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Today, we’re heading to Lydia’s family’s house for a fun birthday party! Ryker had the best time running around and playing with the chickens—it’s safe to say he’s a big fan of farm life! After a great day with family, we head home and sit down to talk about something a LOT of you have been asking…
Are we moving before the baby comes?! This has been the biggest question we’ve gotten lately, and in this video, we’re finally answering it. With baby #2 on the way, do we stay in our current home, or is it time for a bigger place? We break down our thoughts, the challenges, and what’s next for our family!
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Today, we’re heading to Lydia’s family’s house for a fun birthday party! Ryker had the best time running around and playing with the chickens—it’s safe to say he’s a big fan of farm life! After a great day with family, we head home and sit down to talk about something a LOT of you have been asking…
Are we moving before the baby comes?! This has been the biggest question we’ve gotten lately, and in this video, we’re finally answering it. With baby #2 on the way, do we stay in our current home, or is it time for a bigger place? We break down our thoughts, the challenges, and what’s next for our family!
What do you think—should we start house hunting now or wait? Let us know in the comments!
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🎥 Catch Up on More Videos:
• Our Pregnancy Updates: https://youtu.be/uWgngPCUrAI
• Our Birth Story: https://youtu.be/sN-b4NX1Fh8
📸 Follow Us on Instagram:
• Trace’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracewbates
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00:00Are we moving and do we have plans to move to a bigger house this year or coming up?
00:05So I think the biggest difficulty right now is just trying to figure out where we want to live.
00:16All righty y'all, welcome to this vlog. Ryker wanted to be like us and he wanted his own
00:22microphone. You want to say hi Ryker everyone? Can you say hi? Oh strong. You want to say hi?
00:30He's like hey. All right so what we got going on is we are going to my family's which is always
00:37such a fun day and we are celebrating. Both my brothers had birthdays this week so we're
00:42combining them today and we're gonna have just a big family birthday party and enjoy probably the
00:48beautiful weather outside. We're gonna try to bring y'all along to that. I know that we visit
00:52Lydia's family a lot but we do not film as much over there and then later on in this video we're
00:57gonna answer y'all's most asked question which would be are we moving and do we have plans to
01:05move to a bigger house this year or coming up? So stay tuned you do not want to miss out on that.
01:10We're gonna finish packing everything up and then head to your family's but before we do that we did
01:16get another item for our nursery so we want to show you kind of what our nursery looks like now.
01:21So let's go see the nursery and then right after that we will be heading to Morristown. Okay guys
01:26we just want to take a moment and talk about something that has completely transformed this
01:31room. We just got a new rug from Revival Rugs so huge shout out to them for sponsoring this video.
01:37Honestly we love it and I feel like it just kind of completes the nursery. Yeah for sure and first
01:42off the craftsmanship of this and the texture is absolutely incredible but I think the best part is
01:49you won't believe this but it's actually a washable rug which with having a toddler running around
01:54you know accidents are going to happen spills sippy cups are going to happen and with a little
01:58spill it is so easy to clean and spot clean this rug where it comes right back to normal and you
02:03would never even know anything spilled on it but if it is a bigger mess we just roll it up and stick
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02:50only available through the link that's in the top of the description. And go find the perfect rug for
02:55your space today. Now back to the video. Seems like everyone is excited to head to Lydia's family.
03:01Watch he gets so excited he's like open the door he's gonna knock on the door bye-bye all right
03:06Riker let's go. We are loaded up heading over to Lydia's family's for lunch. I think we're having
03:15burgers and stuff but what's funny is we're about to have lunch and you already made yourself lunch
03:20to go right? We don't talk about that. Fantasy life right? And I do pretty much every day eat
03:26two breakfasts two lunches and one dinner. I think Riker is in the back ready to go so
03:32let's get over there and then we'll talk when we get there.
03:41Guys we made it. We're gonna see if we can get Riker's reaction of how excited he gets. He has
03:47been saying oh my for the last five minutes. Oh my? Oh my oh my. We made it. Let's go find Oma.
03:56He was very grumpy this morning. Ah we made it. See it's Aunt Belle. You wanna get Aunt Belle? No. No?
04:03No? Rude. You wanna go get Oma? Can you see me for a second before you go see Oma? No you gotta let
04:09him see Oma and then and then you can make a decision. What's up there? You wanna go see what's up there?
04:14You wanna walk up there? You wanna go up there? Yeah let's go. Come on. Half the time he says no to things he still wants to do.
04:21All right let's go see Oma. He's so opinionated. Let's go say hi to everyone.
04:26There's a Daniel. A Dano. Say hi. You wanna go get Daniel? Hi.
