[Matt] Previously on Little People, Big World...
We haven't really seen Amy since the engagement.
Amy, she sounded great on the phone.
But, you know, to actually see her, I don't know
if she's gonna make things awkward.
Uh, let's see the ring.
Uh-oh.
[Amy] It does feel a little funny to me.
As long as we don't get, you know, nitty-gritty
and personal.
Chris and I, we're kinda looking for another house.
Yeah, I'm liking this space.
[Amy] It's kind of insane.
You know, probably don't need a 10,000-square-foot home.
I mean, what are we gonna do?
I think if a guy could do
10 to 12 wedding events there,
that would cover all the expenses for the year.
[Caryn] Is that something that you guys
actually, like, want to do?
-[Chris] I do. She doesn't. -[Amy] Not exactly.
Why does this remind me of déjà vu?
You sound like me 30 years ago.
From my side,
wasn't surprised or upset, or, you know.
You haven't heard from all of 'em.
Well, yeah, right, yeah.
Zach and Tori are still, you know,
very much keeping to themselves up there.
I think they must have made some kind of pact
and they're being very, you know, strict about it,
that they don't wanna come to the farm.
You get to a certain point,
it's like, "Hey, that's our life."
I didn't reply. I don't wanna talk about it.
I just don't wanna talk about my dad's engagement.
[Tori] Wanna go in the wagon?
What?
Push? Let's go see what Daddy's doing. Come on.
-Don't we have one of these trees? -Oh, it is a little chilly.
Don't we have one of these trees that you wanna plant?
It's a beautiful day,
so I did what my parents did
and I dragged my kids to the Lilac Garden.
Jackson, here. Smell this.
Smell this one right here. See all these.
I grew up in this area, and grew up going to
the Lilac Festival every year.
I think there are certain times
that I find it very bizarre that we live here.
-Like, I never... -Yeah.
...expected to live here again.
I was kinda like...
I said goodbye to Washington six years ago
and thought I'd never come back.
So there are definitely moments where I'm like,
"This is weird that we're at the Lilac Gardens
right now with my kids."
Can you smell it?
Doesn't it smell so good?
Smell this one.
-[laughing] -[Zach] Oh, dear.
Not everybody can be on my stomach!
-Si Si is so tall, right? -I know, he really is.
He loves it. He's not only taller,
he's like, "This is awesome."
Ow! Lilah. Ahhh!
[giggling]
[Zach] Lilah, do you have your sleep test coming up?
Who's taking you to your sleep test?
Not Mama? You don't want Mama to go?
[Zach] Lilah has a lot coming up.
She has her sleep study.
It's recommended that you get a sleep study
for people with dwarfism
regularly to monitor sleep apnea.
But also in our case,
if Lilah potentially needs eye surgery,
it's to make sure that she is safe
-when put under anesthesia. -Yeah.
Do you know what they're gonna do at your sleep study?
We're gonna spend the night at the hospital, okay?
No, no. Just you and I, okay?
Lilah, they're gonna put a lot of stickers on you
and wires. Are you gonna cry?
The more you cry,
the more tape they have to put on you.
-Okay? -[Tori laughs]
[Tori] Okay.
[Zach] Jackson and I both had sleep studies
and Jackson did a great job with his sleep study.
He was a little younger than Lilah is now,
but he did good.
We've been trying to prepare Lilah
for the sleep study.
Lilah is gonna hate the sleep test.
Gonna be the worst day of her life.
Lilah doesn't like to be touched.
Lilah doesn't like, you know,
nurses or doctors,
or anyone in particular to come into her stratosphere.
Lilah doesn't like strange places.
Everything about the sleep study
are things that Lilah on a day-to-day
does not care for.
And we're gonna combine all these things
during one night,
and make her sleep through it.
I don't know yet. It's gonna be miserable.
[Jackson] Lilah!
[Tori] I hope that Lilah's sleep study goes well,
'cause the day that we come back, she has dance.
She has a recital coming up in a week.
So every class counts, that's for sure.
Okay, ready, sis?
Hold my hand.
-Okay, wait, let me... -[Zach] Lilah.
Here, ready? You look at Daddy.
-No, stand up! -[Zach] Lilah!
[Tori] I signed Lilah up for dance class
just because I really felt like
she needed to do something socially.
She just needed to be around girls her age.
She needs to be in a classroom setting more
to get ready for pre-school.
I really felt like her being put in a situation
that forced her to communicate with other people
was gonna improve her talking.
[Zach] Being around other kids that are communicating too
-will help her socially, physically. -There's a lot of things.
And just learn how to...
And she's frickin' adorable. I mean, come on.
[Zach] Lilah, are you gonna be okay?
[Josiah cooing]
[Zach] This way, this way. Left, left. Hard left.
[Amy speaking]
Good morning, hon.
