Jon and Kate Plus Eight

[Heavenlybrooks]

Hi, my husband and I have just recently started to watch the show and are really enjoying it, but when I started to search the internet for some info on Jon & Kate's pregnancy issues I ran across some things. What is this whole deal with "Aunt Jodi" & her sister?

Originally Posted by Heavenlybrooks

Hi, my husband and I have just recently started to watch the show and are really enjoying it, but when I started to search the internet for some info on Jon & Kate's pregnancy issues I ran across some things. What is this whole deal with "Aunt Jodi" & her sister?

TLC offered to pay Aunt Jodi for being on the show. Kate would not allow it to happen. Why? I don't know. She's Kate.

Since that happened, Aunt Jodi has not appeared on the show -- same with Beth and her family, Nana Janet, and their other "helpers" except for Carla (she was in the garage sale episode) and their hired nanny.

It went into more detail on Aunt Jodi's sister's blog, but a lot of the entries have been removed.

[Heavenlybrooks]

I did see that but like you said the sister removed a lot of them. Did "Aunt Jodi" plan on taking the money?

Originally Posted by Heavenlybrooks

I did see that but like you said the sister removed a lot of them. Did "Aunt Jodi" plan on taking the money?

Don't know. Don't care. Go write her a letter to find out.

[Heavenlybrooks]

Sorry thought this was a jon & kate chat...

Originally Posted by Heavenlybrooks

Sorry thought this was a jon & kate chat...

Have you read this whole thread?

[Heavenlybrooks]

Parts... just looking for a little info.

[KDAngel]

Originally Posted by Heavenlybrooks

Sorry thought this was a jon & kate chat...

It is. Or rather it can be -- just start talking about it again.

LOVE watching the kids grow up myself. I used to hate the show, but they've all definitely grown on me.

[KSUViolet06]

New house = nice. Alot less, um, crowded.

Question: Did Maddy & Cara always share a room with the little kids? They seemed to be excited about having their own room and I couldn't remember if they had them before.

Not that headaches are fun, but Hannah lucked out with getting her own room (esp. with all those kids).

I LOLed at the Mommy & Daddy privacy tirade a little bit.

I mean, I get that you don't always want your bedroom overrun with kids, but I think a simple, "No kids in here once we move in, okay?" would have sufficed. The "do not EVER come in here or you're in trouble" talk was a little overdone.

ETA: And are 4 yr olds usually incapable of wiping themselves??

[PsychTau]

So I just watched the episode about their new house. Nice.

My friend who lives in/near the same town (and who has a family member who used to work at the same hospital Kate worked at) said that they bought it from a doctor (near where they previously lived), and apparently they were pretty demanding about getting the previous owners out quickly.

I wonder if that had any bearing on how moldy and dirty the refrigerator was.

I was also told the house was 3.5 million, and that the show paid for it, but I'm not exactly sure what that means (i.e. did TLC buy it outright, or did they help on the loan, or what).

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

New house = nice. Alot less, um, crowded.

Question: Did Maddy & Cara always share a room with the little kids? They seemed to be excited about having their own room and I couldn't remember if they had them before.

Not that headaches are fun, but Hannah lucked out with getting her own room (esp. with all those kids).

I LOLed at the Mommy & Daddy privacy tirade a little bit.

I mean, I get that you don't always want your bedroom overrun with kids, but I think a simple, "No kids in here once we move in, okay?" would have sufficed. The "do not EVER come in here or you're in trouble" talk was a little overdone.

ETA: And are 4 yr olds usually incapable of wiping themselves??

I don't know if the twins ever shared a room with the sextuplets. They had their own room in House #1 (Wyomissing) and again in House #2. I know they lived in another house before they moved to Wyomissing, but I don't know if the 6 ever lived there. They had footage of that old house in old videos with Grandpa Gosselin.

People on the Gosselins Without Pity blog have said that Kate was unhappy with the how the house was left by the previous owners, so that's why they hired people to completely re-do it. One of the rooms had a "god awful" mural that Kate couldn't wait to get rid of. Of course this was all on a blog run by people who like to make stuff up for the sake of bashing Kate, so... Anyway, the slideshow's up and you can take a look at it for yourselves.

And regarding kids who can't wipe themselves -- I've got lots of nieces and nephews. Most of them were potty trained by age 3-3 1/2. It was still tough for them to wipe themselves by 5. Some still couldn't wipe themselves by 6-7. I guess it depends on the kid.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by OTW

People on the Gosselins Without Pity blog have said that Kate was unhappy with the how the house was left by the previous owners, so that's why they hired people to completely re-do it.

I don't understand how everything is redone, and yet the fridge has mold in it. lol.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by OTW

And regarding kids who can't wipe themselves -- I've got lots of nieces and nephews. Most of them were potty trained by age 3-3 1/2. It was still tough for them to wipe themselves by 5. Some still couldn't wipe themselves by 6-7. I guess it depends on the kid.

I won't say which one, but one of mine had a hard time with wiping after #2 until around 7. It made me crazy, but it's kind of important to make sure it's done correctly too. The other one had no issues with that.

[epchick]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

New house = nice. Alot less, um, crowded.

Question: Did Maddy & Cara always share a room with the little kids? They seemed to be excited about having their own room and I couldn't remember if they had them before.

Not that headaches are fun, but Hannah lucked out with getting her own room (esp. with all those kids).

I LOLed at the Mommy & Daddy privacy tirade a little bit.

I mean, I get that you don't always want your bedroom overrun with kids, but I think a simple, "No kids in here once we move in, okay?" would have sufficed. The "do not EVER come in here or you're in trouble" talk was a little overdone.

ETA: And are 4 yr olds usually incapable of wiping themselves??

Like OTW said, the twins did have their own room in House #1, and in House #2 (the one just before this brand new house) they *technically* had their own room, but they had to go through "the girls'" room (hannah, alexis, leah's room) to get to theirs. So it wasn't necessarily that private.

I don't know about myself, but I do know that my cousin had a hard time wiping when he was younger. I remember my mom & aunts talking about how its harder for boys to do it than girls.

[PM_Mama00]

I just started watching this show. Do they have jobs? Jon seems like a little bitch. Kate seems like just a plain ol bitch, although with that many kids I can't blame her. Those kids are way too cute though.