(gentle music)
(baby cooing)
- Hey guys, welcome back.
We have a very special guest with us today.
- Yes, we do.
- Our baby girl.
I know you guys have been waiting
so patiently to finally meet her.
So have we. We've been waiting nine long months.
- Technically 10.
- Yeah, it's like technically 10.
And she was a little bit late.
I think she was like four days late.
- Four or five.
- It was like 40 weeks plus four days.
- Okay. - I dunno.
Honestly, like... - You probably know better
than I do.
You were probably tracking the days.
- I know. I was like, "Day two, day three.
"When you coming out?"
But we're just so excited
and we're finally gonna tell you her name.
'Cause I know everyone's excited to meet her
but also her name, which (gasps)
it's the best name ever. (laughs)
I picked it.
So I'm biased. - It's a cool name.
It's a very cool name.
- It's actually behind us on the wall,
but I don't think you can see it.
I'll give you a little hint.
I'm gonna give you some hints.
Pause the video. Comment down below what you think it is.
It starts with an S. You give another hint.
- It's a herb.
- (laughs) And it's one syllable.
Leave a comment. What do you think?
Drum roll!
Her official name is Sage.
- Sage.
- Actually, her full name is Sage Cloe.
After my younger sister Cloe,
who's behind the camera, Goncalves.
And she is the sweetest little angel.
I am just...
We're just so in love.
She's been such a sweet girl.
- She's been good.
She's been good for the first week.
- I know.
I feel like every week is kind of
like you don't know what...
They're just changing so much.
- Yeah, I think so.
But so far, it's been pretty good.
I mean, like any newborn you expect you get your hour,
hour and a half that she's sleeping
and then she wakes up to feed and then an hour and a half.
I think the longest is like a 2 1/2 hour stretch.
- Yeah. - Maybe at three.
Maybe I had a three once.
- Can you see the bags under our eyes? (laughs)
- 2 1/2 over at night
and then a three once during the day.
'Cause if I would rock her a little bit
when she starts the stir,
she would drift back off into sleep.
- Yeah. Matt's the baby whisper.
He can get her asleep for the longest time
so that mom can go take a nap
because I've been doing the night shifts.
- Yeah.
- We learned quickly, pretty soon,
that there's no point of us both being zombies
throughout the night.
Like, Matt can't breastfeed.
- I can't. Tried.
- There's no milk in these jugs.
- Just muscles. - Yeah. (laughs)
- And so, basically,
I want Matt to feel refreshed during the day
so he can take her, you know-
- Get stuff done. - Deal with around the house.
Especially while I've been recovering.
- Make food and all that.
- Take Miss Cashew for a walk, all that stuff.
And then I've been taking like two naps a day
'cause I'm up all night with her.
And like Matt said, she'll sleep for
maybe 45 to an hour and a half at a time,
if she's not fussy.
But she's like such a good eater.
So fingers crossed that stays.
But I guess for stats.
Do you wanna say what she was born at? Day?
All that stuff?
- Born November 8th, 2020 at 1:26 a.m.
She was born 7.18.
- Yeah. - Right? Pounds.
7.18 pounds
- But today, she's been drinking so much milk.
- She feels heavy.
- Yeah. She's heavier today. (laughs)
But yeah, that's when she was born.
So she's officially a November Scorpio little girl.
So wish us luck. (laughs)
- I don't really believe that stuff.
I think she'll just be a really good kid.
- I know, I'm a Libra and I definitely have some fire to me.
So, (laughs) I was a crazy child, as well.
So, hopefully, she's more like her daddy
and not like her mommy when I was little.
- Yeah. - So for some background
on her name, in case you're wondering.
I actually thought of the name Sage
a month before I was even pregnant with her.
I started one-day thinking...
You know, we knew we want to have kids.
And I started thinking,
"You know, I probably should start
"writing down names that I like."
So I just opened a new notepad on my phone.
And actually, it's so weird.
The first name happened to be a girl name.
Well, I mean, I guess Sage could be either.
But happened to be Sage.
I wrote down a thought.
It wasn't even like I saw it somewhere, it just came to me.
Came to me in the dream.
And I just thought, "I really like that name.
"It's so cute."
And I really resonated with it.
Sage means wisdom and I love that it's a living thing.