My attempt at continuing to believe
that I have a green thumb.
[both chuckle]
Do you need more pots?
I mean, we've got some in the shed
and on the side of the shed.
No, because I'm not gonna plant as many,
-like, flowering. -All right.
-Um... -What's up?
Well, we planned on talking to, uh, Brad
-at Scotch Church about, uh... -Yeah.
...doing a contribution for the fundraiser.
-See if they're willing... -Okay.
...and, you know.
We're hosting a fundraiser for DAAA,
Dwarf Athletic Association of America.
So we're going around to see if
people will donate towards a silent auction.
Scotch Church Road Vineyard is where I held
Chris's surprise birthday party.
[all] Surprise!
[Amy] So we wanted to see if they would be willing
to donate a gift basket.
[Chris] I found another reason to talk to him.
Oh, why?
[Chris] So, I went to the county to find out
if we could do weddings at that property.
Yeah?
I really liked the house
that we looked at on Nursery Road,
and, um, it just really checks a lot of the boxes.
But the only way we could afford to live there
is to be able to generate an income on the property.
And so I've started doing some research
and found out you really need to either have
a vineyard or a cidery
in order to have big gatherings.
Anyway, if it was a vineyard,
we would have a lot of latitude
on what we could do there.
Yeah, I don't know if it's income-based
or what kind of vineyard you may have to have,
but yeah, it's hard.
It's gonna be an expensive property to maintain
if we can't generate an income right away. I don't know.
Mmm.
Well, yeah, but you gotta see
what you can find.
I'm still gathering info, gathering numbers.
Bless your heart.
[Chris] I know you've already moved on,
but I'm not ready to...
-Well, I just... -...kill the idea yet.
I think for me, just living on the farm
and dealing with that crap
for so many years...
Doing pumpkin season
and not realizing how big it was gonna get.
Being married to Matt, I mean, there was always...
It seemed like there was always
a new project coming up.
It would be quite overwhelming.
I would tell Matt, like,
"No. No. We don't need another project. No.
Where's the budget, man?
Where's the money coming from?"
You know, starting a vineyard
or something of that magnitude with Chris,
I just don't see it for us
at this stage of our life.
And like in any relationship,
you know, what I've learned is
sometimes it's best not to just say no.
Uh, sometimes it's best just to let it play out,
and let him figure it out.
You know, I had the worst nightmare.
It was so weird.
I dreamt
like this ring was shaped differently or something.
But all the diamonds just, "Boom!"
came out and I lost 'em.
Like, all the diamond, boom.
And I was looking at an empty ring. Nightmare.
-That is a nightmare. -Yeah.
[laughs]
-You're scaring me. -I know.
I... It was... It was kinda weird.
All my diamonds weren't there.
Like, it... like my ring fell off,
or all the diamonds were gone,
and I was like, "What in the world?"
And I thought, "Whoa, you know, what does that mean?"
What, Chris, you're gonna leave me?
It didn't sound good to me to hear that dream.
I was thinking, we weren't even fighting
or arguing or anything.
Why would you share that with me?
[Amy reading]
[Tori] Okay, where's your backpack, sis?
Should we put your snacks in your backpack?
Yeah.
[Zach] Tonight is Lilah's sleep study.
Yeah, nervous about it.
It's gonna be a long night, I think.
And I don't see Lilah... It going well.
-Are you gonna be brave? -Yeah.
Look at all those wires they're gonna put on you.
[Matt reading]
[Caryn] So, maybe if we start,
we can think, "Okay, where do we want tables?"
Um, I will work on that.
That'll be a raffle ticket. Just so that they know.
And how many silent auction items we have.
Being that my nature is to plan events,
it's gonna take a little extra effort for me
to just let it go.
Hey, Brad. We thought we'd drag you up, out and early.
But I'm sure you were up early.
I've been up, mowed lawns,
filled the tractor with diesel.
-I've done a bunch of stuff. -Oh, man.
You're one of the hardest-working guys I know.
You've got so many irons on the fire.
Always busy.
[Amy] We're here meeting with Brad.
He and his wife Gina are the owners of
Scotch Church Road Vineyard.
You know, he has this beautiful, beautiful vineyard,
and so we wanted to approach him
to see if maybe he'd be willing to donate
a basket for our silent auction,
uh, for the fundraiser that we're doing.
Well, I guess we have a ulterior motive.
-Yeah. -Getting you up and...
before drinking wine hour.
-You know? -Okay.
I'm not drinking wine, I'm drinking water.
[Amy] No, I know.
Before we get started on that, so I got a question
about this property that I wanna look at.
Um...
So, I went to the county
to see if, uh, I could do weddings there.
All right.
[Chris] I am just kinda curious
what a guy, if he had about three acres
that he wanted to do vineyards with,
what kind of start-up cost would we be looking at?
