." Yeah. Hey, you got your shoes? No. It wouldn't be your birthday without us having to find your shoes. Hey, hey, hey, it must be a lucky day. Your boots are right there.

Papa, I'm gonna go down after a big apple.

Okay. I got a new apron from Sturdy Brothers. Oh, it's getting nasty. All right, Mr. Brown, how's it look?

Look at your Sturdy Brothers.

How's it look?

Good.

Thank you for coming with me in the mornings. It's much funner when you come. Okay, I got some apples. You want to carry those?

All right. That's a dad and that's a boy.

Yeah, how can you tell that's a boy?

Because—

how?

Because the things—

yeah, the things hanging between his legs. That's pretty smart, you know. Did they eat their apples? I don't know, they scattered their apples. They might eat some. There's some fresh in there. Check our minerals. Rebecca and Jonah are going to build the other one. Dry. Oh, look, almost completely out of the V as in Victor C. Thank you, Josiah, for bringing the water. You want to hold this water? Sure, you hold that. Josiah's getting the apple cider vinegar. Let's give it a nice dash, Josiah. Good. Turn it off, can you? Close, keep going. Good.

Stop. Papa, look at me.

Leave the bucket in there. Maybe on that bare earth. Come on, boys, let's move these chickens from right there to right there. Waddle's gonna get a nice feather in this for you. Ready? You want to drop it or you want me to?

I'll drop it.

Okay, you drop it. Give him a birthday flap, Waddle. Hey, she said happy birthday! We got one limping, Mr. Brown. Oh, but it's gonna make it to the feed. Grab your toys and we'll go work on the sheep shelter. What?

The trailer.

What trailer?

The trailer came with this.

Josiah, do you know where the trailer is?

You be the horse.

Good big brother. Nice, good job, Josiah. We got about an hour to milking time. I was thinking you might have fun with your new toys in the sawdust while I worked on this sheep shaw. What do you think?

Okay, then that then can fill it.

Y'all cover your ears.

Okay. Okay, it's gonna be more sawdust.

Yep, here's your block too if you want like a fence or a barn. Breakfast of champions for Mr. Brown. Mango syrup on top of your waffles. Is this a dream breakfast? Do you like breakfast? Because that's what you asked for for supper. It's your favorite. I just finished editing. We've got the couches in here for the painter. The painter's working in there on the ceilings. What are you looking for?

Uh, the tank.

Uh, your excavator?

Yeah, my excavator.

Okay.

There's a cow. That's the truck.

You found it?

So no, that's the truck. Now I need to know what it is.

Oh, Papa.

I don't see it.

I found a key.

What's up? Here it is!

Okay, finally.

Papa, now I have to have to laugh.

All right, let's go down. This morning I got the legs up. This is upside down, so that's the roof. This is the front legs. Let's put a brace across here and start working on the back. Let me see what you guys have done. You got a barnyard, you got a pig port.

Well, kind of.

You got an outdoor pig port. That's cool.

There's some indoors.

In the meantime, I've got my wheels on. It's a Wide Rider. Making good progress on that. Somebody's here to see Gideon. Gideon, you want to go up that way or this way?

Okay.

Hey, happy birthday!

How's that?

Happy birthday, boy! Don't be shy. Why are you being weird? Come here, you're 5 now, you don't have to be so shy. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Gideon, happy birthday to you. And also happy birthday to Mr. Brown. You having a good day? That's good. Uh-oh, what you guys got going, Lily?

I'm trying to make an Italian buttercream.

Back at it. All right, Jonah, all we lack is the roof and minerals. Yep, not much. All right, you guys gonna stay here and play?

Yeah, look at our farm.

Okay, we're gonna go do the chores. Hey, I like it. Just put sheep on new pasture, put them on the bank there, and they're loving it.

Papa, the pigs are eating corn like Ghost Skeleton's pigs. Nice.

Okay, cool. I like it. It's just some farm. Grandma's down here helping decorate with Lily. You guys are doing a good job.

We've got some balloons.

Mom's putting up a helium balloon.

Baby dragon. No, it's a dinosaur.

Oh, you'll like that.

Yeah.

Okay, let's surprise him, Lily.

Dinner! Come on in! Hey!

