Jessa, Ben and Their Brood: Making a (Diaper) Mountain out of a Mold House

[emma675]

How on earth did I forget Jessa has 5 kids now? I keep forgetting about the new baby, whose name I also can't remember. 

[ginger90]

6 minutes ago, emma675 said:

How on earth did I forget Jessa has 5 kids now? I keep forgetting about the new baby, whose name I also can't remember. 

George Augustine

[Gemma Violet]

3 hours ago, questionfear said:

Hungryroot isn't prepared foods, it's more of a meal prep service, they send you ingredients and recipes

Thanks, that's what I meant to say.  Brain fart. 🤪

[GeeGolly]

3 hours ago, emma675 said:

How on earth did I forget Jessa has 5 kids now? I keep forgetting about the new baby, whose name I also can't remember. 

Here's a visual for you.

[AstridM]

6 hours ago, questionfear said:

Hungryroot isn't prepared foods, it's more of a meal prep service, they send you ingredients and recipes; they're actually pretty good relative to Hello Fresh and the others, IMO. 

Isn’t Hungryroot the vegetarian/vegan one?

[Absolom]

No, they have many kinds of meat, poultry, fish, and seafood. One could order only vegetarian if one wished. 

[Madtown]

I will say that Spurgeon reads quite well, so there is that. That Christian time(or whatever it was called)was brutal. That's where I have to say, those poor kids. Their day just seems so boring. I could only think how much fun they would be having at a real school with FRIENDS. They did get to go to Lowe's, so at least they have field trips....

[oliviabenson]

I thought George was giving the finger.

[Absolom]

I believe Jessa had Spurge practice reading the story/passage before she began recording or it was already known to him.  That said, he seems on track for reading and memorizing and she is organized and calm with the children at least while filming.  Catechism is the rote memory work they did in the morning.  That's a gift from Ben's reformed view.  It's far too Catholic for IFB members.  

[oliviabenson]

The older 4 no longer have curly hair. 

What happened? 
 

I know what happened lol. It was fake curly hair.

[Salacious Kitty]

The boys inherited Ben's thick, straight hair. The girls? They skipped a generation. Their hair is as fine and wispy as Granny Guinn's. 

Edited May 15 by Salacious Kitty

[Joan of Argh]

Ivy looks so funny all bug eyed  listening to Jessa and the Catechism. 😳

meanwhile Henry and Fern clown around 🤡

 

[Natalie68]

17 hours ago, GeeGolly said:

Here's a visual for you.

The one staring at Spurge looks like she is plotting.  The other girl appears like she is looking at a booger.

[GeeGolly]

2 hours ago, Natalie68 said:

The one staring at Spurge looks like she is plotting.  The other girl appears like she is looking at a booger.

Ivy, staring at Spurge, is smart as a whip and is likely plotting something. Fern, who appears to march to the beat of her own low key drummer, is likely looking at a tiny fluff with the wonder of a toddler.

[farmgal4]

On 5/15/2024 at 1:18 PM, GeeGolly said:

Ivy, staring at Spurge, is smart as a whip and is likely plotting something. Fern, who appears to march to the beat of her own low key drummer, is likely looking at a tiny fluff with the wonder of a toddler.

Fern is unusual looking but a gorgeous little girl.  I don’t think she looks a thing like Ben, Jessa or any of her siblings.

[GeeGolly]

14 minutes ago, farmgal4 said:

Fern is unusual looking but a gorgeous little girl.  I don’t think she looks a thing like Ben, Jessa or any of her siblings.

I think Fern looks like Ben's sisters with a mix of Ivy.

[GeeGolly]

Speaking of Ben's family, his 20 year old brother was married in February and his sister Jessica had a baby in March.

[Salacious Kitty]

The bride, known on Instagram as @godgirlmyla, is all of 18. Hasn't even graduated yet. 

Edited May 20 by Salacious Kitty

[Madtown]

38 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

The bride, known on Instagram as @godgirlmyla, is all of 18. Hasn't even graduated yet. 

Good grief! How old is his brother?

[Salacious Kitty]

20.

[Fosca]

The bride doesn't look happy in that picture.  At all.  She looks resigned to her fate of being groped by that guy.  I hope I'm just misreading it.

[farmgal4]

17 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

The bride, known on Instagram as @godgirlmyla, is all of 18. Hasn't even graduated yet. 

Looking at her IG page, she seems to be an immature 18 year old.  About her wedding she says, “Funnest day ever!”  Call me Negative Nancy, but I don’t have high hopes for any longevity in that marriage.  The Ben Seewald children were in the wedding party.

[GeeGolly]

Ben's dad walked her down the aisle.

[Stevie Nicks]

I'm surprised that the bride is a person of color. She looks resigned to her fate in that picture. 

[AstridM]

1 minute ago, Stevie Nicks said:

I'm surprised that the bride is a person of color. She looks resigned to her fate in that picture. 

Her hair is absolutely fabulous! She does look resigned. 🥲

[Salacious Kitty]

Just now, Stevie Nicks said:

I'm surprised that the bride is a person of color. She looks resigned to her fate in that picture. 

Ben's sister Danielle is also marrying a POC. 

[Madtown]

Ivy turns 5 and Ben turns 29.

We see Ben open a box of candles, as he apparently loves candles. Usual opening of gifts for Ivy. One a day for a week.

My observations:

I don't think the kids feet are ever clean. I absolutely cringe with them playing outside barefoot with wood chips and whatever else is crawling around out there.

I always think Spurge looks scared or something to that nature. That and bored. I feel for the kid.

Ben is just eww. I don't know what it is, but no thanks..lol

I weep for all the kids futures.

 

[awaken]

Bin is only 29?! 😱 it feels like a lifetime!

