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Monday, May 14, 2012
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Dad shows up with “Butterball,” which is not the turkey but instead a little lamb. Awww. Aly’s routine is with the lamb while Gia’s is with a turkey. That sounds like a recipe for disaster as well as therapy when the kids hit puberty.
Kelly says at this pageant they will have the most unusual pets. “We’re going to win…we ALWAYS win,” she says, jinxing it to high heaven. Then the lamb pees on the rug and they all laugh.
Looks like she won ultimate grand supreme already, so let’s go for drinks!
In Conway, Arkansas, we meet another karate-chopping kid, Kali, 5, and her mother Chante who calls her a “Pageant Ninja.” Excellent. “I’m going to chop the competition!” Kali says.
Wonder Twin Powers, ACTIVATE!
Kali has won talent in every competition because she’s a yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do – or because from the looks of it, she practices and knows her shit. Kid really has some confidence and she’s adorable.
“Kali has never won big titles, so we’re looking forward to winning that grand supreme,” Chante says. I don’t get this logic – she’s neverwon a big title so you are looking forward to winning a big title? Isn’t this an example of the insanity definition? Keep doing what you’re doing and expecting different results?
Another nice mom! T&T, you’re killing me here!
During practice, Chante tells Kali to smile and “Show ‘em your silver teeth.” She explains to us that Kali has silver teeth, “And of course I did too when I was younger,” she laughs. Now I totally thought she had braces because I had those old silver ones that wrapped all the way around your teeth (ah, those were the days of metal-mouth-mania), but it turns out her baby teeth are capped in silver.
Sorry, this photo just cracked me up. She is totally going to be a CEO someday, I can tell.
As many of you mentioned, this could be from her baby teeth rotting from formula and falling asleep with the bottle in her mouth. That is horrifying! I had not heard of that outside of Mt. Dew mouth, so this kind of grossed me out. And it’s kind of sad, especially if it happened to Chante and she didn’t learn from it for her kid. I mean…doyeeeee.
No fair! My braces never did this!
Chante tells Kali to get Buster the dog out of his crate, then she tells us Kali’s talent is doing Tae Kwon Do to Kung Fu Panda. What the hell is that? If she had said Hong Kong Phooey, I wouldn’t have had to look that up! Chante says adding the dog makes it more exciting. Wait, is she going to chop that dog in half?!?!?
Buster is a shitz tzu who wags his tail and seems pleasant until all of a sudden he goes grumpy old man on our asses and growls and snaps. My kind of dog. I’d be kind of pissed too if some dumbass kid was yanking me all over the place with a leash.
Kali says she wants to win the Me and My Pet pageant, but Buster “stresses me out.” Maybe he hates that camouflage shirt you have on him.
Back in Twin Citytownville, Kelly wants to go through the Closet of Mayem, Foolishness and Glitter, otherwise known as pageant dress hell. She tells us she spends a lot of money on the things the girls need. No – it’s actually what you want them to have. What they need is food, shelter and a good education, not Bedazzled thousand-dollar dresses.
“I’ve probably spent a half a million dollars or better on pageants at this point,” Kelly admits without one ounce of embarrassment. Now I am not a bleeding-heart liberal by any means, but I can tell you she could have done a lot better with that money. Those kids could be fluent in Mandarin right now or she could have donated that money to the Save the Lambs from Stupid Pageants fund.
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I rewatched this episode yesterday so I’ll throw out a comment. I got the impression that Carl was a farm hand that they called a bodyguard? Did we see him at the hotel or did he get left behind at the farm with the broken down bus?
I doubt Kelly spent $8000 on the dress. You can call it a $8000 dress, that could be the high blue book value. I drive a $40k car which is what the dealer said it was worth when it was first sold. The first owner only paid $35k and I paid $18k for it used. oh well anything to get more tv time.
I loved Karley and her snake. She loved her pet so much. It also seemed a lot less messy than the farm animals. Who wants to stay in the room the turkey crapped in? What kind of back woods state let’s livestock run loose in the rooms? Only in Arkan-Sauce.
I have to say, I HATE those dresses where the top sticks out over the skirt, I don’t know if it’s a style, or just an ill-fitting dress, but it is VERY inflattering…Beth wouldn’t play that shit! Even the $8,oo0 dress has this feature, so I’m guessing it’s on purpose, but I don’t like it!
Lamb that cries if you don’t cuddle it…fricking ADORABLE! I wish my cat would do that. I want that lamb!!!
Kelly, she would have pronounced your kid’s name right, but she fell asleep halfway through reading the damn thing and woke up on the next page…
Kelly is either the BJ queen, or she has some dirt on hubby (shady business dealings?) that prevents him from dropping her ass of at her bitch mom’s house, grabbing the kids and Carl, and leaving her ass for good!
inflattering? WTF? J-Low hijacked my hard drive…
Great recap Dear Tabby. I loved Kali and Karley. They WANT to be there and it showed while they were on stage. Chantel was knocked down a few pegs in my book when she mentioned Hollywood. With a few exceptions kids that go to Hollywood end up like Lindsey Lohan. Mom’s do you REALLY want that for your child. Please stop being fame whores.