04:34You saying no? No he's not. You want Damaris?
04:39He's going around saying no to everyone. There's Oma. Hey. You wanna go get Oma?
04:48Ryker finally warmed up. He did. Daniel got him to go outside and now he's like okay I'm back to normal.
04:56He saw that you moved in there. It's a car. I feel like Ryker actually looks more like Daniel's kid
05:04than us because we're the brown eyes and the hazel eyes and the dark hair and then Ryker's blonde hair
05:11blue eyes just like Daniel. Well they just got all the same genes. I know. I know. I gotta find a photo of
05:18Daniel as a baby. He actually looks the hair is starting to really look like Daniel's did.
05:23I feel like when he was born we had more comments saying that he looked like Daniel more like Daniel
05:28than anyone. Everyone said he looks like Daniel. Y'all check out this beautiful view here at the
05:33Romanki house. So they're a beautiful back porch but this view is absolutely stunning.
05:41Chickens down there and they're about to build a shed right over there which is a barn actually
05:45which is really cool. All right you found Daniel's baby photos? Yes. We're gonna find one that looks
05:52like Ryker now. Just as wild. There you go. Does he not? It's hard to see in the old photos his hair.
05:59I could see that. Look at it. Look at him. That is crazy. His hair.
06:04Look at this right here. Josua just made homemade burger buns. That should be good. It's gonna be great.
06:12A lot more healthy and then you got burger patties already over there. I think the grill's about to
06:16get fired up. See what we got. Seasoning all these. Yeah burger patties. Fire up the old grill. I'm
06:23actually just gonna sit back and watch because you know what this is their house. They're so good at
06:28it. I'm just here to enjoy the food. Enjoy the family conversations. So let's let's hear Josh.
06:35He's one of the birthday boys so let's talk to him. So your birthday was what a couple days ago?
06:38Yep it was on the 10th so four days ago. And then Christian's is today so then they decided let's do
06:43a joint party. So they're making desserts and everything. I think they have different cakes
06:48they got going on. German cakes. They sent me the German recipes but I don't I can't understand them
06:54or read them. But it looks like some kind of key lime something. A yogurt dessert. It's just gonna be
06:59a fun day. Maybe go out and play some sports. Ryker's already enjoying the outdoors. That's what he
07:04comes here for. He wants to go play with the throw rocks into the little fountain in the front yard.
07:17And then play with chickens. That's his two favorite things to do. So we're gonna try to
07:21keep up with them. And you got new right? New chicks? We just hatched 28 chicks so.
07:25Whoa is that all of them? Well I think four didn't make it but 28. 28 that's incredible.
07:32Becky's the one that usually handles all the eggs and chickens and how many eggs y'all get in a day
07:36now? Um 14 14 15. Wow that's amazing. That is amazing. All right off to the burgers. Oh y'all
07:44we got some good looking burgers. Heading down to the grill. We got the homemade buns. We call
07:50the Romeike house an ingredients house. They have the ingredients to make everything and they're
07:55incredible at cooking and baking. Oh my goodness. We could do a whole episode of just the Romeike's
08:01cooking. They're absolutely incredible at baking and cooking. We got the grill going,
08:06smoking. It's ready to go. All right the first burger patties going on.
08:13We got little burgers and big burgers it looks like.
08:20I don't know about y'all but I am a cheeseburger kind of guy. Not just a plain burger. You gotta put
08:25some cheese, lettuce, ketchup, tomato even. I've not really done that a lot but I'm gonna give it a try
08:30today. But I do love cheeseburgers. So they have 23 new chickens. Right? Are they gonna be outside?
08:39We can play with them. No. Oh he said no? You wanna go to the big chickens? These are the big chickens.
08:45You want to see them? Let's sit here with dada. Oh wow. You put it in there? Riker's living his best life.
08:54It did. Babe maybe we need a farm. Maybe we should get some land and get a farm. Get him some chickens.
08:59Riker is already loving the chickens. He hadn't even seen the baby ones yet.
09:04You want to hold it Riker? This is a real fluffy one.
09:10And they also have an emu which is over there. It's right there. They're so nice. They literally
09:16have chickens. They have like 14 eggs a day. This is their emu. Look at that. They got an emu Riker.
09:22Hi. Her name's Amy. Say hi Amy and Emu.
09:26Oh. Now you say hi. Hi. She lays down so you pet her. Look. There she goes. She's sitting down.
09:35So you can go pet her. She is massive. Wow. Oh she's coming. Oh she scares me. Nice emu. Nice emu.
09:45Big emu. I wanted to call her Kevin like from the movie up.
09:49Wushu. Wushu. Wushu. Wushu. That's a nice one. You say bye-bye to her? Say bye-bye. Bye-bye.
