Joe & Kendra: Looking Forward To Side Hugs

[Portia]

Whoops, sorry Addison... I had totally forgotten that you exist.

Edited November 3, 2020 by Portia

[ouinason]

That baby sure loves her grandpa Caldwell.  

[SMama]

17 minutes ago, ouinason said:

That baby sure loves her grandpa Caldwell.  

Probably because he isn’t a bracing donkey. Still, hateful beliefs.

[PikaScrewChu]

7 hours ago, emmawoodhouse said:

It's Addison's birthday and Mommy is knocked up again! 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGh3G2lDiW/?igshid=1tl88ubhpy2ik

JoKen #3 should expect the same at their first birthday as well. 

[emmawoodhouse]

8 minutes ago, PikaScrewChu said:

JoKen #3 should expect the same at their first birthday as well. 

Yup. Kendra will be knocked up pretty much solid for the next 20-25 years. 😥

[Temperance]

4 hours ago, BitterApple said:

Mike Caldwell looks younger than the majority of the Duggar boys. 

Kendra's father is Paul Caldwell. Her oldest brother is Micah Caldwell.

Ben's father is Mike Seewald, and Anna's father is Mike Keller. 

[awaken]

Too many mikes!  And we also have Michael Smuggar, and Michaela Bates! 

[madpsych78]

I can't get over the last pic with the four generations of Caldwell women. Mostly because Christina's mother (mother in law?) looks so young to be a great grandmother!

[emmawoodhouse]

I believe Christina's mother was also a teen mom.

[CalicoKitty]

I will repeat myself from a previous post:  Kendra always looks so clean and put together.  And happy.  She comes across as a nice person.

[Snow Fairy]

11 hours ago, emmawoodhouse said:

It's Addison's birthday and Mommy is knocked up again! 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGh3G2lDiW/?igshid=1tl88ubhpy2ik

Nice set-up for photos, but couldn't they at least iron the white sheet or whatever is behind them?

And last picture - Kendra just has to show that she is pregnant again, right?

[Temperance]

4 hours ago, madpsych78 said:

I can't get over the last pic with the four generations of Caldwell women. Mostly because Christina's mother (mother in law?) looks so young to be a great grandmother!

Why didn't they include Garrett in that photo? Is he taking the picture? 

[GeeGolly]

1 hour ago, Temperance said:

Why didn't they include Garrett in that photo? Is he taking the picture? 

Its a generation picture. A picture of 4 generations of the women. Folks take the same picture of men all the time too.

[andromeda331]

9 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

Its a generation picture. A picture of 4 generations of the women. Folks take the same picture of men all the time too.

Yeah, we did one with my dad, brother and nephew.  It done exactly the same way as the one done years ago with my great-grandfather, grandfather, my uncle and my brother and our uncle's two sons. My grandfather died a couple years before I was born so its one of the few pictures we have with Grandpa and all his grandchildren at the time (my brother was two when he died). There's other pictures with all the women. Grandpa, Mom and my brother. Later when I was born pictures of great-grandma, grandma, Mom and me. Its kind of nice especially after they've passed away.

[Quof]

In 18 years, they will take a 5 Generations of Females photo.   They may even get to a 6 Generations photo.

[ouinason]

8 hours ago, Snow Fairy said:

And last picture - Kendra just has to show that she is pregnant again, right?

Honestly, I didn't notice her bump behind the highchair at all until I went looking for it.

[Snow Fairy]

I was thinking about the position of her right hand, under the belly

[iwantcookies]

Addy sure is acute and happy baby ! 

[BigBingerBro]

[Churchhoney]

23 hours ago, Madtown said:

What's with these families throwing food on a table? Jill R does the same thing, even at restaurants. Are they having green beans for a snack, while I assume the adults are possibly playing cards? That just looks so unappetizing.

 

This explains the food practices of most of the young adults/parents in this mob. 

 

[MargeGunderson]

I don’t get it either. Most of the Duggars use paper plates so it’s not like they are saving themselves the trouble of washing the dishes. 

[xwordfanatik]

1 hour ago, Churchhoney said:

This explains the food practices of most of the young adults/parents in this mob. 

 

That table looks like it might be painted with lead paint.  Even if it isn't, geez.  Why don't they use a plate?  How lazy.

[Scarlett45]

56 minutes ago, xwordfanatik said:

That table looks like it might be painted with lead paint.  Even if it isn't, geez.  Why don't they use a plate?  How lazy.

Or a napkin? Or a paper towel? Who eats directly off of a table?

[Churchhoney]

3 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:

Or a napkin? Or a paper towel? Who eats directly off of a table?

I see two little boys who'll be trying to do it for the rest of their lives. Good luck to their wives if they don't also come from this same mini-community who do things different. 

Although maybe we should be grateful it's not the floor. 

Edited November 4, 2020 by Churchhoney

[emmawoodhouse]

I get that kids throw plates, but yeah, even a paper towel would be better than nothing.

