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Carlin posted a reel of Zade - last day as a 2 yr old type of thing. They're clearly not taking him to speech therapy or maybe they're taking him but doing nothing else outside those 45 min with the therapist every other week. I mean she asks his name and he says "Me Day." She asks him his favorite thing to do and he sings Happy Birthday which he says "Happa Ba." And not once anywhere does she correct him. Like she couldn't say your name is Zade, say Zade? Happy birthday - have him pronounce it. While I get this is about viewership and she doesn't want to disrupt the reel, give me a break this is about your actual child. Pretty sure among the directions from the speech therapist initially were to get him to fill in words, correct words, etc. Not just let him go around with baby pronunciations and throw subtitles in there for your viewing audience. And kudos on continuing to expose Layla to nothing but shopping as a hobby. It's a whole thing to take her to Target to pick out a gift for Zade. I mean fine but girlfriend acts like Target and shopping is the highlight of her life - which it prob is the highlight of her week. I mean no school or friends or anything? And then she parks herself on the floor of Target counting out her money which she places in piles on the floor. I know kid people esp the Bates are more ok with that sort of thing but my God do you need to sit down on the floor of Target - in a dress? Can the parent really not say here, let me count your $ for you and just do it standing up?

I mean she did say the baby looked white and she did mention Layla's Indian skin. Reddit people are even saying the same. I think it varies but IRL I do think it can be hard to make friends unless you're seeing people day in and day out/very regularly. There's a reason that for young people so many of their friends can be coworkers - often coworkers from prior jobs who they clicked with but don't work with now. And then people make friends doing recurring activities like work out classes/sports teams, book clubs etc. She's obviously can't/won't work outside the home and isn't doing any of the recurring activities bc they're traveling. Church IDK. There was always that thing about how church gives you a community but I really think it's about where you go to church + what you do there. IDK if they go to a mega church but some of those mega churches are no different than going to the movies or the mall - people go as a transactional thing and are booking it out the door afterwards; sure they interact but often the interaction will be with people they already know - their BIL and his family attends the same church, as does their next door neighbor, and their coworker - bam they have a church friend group and don't need to befriend others. I think to show up as two people by yourselves and expect to make friends without putting in anything more, probably isn't realistic. She'd have to join up some young person/young moms group via church; get on church committees; get on choir etc.

I don’t recall exactly but seem to remember a shelf falling in the laundry room and she got hit w detergent . . . . On a different note did anyone catch this on IG. Layla was holding some baby cousin - IDK who - it was a boy - maybe Trace’s, maybe Tori’s if she has a baby right now. No idea but Kelly is there and exclaims look how white he looks next to her “Indian skin.” I have no idea if that’s a thing ppl say and whether they mean Asian Indian or Native American. But clearly this kind of race talk is so common in their family that Carlin didn’t even think - hey maybe don’t put this on IG. But then she also thought it was NBD to put out the IG of Trace screaming George Floyd. And we wonder why Tiff is spending more and more time with her family and less and less w G&K. Like she legit does not visit Knoxville - she sees the in-laws if they visit her.

Uh so she did a photo shoot with her pants unbuttoned why? To show some kind of a bump? Good luck idiots. You can barely handle the 2 you’ve got but sure, have more. Maybe take the next 7 months to get kid #2 speaking in some manner that’s understandable before he’s entirely lost in the shuffle and maybe work on kid #1 speaking as if she’s NOT a toddler. But I imagine speech therapy for Z is out the window - now the clicks will all be for Carlin’s drs appointments. They’ve been desperate to get pregnant for a yr+ and Evan was practically salivating about how they’d have to go to the Dr basically weekly bc Carlin would be high risk w any future pregnancy. So cue lots of walking into drs appointments, Sbux in hand, acting like D list celebrities.

OMG I was going to post here if anyone had seen the reels of this kid's useless speech therapy. First appt parents show up in their matching North Faces, Sbux in hand, sipping away and filming while they gush about how cool this is, how cute a kid they made, how they're learning sooooo much, how the speech therapist gave them the best flyer that'll help them soooo much. The flyer listed the most common sense things imaginable like talk to your kid, read to your kid and point to pictures to have him fill in words in the story, ask him questions thru the day so they narrate what they're doing. Second appointment - just Evan shows up, coffee in hand, sitting there sending videos to Carlin. Cue Disney cruise where kid asks for Me Mow 800000 times. Not one time to they correct him and say "say Mickey, his name is Mickey." On the way to speech therapy he's wearing a Spider Man jacket which I'm sure they shopped for on the cruise and and he announces it's Ba ba Man. Uh maybe have him say SPIDER? Not one time have we seen them correcting him or asking him a question where he needs to respond with correct language/correcting how he says it and asking him to say it. Nope they think it's just faster and easier to ask yes/no questions and translate for him - it takes the least amount of time away from their YT and IG filming. And I don't believe any notion of - oh they don't want to embarrass the kid on camera bc these people put up videos of their kids sitting on dr exam tables. And frankly if they were working with him outside the 45 min he gets with a speech therapist every few weeks between vacations, we'd see the kid speaking a bit more clearly even after just 3-4 weeks.