Look at your decorations!

Happy birthday! Look at all your presents!

They did a good job. Look!

Happy birthday!

Hey!

Hey! Here! Happy birthday!

Do you like your decorations?

Ah, I'm gonna open them. This one, this one, that one, this one, this one, this one, this one.

Man, you got a lot of presents. Hey, how'd your icing come out?

It turned out amazing.

I can't wait.

This is what Gideon wanted. Scrambled eggs, steamed kale, green beans, and sausage. Is that too much greens?

Is that too much?

Everybody like it? Do you guys like this breakfast choice too? Picture time. We got to take a picture before it gets dark. It's getting darker earlier. Look at your mom quick while the fire is behaving. Look to mom.

Put your hand down. Hold on. All right, 1, 2, 3.

Hand him his presents one at a time. We can't really go in the living room. It's under reno. Paint job looking good though.

I know you're gonna love it, Gideon. She knows you're gonna love it. Oh.

Yay!

People of Farm.

Say thank you.

And this is from Lily.

Wow, is this Duplo too? It's Duplo policeman.

I would think you're a Duplo fan, bro.

Are you a Duplo fan?

Yeah, he is.

Hold on, wait, are we gonna do, are we gonna do mine next or you wanna do Jonah and Josiah's?

I'm gonna do this one then. Okay.

No, wait, do this one first.

Okay, give me that. I'll give that one back. Who's that from? Mama!

Remember the track at Heather's house?

Yeah, that's what it is.

That's what you got him?

That's what I got him.

This is a track.

Yeah, it's a track and there's 2 cars, so he's gonna have 20 feet of track.

Okay.

Yeah, we can make it under the couch.

Oh my goodness.

Yeah, we did that at Azariah's house.

Oh, did you?

What is this? Oh, it's more track.

It's an accessory to the track.

More track.

Oh, it's a different truck. Go get it. It's for that.

It's for that.

Oh, this one.

Surprise.

Okay, put it up there.

This is from Jonah and Josiah. We put our money together.

Oh, you already broke it. Foot. Whip it!

A flatbed truck with the crane, just like he asked for. And a Jeep.

How'd they find that? She found it.

I don't know, but we found it. But he asked for that.

It's got a Jeep on it. Oh, he don't want to let that one go.

Goodness.

Wow. Uh-oh.

You want to do Grandma's?

What is it?

She's got real life wrapping paper.

Yeah.

Here, pull it right out, buddy. Get in. There you go. First, take the rubber band off.

The bow?

You want to take the bow off?

Yeah, bow off.

That looks like Christmas wrapping paper, Grandma.

No, that's very appropriate.

Birthday candy cane.

What is it? Oh, now I know what it is. I know what it is. I put the last piece of tape on it when they walked in the door. I knew it.

Oh my goodness.

Oh my. Look at all that. Oh, this is from Papa.

It's a hog bug.

Look at it.

Oh, since you're helping me out so much on the farm.

Oh, cool.

He needed his own tool.

That's a pig port.

He made him a pig port.

I made the pig port. And that's— this is his cow stanchion, and this is the barn. Oh.

You got a barn, a stanchion, and a pig pen.

Uh-oh.

Uh-oh, are you gonna be able to blow them all out?

Yeah. Wait, let me get a picture.

Wait, wait, wait. People want pictures.

Wait, wait, we gotta get a picture. Hold on.

People want pictures. Yeah, particularly your mother.

Right, hold on. Now, no, don't blow. Don't even breathe.

All right, smile.

Gideon, smile. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Gideon. Happy birthday to you. Blow it out! Now what's your wish?

What's your wish?

A wish on the cake. Um, having the birthday— a good birthday cake.

Have a good birthday.

Okay, how is it?

Is it as good as it looks?

Second.

Will you be able to eat all that? Does everybody like it?

Yeah.

I don't know how the cake turned out. I felt like it was a little bit denser than normal.

Oh really?

Why? It's so good.

It does look a little bit—

I like a dense cake.

You guys have had my other icings. Is this icing better? Mm-hmm.

This is the best icing yet?

Yeah, it's going on my cake.

Oh, okay. Well, that passed the test. They're not just being nice.

No, it's a lot better.

Oh, is it?

