In this vlog, Natalie greets viewers and spends the day taking her family to the beach and a Starbucks stop, using the outing as a casual intro. She then shares a series of personal updates: she reveals that her Canon G7X Mark II vlog camera is broken, limiting her ability to film with her preferred gear. The core of the video is a detailed 4‑month milestone report on her daughter Arabella, covering weight (13 lb), developmental signs (crawling attempts, three teeth), sleep schedule (bedtime at 8 pm), favorite activities (bubbles, tub time), and early solid foods (frozen mango and banana puree). Natalie announces a major life change: the family is moving into a new apartment on the 18th, describing excitement, packing progress, and plans for future “move‑in” and “empty apartment” videos. She outlines her interior‑design vision—clean white aesthetic mixed with her partner Sam’s barn‑style wood vibe—and mentions upcoming shopping trips to Target and Amazon. Natalie also reflects on postpartum challenges, noting hair changes and difficulty maintaining her pre‑baby fitness routine. The vlog ends with a bedtime routine for Arabella and a thank‑you to viewers, promising more content next week.
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I haven't picked up the camera in a while, but hi guys, what's up? It's Natalie. Welcome to, or welcome back to, my YouTube channel. So today it is going to be like a family day and we are going to go to the beach and we're also going to go to Starbucks right now, I think. So yeah, let's Go! Alrighty, thank you so much for all that patience. Can I get you anything to eat for breakfast today? Uh, yeah, can I do the bacon egg bites? Can I do a, uh, Can I get a grande caramel ribbon crunch Frappuccino? And then is the iced brown sugar oat milk espresso, is that sweet? Not really, it uses half pump. Can I do the caramel Frappuccino? Please, sir. Thank you. Starbucks is expensive. Uh, yeah. You want a chocolate croissant? No, the eggs. I thought he was— Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Wow. Two cups? Oh! What? I didn't realize you were recording. What would you rate your drink? 11 out of 10. It's that good? Haha. Are you ready for the beach? Let me see your outfit. Wow, I love it. The hat's a little wonky. There we go. You look so cute. Did you look at yourself? Yeah. Beautiful, Missy. Aww, Missy. Okay, I'm in my bathroom right now, and of course this is dirty. It's a couple days later. I'm so mad. I broke my vlog camera. I think— I don't know, there's something like wrong with the lens, I guess, and I don't really know how to fix it. I tried to— I tried to actually YouTube how to fix it and didn't work, so I don't really know what to do. I have a Canon G7X Mark II and it broke. Like the lens won't go. I don't know. So I'm filming on my big camera. So yeah, I'm gonna basically give you guys an update on Arabella. She's 4 months today. Well, she was 4 months a couple days ago, and I thought why not give you guys an update? I've been trying to do these every single month. I kind of skipped out last month, but I did a night routine with her, but Trying to get better at YouTube. I'm really trying here. We'll tell you about it in like a little bit, but let's go upstairs and go see Arabella. There she is. Say hi. Hi, I'm 4 months. I'm 4 months. She's watching Hey Bear right now. I like to put Hey Bear on when I'm trying to get some stuff done, and obviously The house is a mess, so I have to pick up. You spitting, making bubbles? Ew. Ew. Should we give them a 4-month update? I am now 13 pounds. I like to make bubbles. Huh. I love to smile. My favorite movie is Cinderella. Yeah, yeah. I don't really like the ocean. It's a little too cold every time we go. The water is a little too cold. Yeah, I love the pool. Say, "I scream every time I have to get out." Yeah. And tubby time is still my favorite, and I love to spit up too. Great. Airbala, stop! Stop making bubbles! What else can we share? Say, "I'm trying to crawl and I I have 3 teeth. Can we see your teeth? No, meanies. And my bedtime now is 8 o'clock. Say, "That's it. I still love my mama and my dada. And Tanky, my brother." Huh, Tank? So that is kind of the update on Arabella. She's 4 months old. She's 13 pounds. She actually have started. Last, um, she had a mango and then she also this week had a banana. So we're trying to get her to start eating like a little bit, not really, but they're frozen and it helps her mouth to actually kind of like numb it because it's so freezing ice cold. So