Jon and Kate Plus 8 Official Thread - Part 5

[emer95]

Talulabelle, Yes! That's the worst photoshopping I've ever seen. My 8 year old could do a much better job.
And I agree- those Hawaii pics had the saddest sad faces on the kids, especially Cara. There is one of Cara on sixgosselins.com, right on the homepage, where I just want to pick her up and hug her.

 

[BabyTigger99]

Ha, has anyone seen this yet? Made me laugh! (Sorry if someone already posted it!).

http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/02/win-a-date-with-jon-gosselin/

 

[3prettyprincesses]

Just wanted to wish you all a HAPPY 4TH of JULY! I hope everyone has a wonderful, relaxing time with their families! I just realized how addicted I am to this thread...we'll be gone for 6 days and I know I'm going to miss reading it! Take care everyone!

 

[redrosesix]

Ha, has anyone seen this yet? Made me laugh! (Sorry if someone already posted it!).

http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/02/win-a-date-with-jon-gosselin/

He says " and I only sit on this side of the couch" Too funny!

 

[Epcot luvr]

Has anyone else ever noticed how often they (TLC) cut and paste the kids pics into one like this? So that they actually get a good pic with all the kids looking happy... Any real uncut pic Kate and Jon have these pic plastered on smiles and all the kids look like they just finished the Death March of Bataan. They always look so unhappy and drawn (perhaps they're very thirsty - sorry couldn't resist)

Talulabelle, love your screen name, excellent observation! I never thought about that before you are spot on.

 

[Disney Ella]

Ha, has anyone seen this yet? Made me laugh! (Sorry if someone already posted it!).

http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/02/win-a-date-with-jon-gosselin/

Very creative! I hope they do one for Kate.

 

[Epcot luvr]

Ha, has anyone seen this yet? Made me laugh! (Sorry if someone already posted it!).

http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/02/win-a-date-with-jon-gosselin/

Must like bluetooths, tractors & Hardy shirts!!!
luvs it!!!!

 

[Epcot luvr]

Hey y'all! I'm just stopping in to say hey! I'm about 20 pages behind thanks to a KILLER work week this week....hopefully I'll find some time to catch up soon with y'all and hear the latest news!

Have a safe and happy 4th if I don't make it back before then!

happy 4th to you too, I hope you hae a good holiday.

 

[Epcot luvr]

Just wanted to wish you all a HAPPY 4TH of JULY! I hope everyone has a wonderful, relaxing time with their families! I just realized how addicted I am to this thread...we'll be gone for 6 days and I know I'm going to miss reading it! Take care everyone!

Have a great 4th and enjoy the time with your family too. Wouldn't it be funny if someone from the thread had a J&K spotting over the holiday . Be safe.

 

[Epcot luvr]

As an example of how perceptions of the show have changed in the last couple of weeks, try and look at the image below with a straight face or without cringing:

Also, while searching for the image, I came across a literary blog that I think perfectly captures the shift in public opinion (and this was before the "announcement"):

Made me want a free trip

 

[newtodis]

Just think how Kate will act when she comes home on Mon. and Jon has moved something. When Jon doesn't clean something up to her liking. When Jon wants to have friends over. How much will Jon enjoy his time in the house when there are notes posted from Kate telling hom not to do something or another?

Agreed - If things aren't "nice" between J&K, this whole house sharing thing IMO is going to be torture for both of them!

Ok...I don't really remember the wave episode, but I know that if I had 6 toddlers and two other young children I would be a nervous wreck on the beach. I've gotten knocked down by waves before just standing in ankle deep water, the ocean isn't something to mess around with.

I have two boys and am crazy when we take them to the beach.....DH thinks I worry too much. You can never be too careful with things like that!

Totally OT but I got a pin code for the exact dates we're going to Disney in Oct.!!! If you knew me well, you'd understand that I have the worst luck in the world so this is unprecedented!

YAY for you! Congrats!

I turned around to DH and said, "sir, you really need to keep your kids under control they're very distracting to the rest of us" and walked off as though I didn't know him. That is something we often do to each other though as a joke, I never yelled and shortly after had DD3 on my hip.

That so sounds like something I would do to DH!

My DD4 saw the previews for Monday's 10 year recap show. She informed me that her "favorite show" is "on at 10". Granted we haven't seen the show since all this hoopla started w/ Jon running around at all hours of the night. We weren't regualr watcher before that. Anyway... I had to explain to my DD why we weren't watching the show anymore. I just can't watch that family continue to self destruct. It was so sad to have to try to explain that Jon and Kate "didn't want to live in the same house together anymore" and the kids would "only live with mommy or daddy one at a time and not together". I thought DD was going to cry. She kept saying "But WHY, mommy?"