In the continued annals of - we don't give a damn unless we can put it on social media - parenting, did anyone catch the reel of C&E taking Zade for speech therapy? These two idiots were gushing about how much they are supporting him and how they're learning sooo much bc they're learning what they need to do. Meanwhile the speech therapy - Z reading books and playing Mr. Potato Head with the speech therapist. I'm not putting down the speech therapy at all - I know at this age it'll be done via play. But literally this woman read books with him in a very eager voice - pointing to pictures so he could say frog or door or whatever; or she'd say words asking him to repeat. Then they played with Mr. Potato Head where she asked him what pieces he wanted to put on the toy so he said nose, mouth etc. Like this is hardly rocket science and 2 parents who are home 24-7 with no jobs could certainly have been doing this with him basically since birth. I mean it's hardly a novel concept that parents TALK to their children. Then Carlin shows this paper they gave them about language facilitation and again it's things like play with your child, talk about what you are playing, talk to the kid about what you're doing all day and have them repeat words etc. Yet knowing these idiots he will get speech therapy 1 hr per week or whatever insurance covers; or if they don't have insurance that covers it - they'll do it whatever number of times until the story line gets old for IG and YT. And they'll do nothing at home along side. Like they'll expect that 1 hr weekly to magically fix everything. And it's so sad to see it but these kids are sooooo happy with medical professionals. I mean Zade was all smiles the entire time and wants to go back. It's not unlike when Alyssa's ignored daughter Zoey had to go to the ER bc she felt heart palpitations. Drs. quickly determined there was no danger and she was all smiles as the nurses gushed over her, got her stickers etc and she was similarly happy going to the cardiologist to follow up as the dr paid all kinds of attention to her. Leads me to think these kids get so little attention at home that any kind adult paying attention to JUST them - not their siblings - without a camera in hand is a big deal to them. These kids so desperately need to be in a school with teachers who'd pay attention to them every day 6 hrs per day, whereas their own parents can barely look up from their phones to toss them some Doritos for lunch.

So they bought a new Tesla to replace the other one. Yet they're soooo busy and important they Uber-ed to Chattanooga to pick up the Tesla. While they say they had a ride, if it was a friend or brother, no way would both of you be sitting in the back as your chauffer drove. Uh they do have another car - most people would drive that one for the 2 hr ride and then each person drives back one car. But then you can't film content together on the way back . . . Plus it's only poor ppl who'd care enough to save on a $150 uber . . . . And awesome respect for the new possession they (or Layla) worked so hard to buy. On the trip home, they had to stop at Arbys to get chicken nuggets and whatever else. Uh you really need to eat in the car on your first trip in a brand new car?? Are you toddlers who simply can't wait a few hours for food, so you must christen the new car with chicken grease and crumbs ASAP? Is there a video of K&T's new house? I can't imagine it's sitting well with C&E that K&T lived in an apartment for barely 6 mos and then walzed into a 500k house. Granted Trav has family money - in the form of some made up position that his family's school probably throwing off 250k in salary for him - on top of the fact that I think their YT, IG etc. has more views than C&E and they appear to advertise for bigger companies than C&E. But still in the sibling competition, it can't feel great that K&T and J&K are definitely better off financially. I know J&K haven't moved yet but they've purchased land and likely will have a forever custom built home. Cue a pregnancy for C&E to take some attention away and/or whining about how this is just a starter home and they feel they're outgrowing it already - despite dropping $$ on their monstrosity of a backyard 2 seconds ago.

And posting content this morning from the Biltmore in Asheville NC - as that mansion is all decked out for Christmas. I get it it's kind of a local trip for them - prob 2-4 hrs driving. But WTH you JUST got back from Dubai, needed and IV on Saturday and you need another trip?? Apparently there were there yesterday/last night as people are commenting on her IG that they met her last night. . . . Guess that's what happens when you need to generate a living via content, you need to keep doing things so people watch. Who is this Sophia Hill person? Tags her in the Biltmore pics and mentions her as a friend but come on do these people have friends for real? Is that another IG influencer that they're cozying up to?

