(water sloshes) (playful music)
- [Woman] Ready? Go! (family cheering)
(playful music)
- [Crowd] Hey!
(pan taps)
(tubes tap)
(egg taps)
(spatula taps)
(bag rustles)
(egg sizzles)
- [Jeremy] So Caleb has gotten into the routine
of waking up and making a fried egg for breakfast.
- It's really easy and I enjoy it.
So just do it.
- [Jeremy] I love that you're learning this skill
and getting really good at it.
- Mm hmm.
(gentle music)
(utensils tap)
- This is a good egg.
- [Jeremy] Yeah, you did a great job.
So with epilepsy, Caleb has some pills that he takes
every morning and night.
We have found that this little device really helps us
to keep track.
(gentle music)
How'd you sleep last night?
- It was really good, but the answer is not coming out.
- [Jeremy] The clock was way off, huh?
- Uh huh because I can go out when it says seven.
- [Jeremy] Normally you wait until seven to come up, huh?
- Mm hmm. - So the power went off
last night so that changed the clocks.
- And then no seven when you go to sleep?
- [Jeremy] We're gonna fix it.
We're gonna put the clock in its normal place, okay?
- Oh.
- Last weekend we launched J House Podcast
and this is honestly such an exciting project
for our family.
We're really having fun with it and the people
that we're meeting and the conversations that we're having,
I feel like we're learning a lot.
So yesterday we actually posted a new episode,
it is all about developing empathy
and that is something that we need inside of our home
and definitely the world needs right now.
It is with Chris Ulmer, he's from SBSK
and we've just learned so much from his videos.
We really enjoy his channel, his YouTube channel,
and we're excited to share with you what we learned
from our conversation with him.
- [Jeremy] So every morning when Elise wakes up,
she jumps right to do her piano practice.
(keys thump)
We have all the kids wear headphones
when they're practicing piano.
(keys thump)
Typically before the kids wake up, both Kendra and I
have a journal and we're writing things we're grateful for.
We're journaling about our goals and what we're wanting
to accomplish in the day.
So for today I have the goal,
that while I'm with the family,
I'm just not gonna have my phone with me.
So Isaac is typically the last one awake.
I don't know if he's awake yet.
- I am.
- [Jeremy] What are you playing with?
- Buttons.
And I'm making a fairy house myself.
And I need a box.
And I wanna catch a fairy.
- [Kendra] And then you're gonna use that to catch a fairy?
- Mm hmm.
- [Kendra] What does a fairy look like?
- And it looks like Tinkerbell.
So I want that kind of fairy.
- [Kendra] That would be really fun.
What will you do with the fairy when you catch it?
- Take it out and put it in a birdcage tomorrow
and you buy me one.
(Jeremy laughs) - [Kendra] Oh and how
are the buttons helping you?
- Good, they're gonna walk through it.
I can pretend that the buttons are flowers.
- [Jeremy] This is a pretty elaborate plan
with these buttons.
- [Janae] And then Tinkerbell's friend come
and then they spanked her.
(upbeat music)
I'm hot.
- [Jeremy] We should go swimmin'!
(upbeat music)
- So I can't get the Frozen song out of my mind that goes
♪ For the first time in forever ♪
That's how I feel about this.
- [Jeremy] We're goin' swimmin'!
(upbeat music)
It's been a while since we've had this much exposure
to the sun.
- In Puerto Rico, the sun is so strong.
We really have to be pretty diligent about the sunscreen.
Okay, rub it in.
(upbeat music) (water sloshes)
- [Jeremy] Yeah!
- [Kendra] There she is, she's learnin' to take breaths!
(water sloshes)
- [Jeremy] You took a breath.
- [Kendra] Great job Janae! (Jeremy laughs)
(upbeat music) (water sloshes)
The flippers have been a big hit today.
Are you glad the pool's open?
- Yes.
- [Kendra] Did you miss it?
- Mmm hmm. (screen whooshes)
- Our dryer broke.
It won't start.
So luckily the washing machine's working
so we just wash and then lay to dry.
- [Jeremy] The only problem is we tend to do this
right before lunch
or dinner every time. - That's true.
That's true.
We really should just get a clothesline,
but I haven't been to the store
since the dryer stopped working.
So I plan to get some line and we'll hang it up outside.
The good thing about when something is broken
is that when it's fixed and it's working again,
you appreciate it so much more.
So I'm trying to focus on my gratitude
for a functional washer.