My DS4 had a hard time grasping it too and was shocked when I told him J&K weren't going to live together any more....

I have to admit, I'd probably read the "tell-all" book. I know that makes me sound shallow, but I can tell you already, my curiosity would get the best of me.

I'm with you - I'd be too curious!

I don't think Jon will write a book, I do think this is a ploy to give him some leverage in the divorce. If he did write a book, I would read it. If Steve wrote a book I'd read that too, or a TLC staffer. I would like some glimpse of the real story of Kate.

I'd just like to know more "behind the scenes" stuff - not just about Kate!

Funny how they skipped over the whole renewing of the vows when they talked about their trip to Hawaii.

I was surprised they even showed Hawaii honestly.....


Alright. I made it to page 64....have to read the rest on Monday!

 

[phamton]

I have two boys and am crazy when we take them to the beach.....DH thinks I worry too much. You can never be too careful with things like that!

Well actually you can be too careful. Being too careful would mean not letting them get near the shoreline at all. As parents we have to temper our comfort level with exposing our kids to new things. My husband was scared of heights and absolutely hated letting our kids go on slides at the playground. I have an aunt who is afraid of water who never wanted her kids to swim. Another friend is afraid of flying and will not take her kids on a plane for a vacation (they will only go places that are within driving distance.)

Each of us have our own threshold of what we consider safe or what we consider dangerous. We all need to take some risks in order to experience new things. There is fine line between smothering our kids and being negligent. We need to protect them from danger and yet still let them venture out a bit.

I can certainly understand Kate being what I consider as overcautious because Jon was not watching the kids as carefully as he should have. I love water and the beach and probably was not as careful as I should have been when my kids were little.

BTW, my fear was car accidents. My mother was 12 years old when she was in a car accident that killed both her grandparents. My mother was the only survivor and was alone in the car for hours before being rescued. She was nervous in cars the rest of her life and she passed that fear onto me as a child. I tried not to be paranoid when my kids got drivers licenses but I was a nervous wreck for years. I'd feel safer at the beach with my young kids than traveling in the car with them just to get to the beach.

 

[Buckalew11]

I'm the same way. I tend to push DD towards my greatest fears because I don't want her to be afraid like I am. It all started with Algebra. LOL

 

[madge]

hey Brenda ... passed through your neck of the woods today ...

 

[madge]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't someone from the TLC staff go on record as saying that they didn't have enough usable footage for another complete episode beyond the ones that have already aired when the "hiatus" was called?

that's what TLC said, but I'm not buying it.

there's a fan site that has several of the new episode descriptions (no idea if they're accurate or not) and before TLC put a stop to the show, there were 6 or more shows listed, and the beach shows weren't even listed. If they could get 2 or 3 episodes out of the trip to the Smithsonian, I'm guessing the could get at least as many out of the beach.

 

[madge]

As an example of how perceptions of the show have changed in the last couple of weeks, try and look at the image below with a straight face or without cringing:

I cringe... it's a bad photoshop edit.

 

[emer95]

Ha, has anyone seen this yet? Made me laugh! (Sorry if someone already posted it!).

http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/02/win-a-date-with-jon-gosselin/

"I'm full of energy.."

ROTFL.

 

[Buckalew11]

hey Brenda ... passed through your neck of the woods today ...

Cool. Passing through to the Smokies or past us to FL?

I was up in your neck of the woods last Labor Day weekend for the Ford Ironman Louisville!!

 

[JennaTX]

I think things had changed enough between Jon and Kate that she was indeed afraid to approach him about the houses. He will not talk to her and that is being unreasonable. I think she was trying to keep the peace and let him do it where he wanted but in the end, just could not. His choice was not thought out very well.

I agree, obviously by the time they were placing the houses, things were not good between the two of them. I think Kate was also thinking about when it was just her or Jon there and how they would monitor all of the kids.

 

[JennaTX]

The thing that did it for the people I have talked to around here was the media onslaught -- mostly Kate's. Within just a couple of days, we had all of the promos for the TLC show, the media scoops, the People article promos and the divorce filing (which a friend mentioned: A. did not have to be done that day B. did not have to be announced to the public and C. did not require such a statement to justify it -- I tend to agree) I was surprised that she did not also do the interview on the Today show -- the promos for the interview had said that SHE would be on -- about the People article, but maybe her PR people realized that she had already been out there too much. Which she had.



Excellent points. With Jon being the SAHD, she actually doesn't have to be out running errands. Apparently it's his job to drop off and pick up the kids at play school.

When did Jon become the SAHD?