So Dubai was officially a snoozefest? They posted so little content while there - and I'm sure Visit Dubai was thrilled bc they'd post minimal content and tag Visit Dubai in the smallest possible font in unreadable colors often in places where you can't click on IG. I assume bc they got so much criticism of their trip, selling out their kids to become influencers to get free trips like this - they were trying to keep it low profile and act like it was a vacation? And I'm sure they were pissed bc they were totally reading comments while there and while they likely hoped everyone would be sooo impressed and jealous, more than half the commentors were annoyed and/or like I'm done with you, you're fake. We know they were reading bc Carlin was liking the nice comments and replying to the - where did you get your outfit comments - lol But aside from spa days and eating lots of pizza and pancakes at the hotel and going to various buildings nearby to see the view, it seems like they spent a few hours in Old Dubai with Carlin half heartedly saying - oh Dubai isn't just skyscrapers, it has history and culture too?? Said as if they totally did not care about said history and culture - which they didn't. They basically walked around old Dubai taking pics of themselves. Then they went to the desert and cosplayed Aladdin - more pics of themselves. And then they were done. I mean seems like they spent their last evening at Top Golf Dubai eating nachos - you know what they do on every damn double date with Trav/Katie in Knox or when hanging with his family in Nashville. I'd def travel halfway across the world to play golf and eat nachos at the same chain that's 15 min from my house. 🙄 Only mildly interesting part of the trip was the guy hitting on Carlin pretty much ready to ask her up to his hotel room and Carlin basking in it. In case you missed it - I think the original IG reel is on Reddit; what they have on IG of it now is very edited bc the original got soooo many comments re Carlin having heat with this dude. They made this huge deal about how they were getting together with a local in Dubai. Turns out he's an American living in Dubai prob working for Dubai tourism (fixed that in the edited reel). He takes them to sushi. Carlin does her usual omg sushi, raw fish, IDK, I've never had it, I'm such a dumbass I can't even hold chopsticks. Carlin is sitting between this dude and Evan and the dude is 100% flirting - egging her on to try stuff, mocking her, leaning in her direction. And Evan - the gay bestie in his CRAAZY hat - totally is egging on the flirting, encouraging the guy to keep flirting?! He had zero clue that this guy was flirting with his woman and his woman was eating it up!? Can you imagine if it were Kelton - he'd have his hand firmly planted on Josie's ass to let the dude know he can talk, but he's the one hitting it later. Only these two can make Dubai boring. Though the IG today recapping the trip starts with Evan saying the Dubai tourism tagline - Habibi (meaning - my love) come to Dubai - in an Arab accent🙄. Guaranteed they learned not one other word of Arabic.

Rhetorical question with this family but can't anything EVER be private? K&T are in SC visiting Bill and Jane. Katie making a big deal about Harvey meeting his great grandparents. So Katie walks in and as always has to introduce herself to Bill - both she and Kelly who is there say, she's Katie, your granddaughter. Bill as always asks where they live and is shocked that they came from Knoxville so far away - as Katie explains they live where Dad - Gil - lives. And then there is a moment of lucidity bc after a pause where you'd expect he wouldn't remember he goes - Katie Grace you grew up on us. Like it clicked for a second who she was and he even remembered her middle name, which no one had said. Very sweet but IMHO a super private moment. And then the rest was him being out of it and they had to put that on IG too. Katie is making a big deal about Hailey talking to Papa Bill. Hailey is standing at the foot of his recliner laughing and making all kinds of noise and he doesn't even notice. Then at some point Jane says Bill look down, look at that baby, that's Hailey, she's talking to you. He looks down and notices the child and acknowledges there's a child there. I mean clearly he wasn't with it but gotta publicize that too . . . . Gotta earn that living. I don't watch their YT but I suspect the next YT will have lots of this; these are just the IG "previews" they've put out.