doctor said we could, so we got the go-ahead on that. Also, if you guys see the boxes right there. Big news, we're moving and I'm so excited and it's so crazy, but we got an apartment and I'm just so excited to move. So those videos are going to come probably right after this. Okay, this might be like a little better to talk and stuff without trying to hold the camera because it's so heavy. But yeah, we're moving and I'm I'm so excited. Sam's so excited. We got a little apartment and we move in on the 18th. So I'm going to try and start back on my videos on YouTube because I love to see them and look back on them as memories. And I feel like this is just like a whole new chapter in our lives. And of course Arabella is getting older and I want to capture every single moment as possible on my camera so I can look back on it. But yeah, We're just so excited, so ready. So a bunch of cleaning with me's, move-in with me's, buying stuff for the apartment, they're all coming up. My vlog camera is broken, so it's been almost like impossible to film anything because it's broken. And I hate vlogging on my phone, like it bothers me so much to even vlog on this camera because it's so big, so heavy. And Jeff, and we've just been so busy, honestly. I was going to film the process of doing like the whole apartment tour, and I can still do an apartment tour, like an empty apartment tour, but I was going to do like all different kinds of apartments that we were looking at, but then I was like, I'm low-key stressed out, I don't want to add this on top of it. So I just decided when we find one that we both really love, I'll show you guys, which we We did. So I'm going to add a move-in slash empty apartment vlog up on our channel. Okay, so for the apartment, I am going to start getting more stuff. I do have a couple things, um, but kind of the vibe is like, I, I love white and like anything like super clean and fresh looking. So that's my vibe. Sam's vibe is very like barn, woody kind of vibe, and that's not really my vibe. But if it's together, like a dark wood with like white like around it, anything with white added with it, so cute, so clean. So I think that's going to be the vibe. Um, I'm so excited to show you guys kind of what I find and go to Target and find some stuff at Amazon and just kind of— I'm trying not to go crazy, but it's also like the first time we decorate like a space other than like bedrooms. So I'm excited for that. I'm definitely going to try and get back to my original fitness lifestyle because I was going to the gym like almost every single day and I was eating so clean and just like living life clean. I don't know how to even explain it, but obviously when you have a kid, it's way harder to do. And I now totally understand why people say you will literally have time for nothing, which I don't mind. I love having time for nothing, but sometimes I do miss going to the gym and stuff. So I'm excited for that. But yeah, I'm so excited to show you guys everything and tell you guys all about it. And I feel so much better telling you guys that we found a place and the news, basically. So we move in on the 18th, and that will be kind of like the first step of all this. I don't know what else to say. We have started packing some stuff, but I also want to like pack with you guys, so there's still a lot of stuff we still need to pack. I mean, we did kind of get most of the kitchen packed up, but like the rice cooker and like little things like my cups, we still have to pack up. And then we just have to like deep clean this house so well too. So you guys are coming along. Also, this has been basically— Mimi's about to start crying— but this has basically been like our savior lately. It's a frozen popsicle kind of thing, and you put fruit in it for her to teeth. These are amazing, and we got this from our baby shower, but I'm pretty sure they're from Amazon. That works. Okay, so, whoa, so I just put Arabella down for tonight. It is like 8:30. I'm finishing the vlog now, but I noticed in like some clips my hair is— I'm like losing hair, I feel like, right there. Right there. I don't know if this is like a postpartum thing or really what it is. Um, but yeah, but my hair feels thick. This feels a lot thicker than it used to be, so I don't really know. I know like postpartum hair loss is like an actual thing. Um, but yeah, anyways, that was really random. But yeah, finishing the vlog right here. Thank you guys so much for watching. I'll see I'll see you guys in my next video next week. Bye guys! Bye!