Boy, that's a tough question.
You're probably... If you go to, like,
Oregon State University, they have a guide sheet.
-Yeah. -They probably...
Their estimates are probably about
-$15,000 to $20,000 per acre. -Oh.
Then they control the number.
I think we can only have, like, 12 events a year here.
They have the number of weddings
-you can do. -See, that was my number too.
So, yeah, 12 events wouldn't be enough.
Oh, shoot. Oh, this might not pencil out for us, hon.
I'm glad you figured that out.
[Brad] Well, I don't wanna discourage you.
-I don't wanna... -Now I have the facts, ma'am.
Just facts.
Twelve would not be enough. I would...
I would, uh... We would probably need to do
more than that to make that particular property
we looked at self-sustaining, so...
[sighs] The information I'm getting
-is, um... -Deflating.
[laughing] It's not going in the right direction.
Shoot.
-Sorry, babe. -I'm disappointed.
I saw that as our possible retirement future there.
Well, buying a farm is just
-another full-time job. -[Amy] Yeah.
[Amy] Part of me is relieved.
I think I already knew
what the answers were gonna be.
But sometimes you have to allow
the other person
to find that on his own.
Love what you've done with this place
in the last 12 years.
And you're producing some good wines.
-Thank you. -Which kinda leads us
-to the next question. -Oh, is it my turn?
-Yeah, you wanna ask him? -Oh, really?
-I... I... -What have I got coming?
[Amy] I know, I know.
We had... Well, I should say, I had
the brainstorm idea
in a very short amount of time to do a fundraiser.
It's called Dwarf Athletic Association of America.
-Okay. -So basically what it does
is provide sport opportunities
-for people with dwarfism. -Yeah.
I benefitted from it.
I, uh, was there when it first formed
in 1985.
-Long time. -And, uh, played basketball.
First time, we played against
an LA crowd of, you know, little people.
And it was just a bunch of us
pulled together from, uh,
the Detroit area and everything,
and we won the gold medal.
-Oh, cool. -I have never been
so excited.
And to me, just the confidence,
it changed my life.
And then Zachary came up through it.
I never dreamt of ever playing a sport before.
I would just watch my brother in swimming and baseball.
And so when I had the opportunity
to play a sport through DAAA,
I was amazed.
I can see why people like playing a sport,
or pushing themself in some activity like that.
It really does something to you physically.
It does something to you mentally.
Um, maybe even socially.
And that was...
I think I gained a different perspective
of my self-confidence.
And I will forever support DAAA as best I can.
Till Amy explained it to me,
it just never dawned on me that, you know,
most little people would never get the chance
-to play competitive sports. Yeah. -[Brad] Yeah, no opportunity.
If it wasn't for an organization making that available.
[Amy] But anyway, that is the organization, um,
and so, uh, we were thinking
if you guys were willing to maybe do a basket?
-A wine basket? -Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Something for a silent auction.
If you gotta think about it, feel free.
That would be a no-brainer.
Well, thank you. We appreciate that.
We love Brad and Gina,
and what they've done with the place.
So I think a gift basket from them's gonna be pretty special.
[Amy] I think there's a few other places
that we'll ask and see if they'd be interested.
Whether it be a gift certificate
-at a restaurant. -Yeah.
We'll try and get, like, 10.
We've only got three or four right now,
so we have some work to do. We definitely need to,
um, knock on a few more doors
and get some more items together.
[Brad] Well, you better take some of this,
because you didn't get to have your dose...
today. Take that home with you.
-Oh, gosh. -[Chris] Wow.
-Come on, really? -[Brad] Yeah. Thats your rosé.
-I know that one. -I love it.
I know it won't go to waste.
-No, it won't. -No.
-All right, I'll see you guys later. -[Amy] Bye.
[Tori] Okay, where's your backpack, sis?
-Shall we put your snacks in your backpack? -Yeah.
Okay, there's your snacks.
And then Jackson's got the iPad.
We're gonna let him play for just a couple more minutes, okay?
[Zach] Tonight is Lilah's sleep study.
I'm gonna be the one taking her to her sleep study.
Yeah, nervous about it.
I... It's gonna be a long night, I think.
And I don't see Lilah...
-It going well. -[Tori chuckles softly]
[Tori] She's very excited, babe.
Little night away with Dad.
She thinks she's going to, like, a spa or something.
[Zach] Where's her insurance card?
[Tori] It's in my wallet.
Okay, where's your wallet?
[Tori] On my desk in our room.
People with dwarfism, I think
a sleep study is just recommended
-to make sure that there's not... -Yeah.
...obstructive sleep apnea.
[Zach] I think it's also to make sure that
she is safe when put under anesthesia.
Our airways are built slightly different
than other people,
and there is maybe a higher threat of,
you know, maybe something going wrong.