09:56Let's go find the chicks. Alright. Let's go get the little baby chicks. Life on the farm. Pretty nice eh?
10:03Yeah. You heard a rooster? Yeah. Oh you want me to hold you? Say please. Okay. Look what we got.
10:09Tiny baby chicks.
10:15Gentle. Gentle.
10:21We're losing this one.
10:25What is it Riker?
10:29Gentle.
10:31He just tries to grab them so fast.
10:33Are you trying to feed him that?
10:35Yes guys.
10:37Wow. He's that little chick.
10:39Wow.
10:41And he's done.
10:51Alrighty. We have had the best time
10:53here at the Romeike house.
10:55From homemade burger buns
10:57to burgers and
10:59hanging out for Joshy and Christian's birthday.
11:01Riker playing with the chickens
11:03with the chicks. Just running around.
11:05He's been having the time of his
11:07life. But unfortunately it's that time
11:09to where we probably should get home before
11:11it gets too late so we can
11:13nap him. He has been going to bed about
11:157-7.30 which is still light outside.
11:17But it's nice. He's coming fast.
11:19He needs a bath and bedtime. That's what
11:21he does. And he's ready for both. And he loves his bath.
11:23The absolute Riker loves his bath.
11:25We are enjoying this
11:27beautiful evening. Riker just went
11:29down for bed. Crazy with
11:31the time change and everything. It stays
11:33light really late. But he usually is
11:35in bed around 7-7.30 which is
11:37super nice. He was completely
11:39worn out at the grandparents
11:41from running around, chasing the chickens,
11:43crawling up the hill, just hanging
11:45out and eating a bunch of food.
11:47Everyone spools him over there so
11:49he always when he gets back he's like
11:51he wants to go straight to bed. Especially with the
11:53hour and 15 minute drive back home.
11:55Half the time he sleeps on the way back
11:57and then goes into bed once he gets
11:59there. But while we're enjoying this
12:01beautiful weather outside, it just made
12:03us think, you know what? We want to answer
12:05probably the biggest question we
12:07have got over the past little
12:09bit with, hey you live in a small
12:11apartment, two bedroom, one bath
12:13and now with the second
12:15child on the way, which is due in just a couple
12:17months, what is y'all's plan?
12:19And are y'all going to be getting
12:21a bigger house? Don't get a bigger car right now.
12:23Try to get a bigger house. And
12:25I just figured we would like to answer
12:27this question and
12:29just tell you where we're at and what our plan
12:31is. And I think first of all,
12:33the apartment we live in, we
12:35just love this area.
12:37It's just absolutely incredible. Super like
12:39family friendly. Yeah, for sure. And
12:41you can go on walks everywhere.
12:43Yeah. It's just perfect for
12:45like a growing family.
12:47And I think one of the main reasons
12:49why we have been here
12:51and plan on staying a little bit longer is
12:53one is we rent
12:55from French buyers.
12:57So we do get a
12:59pretty good deal for this area
13:01which is amazing. And
13:03yes, we did put a lot of work into
13:05this place. But thankfully we worked
13:07out a deal to where they paid for materials
13:09and I just donated my labor
13:11and was able to redo the bathroom, redo
13:13the kitchen countertops, put floating
13:15shelves in and really just get
13:17the apartment to where, of course we
13:19call it home, but we just love it.
13:21It's just so cozy. It's a home, not just a little house.
13:23What is our plan for when the baby
13:25is born? What are we going to do? I feel like
13:27we kind of decided
13:29that our plan is to just
13:31stay here for a little while longer
13:33while we figure out where
13:35even we want to move to
13:37and just put her in
13:39our room with us for a while and then
13:41whenever she sleeps through the night she'll go
13:43into Riker's room and they'll just
13:45share the room. They basically just
13:47sleep in there. Yeah. Riker just sleeps in there
13:49or pulls his toys out. So it's like
13:51essentially just a place for them to sleep, which
13:53I think I'm going to have plenty of space. We
13:55also got bigger storage and all that
13:57so we're not
13:59lacking in storage
14:01space at this moment and
14:03having multiple bedrooms
14:05and each kid in each room would be nice
14:07but it's also not
14:09necessary at this point I feel like.
14:11And we're going to rearrange the
14:13master bedroom to where we can
14:15move the bed around
14:17and then you're going to put a baby nook
14:19in the corner to where the bassinet
14:21the diaper changing stuff is all there
14:23so for the first what? Two, three
14:25months she will be in our room. However long
14:27that she needs
14:29to like feed throughout the night
14:31but I feel like that's what literally
14:33everyone does. Like you can make your
14:35cute nursery and your kid always ends up
14:37in your room anyway so this time around
14:39I'm just not making it a nursery.
