Dance party!

Now can you come pick?

Lumberjack vibes.

(Hannah laughs)

Is it yummy?

- Mhm. - [Hannah] Good.

Hi, I'm Hannah.

I'm the world's OK-est mom

and I have one very strong-willed toddler.

This is Henry.

We know him, we love him.

(Henry laughs)

And Henry very much likes getting his way.

So guess what we're gonna do for a whole week, Henry?

We're gonna make him the boss.

Do you wanna be the boss?

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

- Henry's gonna be the boss? - Yes.

So wish us luck!

Henry is an incredibly opinionated toddler,

very frustrated in general toddler

and just incredibly particular.

He thinks he's an only child

and he thinks he is also in charge of everybody else.

(Henry babbles)

So, I kind of wanna see what happens

if he actually gets his way.

I think there's a notion that,

oh I'm spoiling him by letting him have his way.

But, I found with my kids when I listen to them

and when I acknowledge

what they're expressing in their needs,

it actually develops a lot of trust between us.

So Henry's very clear about his wants and needs

throughout the day,

but I also wanna gamify this a little bit and make it fun.

So I purchased a spinning wheel.

We're gonna write all of Henry's favorite things on it

and he gets to spin it,

and that will determine what we as a family do.

So the wheel arrives,

I sit down with Henry to write out the options

and I didn't realize how much of a struggle

this was gonna be

because he kind of has a default answer

to any time you ask what his favorite anything is,

and his answer is-

- Blue one.

- Blue one. - Yeah.

- Okay.

So he didn't have much to offer when it came to the wheel

'cause he didn't quite understand

that I was asking him to list off his favorite things to do.

What's your favorite thing to do for fun?

- Um,

blue one.

- Blue one?

Well we have blue one here.

Where do you like to go outside?

(Henry babbles)

- I cannot give you this marker.

So Henry was not much help in coming up with options,

so I enlisted Jackson to help me come up

with what to write on this wheel.

- Trampoline car game.

- You know the car game you guys play?

- Dance party.

- Jackson dyed his hair.

He has been begging to have red hair.

I think it's inspired by Markiplier,

but I feel like such an old lady,

I mix up all of the YouTubers.

But I took him to the salon

and he got his hair professionally done for his first time

and he looks amazing.

[Hannah] So the wheel ended up with

trampoline, Henry walk, Henry styles everyone,

arm time, play with Wilder, Mama take head off,

cereal bars, dance party, car game, and blue one.

Some of those don't make any sense, but they will.

So just, just keep watching.

[Hannah] Henry, are you gonna spin the wheel?

Okay.

Henry walk?

So basically, we like to go on a lot of walks.

We have great hiking trails in our neighborhood

but Henry is very opinionated

about the way in which he participates in the walk.

[Hannah] Looks like he's ready for a walk.

We get outside, we're raring to go on this walk.

And he decides,

I don't wanna walk, I wanna ride bumper cars.

(Henry babbles)

[Hannah] How do you wanna do bumper cars?

We have a set of two bumper cars

that I actually got him for his birthday,

and they're so cute

and they have a remote that the parent can control too.

But it's the easiest electric vehicle

that he can operate and maneuver himself

without being dangerous.

So Henry got in the bumper car and we had to follow him.

The only thing with this bumper car is it's very slow.

So it was this weird like funeral procession.

You know, overall, no tantrums

so that walk was a success in my book.

Maybe next time I'll let the boys go ahead though.

[Hannah] What does this say, Henry?

(Henry babbles)

Dance party!

- [Hannah] Let's do it! - [Jackson] Dance party!

- [Hannah] Let's go dance party.

He loves to dance.

He loves listening to music and jumping around

and just having a blast.

But he really goes back and forth on

who is allowed to dance and what they're allowed to do.

Come on, Henry.

(upbeat music)

- No, no, no. - [Hannah] Oh, oh, I can't?

So for this particular dance party,

I was not allowed to dance.

(upbeat music)

- [Henry] No, no, no. - [Hannah] No?

Okay.

I don't know what I did to deserve this

but I was not allowed to dance.

I was on the outs and anytime I tried to move,

I was completely shut down.

So, it was a kid's dance party apparently.