And, yeah, everything about it, I really resonated with.
- Yeah.
- And so I wrote down that name
and then I wrote down some other names and some boy names.
And obviously, at that time, I wasn't pregnant.
I didn't know...
Even when I was pregnant
we didn't know if it was a boy or girl.
But then once I was pregnant,
I basically I've talked about this already,
but I was so sure it was a girl
and that her name would be Sage.
To the point that I would talk to her in my first trimester
and refer to her as Sage.
And then when I eventually decided to tell Matt
about the name I liked, it took me a bit
'cause I was so in love with this name,
it would just break my heart if he was like,
"Eh, not my favorite," you know?
So I told him, we were driving somewhere,
and I mentioned the name to him.
And he's like, what'd you say?
- I don't remember now. (Nikole laughs)
I think I just said, "Oh yeah, it's a cool name. I like it."
- Yeah, he's like,
"Oh, yeah." - I was like, "Yeah"
"It's unique." - "I like that".
Short, it's simple. And yeah.
- It's a cute name. - And I don't really
hear it anywhere.
Although, funny enough, this year, sage green
has been the trending color in fashion.
Even like pink colors for homes,
I just see sage everywhere.
And so it's kind of funny that that's really popped up.
But yeah, that's kind of how I came up with her name
is just like I said.
I didn't see it anywhere, it just kind of popped up,
and then I really resonated with it and it stuck.
And it's officially her name. Little Miss Baby Sage.
- Yep. - Been so hard not to ruin
the surprise and tell you guys,
and just referring to her as baby acorn.
- Oh, yeah.
- It's been so hard. - So many people thought
her name was Acorn. - Yeah.
Her name is not Acorn, guys. (laughs)
- No.
- And you guys can let us know down below,
do you guys think she looks more like
her mommy or her daddy?
She came out of me, and I'm like,
"Who is this little blondie? I don't even know."
She's has blonde peach fuzz all over her.
- Reddish, strawberry blondish hair.
- Yeah, she's so blonde. Even her eyebrows are blonde.
So I don't know.
And then we don't really know
what the color of her eyes will be.
I think it takes a couple of months
for that to kind of show up.
Right now they're just kind of like a blue-gray,
which is normal.
- Shark eyes.
- Yeah, we call her shark eyes
'cause she's just darts around.
Yeah. (laughing) - Just stares around. Yeah.
- But she's the sweetest.
I mean, we're biased, but she's the cutest little girl
and we love her.
Okay. There's so much to update you guys.
So we have now had her in our lives, outside my stomach.
'Cause it's funny when Matt says,
"She's been alive for this many days."
I'm like, "Well, actually she's been alive for a long time.
"Just what they call an earthside."
- Yeah.
I guess it depends on what you believe to be alive, I guess.
- Yeah, she's been born, I guess, born for a week.
- Born out in the world.
- Out in the world for, I guess, eight, what's today?
Today's Monday. Eight days.
- Eight days. - Yeah.
- Yeah. - So crazy.
I feel like our life has changed so much in this last week.
I can't believe I was pushing her out just over a week ago.
- I know.
- It just seems like- (laughs) - Pow!
- Yeah, it just seems like the craziest time.
But, yeah, the last week,
I feel like our life just changed overnight.
Feel like we've been adjusting really well.
I'm just so grateful to have Matt home.
He's on pat leave right now.
So it's been amazing. I can't even imagine doing-
- To all the people out there who do it by themselves
or their partner works. - You're a rockstar.
- Good for you
'cause it's difficult with two of us home time.
- Yeah. - I find.
- Oh, for sure. I don't know how I would do about myself.
So that's been really great.
And we've just been kind of like...
I feel like we're always good
at teamwork with certain things.
Whether it's the business or relationship-wise.
So with parenthood,
I feel like we've just been super open with communication.
How we're feeling.
Just supporting each other when we can.
Obviously, I've been...
I feel like,
and I was saying this in a live stream the other day.
I feel like, I can only talk for women,
my point of view, I just feel like, yes, the dads
or the partners, go through a lot emotionally
and physically as well too.
But it's a lot.
The mom who is birthing the child,
you go from being like this pregnancy journey,
which is a lot.
And then you're birthing the child.
Then you're dealing with postpartum,
breastfeeding if you choose to do that and you're able to.
