In this home‑vlog, Natalie (the channel host) documents her daughter Arabella’s first birthday on March 20. The video opens with a morning wake‑up at 8:20 am, where Natalie expresses mixed emotions—excitement and the fear of crying all day. She outlines the day’s plan: a quick trip to Starbucks, a possible park visit, and later family gatherings. The vlog captures the behind‑the‑scenes preparation, including blowing up a 60‑pack of balloons, fixing a dresser and hanging curtains, and setting up a tiny kitchen gift for Arabella. The family opens a variety of gifts, noting details like a hanging high chair, clothing from Shein, Lululemon, and Disney, and a Bluey‑themed item. Throughout the day, they eat at Chick‑fil‑A (with commentary on sauce preferences) and later head to a hibachi restaurant where a longtime waiter, who knows Arabella, serves them. Natalie also shares baby‑care milestones: Arabella’s transition off formula to whole milk, her new tooth, and teething. The vlog ends with plans for a park visit, a family dinner, and reflections on the day’s emotions and memories.
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Say hi, guys!
Welcome back to my mom's channel.
Good morning, you guys! So today it is March 20th. It's Arabella's birthday! I think she just woke up. It's currently 8:20 and oh my god, she's 1 today, guys. She's 1 years old. Guys, I don't know how I'm gonna do this today without crying. I'm gonna be crying literally all day. Basically what the plan is today is I'm gonna go get her, we are going to go get some Starbucks. Sam's on his way down here, and yeah, I'm so excited for today. First we were going to do the pool, maybe even the beach, but it's so cloudy out and rainy and it's like lowkey kind of cold. Let me see what the temperature is. It's 57 degrees out. Yeah, we're not doing the pool today. And it's supposed to rain today. Oh, just kidding, it's just gonna be cloudy. So that's kind of the plan, um, is to find something else to do. So we'll probably— oh gosh— we'll probably do like a park or something today. Um, if it's not too cold. And yeah, Sam also has to fix my dresser because it's so bad how disgustingly bad I put it together. Me and my friend stay up until 3 AM trying to do it, and it just like— it looks so bad. So he also has to fix that, and he also has to hang up curtains in Arabella's room. But I stayed up until 2 AM because I started blowing up all the balloons because as you guys know, Arabella's obsessed with balloons. So I bought like a 60-pack off of Amazon, and I used I think 20 of them at her birthday party. So I have like 40 left, so I decided to blow some up. I decided to blow the rest up because she loves balloons. So those are all waiting for her by her door. We also have gifts, and I'm gonna text my mom and see what she's doing. But I'm so excited for today, you guys have no idea. Yeah, let's go. Let me see if she's awake awake. Sometimes she will just like hang in her, uh, crib. Yeah, I think she's just chilling in her crib. She's talking to Mickey Mouse. I'm obsessed with her. She's so quiet. Okay, let me go get her. But yeah, that's basically the plan today, and we are going to be filming all day today because I want to remember this day forever and ever. So also, I'm still in bed. Also, she is off formula. We did no formula last night, and it was such a hard transition for me. What I did was small amounts of like whole milk mixed in with her formula until it was like completely whole milk. Um, I did this a week before her birthday because I knew I wanted to start her when she was like exactly 1. I wanted to be off like formula, so we did it last night and she drank a lot of it. Not all of it, some like a lot of it. And she has a tooth now that's coming in, so she'll have 9 teeth. Well, she has 9 teeth now, so she's a big girl, you guys. She's a big girl. It's so sad. Anyways, let's go get her. I'm not making my bed because I want her to come in it and cuddle with me.
Happy birthday! Happy birthday! It's your birthday, baby!
Happy birthday!
Yay! Are you ready to get up?
Yay, it's gonna be a fun day!
Wait! Yeah!
Hi!
Are you hungry?
I did all of those for you.
Wow!
Yeah, that one has sparkles in it.
Wow, there's so many! Look at all your gifts! Look at all your gifts, Meep!
What else do you want me to bring?
Uh, that's it. Do you love all your gifts?
Are we gonna open them in a little bit?
You gotta wait.
We gotta wait until— no, wait until Dad comes.
Wait until Dad comes. We gotta wait.
Ah, you're in Mommy's bed! What?
