In this vlog, Natalie (Speaker A) shares a typical weekday morning with her 3‑year‑old daughter Arabella and their two dogs. The video opens with a casual breakfast scene where they eat French‑toast sticks, grapes, raspberries, and apples while the dogs are fed a new Costco‑brand dog food mixed with a bit of rice. Natalie explains the recent vet visit and the switch to the new dog food. After breakfast, Arabella watches a Disney+ Descendants episode, and the pair discuss a planned trip to Target for toys. The core of the vlog is a "mommy school" session: using a preschool activity book from Costco, they practice tracing letters, counting, and color‑coding exercises, with Arabella enthusiastically reciting the alphabet and completing six activity pages. The routine continues with playtime, a quick check on Arabella’s toys, and a brief interlude where Natalie mentions that she and a client went under contract on a house, requiring her to upload earnest‑money documents to her brokerage page. She then transitions to editing the video and paying bills before signing off. Throughout, the tone remains informal, supportive, and instructional, offering viewers a realistic glimpse into balancing parenting, pet care, and work responsibilities.
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My back hurts. Um, yeah, cook those.
What are you eating?
What is it? We got— oh, I think you just spilled some on your leggy. We got some yogurt. Elsa yogurt. Can you show it? Show me your Elsa yogurt.
Yummy. What's that called? What? That's a koshabi.
Target?
Target. I'm gonna go to Target after my birthday.
Oh, I didn't know we were going to Target today. Yes. Why are we going to Target? What do we need?
We need our toys.
Oh, I don't know about that.
For me. 3 toys for me and Kenny.
You and Kenny need 3 toys?
What kind of toys?
Well, let's talk. What kind of toys do you need?
I need 4.
You need—
for Kenny.
I thought you said 3.
I need 4 for Kenny.
You need 4 for Kenny? What kind of toys are we talking about?
We talk about Barbie's toy set.
Barbie toys?
Hmm.
Well, can we go over what we're doing today?
Mm-hmm. Okay.
We are vlogging today. We are doing a morning routine video, so we're gonna have them watch us spend the morning what we normally do. In the morning together. Um, so that's what we're doing. But first we have breakfast. We do the doggies, right? We clean up all their pee pee and their poopy when they have accidents because Lady's still a puppy, right? So I did that, and then we give the doggies some breakfast because they eat in the morning. So we just switched the dogs to the Costco brand food.
So now they have new food. The pet doctor.
We did go to the doctor for a shot a couple days ago. Well, a couple weeks ago now.
Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna go doctor with Trady and I can get on her shopping and I got a letter across the way and I will lock her in the door. Mm-hmm.
She had to go to class, right? She did all of her training. So we switched their dog food to the Costco brand, and then we also add a little bit of rice, right? Just a little bit.
Yeah, I got my—
and now you're having some breakfast. So we have French toast sticks because that's what she wanted instead of waffles. We have grapes. We love grapes. What color are these?
Green. Green. Yep.
And then we have some— what are these called? Raspberries.
Raspberries.
And then some apples. Apple.
Happy anniversary, Nat!
So that's what we're doing today. And then we might do a little bit of schoolwork today too, some tracing our numbers, ABCs. Just for a little bit.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P. Feel sad?
I'm not sad. Are you sad?
No.
What? Cinnamon. Cinnamon. Burnt cinnamon because I had to cook it.
I need to eat. Yep, you eat.
So normally Arabella watches her iPad when she has breakfast just so I can set up everything and get everything ready for school. Mommy's school because no school today, right?
I'm red.
You're red?
Yeah, look at my face.
Oh, you are red. We've been watching the new Descendants movie, right, Eric? Do you like the Descendants movie?
Mommy, go away! Go away right now! Do you like my answer? My bangs, my bangs, my bangs, my bangs!
We've decided start the Descendants series on, uh, Disney Plus, and she's been obsessed. And her favorite character right now— there is a little fly in here— is Red. She's like always singing that song.
Okay, eat.
Okay.
Oh yeah.
Hey baby. Okay, so while she's eating, I set up what we're doing for school today, mommy school, because she's only now in school 2 days a week since I mainly work from home now. Um, so we're doing this preschool book. We got this at Costco and it basically has all these different flashcards, tracing, um, 2 little books that it comes with, coloring stickers. This is just great for kids 3 to 5. It's for preschool. So right now her class is working on tracing, so we always start with the ABCs, and then we do these like little flashcards right here. And then I'll have her pick out 3 colors or 4 or whatever the number is in color. Then we have 2 notebooks in here. Like I said, we do this one every single day. This one's reusable, so you just take a marker, then you just draw all through it. But we might do this one today, I don't know. I definitely want to do this one because this one really, really teaches her and makes her think. So we have those, we have the markers, pink and black, and then pencil. So these are cool because they're all like different ones. There's learning, there's like fun ones. What slice goes to what? That one. Color the— connect the lines or connect the numbers. But I'll show you my favorite. Okay, so I use this one to write her name on, this one, this one. Hello, mean. Okay, I want to show you guys this book that she's doing now and like the work that she's been doing. I absolutely love this kind of book because everything is definitely different from like the last page but still the same. Um, one of my favorite things she recently did, let me show you guys, is this page. She had to color all of the little squares red that had the 1, and then 2 green, 3 blue, and it made a cute little elephant. It's an X-ray.