14:41Riker was an exception and he did
14:43enjoy his own space since day one.
14:45I am just frightened that
14:47the person as cuddly wants to spend more time
14:49in our room
14:51than her own
14:53space right off the bat.
14:55That's very unique to
14:57seeing a baby in the first place. So when she does get
14:59bigger the plan is two cribs
15:01in that room which we already figured out
15:03where we can put them. A chair in the middle
15:05so we're really excited about that
15:07and of course we're
15:09so happy that you know we are
15:11a growing family and we do realize that hey
15:13we do got to get a bigger place at some point
15:15but I think Lydia mentioned at the start
15:17of this is the most difficult thing so
15:19far is trying to figure out where
15:21we want to live. If that's far
15:23as okay we're about an hour and 15
15:2520 minutes from Lydia's family
15:27and we usually go there about once a week so
15:29do we want to move closer to there?
15:31More in the middle and then like the same
15:33distance from my family. So I think the
15:35biggest difficulty right now is just
15:37trying to figure out where we want to live.
15:39And then like I mean as easy as it is
15:41to say right in the middle of it you also
15:43want like an area that's family friendly
15:45and just like a nice place
15:47that feels like perfect
15:49so we also got to pick I guess a
15:51neighborhood or whatever we want to live
15:53in. There's a lot of options. There's a lot of choices
15:55you have to make and
15:57did we talk about building? No not yet but
15:59that is probably our top thing right
16:01now is I think we want to we're trying to find
16:03the right land so it ain't like we're not looking we're
16:05definitely looking in different areas to try to find
16:07the right land and I think we would love to build
16:09like that's our that's our goal is to
16:11build unless we might
16:13you know get a fixer-upper and
16:15since I know how to do the work and have done multiple
16:17fixer-uppers that's something
16:19else I would 100% be
16:21willing and would like to do
16:23is kind of just get a fixer-upper
16:25and just go through the process
16:27even if it takes you know six
16:29months to a year or buy land
16:31and we know that you know that takes a while to build
16:33so that's probably our top two things right now
16:35is either a fixer-upper or
16:37buying land and building
16:39which is both not something I want to do
16:41right before having a baby or right
16:43after having a baby and it
16:45will be a longer process I would
16:47say I feel like the kids are fine
16:49sharing a room until they're two
16:51ish so that's kind of our
16:53timeline we don't know how long we
16:55will be here but we do know
16:57that we are looking and
16:59we will love to bring along on
17:01that process but
17:03far as the moment we
17:05are very happy and content here
17:07and we're sure that we can
17:09make it work and
17:11still have plenty of room so
17:13another comment I've seen
17:15or people have DM'd me is
17:17why do we not switch
17:19the two bedrooms since one is
17:21a little bit bigger but
17:23since she's in our room I don't
17:25see a reason to do that right now
17:27because then I will really be squished in there
17:29with trying to put all the baby stuff in
17:31so when they get older
17:33if they need more room we might just switch
17:35that around and make
17:37that work for a while but yeah
17:39I think you know what's also
17:41funny growing up I
17:43had my own room for like Damaris is
17:45like closest in age and she's seven years
17:47younger I had my own room for years
17:49and my brothers got to
17:51have sleepover parties as I called
17:53them and had someone
17:55to talk to in their room and I was always
17:57jealous of them so I was so excited
17:59when my sister was born but then you know
18:01she was in my parents room until she
18:03like was old enough to go into her own
18:05room and I loved having her in there
18:07I felt like I always had someone in my room
18:09until I was older but it was always great
18:11yeah it was great
18:13and my sisters to this day refuse to have their
18:15own room because they're like they're too scared
18:17they don't want to be alone
18:19yeah so I feel like that's also like
18:21most kids at this age
18:23do not want their own space like I understand when you get
18:25older I got my own room whenever I was
18:27older but I don't really
18:29see that being a problem I think it's
18:31funny that a lot of people think babies should have
18:33their own room that is us
18:35answering I think the biggest
18:37question we've got over the past
18:39hopefully you understand where we're coming
18:41from and what the plan is
18:43but we do love it here in the area we're at
18:45it's absolutely incredible
18:47and if we do buy and
18:49build how fun will it be that would be
18:51fun to just vlog that whole
18:53process that would be a lot of fun
18:55and we would 100% bring y'all along
18:57on that but thank y'all for
18:59watching this video hopefully you enjoyed
19:01it and we cannot wait for the
19:03exciting content we have coming up
19:05soon which would be us rearranging the
19:07bedroom finishing the nursery
19:09and then 3D orchard sounds
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