Lilah, look at me.
We're not gonna be able to come home,
-not until the morning, okay? -Okay.
-Are you gonna be okay with that? -Yeah.
They're gonna put stickers all over you.
-Yeah. -It's not gonna feel nice.
But we gotta sleep through it, okay?
Okay.
[Zach] I keep telling her they're gonna put
stickers all over her head,
and, you know, we're gonna have a nurse there
and things like that, so I hope she has a good idea.
But who knows with her?
Yeah, I don't think she has a good idea.
She gets it in her head and then she gets scared,
and then she has a hard time recovering.
-Lilah, you go bye-bye? -Yeah.
-Will you be a brave girl? -Yeah.
Can I have love before you leave?
Can I have love, please?
-Please, please. -I love you.
You're giving me love! Real love.
-Love you. -Love you.
You.
Now you!
All right, we'll try to FaceTime you guys.
I am hoping that Lilah's sleep study goes well,
'cause she has a dance class tomorrow.
Lilah's dance recital's coming up,
and so every class counts,
and getting as much practice in as possible
is definitely good at this point.
[Zach] She's freakin' cute. Doing it.
Love you.
-Good luck. -[Jackson] Good luck.
[Amy reading]
Matt and Caryn are engaged.
-I know. What the heck? -Oh, my God.
Was it, um, romantic?
I don't wanna hear it. I don't know those details.
-All right. -Oh, thank you.
-Love it. -Ooh, fun.
My girlfriends and I, Lisa and Deb,
are getting together just to catch up,
talk about the fundraiser,
and especially getting together
before Lisa leaves on vacation,
'cause she will not be able to attend the event.
-Cheers, ladies. -Cheers.
-Cheers, friends. -Girlfriends.
-Good friends. -Thank you for
being here today.
[Lisa] And being back together
-after a few months. -Finally.
And we have so much to catch up on.
-We have a lot to talk about. -Oh, my God.
-A lot. -Oh, my God.
We're done with this. We might have to order another one.
Yeah, I'll come and... I won't even ask.
-I'll be here. -All right, thank you.
-I'll be back. -[Lisa] Oh, my gosh.
You are going to Lilah's ballet recital?
-Yeah, I'm very excited. -'Cause I saw Tori post
and she was practicing and she was pointing her toes.
Oh, my gosh.
And it was so sweet.
Yeah, I'm excited to go see that.
All right, so let's get down to the heavy-duty.
Oh, like what?
Matt and Caryn are engaged.
-I know. What the heck? -Oh, my God.
Well, to me, you know, when he texted me,
"Oh, I thought you guys would be the first to know,"
you know, Chris and I,
I'm like, "Why?"
Why would I be the first to know? But anyway.
Um... But I said, "Hey. Great. It's about time."
-Mmm. -You know, like...
You knew it was gonna come.
But it wasn't this, like, surprise.
-[Deb] Yes. Yeah. -You know what I mean?
[Deb] Exactly.
Was it, um, romantic?
-How did he propose? -I have no idea.
I don't wanna hear it. I don't know those details.
But her ring's nice.
I mean, it would be a ring that,
you know, I could see Matt getting.
I wouldn't think of anything less.
But did you hear what happened?
-[Deb] What? -Tell you this.
-What? -Give me the scoop.
[Amy] No, it was kinda... I don't even know why.
After I saw the ring or something,
like, a week later or something like that,
I had this really weird dream
that I lost my ring
or all the diamonds popped
out of it and stuff like that.
-What? -Chris panicked.
-Whoa. -I wonder what it means.
I don't know.
Because she said her stone fell out.
But I'm wondering if it was more towards
Matt and Caryn. Like, maybe her...
-She's done with Matt. -They're... Yeah.
Which I know, emotionally,
-she's been done for a long time. -It's like, let it go.
-Move on. -Yeah, let Matt move on.
Yes. I think that might be part of it.
-Yeah. But that was weird. -Who knows?
-That's weird. So weird. -Weird.
Will she sell her house
-and move into the house? -I have no idea.
That's something she's gotta decide, and...
-'Cause I saw that he's building... -Mmm-hmm.
-...on the property. -Yeah.
A huge house.
-Why so big? -I have no idea.
Well, take a step back. It's Matt.
-[Amy] It is Matt and, you know, he likes big. -He loves everything grande.
[Lisa] How does it change the dynamic on the farm, like, when you go there
and see all of a sudden this big house there?
-Does it feel weird to you, or... -[Amy] Well...
...it's like a whole different lifetime.
You know, it feels empty.
There's no life to it.
This could have been, like, the next generation.
-You tried to make that happen. -[Amy] You know...
...I did the best I could.
My boys have moved on, but it just saddens me that the family's broken.