[ouinason]

actually you can end up with much more of a mess when you put out paper plates and napkins and such.  the kids will yank them off the table and either throw the whole thing on the floor (accidentally) or put the napkin or paper plate in their mouths.  I do get why they would choose to do this at some casual family thing.  Now, not at a restaurant, because ew the germs, and certainly not wet foods because, again, ew.  That's a cracker or Puffs trick.  We do the same with my nieces and cheerios in their high chairs (AT HOME).  

[GeeGolly]

How about putting the clip-on high chairs in the middle of the table, across from each other. A couple more pounds each, an adult leaning on the end of the table and the table is going to flip.

My kids always ate any kind of wet, mushy, or cooked food off a plate or out of a bowl. Kids are these folks' jobs. Invest in some kid friendly dishes. They make plates and bowls that have suction cups, weighted cup like bowls that are like Weebles and "don't fall down", or at least put plastic placemats down. Nothing like having your kids eat off a roughed-up, painted table.

And if your worried about messes and spills, stop having kids.

[Absolom]

7 hours ago, ouinason said:

We do the same with my nieces and cheerios in their high chairs (AT HOME).  

Putting food directly on a high chair tray at home, especially for six to twelve month old infants, is a really common thing.  The high chair trays these days usually have a liner that is dishwasher safe so they're made to have food go directly on them.  All most of them need are some plastic or other unbreakable bowls for the kids.  With the number they have or expect to have, everyone in the family should have at least one or two sets. One set of bowls was small and light enough that my daughter kept a couple in the diaper bag and used those in restaurants until the kids were getting a child's plate.

 

[65mickey]

I raised 2 daughters and I have fed my granddaughter many times when she was young. It never occured to me to throw food on a table or high chair tray and walk away. Also don't remember having a child throw the plate on the floor or stuff a napkin their mouth. But I was usually sitting right next to them while they ate That is when they were young like these children. The thought of eating food off a table is pretty off-putting to me. 

[doodlebug]

2 hours ago, Absolom said:

Putting food directly on a high chair tray at home, especially for six to twelve month old infants, is a really common thing.  The high chair trays these days usually have a liner that is dishwasher safe so they're made to have food go directly on them.  All most of them need are some plastic or other unbreakable bowls for the kids.  With the number they have or expect to have, everyone in the family should have at least one or two sets. One set of bowls was small and light enough that my daughter kept a couple in the diaper bag and used those in restaurants until the kids were getting a child's plate.

 

My mom used to put 'finger foods' like grapes or cheerios directly on the tray of a high chair; but not on the bare table, especially where everyone else was eating. Yuck!  She also never would've put wet green beans from the can on a bare surface.  Maybe fresh, uncooked green beans, but I don't recall her ever giving those to us either.

There is no reason that their food should not be on a plate or in a dish rather than spread out on a table where others would eat.  There are plenty of dishes made specifically for toddlers.  Get an unbreakable dish with the little cups on the bottom.  Problem solved.

[truebluesmoky]

They also sell plastic, disposable, adhesive baby placemats for use in restaurants... not that I’m personally advocating for more plastic in our landfills, but the Duggars don’t care about that sort of thing.

[emma675]

Is putting a kid's food directly on the table a thing now? Didn't we see crazy Jill Rodrigues putting salad with freaking dressing right on a restaurant table for her toddler? It's so weird and unhygienic and sad. 

[louannems]

On 11/3/2020 at 7:44 PM, emmawoodhouse said:

I get that kids throw plates, but yeah, even a paper towel would be better than nothing.

With all the babies these people are constantly producing, shouldn't they have a stash of toddler plates and bowls?  I remember the bowls that stuck to the high chair tray with suction so the kid couldn't throw it.

Edited November 5, 2020 by louannems

[Churchhoney]

3 hours ago, emma675 said:

Is putting a kid's food directly on the table a thing now?

It's a thing with idiots, clearly. 

It's just more of the same for this gang. When have we seen any of them--especially JillR--behaving like a person of average competence and sense? About anything? 

Wet food on a table that looks as if its paint is peeling off or on a restaurant table seems to be par for the course with this crowd. 

 

Edited November 4, 2020 by Churchhoney

[HahYallDoin]

On 11/3/2020 at 2:16 AM, Snow Fairy said:

Nice set-up for photos, but couldn't they at least iron the white sheet or whatever is behind them?

And last picture - Kendra just has to show that she is pregnant again, right?

I’m just 🙄🙄🙄 at Kendra literally being barefoot and pregnant. At the TTH too, where I can just *feel* the dirt through my screen. Christina is practically BF&P too, with flip flops on. I wonder if the Caldwell women switch to actual shoes once they can no longer breed for Jesus. See - great grandmother. 

*I have no issue with flip flops as I live in the Deep South where we can, weather wise, wear them 12 months out of the year. It’s just that Christina has worn them on screen so. damn. much when she’s expecting. It’s almost as though it’s in their ‘jean(skirts)’ 😂

 

Edited November 4, 2020 by HahYallDoin
Subbed a word.