Jesus we're following her idiot sister eating pancakes in Dubai. But reality is so many of these people want to live like 22 yr old college kids. Oh the kid I was subletting my apt from is coming back from study abroad and brought his gf so I can't live there anymore oh ok well guess I'll go crash with mom for Christmas and then couch surf with some friends back on campus and see what opens up next semester. Uh hello Chad you are 37 with SIX kids, you're not 22 and single. And bc you are the owner of the penis in this family, you must provide and yeah that includes "distractions" (his words - that anything that isn't prayer and God is a distraction) like housing. And if you knew you could not or did not want to do that, then you should've let your wife continue to be a #bossbabe like Carlin and Whit. Yeah they're too worldly but ultimately it's their child exploitation on YT that keeps their boutique going and brings in IG income - your wife wanted to do that no, but as the penis owner you vetoed that and made her leave to live your godly path. I imagine Kelly is working the network now for some sweet church friend to come up with a house. But uh this is a family of EIGHT. The church friend houses are the cottage they lived in before or the duplex where Trace/his wife live now, where C&E lived before with 1 kid or the trailer that Bobby lived in when he moved to town before marrying Tori. I guess a church friend will come up with an option like that and they'll have no choice but to squash 8 people in a 2 bed and gush about how organized Erin is and space doesn't matter, it's about God and love. But yeah it's unlikely any church friend is offering up a 3 bed+ home or apartment to these people for free or for a few hundred nominal dollars/mo. I know they're divorced from reality but prices of everything are up these days. If you happen to own a rental home/apt. you are trying to make money on that - beyond your mortgage payment - bc that extra money will only help your daily life. If some time goes by and they aren't able to secure free/nearly free housing in Knox, I wouldn't be surprised if they're off to Oklahoma under the guise of - it's God's will that our kids know their other grandparents better - or to SC under the guise of - God laid it on our hearts to move in with Bill and Jane and care for them.

This continues to be the most boring trip ever. Thus far we've been treated to every angle of Evan and Carlin in their outfits while standing on the balcony pretty far from downtown gushing about the view. Last night was some dinner in the sky thing where you pretty much strap into an amusement park ride which lifts you 10 stories and eat dinner dangling up there. Uh guys old news Joe and Kendra Duggar did this on their honeymoon in Greece like 10 yrs ago - bc like you they too could not think of a thing to do in Greece so we had to watch them eat dinner . . . . And then breakfast this morning - I mean who doesn't travel all the way to the Arab world for pancakes, croissants, eggs benedict, and lattes like you can get in America. And tons and tons of footage of Carlin brushing teeth and doing her hair and getting ready every morning. Stay tuned for malls next I guess. I love to travel and can't imagine leaving the country and thinking the highlight was showering at the W hotel, a massage at the W, and pancakes . . . at the W!? And yes I mean to be rude but Evan and Carlin very much give off a roommate vibe these days. Like on these "fit checks" which I can't see any male doing, he comes across like her bestie girlfriend. They did one in the elevator (eff you anyone waiting for the elevator, we gotta do 5 takes to get this right, you can take the stairs) and they kissed and I've seen grandpas and grandmas kiss with more passion than that!?

Yep some kind of sponsorship with the W as she's mentioned the W 8000 times in one day. And did the W have pics of her kids up in the hotel room - lol - guess it's part of the - aww we knew we'd miss our kiddos sooo much, we had pics sent to the hotel to have them tacked up before we came. But lol totally worthwhile to fly around the world for a W hotel - which looks exactly like the ones in NYC and ATL - and the W spa which again they have in NYC; and to eat steak, fries, and margherita pizza and drink chamomile tea at night and hotel coffee on the balcony in the morning. Lol. I realize they're playing the awww we're jet lagged card. But I suspect we'll see one mall after the next as Dubai has a lot of those as well as meals at Ruth Chris, Cheesecake Factory, and McDonalds . . . all chains that have made it there. Can't imagine going that far and not eating kabobs and pita and hummus at most meals followed by Arab desserts and coffee and no you don't even need to go to hole in the ground establishments to get that - your hotel will have that albeit not the most authentic. But I can see Carlin yucking it up when she sees certain rice dishes are eaten by hand - though again - western hotel, you can still order rice and lamb and eat it with a fork. I mean this chick set up a camera on the plane so we could watch her eat dinner as if none of us have ever seen that process before. She takes one look at the first class dinner, wrinkles her nose, asks Evan what it is, he says cavier, she passes the plate over to him - and then we watch her butter bread as if no one in the world has ever buttered bread before. And she eats bread and fruit for dinner. Uh yeah so I don't see her ordering spicy kabobs anyplace. And btw you're in first class - if you don't eat seafood, why didn't you order a meat or vegetarian meal?? I know they need to be "on the go" to stay relevant as influencers. And I actually watch a lot of travel IGs esp since covid as I'm less comfortable jumping on a plane and going. Uh they're still boring?! Maybe not to fundies I guess. But their travel compared to legit anyone else - even people who do it lower budget - is boring . . . . I'm not fascinated by you going to the spa and eating bread and butter and pizza, I do those things myself. I want you taking me around an old city and random popping into some book store or some pastry shop as I admire how old it all is, the architecture etc.