When a family goes through a major event
like Matt and I getting divorced,
and then the farm not working out, or anything like that,
yeah, you do feel like something has broke.
But you have a choice.
How long do you leave it broken?
Or is there a way to help heal it?
That will take time.
Oh, Trent's gonna come.
I gave him an invite today.
We're talking about the fundraiser now
-that I'm not going to be able to attend. -Yeah. Why?
Because Amy chose to do it when I'm gone.
-Amy's got this. I already know. -I know.
-You won't-- -We've been
-We talked about it. -talking about things
-and she's got it. -You're in charge, right?
How do you feel about that?
I was a little leery of doing this, you know, with Matt.
-And? -I pretty much told everyone.
[Lisa] Yeah, what did you tell them?
I'm in charge.
-You did? -Whether this succeeds, it falls on all of us.
Whether this fails, then it falls on me.
-Chris helping with... -So this is what I need us to do.
-Is he helping with being in charge? -[Amy] Oh, he is.
He is being very good.
Chris and Matt are completely different people.
Working with Chris is a whole lot different.
The one thing I love about Chris is that,
you know, he was willing at bat.
He said, "Yeah, great idea."
It is nice. It is refreshing.
Matt definitely is used to being in control or overseeing the farm.
Now he's in a support role,
it's gonna be interesting to see how he handles that.
I will help you decorate, I will help you...
[Amy] I kind of put Caryn in charge of decoration.
We will help...
-[Lisa laughs] -...but she's very good at that,
-she really is. -So am I.
[Amy] I know.
I will work with Caryn, whatever decorations.
I've got a lot to bring to the table.
-She has a lot of decorations. -I have a lot of decorations.
I hope it goes well.
-I pray for you. -Thank you.
[laughs]
And call me if Amy gets...
Because I'm telling you things are not gonna go smoothly,
not because of her, but things are gonna come up
-and you need to have her back. -[Deb] Okay. All right.
[Lisa] Am I gonna have to fly home for the weekend?
-[Deb] Please. -[Lisa laughs]
-[Deb] Yes. -[Amy] I don't know.
Hey, where are we?
Are we at sleep study?
Are you gonna be brave?
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Look at all those wires that they're gonna put on you.
[Lilah]
All right, you want to keep watching your movie?
Yeah.
Are they gonna hook you up soon?
All right.
[Jackson]
I think Dad and Lilah will be back
before you and I even think about getting up,
especially if you stay up late.
Okay, yeah, I didn't really want that.
[Tori] While Zach is at Lilah's sleep study, I'm at home with the boys.
Si is already sleeping, and Jackson and I are having a movie night.
You checking yourself out in the mirror, dude?
[chuckles]
No, don't laugh while you do it.
[laughs]
-That was very good. [chuckles] -[laughs]
[Tori]I was definitely nervous
because I texted him, you know, "How's it going"
and I still hadn't heard from him.
So I was a little nervous of about what was going on.
I 100% was assuming, like, she's crying,
they're holding her down to the bed,
they're strapping her arms, they're strapping her legs.
Just, like, yep.
-Can you pause it, J? -[cell phone rings]
-Hi. Hey, come sit with me. -[Zach] Hi.
How's it going?
-[Zach] It's going great. Lilah did so good. -[gasps]
-Wow. She did good? -Uh-huh. She did great.
-Hi, sis. -What does, hey, Dad?
She has to have testing. That tests her CO2.
[Tori] Ohh.
[Zach] So, yeah, but, uh...
I know. Were we wrong?
Yeah.
[Zach] Jackson, Lilah wants you to see this.
[gasps] Oh, they did put one on her foot.
It's like a little toe bean.
Lailee, you did so good, girl.
I was super stoked to see Lilah with everything on,
and she was calm and not terrified.
It was awesome to see.
-How are you doing, sis? -Good.
You're such a big brave girl.
And no crying?
-Yeah. -[gasps]
I'm so proud of you, Lilah.
[Zach] We need her to lay down now.
[Tori] Okay. I love you.
All right, we're going to go bye bye.
-Bye. -Love you.
-Thank you, babe, for doing that. -[Zach] All right, bye bye.
[Tori] I love you, Lilah.
Good job, babe.
She didn't cry.
I thought she was gonna freak out.
-She's so good, dude. -Yeah.
Our sister's so good.
We got all the stuff on her and she's been great so far,
but, you know, we still need her to keep all the stuff on
throughout the night to get the right data.
So we still potentially have a long night ahead of us.
We need her to sleep though.
The next day she has her last dance practice before her recital,
and so that's important to go to.
-Do you think that Lilah's gonna sleep all night tonight? -Oh, yeah.
-You think she will? -Yeah.
She's kind of proven us wrong. I think she will.
[Jackson] Oh, yeah.
[Zach] Where's those new toys that you got?