[Snow Fairy]

Kendra is barefoot? I actually did not notice that. Too much other things distracted me obviously

[dargosmydaddy]

18 hours ago, Churchhoney said:

I see two little boys who'll be trying to do it for the rest of their lives.

I think that's actually Addison on the left. (I know the blue bib on a Duggar should equate to boy and there's no convenient bow to help out, but there's a pink sleeve visible underneath, and it looks like her face.)

[dargosmydaddy]

18 hours ago, Churchhoney said:

I see two little boys who'll be trying to do it for the rest of their lives.

I think that's actually Addison on the left. (I know the blue bib on a Duggar should equate to boy and there's no convenient bow to help out, but there's a pink sleeve visible underneath, and it looks like her face.)

[Churchhoney]

51 minutes ago, dargosmydaddy said:

I think that's actually Addison on the left. (I know the blue bib on a Duggar should equate to boy and there's no convenient bow to help out, but there's a pink sleeve visible underneath, and it looks like her face.)

Yep, it's Addison. I realized that a while after I wrote it! Sorry, Addison. It's gonna be your husband who'll be grossed out when you throw wet food on the table and expect someone to eat it.  

Edited November 4, 2020 by Churchhoney

[DangerousMinds]

8 hours ago, 65mickey said:

I raised 2 daughters and I have fed my granddaughter many times when she was young. It never occured to me to throw food on a table or high chair tray and walk away. Also don't remember having a child throw the plate on the floor or stuff a napkin their mouth. But I was usually sitting right next to them while they ate That is when they were young like these children. The thought of eating food off a table is pretty off-putting to me. 

I don’t have kids, but my mom never just threw food on a table. FFS.

[floridamom]

I have yet to see a photo or video which shows an adult properly feeding a child in this family. I would never have dumped food on a table and walked away expecting my child to fend for themselves and try to figure out how to feed themselves. I think this is their method. A small child needs to be FED by an adult and TAUGHT how to eat properly with proper utensils made for little children....this is like feeding the chickens in the yard....just throw the feed out on the ground and let them fend for themselves. No wonder none of the Duggar children have any table manners and some lick their plates clean. (I would worry that my child may choke on their food if not attended to.)

[ouinason]

Well, they didn't just drop food and walk away, they were right there with them.  And picking up food and feeding themselves is an important developmental skill.  It's gross, but they aren't neglecting the babies or anything.

[PikaScrewChu]

19 hours ago, louannems said:

With all the babies these people are constantly producing, shouldn't they have a stash of toddler plates and bowls?  I remember the bowls that stuck to the high chair tray with suction so the kid couldn't throw it.

That's a staple of baby shower registries. I know I've bought a few of those over the past couple of years.

They're a strange lot. It's not like they're in a position where there aren't going to be infants and toddlers roaming the house for generations to come.

[Dehumidifier]

When my nephews were babies my sister-in-law put Cheerios and the like on the high chair tray and they fed themselves just like these babies are doing. They are too young to use utensils.

[GeeGolly]

15 minutes ago, Dehumidifier said:

When my nephews were babies my sister-in-law put Cheerios and the like on the high chair tray and they fed themselves just like these babies are doing. They are too young to use utensils.

I think we all agree, a highchair tray is better then a public restaurant table or a wooden painted table. One of my kids took a little longer to feed themselves. They actually held the fork/spoon in one hand and ate with the other. It didn't stop me from giving them plates, bowls and forks and spoons to eat with though.

Addie may be a little young to feed herself with a spork, but her brother and uncle should be able to.

[Dehumidifier]

I couldn't pick up a string bean with spork. You must know very dexterous babies.

[Tasya]

I don't have an issue with food on home tables that have cleaned. Completely different than what JRod does with public tables. I always put stuff right in front of my son either in a highchair or at the table when he was that young. Adding utensils and/or bowls/plates just didn't make sense with finger foods. 

[GeeGolly]

1 hour ago, Dehumidifier said:

I couldn't pick up a string bean with spork. You must know very dexterous babies.

Cooked green beans were actually one of the easy foods to eat with a spork. They'd often spilt and stayed on the spork or mushed up and stuck to the spork. Corn on the other hand was nearly impossible to get on a spoon or spork. Definitely easier with fingers. But both the corn and green beans were served on a shallow plate or in a bowl.

[rue721]

I don't mind babies eating with their hands, but it genuinely wouldn't occur to me to dump food on a table like this.

Yet again, I'm bewildered because I am apparently more careful and formal with my dog than these people are with their children.

[ozziemom]

1 hour ago, rue721 said:

I don't mind babies eating with their hands, but it genuinely wouldn't occur to me to dump food on a table like this.

Yet again, I'm bewildered because I am apparently more careful and formal with my dog than these people are with their children.

And you probably pay more attention to your dog than they do to their kids.