I could never leave my camera unattended

without a little trolling,

but they're so cute.

- [Hannah] Jackson is spinning on Henry's behalf.

(wheel spins)

Henry styles everyone today.

(Hannah gasps)

We're gonna go to the zoo!

Do you wanna pick everyone's outfits?

This is really where he excels

'cause he is super into fashion.

He's super into clothes

and very particular about what he wears,

so I was really excited to see

what he would pick for everybody else.

(Henry babbles)

[Hannah] Okay, these pants?

Okay, get a shirt.

No, we can't just keep taking pants out.

Get a shirt.

(Henry babbles)

[Hannah] Oh, that's a great shirt.

So Henry chose a sheep shirt and brown pants.

Unfortunately, those brown pants no longer fit

and he had to pick a different pair of pants.

[Hannah] What should Mommy wear?

- Dark jeans.

- [Hannah] These jeans?

- Dark jeans.

- [Hannah] This? - [Henry] Yeah.

- [Hannah] Okay.

I don't have a full length mirror but-

(Henry cries)

this outfit definitely not something I would pick

and I'm gonna need a jacket so he'll pick that too.

But here we are.

Jackson actually tried to con the system

by putting his favorite clothes on the top of his drawers.

(Hannah laughs)

So he did get his favorite pair of jeans

but then Henry really dug deep

and pulled out this plaid, flannel button down

that Jackson, I don't think has ever worn,

because Jackson is very particular about his clothes,

specifically shirts,

and he wants everything to be seven sizes too big

and this is just a little too fitted for him.

[Hannah] You're looking really good.

- Thank you.

- [Hannah] I give Jackson's outfit a 10 out of 10.

I thought he looked great.

And then for himself, Henry insisted on wearing his Adidas.

He calls them his white shoes

and he absolutely loves them.

Hashtag not sponsored,

but Adidas, if you wanna send me some backups,

I would certainly appreciate it.

- Now you spin the wheel.

- [Hannah] Me spin the wheel?

- Yeah.

(wheel spins)

- [Hannah] Mom take head off.

You wanna take my head off?

- [Henry] Yeah.

- So probably the weirdest thing on the wheel

is "Mom take head off"

and I truly don't know where it came from,

why it happened, what it is,

but Henry is obsessed with trying to take my head off.

- Wow, you came close.

(Henry babbles)

Did you take my head off?

- Yeah.

- Kay.

Whoa.

Good job!

I feel like every toddler has a weird,

kind of like impossible obsession.

Not necessarily the heads, but just something weird.

Please let me know so I can feel better.

So next the wheel landed on trampoline time

but we decided first to bring out some treats

to my chickens.

[Hannah] Oh hi, chicken.

You wanna give them their treats?

- [Henry] Yeah.

- [Hannah] What do we have for them?

- Strawberries.

- [Hannah] Strawberries.

So you take this and you set it on the ground, okay?

Okay?

Set it down.

Watch out, don't step in-

No, no, no, no.

Okay, put it down.

Put it down!

No, no, no.

Just leave it, Henry.

Oh my God.

Chase them back in.

(Hannah laughs)

And then he hopped on the trampoline.

So at this point, halfway through the week,

I feel like things are pretty easy.

He's being pretty manageable

and I think he's really happy

in having a little more autonomy.

- Ow.

(Henry babbles)

- [Hannah] Guess who's coming over?

- What?

- [Hannah] Guess.

- What?

- [Hannah] Who's coming over?

- Dada.

- No.

Who's coming over?

- Oh, Wilder.

- [Hannah] Wilder?

- Yeah.

- [Hannah] Yeah.

(Hannah laughs)

I am not exaggerating when I say that little kid friendships

are the cutest thing in the entire world.

Henry has one best friend.

Well, he has one friend.

But he's also his best friend.

His name is Wilder and he lives down the street.

They're really close in age and they just love each other.

[Hannah] Who's here?

(Henry babbles)

- [Hannah] Wilder's here!

- Rawr!

- [Hannah] Rawr!

So they're at that age

where they're actually playing together and interacting

and playing with toys,

but they're very hot and cold with each other

but also obsessed with each other at the same time.

I really love encouraging them to play

because Wilder is such a good influence on Henry.

He is really calm.