-[Tori] You got a new toy? -She was very helpful.
-Can I see your elephant? -[Zach] We got an elephant.
-[gasps] Aww. That's so cute. -But, but, but I want you to see this.
Lilah did so well.
She didn't pull out her air thing once.
-[laughs] -That's really good.
[Zach] The nurse never had to come in
-because she, like, yanked something or... -[Tori] Good job, Lilah Ray.
Did you do good or bad?
Good. You did so good.
Did you have to, like, pep talk her then
-once you got her to the room? -I pep talked her the whole time.
I prepped her lot by saying,
"You're gonna get stickers on your face,
lots of tape, lots of wires."
I think that helped a little bit. She at least saw it coming.
-Did you sleep in the same bed as daddy? -Yeah.
You got to have a sleepover?
That's so fun.
Lilah's test came back and she has a moderate form of sleep apnea.
[Tori]She's probably gonna need her tonsils taken out,
and then supposedly after that the apnea goes away.
Lilah can do anything now.
I had my doubts about the recital,
but now I'm kind of like, "Maybe she actually will do it."
[Tori] Lilah.
[Tori] What are you gonna do at dance?
Yay! [laughs]
-[woman] Coming up... -[Alyssa] Hello, friends. Come on in.
Let's go!
Let's go do some dancing.
[Alyssa] One, two, three, four.
Good job.
Uh...
-Clunky, slow. -[laughs] Clueless.
Clueless. [chuckles]
[Alyssa] Stand on up for me, Miss Lilah.
What's in there?
All right, ready? Can you go find your spot?
Yeah, you show me where you want to take your shoes off.
[Tori] Lilah has her dance class today and she really loves it.
Lilah has a dance recital coming up in a little under a week,
and so this is them getting ready for it.
Yeah, we're super excited for Lilah's upcoming recital.
And then Tori's mom and my mom will be attending also.
-So all the grannies. -All the grandmas.
That one feel good?
-[Lilah] -Okay, and then this one?
Is it this part that bothers?
My mom and your mom love watching the whole dance.
They love all that girly stuff.
I think my mom enjoys it.
She had us three boys, and Molly was more
-she wanted to hang out with us brothers. -Yeah.
-And so I think she's kinda getting a kick out of it all. -It's fun.
-Is that better? -Yeah.
[Tori] I don't know if she likes dancing,
-but she loves the tutus... -[Zach] Yeah.
-...she likes the pink... -All the girls, yeah.
-She likes with all the girls and... -...and the girls, and yeah.
-Just something fun to do. -Yeah.
-It's her time. -And she loves her teacher.
-Like, she really loves her teacher -Yeah.
and I think that helps a lot
because it just has given her confidence
to walk into that room every week and do it.
Hello, friends.
Are we ready for class?
-Yeah! -Yeah? Come on in.
Let's go. Let's go do some dancing.
[Alyssa] We're gonna tap our toe now.
Stand on up for me, Miss Lilah.
What's in there?
Oh, I see.
Ready?
[Tori] The place that we're at
has been so accommodating to Lilah
because they've figured out a way
to put a bar down below for Lilah
so she can still participate.
All better?
[Alyssa] Yeah. All better.
[Tori] They've just done an amazing job.
[woman]
[woman laughs]
All right, take those toes.
We're gonna do our pizza toes.
And we're gonna tap.
We go wipe and close.
Wipe and close. Wipe and close.
Uh...
-Clunky, slow. -[laughs]
-Clueless. [laughs] -Clueless. [chuckles]
[Alyssa] One, two, three, four.
[Tori] I mean, some of those girls that are in her class,
I'm like, "That girl is gonna be a dancer."
She's, like, long legs, pointed toe, all the things.
But then Lilah, she's...I...
I don't know if she's a dancer.
[laughing] We'll see.
We're gonna go right here. Fabulous.
Right over this way.
We're gonna stretch those arms
and put that toe out.
Run, run, run. Go, Lilah.
One, two, three, four,
and five.
Nice job. Come give me a high five.
That was awesome.
I think it turned out to be a really good class for Lilah
just because the girls are very calm.
-They're older so it's not as chaotic. -Yeah.
And I think that if the class had been chaotic she wouldn't have lasted.
And then structure I feel like, too, was...
-Ms. Alyssa has been the most patient human. -Yeah.
Hey, I got a question.
-Can we go put on our pretty costumes -Yeah!
and dance in our pretty costumes?
The recital's coming up and I have very low expectations.
-[Zach] If she gets out there I'm gonna be happy. -[Tori] Oh, yeah.
But I'm nervous that she's simply not.
-She's gonna be like, "Nope, I'm not doing that." -I, I, I really, oh.
It's so hard because we doubted her with the sleep study,
and it's like...
-She killed it with the sleep study. -I just look at her
and I'm like, "She's not gonna do it."