Guys, it's my birthday and we're gonna vlog all day. Love you. So she's having like a quick little breakfast right now.
You want to show them what you have? Also, she hit her nose the other day. Is your ear itchy? She's having applesauce with like this cracker thing. You all done? I was gonna go make my bed really fast.
You sit there, I'll go make my bed, okay?
I can like see her from my room, which is nice. I don't know where to put you guys. I'm gonna do laundry, so I think this might be the easiest.
Yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna go let Tank out, but this is from SHEIN, this is from Lululemons, and then these shoes are from Amazon. Go pee pee, girl. You have such diaper butt even though I just changed you. So the top is from Disney. We actually got it for free.
Uh, it's 2T.
It's a little bit big, but I don't care. It looks cute with her jeans and your Adidas.
I love it.
Let's open them. Yeah!
It's Bluey!
Yay!
Crayons for the tubby? What is that? Wow!
Thank you, Mama!
You're welcome, baby. Anything for you.
It's a hanging high chair.
What should we do with that one?
With what?
I thought you were giving it to your mom.
Yeah.
Love it! Is that your new high chair?
Walking to Starbucks.
Cheers!
Okay, Sam is right there, right there. He's, uh, Sam's hanging up her blinds finally, so— and we don't have a step stool.
Don't fall.
My mom got Arabella a little tiny kitchen.
So cute. So I'm gonna organize all of them.
And Sam fixed my dresser finally.
Thank God.
I'm headed now to go pick up lunch. Literally all we've done all day is fix my furniture. Um, like my dresser needed to be fixed, my nightstands need to be fixed, but like I'm not even gonna like ask. Um, and then we hung up her curtain rod. So now I'm headed to go get Chick-fil-A for everyone, and Sam's right now building her little kitchen my mom got Arabella a kitchen for her birthday, and so far Arabella's like obsessed with it, wants to play with it like right now. So yeah, headed there now, and I'm gonna go pick it up, bring it back, and I think we might sit on like the turf and eat it. It was super cold this morning, it's 77 now. I look like an idiot with this on, but like I didn't know it was like hot out right now. Um, so I think after lunch we are going to go to the park. I have like a little park in my apartment complex, so that is what we are going to do. Nice and easy day. But yeah, and then tonight we are meeting my mom and my sister and my mom's friends who are like aunts to me and Arabella. Um, meeting them for lunch— or dinner. And we're gonna go to hibachi, and I'm so excited because I love hibachi. And we have like a favorite waiter, and his name— I'm not even gonna say his name because he's that good. He just— he's known me literally my whole entire life, and he memorized my order, and he's obsessed with Arabella. And yeah, he just like— it's like a family friend, basically. So that's where we're going tonight. I think she'll like, like, all the fire and like, you know, stuff. So I'm really, really excited. And then tomorrow it is not her birthday anymore, but she's been in a really good mood. She had like an hour nap, which is pretty good. Um, no bottle when she went down for a nap, which is so sad. She like didn't want it. Anyways, let me drive. We got it! Well, I just paid, but I'm getting it now. I'm so excited. You know what sauce I just don't get why everyone likes is the Polynesian sauce. Like, ketchup works just fine. I don't know, I'm not like a big sauce person. I literally only like ketchup and like that's it. Um, unless it's like garlic aioli sauce. That's good. That's very good. I'm also weird. I also get a fork with my nuggets here because especially when you're driving, you don't want oily fingers. Or like, if Arabella's with me and she's eating, I let her have my fork sometimes. And they're so fast. Like, Chick-fil-A is just so fast. And everything's normally right. I actually don't need this. Oh yeah, I will keep it. Thank you. Thank you. So hot.
Oh shit, that's really hot.
Did you like your knife? Look at your little knife.
Time for the pool! Okay, this is what I'm wearing for dinner.
Cute— sorry—
cute little pink dress. I think this is from Shein probably. And then my shoes, I don't know where my shoes are.
I'm pretty sure I stole them from my sister.
And yeah, Arabella's right now— my house is a mess, but she is with Sam packing up the car. But when I get home, I have to clean all of this up. But look how cute her kitchen is! I'm literally obsessed. I'm gonna move that picture, but yeah, this is So cute, I'm obsessed with it.
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday Arabella, happy birthday to you.