These moms either play down what they pay for pageants or exaggerate the hell out of it which is where Kelly is at. $8,000 a dress my ass. Also, I dislike people who act as though they are being so put at when it is 100% their fault that they are in the situation. If having two girls compete at once is too much then alternate pageants. Or better yet allow Gia some childhood happiness and stop making her do something that clearly she does not want to do.
And please dumbass pageant parents stop advertising your children and where the live for every crazy person in the world. Seriously, a little common sense goes a long way in keeping your children safe.
Dearest Crabby, I would never miss the full recap
I love the ““Choose Heaven or Hell in 2012,” (I choose Hell, I’d rather be with friends)” I’m kind of the same, been there done that and when I formed a union they kicked me out seems I’m a little tiny bit too much trouble for them LOL.
Anyways, I too wondered about Carl, either he’s a farm hand or one of those relatives that you just have to take in cause no one else wants him. He seemed to be a bit “slow”, you know not the sharpest pencil in the box. I offically hate turkeys, the lamb was cute but all I could think of was, after the pagnent you’re days are number babycakes, dinner at 6. ( I don’t eat lamb by the way), Turkey well it’s okay but they are one of the dumbest animals.
Okay dogs and cats at a show okay but freaken livestock…bring on the pony to piss all over the room.
I’ve never been to the Southern States or to the East Coast US, and please someone tell me are these people for real or is this just a bad joke to pay on everyone so they don’t expect much when they come to visit.
T & T really needs to step up their game. We have had too many nice normal families lately with girls that want to do pageants. The saving grace is I really enjoy watching the girls that love it, they are really cute.
Btw, Katie it is not “kute” to watch a little girl rip off her skirt. It will never be cute regardless of outfit, routine or song. Seriously stop that.
Oh the bus… dear lord the bus. What are they thinking with that thing? Way to be the Pied freaking Piper of Pedophiles.
Crabby,Love it (as always). To honor the spirit of Bring Your Pet to Pageant Day, I was curious if we will get a POV recap from Dear Tabby as well?
I agree that the karate kid with the tinfoil mouthguard was awesome, but what’s with Buster as spaghetti and meatballs dog for her karate talent?
Maybe the doggy costume shop had already rented out the karate and General Tso’s Chicken costumes to a kid with an Italian chef talent.
The tags on the recap tell you everything you need to know…
(Also, hard to know who’s more pissed off: the pets subjected to noise, chaos, and tutus, or the poor employees who had to clean up after them. Clusterf*ck indeed.)
Buster had on a Panda costume. That Dog that had meatballs on its back was from a different child.
I think Gia needs to be added to the long list of Pageant kids that we all want to “watch” for the weekend. Butterball the Lamb was a total fatty, how could you not see that you had the wrong lamb when it put it in the bus? I blame Carl!!
DC you are so right in saying that Beth can make a better Pageant Dress…! I have seen pictures of some of the new dresses the girls have
I am not a snake fan, but Slither was pretty cool!
Lastly, I am thinking that this was Semi Glitz, in the fact that there were no spray tans, there were no flippers. Cause Kali, and her grill woudldn’t have done so well….Wait, there are to many K names…that was Kali right?
Great Recap as always! My DVR cut out, so I did not know that we get Mak next week….that should be interesting! Lets hope Juanna bought her a new dress, cause that white one she had on last time was to small…
Crabby, this was your best EVER. SO glad I have my office door shut while reading this! While reading your recap, I’m also enjoying a lovely pesto calamari lunch. OK, it’s actually wagon wheel pasta, but I’m pretending. You know, like most pageant moms do.
I totally want a spaghetti and meatballs outfit for my cats. Doubt it’ll stay on more than 5 seconds, but SO worth it.
Mak next week! Yay!
Kelly’s Lie 1. The $8000 dress that wasn’t. Lie 2. Putting a new wrap on an old bus and pretending they travel in rock-star style to all pageants. Since they ended up driving 13 hours in a rented van, the broken down bus may never have gotten out of the driveway. Lie 3. It’s not at all showing favoritism by dressing one child as BoPeep with a darling lamb and dressing the other as a Pilgrim with a turkey. Lie 4. Carl was a bodyguard. Not a chance. Lie 5. Her girls are mini-celebrities. Does she really think that just because she says it makes it true?
Karley and Kali were darling and well-prepared. I have a snake phobia due to the fact that there are 3 poisonous types on our ranch, so I am impressed with Karley’s affection for her snake. I do however think that pets don’t belong in pageants and if I knew where that hotel was, I would avoid it after seeing animals freely poop everydamnwhere. I pity the poor exhausted traveler who ended up there on that weekend.
I was so hoping you’d have a screen cap of the person holding their snarling chihuahua in front of the camera during a crowd shot!
Excellent fullcap, DCrabby! You hit every point that had me in full grimace.
I thought the relationship between the little girl and slither was so sweet– and he’d lost his crown! Must admit that I was a tad skeeved out by the snake in the Barbie house. I just don’t know. Maybe it’s a misplaced snake thing.