I have very low expectations of her going out on the stage and doing it.
Here we go. First, fifth. Open, down.
Other arm. First, fifth. Open, down.
Round and round.
-[woman] Mom's gonna be... -[Tori] Oh, my gosh, stop. I'm gonna cry.
[Tori] Are you kidding me? I literally cannot.
Lilah's not great with transitions or, like, new things, right?
She's not, with the unknown she gets uncomfortable.
So, like, doing things for the first time.
And she could totally surprise me, and she could rock it,
but I just have a feeling it's not gonna be easy.
It's just gonna be nerve-wracking for her, but...
-It's gonna be very dramatic. -Yeah.
[Alyssa] Open, down. And we twinkle.
Good job.
[mouthing] No.
I'm gonna glue them on to her feet for the performance.
[Alyssa] I think usually it's the parents
that are more nervous beforehand for the performance.
And the kids don't usually get nervous until they get to the location
because we don't have our performances here at the dance studio.
We have them at a local theatre.
And so when we get to the theatre
that's when the kids then go, "Oh, wait a minute.
Mom, you said I'm going to dance.
This does not look like dance."
[Alyssa] Oh, beautiful. Now we get to sleep again.
They're so cute.
-[Alyssa] Awesome. -[chuckles]
[Alyssa] Let's take our princess costumes
and walk like princess all the way to our grownups.
Are you gonna cry?
A little bit? You'll just cry a little bit?
-Yeah. -Say, "No cry."
-No cry. -No cry.
There's no crying in dance.
-No cry dance. -There we go.
Beautiful job, princesses.
[woman] Coming up...
Maybe if we start just with how, Amy,
you see, like, a rough itinerary.
-I will work on that, but-- -Arrival, drinks.
-And where do we want to set the bar? -I will work on that.
[Caryn] Do I think I'll see an itinerary prior to the event?
I would probably say no.
Caryn's very list-driven. Amy's a little bit more haphazard, you know?
She established right up front, "I want to be in charge."
So whatever happens is fine. It's on her shoulders. [laughs]
[Amy] This morning she was kind of whimpering,
and I'm like, "Gosh, why are you whimpering?"
And then I thought, "Aw, crap."
-The door was shut, the doggy door. -Ohh.
And so then I started looking all around...
-...but I didn't see anything. -Did you see? Wow.
Well, I think then that means she's officially potty trained.
I think we can put that gate away.
It's a beautiful day.
We're here at the farm to take Daisy for walk
and then to chat with Matt and Caryn
about the fundraiser coming up.
[Amy]It's only, like, in six weeks,
but, you know, like any challenge,
the fundraiser is, you know, there's always stuff to do.
I'm hoping to, you know, come up with a rough itinerary of how I see it,
get their input and, you know, see what everyone else thinks.
-[Matt] Hey, guys. How you guys doing? -[Caryn] Hello.
-[Chris] Good. -[Amy] It's a gorgeous day.
-Yeah. -Hello.
It's kind of, it's a little cooler than I thought.
[Chris] And you got a little trench running down your road here.
[Matt] We're gonna put a big old irrigation pipe right where that is.
-So we'll end up putting rocks or something over it. -Oh.
-Oh, okay. -[Matt] Yeah.
[Caryn] What's new with you guys?
Did you ever decide on that house you looked at?
In the end I don't think we can afford to live there
because it would just, the monthly maintenance
-would be so high. -[Matt] Yeah.
Believe me, I get it.
I mean, it's okay. We like our house.
-But, you know, we've got time to wait -It's all right.
and for the right deal coming up.
Yeah, and just like we were talking about the other day.
I mean, I'm open to finding something that's gonna be a fixer.
As long as it has the right footprint.
-[Matt] Yeah, yeah. -[Caryn] Right.
[Chris] Mmm.
Well, the fundraiser will be coming down the pipe
-pretty quick here. -[Amy] Yeah.
I think the biggest thing is just, you know, trying to, you know...
-...if we can get at least 40 people there -Yeah.
that would be great.
-[Amy] But, um... -[Chris] My poker buddy is building a potting table.
And then we've got, oh, we stopped at Scotch Church Winery
and they're donating a nice basket for us.
-Ohh. -[Amy] I still got to go to some restaurants
to kind of build that up.
[Caryn] We've got a lot of RSVPs
but we haven't done real well on our auction items.
-So we'll have to give... -[Chris] Yeah.
I know we're gonna do a big, we'll do a Roloff farm basket with t-shirts, and hats...
-...and maybe, you know... -Oh, yeah.
...a dozen pumpkin season tickets or something.
-Oh, there you go. -[gasps] A private tour by Chris Marek.
[all laugh]
I'd be curious to see how many tickets get thrown
-into that bucket. -[Matt] Yeah.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special guest.