- [Jeremy] Thanks for unloading.
- You're welcome. - I like your pigtails!
- Thanks.
- [Woman] Here's what we're gonna do.
- So the kids are doing a virtual piano recital masterclass
with a bunch of other of the students that Michelle,
Aunt Michelle, has doing piano right now.
(piano music)
- [Woman] Do a cheer (cheers)!
Yay, Lukie!
- My name is Caleb Johnston and I will be playing
"Night of the Tarantella" by Ann Faber
and "Long Long Ago" by Thomas Haynes Bayly,
something like that.
(classical piano music)
- [Woman] Yay! Everybody cheer.
- My name is Isaac Johnston and I am going
to play "Avalanche."
(classical piano music)
(Elise claps) (Jeremy giggles)
- [Woman] Yay! Everybody cheer!
- [Elise] Who hoo!
I'm going to be playing "Belle" from "Beauty and the Beast."
(happy piano music)
- [Family] Yay!
- Hi.
- Oh, hi!
What would you like?
- This color.
- [Elise] Do you have a hundred dollar bill?
- No, I only have money.
- Then you can borrow my friends'.
Here, ice cream, comin' right up.
(Elise blows)
- So Elise is doing an online art class today.
- [Instructor] Maybe makin' a giant line.
(playful music)
- [Jeremy] So Elise is done.
What did you think of doing an online class?
- I liked it.
It was fun, but I'm gonna do
it again. - Do you want to do more?
- Yeah, a lot more.
- Good. - I love it.
- [Jeremy] Well it looks really good.
- [Elise] Yeah.
- [Jeremy] It reminds me of a Bob Ross painting.
After watching Elise paint, Laura wanted to jump in the fun.
- I'm using lots of paint 'cause I'm making a sunset,
my father's favorite.
- And this is for mommy, her birthday card.
- Which one do you think fits with this sunset?
Purple or red?
- [Jeremy] Maybe a little of both?
- I'm painting.
(Janae babbles)
- [Jeremy] Very pretty.
All right, we're eating lasagna for dinner tonight.
It's really good.
- And Janae and Laura are downing it.
Most importantly, there's no clothes on our kitchen table
at the moment.
- [Jeremy] There's still some on our counters.
(screen whooshes)
- [Kendra] "'How many did you have, Polly?'
"asked Joel curiously.
"'Two hundred candles?' echoed Joel in amazement.'
"He added incredulously, 'Oh yes I would too,'
"replied Polly recklessly."
So we gave the kids slime to play with during our read-aloud
and Janae's havin' a few problems with it.
- I don't like my stickiest slime.
I want someone to share their slime with me.
- [Kendra] You want some different slime?
- Uh huh. - We're starting a new
family read-aloud tonight.
It's called the "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew"
and it's about a family with five kids
and the oldest brother is 11 and the oldest sister is 10
and then there's three younger brothers
and sisters. - Really?
That sounds familiar. - We don't know (mumbles).
- [Jeremy] Just like our family.
- [Kendra] They lived a long time ago.
This took place in like the 1800s.
- We're the remake except for Laura's a girl
and we have a dad.
- We do have a dad.
So this book starts out with a family wishing
that they had limitless candles
so that they could have light whenever they wanted it.
They lived in a time before electricity
and they're just a family with not a lot of resources
and so they're daydreaming about what it would be like
if you could just have light whenever
and so we just turned off all the lights in our house.
It was really dark, right?
- [Kids] Yeah.
- It was crazy dark. - So we could imagine
what it would be like to not have electricity
and now we're gonna light a candle and see how.
(Laura mumbles)
And they were wishing they could have 200 candles
so their entire house would be lit.
- [Caleb] Oh, I love this scent.
- [Isaac] Wait, this is all the light that they had?
- [Kendra] Well, they might have bigger candles
or they might have a lantern.
- [Elise] No, but it wouldn't have the stuff around it.
- [Caleb] We can actually see each others heads at least.
- [Jeremy] Imagine trying to read with this light.
- [Kendra] Can you see why they wished for 200 candles?
So before electricity when it was nighttime
and you wanted to see, you had to use a candle or a lantern
or a fire if you had a fireplace.
(chair squeaks)
Okay, I'm gonna blow it out, okay?
- [Caleb] Goodnight, (family blows)
J House out.
- Today is our last day of school.
- The kids are fighting.
(playful music)
Oooh.
(playful music)
(family yells)
(kids cheer)