And then also
having a newborn. - Healing.
Your body healing.
- Yeah. Just a lot.
So I've just been really grateful.
Matt's been like the best support partner.
No, you actually have though. (laughs)
Yeah, it's made the transition a lot easier for me.
And I feel like I've been able to kind of bounce back to
my normal self, feeling like me, you know?
- Yeah. - Because we've been able to
split up things and make sure we're both feeling supported.
- There's a lot of aspects about you that seem like
as if you didn't just have a baby.
(Nikole laughs) So I'm just like, whoa.
I mean, obviously, not everything.
But there's a lot of things that it's like,
wow, you just had a baby a week ago
and yet, it'd be hard to tell.
- I've been doing really good.
I know I'm gonna get a lot of questions
about like postpartum.
So I can dedicate a whole day in my life vlog to that
if you guys would like to see that?
Leave me comments down below.
If there's any questions you have about newborn life?
We're not experts, but we can just tell you
from our own personal experience so far.
But also if there's any videos that you'd like us to film,
please leave those suggestions down below.
I'm very open and honest with things,
so don't feel like anything's off the table.
And even if you want a dad point of view,
Matt is happy to comment as well.
- Sure.
- 'Cause postpartum is a journey too.
They call it the fourth trimester, right now.
Your hormones are all over the place.
So that is like a whole thing on its own.
In terms of, I've gotten a lot of questions about like,
are we sharing the birth story?
Is there a birth vlog coming up?
I know that's a very popular thing in the YouTube world.
And it's crazy 'cause it's such an intimate part of...
- Yeah, it was intense - Right.
Yeah. Intense is one of the words to describe it.
We did record some stuff.
I wanted to film, not necessarily to post on YouTube,
but just like to document, so we could watch it after
- Yeah. - 'Cause when you're in it,
you're just like, "I'm scared."
- To watching a horror film. (laughs)
- (laughs) Can I keep my eyes closed.
- (laughs) Stop peeking.
- So I told Matt before contraction started,
I want to film some stuff.
Even if it feels weird to be filming it,
especially depending on how things go, I wanna film it,
and then we can decide after what we do with it.
So I definitely will be doing a birth story video,
where I sit down and talk to you guys.
And then I'll either like insert footage
from what we filmed that day into that one
or do a separate full-on birth vlog.
It really just depends on how comfortable I feel sharing it.
And it was just like a really intense
and kind of traumatic experience for both of us.
I will say-
- Now that it's behind us-
- I know, no it's like-
- It feels like, okay.
- A distant memory.
- Yeah. It faded quickly.
- It really does.
- For me, anyways.
I remember it but just seems like ages ago now.
It was only a week ago, but it seems like a long time ago.
- Yeah, I can definitely talk about that in a future video.
And then I know a lot of questions are also gonna be
about Cashew and how she's been adjusting
to her baby sister.
We actually filmed their interaction.
So that will be coming up too.
I filmed everything, guys.
She is adjusting so well.
- Yeah. She is.
Doing very, very well.
Took a little bit for her to just kind of...
When the screaming or crying would happen,
for her to kind of figure out what the heck is going on?
But now, normally she just will like go down to the basement
where it's quiet or whatever, and just be like, "Oh."
Or she'll look a little concerned.
She'll kind of be like, you know,
heads up and she just wants
to make sure she's okay. - But a lot of times she's
just curious.
Like if Matt has her in his arms like he does now,
she just sometimes will rest her head
on the other side or on a pillow nearby.
She wants to be close to us, and she's very curious,
but she's not like all over Sage
and like licking her face. - No, no, no.
- She's a very chilled dog. She's not aggressive at all.
She's so friendly.
And she's been around kids before.
And she's been around small newborns before.
She doesn't bark. So-
- Yeah, that's a bonus. - Score.
Yeah. She just doesn't like loud noises.
We have the option for her to go downstairs
if she wants to, just to have that time for herself.
- Yeah. Which is nice.
And she does, especially at night time when it's bedtime
if it's loud upstairs.
But she would do that before.
If we had the TV going
that was a bit loud. - Surround sound or something,
she's like, "I'm out." - She would go downstairs,
and be, "Yeah, I'm out.