So these two morons are headed to Dubai, first class. Lol. It's the hot place for influencers now - they'll all been flocking there in the last year since Beyonce did the concert there for the opening of the Atlantis hotel. Wanna bet they had to look on a map to see where Dubai even is and they seem like the types who prob don't realize it's not a country, it's a city. I mean the Middle East . . . Muslims, omg. But fear not you can make your Dubai experience 1000% western so all they're going to do is eat in hotel restaurants, which will have any type of burger or pizza you want, and go to the luxury shopping malls gawking at how shiny they are and how high end the goods are. They ain't stopping by a mosque for a tour or to Old Dubai for a tea and Knafeh or to an old school Arab souk market where you see average ppl and ppl loudly haggling for goods in Arabic - though Old Dubai does have a touristy Sbux so we may see them there. Wonder who is comping this - they didn't tag the airlines so it's not free tix from Air France (and airlines tend not to be desperate for free advertising anyway so it makes no sense to give first class tix to these nothing influencers). Bc if they are laying out their own money and credit card points for this uh good luck bc the insta in Dubai trend is like a year old. No one is eagerly waiting to watch this as brand new footage. Oh and douchebag Evan got flagged for additional security at the airport. Uh maybe having a camera and mic around your neck was the tip off? You really can't even put that in the bag as you go thru TSA?

IDK how C&E don't look at Z&W's kids and feel like their own kids are a disaster. But then that would involve thinking about something other themselves and filming for 2 seconds. Which of Z&W's kids just had a birthday? IDK if it was the girl who is Layla's bestie or the other one. But the birthday child next to Layla was ridiculous. She is at least a foot taller than Layla. Beyond that just the way that she was saying thank you to Carlin/Evan for saying happy birthday and for her gifts seemed light years beyond where Layla is. Meanwhile Layla was pulling stuff out of the child's gift bag in the parking lot saying - we got you this, we got you that etc. - and as always you really couldn't understand what she was saying because even at nearly 5 she still doesn't speak clearly. Whit took her older kids plus Layla - who always arrives with her entire family of 4 - to Disney on Ice. Whit's kids sit there in their own seats watching the show. Layla OTOH is all over the place - in Carlin's lap, in Whit's lap, in her own seat performing animatedly for Carlin's camera. And of course bc no outing is complete without it, chowing down on a HUGE bag of cotton candy, while dropping pieces down the front of her dress, digging around inside her dress the way you'd imagine an 80 yr old lady on a sitcom digging around her brassiere to pull something out. All while Carlin films and is like omg she's such a mood 🙄. Interesting that Z&W's kids didn't appear to be snacking at all during the show. But then I imagine Z&W fed them lunch before the show and didn't expect snacks at the show to be lunch. I highly doubt Whit would deny her kids a treat at a birthday outing if they wanted it, but I guess since they aren't parented by being ignored and then having sugar thrown to them to shut them up -- they possibly don't want snacks all the time; or maybe they got one bag to share between 3 siblings, had a few pieces and gave it to mom to hold. And did anyone catch the recent IG with Zade standing outside the doctor's office? They're going on about how they found a new dr so the kid's checkup was delayed but the other one was too far. Too far? You're unemployed - is driving 15 min extra for your child that big of a deal? I'm guessing they are being dropped by providers when douchebag Evan comes with to a doctor's office with a camera around his neck and then they film in exam rooms, likely even after they are warned not to. It was interesting that this time we didn't get film of Zade snacking on the exam table or any other filming in the drs office. I'm guessing they decided not to chance it with the new dr on appointment #1. But Carlin makes this big production of - oh he's totally fine, dr. said he doesn't need speech therapy AT ALL, BUT we got him a speech therapy appointment anyway. SURE. We totally believe that you are going to spend $$$ on your kid's development if he doesn't need it. Meanwhile this kid is 2.6 years old and you cannot understand a word he says. She legit posted an IG this morning and according to her he is saying something like - I love you to the moon and the trees and the stars - you cannot make out one word of it. At Disney on Ice he was screaming out to Mickey Mouse - as Maa Maa. Layla was the same way at that age too and even at almost 5 not super clear. What on earth is going on in the household!? Wonder if they even know about the tariffs their boy has planned? Businesses that sell goods are planning for it - either expediting inventory purchases to buy more now or by trying to source inventory from other places.