Italian buttercream made with egg whites, honey, butter, vanilla, salt.

It's hard to believe that is all grain-free. Sweetened with honey. Now it's time to bless the birthday person.

Me first!

Youngest to oldest.

Oh yeah. He likes to play puppies with Aww, you're a puppy player. He likes puppies. He's a good little brother. And he always want me to— and he's always wanting me to play with him. That's all I can think of.

He always wants to sleep in your bed. I was just gonna say that.

And he always wants to— I almost want to go swimming with him.

And you just love playing with him, don't you?

You love Josie.

And he loves me. He loves you. It's just a love fest over here at the Rose house.

Oh boy, today's a good day. He likes to fall asleep next to me smack dab in the middle of the bed with me. Even though he's gonna sleep in other places, he's fun to play with. And he's a good little brother.

It's y'all's anniversary.

I know! It's our 5-year anniversary from the time that we first looked into each other's eyes.

He's like, come on, Mom, I wanna play with my presents.

You have definitely been the twister in the family. You are very spirited and you love to— you're all in. You're either all happy or you're, if you're upset, you're very upset. So your emotions are very full. They're very full. That's a good way to put it. And you bring a lot of joy to the family. You like to, um—

I'm still singing.

Another spirited one. We're full of love and spirit today. And you, you just, you're the caboose.

Yeah. And you are red when everybody else is black.

Well, the caboose, the caboose is usually a different color than all the other cars.

The other day, I think it was just yesterday, you've been kind of taking a break from working with me in the morning. You've been sleeping in. Well, yesterday you came out— come here, get your eyes off the brooder. I'll make it fast. Hey, yesterday when you came to work with me, it was so nice. I love working with you. Thank you for coming with me this morning. We held hands, you talked, it was a good time. You made it. Oh, hey, Gideon, when you're 20, you're gonna really enjoy this talk, perhaps. Okay. So when you're around, life's better. Okay? You're the life of the party. Listen. When we're all older and we're throwing parties, we're going to want you to throw it. Because you're going to be good at that.

Okay.

Now let's go.

Next time we're going to do blessings before presents.

Before presents. Look at him. He can't even get his eyes off of them.

Come on. He can't get his eyeballs off of Grandma.

He's sweet and kind.

He likes to come to my house and eat watermelon and play with toys, and he always asks first.

Gideon is the, the baby of the family, and he reminds me when I was a kid, there was a commercial on TV about Time X John Cameron Swayze for Timex. And they put this watch on the propeller of the Mercury motor.

We've attached my Timex directly to the propeller blade.

And they would run it up and down the lake.

All right, let's see how our Timex does in that rough surf.

And then they come in and they take it off and they say it takes a licking. But it keeps on ticking. I've seen you take a licking, but you keep right on going. And it's like you're the youngest, but you're with the older boys all the time.

Yeah.

And you just have that spirit in you to be with them. And you do have a soft side. It's usually when those eyes are closed.

Yeah.

Grandma doesn't have any trouble.

Go play with your presents.

Yay! Gideon, you already opened this one. That's all mine.

Look, do this one. You've been eyeing this one all night. It's your birthday! How old are you?

Um, 6. 6?

That's news to me and your mama. Mr. 4. Mr. 4, you're old. Mr. 4, do you wish you were 6?

Uh-huh.

I didn't want to be old as Maya.

Don't grow up too fast. What did you want for your birthday meal, Brad?

Tomato and eggs and bacon.

Happy birthday, boy!

Happy birthday! Gideon, smile!

What'd you get, little man?

What'd you get?

A grass-fed burger and fries? The big boy insists on pushing this himself. Oh, happy birthday to you.

I blow it out. Happy birthday to you.

You are a sweet little thing and you say the sweetest things and you love to give kisses and hugs and I love that about you.

Are you a big 2 now? Are we gonna measure you? Let's measure him. Every year we measure them on their birthday. You're 2. You're 2. Let's hold it up. 2 fingers. There you go.

2.

Mr. Brown is passed out. Can you say, "I like spice nut cake"?

No. Happy birthday to you.

Close.

He looks like a real good bike rider. Bye. Whoa, he's doing it!

He's got no problem. He's riding it through the grass.