And then she'll come up when it's quiet
and sleep on the couch.
- Yeah.
But she's been really, really sweet.
And we've just been giving her lots of love,
lots of walks and cookies.
And just positive reinforcement.
And just not shouting or raising our voice
if she's getting too close to Sage or something.
Just keeping it- - Try and keep it normal.
- Calm and happy and, yeah, chill.
So while she's still cozy and sleeping,
I want just to give you guys an update
on what you can expect this month
and for like the rest of 2020.
Basically, for the month of November,
I did a bunch of pre-filming
so that you guys would have regular content,
two videos a week while we're just adjusting
to new parenthood life.
You know, it's a lot, so please bear with us.
But honestly, we have so many awesome videos
coming this month.
We have the nursery tour. We have a transformation video.
There's just some really big videos
that have taken us a long time to work on and put together.
So I hope you guys enjoy them.
But make sure you're following me on Instagram
because I'll be giving live updates there
on behind the scenes what's happening in our real life,
as well as work-life.
And yeah, we're just really taking it easy this month.
I'm calling it like a mini-Matt leave,
and just working here and there, but not very much.
And just really taking this time
to soak up all the baby cuddles
and just, you know, I'm spending this time with Matt
and just our new growing family.
- So crazy. - Exciting times.
- I know. (chuckles)
And then, also, for December
probably gonna be a lot of family content.
I think are gonna do blog-mass,
but kind of like filming a little bit each day,
and then kind of rounding that up into a Friday vlog.
So that's what you can expect.
And I'm so excited for Christmas.
We're actually decorating this week.
And it's just gonna be such a cozy time.
Christmas is my favorite time of the year.
And it's so cool that we have a little baby
to make it extra special.
And then, for January you can kind of expect
regular health, recipes, and all that type of content.
So don't worry this channel isn't gonna turn into
a full-on mommy family channel.
There will be recipes and health
and fitness videos coming in the new year.
So stay tuned for that.
And like I said,
if you have any video recommendations and stuff,
leave them down below.
And also what's super-exciting
is while Matt has been away on pat leave,
he actually started his own YouTube channel.
- Yes, I did.
- And you have how many videos down?
Like four?
- Four or five, yeah. Four or five.
- Yeah, and by the time, actually, this video goes up,
you can see we did a little collab on the last one.
- Yeah. Q and A.
- Yeah, a couples Q and A, where we talked about...
- Business, working together as couples, real estate,
entrepreneurship, all that fun stuff.
- Making money online. - It's a two-parter.
We have two parts, I think, going up.
- And we really told it as it is.
We asked you guys questions on Instagram
and you guys said some really great ones.
So we just had a really
organic, real conversation. - Yeah, it was nice.
- So you guys, I'll link that down below,
subscribe to his channel for all of that side of our lives
that we don't really talk about on here.
But it's a huge part of our lives.
Definitely check out Matt's channel
and follow him on Instagram
for all the daddy content behind the scenes.
You're like an Instagram dad now.
Every time I see him
he's taking photos of Sage on this phone. (laughs)
Your phone is- - Haven't posted any though.
- Yeah. His phone is just filled with Sage photos.
It's the cutest.
- They make funny faces. (groans)
- Yeah. (laughs) That's exactly what she does.
And I think that's about it, guys.
I'm trying to think. Do we miss anything?
Oh, my mom's calling me.
She's been calling me for the last hour.
But we're just in the newborn bubble, as they call it.
And we're just so happy and grateful
for this little girl in our lives.
- Yes, we are.
- She's a lot of work, but she's worth it.
- So far she's really good.
- Aw.
All right, guys, thank you so much for watching,
and just supporting us and sending all your love and wishes,
in our videos and in Instagram and stuff.
We read every single one even if I don't get to responding,
just know that I'm probably reading your comment
in the middle of the night while breastfeeding Sage
because we've been having all night slumber parties.
(laughs) It's just sometimes hard to text back
while I got a baby in one arm.
- Yeah.
- Thank you so much, guys.
And we will see you on Friday for another video.
- Bye.
Bye-bye. - Bye.
You're probably gonna see me pregnant in the next one.
So- - Bye, Sage.
- Get ready more pregnant Nikole in future videos. (laughs)
Bye, guys. Mwah.
Aw! (gentle music)