[GeeGolly]

Just watched the video. The birthday part starts with Ben doing a commercial opening a box of candles of which at least 3 are a tobacco scent combined with others.

I don't know what Ivy likes and I don't think Jessa does either. Fern handles her jealously of all the gifts like a champ and says she thinks her birthday is "lost". George is barely shown.

The video spans one week - apparently not one of those days included bath day.

[AstridM]

18 hours ago, awaken said:

Bin is only 29?! 😱 it feels like a lifetime!

I’m sure he agrees!

[LilJen]

Does Ben ever smile? I guess I wouldn't if I got candles for my birthday.

Ivy is really quite cute when she talks to the camera, ratty hair be damned.

[libgirl2]

Not exactly Duggar related, but we were on vacation in Wisconsin awhile back and visited the Spurgeon Winery. 

[Gemma Violet]

Jessa just did an 11-minute video pushing a fitness routine called trainwell.

[GeeGolly]

Oh goodness. We were just discussing water safety in the Carlin Bates thread and now Jessa puts up a reel of her kids playing in a creek. The water doesn't appear to be very deep, but its running fast over rock and such. No life jackets and no adults near the 4 kids as they are running around.

[Joan of Argh]

At the beginning of the fitness video she gets George out of his crib.

wtf? Why are the footboard and headboard missing?

Edited July 3 by Joan of Argh
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[satrunrose]

What's the point of a crib that isn't enclosed on all four sides, exactly?

[farmgal4]

25 minutes ago, satrunrose said:

What's the point of a crib that isn't enclosed on all four sides, exactly?

That’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.

[ozziemom]

1 hour ago, Joan of Argh said:

At the beginning of the fitness video she gets George out of his crib.

wtf? Why are the footboard and headboard missing?

Well you know the Duggars do things a little differently….

[GeeGolly]

2 hours ago, Joan of Argh said:

At the beginning of the fitness video she gets George out of his crib.

wtf? Why are the footboard and headboard missing?

I noticed that too. Having one side open, although not really safe, makes sense if Jessa is still nursing, but it should be scooted over to her bed. Having two open ends makes no sense at all.

Its like a backwards bed - two sideboards, rather than a headboard and footboard.

I have yet to meet a 6 month old who is safe in a bed or half of a crib.

[ginger90]

2 hours ago, Joan of Argh said:

At the beginning of the fitness video she gets George out of his crib.

wtf? Why are the footboard and headboard missing?

You got some good screenshots. I kept rewinding to make sure of what I was seeing.  At first I thought ok it’s up against the bed with that side open kind of like a cosleeper situation. But no, it’s crazy.

[crazy8s]

Hasn't Jessa proclaimed she is a minimalist or something? Seems extreme to use that logic for a crib.

[CalicoKitty]

Maybe they lost the crib parts in their last move and decided not to replace them.  But doesn't the crib need all the sides to be stable?  Remember, she lets one kid sit in the refrigerator and thinks its funny, so maybe a kid falling out of the crib is funny, too.

[satrunrose]

Originally I thought it was wedged in so that the other furniture made an impromptu head and footboard, but there's enough of a gap for the baby to get tangled up or stuck quite easily.

[Sweetpea12]

9 hours ago, Joan of Argh said:

At the beginning of the fitness video she gets George out of his crib.

wtf? Why are the footboard and headboard missing?

 

9 hours ago, Joan of Argh said:

wtf? Why are the footboard and headboard missing?

She's probably started training Ivy & Fern to be sisters moms so they need easy access to the baby.

 

 

[emma675]

4 hours ago, satrunrose said:

Originally I thought it was wedged in so that the other furniture made an impromptu head and footboard, but there's enough of a gap for the baby to get tangled up or stuck quite easily.

Yeah, if he falls in between the bed and the wall and Ben/Jessa fail to wake up, that's a dangerous situation. I'm sometimes amazed all of the Duggar children and grandchildren have made it out of infancy and childhood. They claim to love children so much but they don't always keep them as safe as they should. 

[CalicoKitty]

3 minutes ago, emma675 said:

Yeah, if he falls in between the bed and the wall and Ben/Jessa fail to wake up, that's a dangerous situation. I'm sometimes amazed all of the Duggar children and grandchildren have made it out of infancy and childhood. They claim to love children so much but they don't always keep them as safe as they should. 

Remember Jill showing how to put perch a car seat on an umbrella stroller?  She took a lot of heat for that, if I remember correctly.  Jessa has been raised being taught how to do a lot of dangerous things.  I'm sure she didn't give it a second thought.  Nothing seems to happen to any of the kids.  And if the baby gets stuck, she will be sure to video it.

[Gemma Violet]

Someone in the comments asked her about it and she said the ends of the crib are plexiglass.  Cribs with plexiglass on the ends?  Is that a thing?  I never heard of it. 

eta:  I looked it up on Amazon.  Yes, apparently it's a thing.  

 

Edited July 3 by Gemma Violet

[ginger90]

Ok so let’s move on to the fact that it’s in front of a window providing a windowsill as a step, and blinds or a shade for passing the time.

[GeeGolly]

Plexiglass without a smudge, speck of dirt, or reflection? Maybe the crib comes with plexiglass, but I have a hard time believing its inserted in that crib.

[Notabug]

4 hours ago, GeeGolly said:

Plexiglass without a smudge, speck of dirt, or reflection? Maybe the crib comes with plexiglass, but I have a hard time believing its inserted in that crib.

Online ads for the crib show the ends to be remarkably transparent.  However, there is no way George isn't big enough to make it to the end of the crib and smear baby juice all over everything, not to mention the rest of his siblings getting their grubby paws all over it.

It seems like this kind of crib is meant for daycare centers where an attendant is watching over multiple infants since it gives them the ability to keep all of them in view at the same time. Not seeing much of an advantage with a single baby at home..