What, is that trampolina?
No, it's an X-ray.
Uh-huh, it looks like a trampolina.
It does. Are you ready?
Yeah.
Okay, let's start with A.
A, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z.
Good job.
I know my ABCs, next time I'll choose a monkey.
Good job, Arie. You know how we've been working on tracing? We've been tracing a lot, right? Do you want to start with the book, or do you want to do these?
This!
Which one?
These!
You want to start with these? Okay.
Yeah, I'm gonna do the monkey.
Okay, let's start with the letter A. You're really good at tracing, so I'm not really too worried.
My pink is favorite color.
Pink is your favorite color? Do you want to maybe pick out a different marker today?
Yeah.
Okay, let me go get some.
Like, do you color with this?
Yeah. Here, let me see. Start with the B.
Okay.
Good job. That's more of an ink. See how this goes down first? Go down and then you do circle, circle. That was so good.
Let's do the C. My lips do break.
We're gonna do C. Okay, C. I'll hold that for you. Yep, start. Yep, start at the red dot. Good job. Good job, Bear.
Ta-da!
Good girl. Now how many, how many hippos are there? Count.
1, 2. 2, good.
Great job, great job. Now flip it over and it says circle the group of 2. So we have to count each one.
Okay, 1, 2, 3.
Yep, not 2, keep going.
1, 2, 3.
How many magic carpets are there? 1, 2. Circle it. Okay, there's 2. We're looking for the number 2.
My trucking.
Yeah, how many, how many trucks are there?
One.
One?
No. One, two, three.
How many fishies are there?
One. One?
No, we're looking for the number two.
One, two.
Yeah, good job, Bear. Perfect.
Look, one, two, that.
Perfect. So let's put this right over here. Now we're doing how many? How many do you see?
1, 2, 3.
3, good job! What does that say?
Arabella.
Arabella, okay, time to trace. Good job. A-R-A-B-E-L-L-A.
A. A. A.
Good job! Great job! Okay, we are all done with schoolwork today. She did about 6 pages. Let's go back. She did 6 pages in her book. Let me show you all of them. She did a really good job today. And now she gets a little bit of a treat. You want to show them your treat? Yum, candy! So it is right now 11:09, so I'm gonna clean up all this and then we're gonna get ready for the day. This is our— basically our morning routine. Um, obviously we don't do this every day, but we do this most days and she's really good at it, so We're all done with schoolwork right now. Arabella's upstairs playing, I think, so let's go check on her. She normally plays— it's like 11:30 right now, so let's go upstairs and check on her. Hey! Hi, what are you doing?
Mommy, I can't find Moana. It's a, um, what? It's my— he's back at the—
do you need help? I have homework.
No, you don't have homework.
Oh, Moana's here, stuck here. What are you trying to find?
I her arm.
Oh, you're trying to get her outfit on?
I am Moana, but I can't find her arm.
But I bet you'd be I don't think it has— it goes just like this. One, one half is sleeveless.
I do have pants.
Yeah, you did a good job with her pants.
You go. Where's Elsa's bed?
I don't know.
Here. That was incredible.
Join me on another voyage soon, okay?
Cute.
Do you like how I organized all your stuff? I'm gonna put that in there.
No.
Oh, you got it. Very cute. I'm gonna go do some work, okay?
Okay. No, you cannot go somewhere. You can do my— my— I want to place dress.
Let me see your dress.
Beautiful.
That's the one you wanted to wear today? Beautiful. You know who made you that? Marmee.
Marmee?
Yeah, Daddy's mom.
What? I don't like you. I want to stay home.
Yeah, you can stay home. Wow, love it. So you're gonna play in here?
Yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna do some work. So I'm gonna spend some time on my computer right now. We went under contract for a house yesterday. Me and a client. So we, um, have some documents I need to put into my, like, brokerage page. Um, so that's what we're doing right now. We have earnest money we need to put in, upload right there.
Boom.
But yeah, I'm super, super happy. This was the first contract of November, and it was November 7th or 8th that we went under contract. So yeah, I'm gonna work for a little bit and then edit this video, and then it will be the afternoon. Well, technically it is.
Yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna start getting some editing done now and then pay some bills. And yeah, that is it for today's video, guys. Thank you so much for spending the morning with us, and we will see you in our next video. Bye!