Gonna be offered by a very special person.
Everybody will be looking around going, "Who? Who?"
[all laugh]
You guys get the people there.
We'll have some silent auction items.
The auction items, yeah, at the time they may not have, you know,
come up with a few more than I was hoping...
-...but they're bringing in people -[Chris] Mmm.
and that's just as important.
So we're bringing in more auction items
but they're bringing in probably a lot more people than what we are.
He's also getting a whole barn ready for us to host this event.
Matt's got a pretty fully plate.
-We're both doing our part to help make it go well. -Mmm-hmm. Mmm.
I think I sent this to you, maybe not,
but the menu, like, do you guys care?
I kind of want to tweak it though.
Cheeseburger and bacon sliders and blue cheese and bacon sliders.
-That's probably because... -Now that sounds good.
[Amy] Homemade potato salad, garden Greek salad,
fresh fruit, baked beans,
-and a berry crisp à la mode. -Mmm.
-[Chris] Sounds good. -I'm in.
-Can we go over and sample lunch? -[Chris] Yeah, I know.
[Amy]We're doing a Western theme.
We've already got the caterer lined up.
I've got to tweak the menu a little bit.
I wanted it more like a barbecue, like you're around a campfire,
you know, that kind of thing.
I've got a bartender there
because we'll just have one signature drink.
We're not gonna have a slew of liquor.
It's gonna be beer and wine and just one, like, signature drink.
Like what we did for our wedding, right?
-Some sort of vodka-based drink. -Yeah.
So maybe if we start just with we can think,
okay, where do we want tables
-and where do we want to set the bar? -I will work on that.
-[Caryn] Okay. -Pretty much 4 to 7 is all about the fundraiser.
6:30 we'll start music.
-Okay. -[Amy] You know, once this gets closer
I can also do a follow-up, I think, email
-just to give you an idea of what to expect. -Okay.
[Amy] Especially, depending on when we eat.
So, you know, we'll have an additional opportunity to give, you know.
Caryn is very list-driven, constantly making a list,
and Amy's a little bit more haphazard, you know, so...
Be sure to get plenty of raffle tickets.
And if you really want to challenge someone to a game,
that'll be a raffle ticket item
just so that they know what are raffle ticket items
-and how many silent auction items we have. -Well...
So hopefully they'll be thinking ahead of time.
We're letting go and letting her establish right up front,
"I want to be in charge, I want to be the boss, and it's my event."
And so we're in a supporting role,
and I think, you know, we know that we have a lane.
Whatever happens is fine. It's on her shoulders. [laughs]
So maybe if we start just with how you guys see,
or, Amy, you see, like, a rough itinerary.
-I will work on that, but, yep, okay. -[Caryn] Arrival, drinks.
Do I think I'll see an itinerary prior to the event?
I mean, I got a 50/50 shot,
but if I were to put my personal money on it I would probably say no.
-[chuckles softly] -And I'm good with that.
[laughs] It is what it is.
-Who needs an itinerary anyway? -She... [laughs]
Being that my nature is to plan events,
it's gonna take a little extra effort for me to just let it go,
but I'm gonna work on it.
I'm just working on, you know,
-come the day of the event I might be like, "Ah!" -[laughs]
[Caryn] Okay, bye!
[Amy] Do you want her off the leash?
Yeah, let's give her a chance to run.
She never gets a chance to run.
I think the fundraiser planning is going well,
but any time you put on a big event like this, I mean, anything can happen.
So this could go off without a hitch,
or we could definitely have a number of hiccups
that could make this, you know, very chaotic.
-I don't know. -We, you know,
we have a few strong personalities
-working here that [chuckles] could go in either direction. -Yes.
[Matt] Next on Little People, Big World...
I don't remember much.
I know. You were, like, out.
[Matt] My esophagus has been acting up a little bit here and there.
It just feels like the food's not going down properly.
It just bubbles up like a volcano.
The doctor said,
"We're concerned that we may have perforated his esophagus."
Whoa!
[Zach]Tonight is the first night
the entire family's gonna camp out together.
I'm excited. I think it should be fun.
-A good family memory. -Are you excited?
I am excited.
[Tori] Camping in my backyard
is not my ideal situation.
[Lilah cries]
Lilah and the outdoors, she doesn't have the best of luck.
Can you lay in your bed? Where's your water?
-Get in. -Your little table.
-[cries] -[Zach chuckles]
Hello. You got all kinds of stuff.
I got it.
[Amy] For me, it's still kind of awkward
to meet up with Caryn,
but we're also meeting up with each other
for a cause.
We'll get the Bug out.
Then we could have two check-in booths.
Maybe a table there and a table there.
Not that everything that was going on,
Matt and I's situation,
that still doesn't have an impact on me
because it'll always impact me until the day I die.