Crap! I forgot the snarling chihuahua pic! Next week…I did mean to put that in there, but sometimes I jump through the episode when I’m grabbing pics. That was hilarious!
Well. After several seasons of reading Crabby’s recaps, I’ve finally decided to post. Random thoughts about this episode:
* I really would love to know what hotel these families stayed in, so I can avoid the chain. I’m officially grossed out by the critter poo. That image of the crap on the bed is burned into my brain.
* Loved, loved, loved Karley, Crystal, and Slither. So many kinds of awesome.
* Maybe Chante was being a little flippant in her Hollywood remark? I hope so, because I really like her and Kali.
* I can’t believe the way Kelly spoke to her husband! In front of her kid! WTF is wrong with her? If my husband spoke to me that way, I’d be in a situation.
IDK snowshoecat, I would have been more skeeved if Slither was in her bed, more then Barbies Dream House.
If I were staying at that hotel the same weekend as that pageant, I would have lost my shit on the Manager! I would not want to have been the one staying directly above Kelly and that Lamb! Nor would I have wanted to be the person in that room after they left. There is not enough Lysol in the lower 48 that would make it ok to stay in that room again.
Is there protocol when it comes to Pageant weekends at these places…meaning that if MR Z and I were to take a trip somewhere, and we had to stay over night at one of these places, would we get, “oh hey, by the way there is a pageant going on this weekend, so don’t be surprised if there are 100 screaming kids under the age of 5 in the lobby all day long”… No grant you if Gabby and Beth were there, I would fork out the 20 bucks for a seat and watch, but other then that…probably not
There are some hotels that won’t allow pageants. All it takes is one person leaving a spray tan mess in the bathroom to ruin it for everyone. Livestock is over the top. I feel for the maid who had to clean up after the turkey.
Back to the $8k dress. If your kid has an $8k dress, why the hell aren’t you using it for beauty? You don’t do crowning in your blinged out glitz dress, you do crowning in your cute, comfy off the rack dress. I cringed a bit when I saw the poor kid curled up asleep in her dress.
Thanks@Buggs-I remember the panda now.
Carl reminded me of Steve Martins character in the jerk…
All I can say about this episode is Poor Gia. She obviously hates being fussed over and hates Tom the Turkey. Tom was the reason for almost all of the fits she threw during the episode. You would think that her lame-brained mother might have clued in that there would be a problem when her already-less-cooperative daughter had fits of jealousy over the lamb during PRACTICE. I can’t blame Gia, though, because if I was four and was anticipating looking like a complete loser with a turkey for a “pet” instead of a sweet little lamb, I would be pissed and uncooperative all weekend too.
Buggy, I think it was a matter of proportion! Just seeing a giant snake knocking furniture aside… Well, I just got a shiver. I was fine with him overall. I would rather have a room vacated by a snake than most of the other critters. And friends of ours got fleas once in a motel that allowed pets.
As for the pagaeant princesses, being in a pageant hotel would be no worse, I think, than sharing one with any number of sports teams. We have been in many and some kids are well-chaperoned and well- behaved, others not so much.
We had some cuties this week and I think overall normal kids. The difference is Karley and Kali LOVE doing pageants. I agree poor Gia was set to fail, pilgrim outfit and an ugly turkey…poor kid. Alysomedumbspellingofhername. was so miserable I felt her pain. She looked adorable in her Little Bo Peep outfit. There is no way that after watching Karley play and love all over Slither you gasmii that are afraid of snakes didn’t warm up just a smidgen. The crazy thing is…I think he liked it:). Kali was just so cute and confidant. She is pretty,poised, loves karate and loves pagaents…put them together and she’s ‘the total package’(yep I said it). Poor Buster, he just wanted to lay in his favorite spot and get feed treats all day. Instead he is locked in the carrier and he had strangers(crew from T&T) in HIS house. I’m so pissed with the spelling of Alexandra, such a pretty name to bastardize.
Stagemom, you are completely right about wearing the $8000.00 (BULLSHIT) dress for crowning. Mom is a loser!
Thanks, Crabby, for a great recap. I have had a weekend from hell and have been so upset – your recap made me laugh out loud and I feel so much better!
Free Tom!!!
I forgot to add, as a lover of all Bulldogs, I thought the tutu clad Bully was the best looking competitor at the pageant!
I forgot to add….”You don’t have to DO him, just walk him!” Bahahaha! Priceless!!!!!!!!
Ten minutes into the episode and Amy’s head has exploded…NEUTER THAT GODDAMMED BITING SHIH TZU YOU CLUELESS FUCKING MORONS! DAMN YOU DAMN YOU DAMN YOU UNEDUCATED ASSHATS WITH A SMALL CHILD AND AN AGGRESSIVE, UNNEUTERED DOG. IT CAN STILL BITE YOUR KID’S NOSE OFF!!!
Sorry guys. I think you all know by now what business I am in and this is KILLING me. Maybe there’s some explanation coming up. GRRRRRR.
Oh yeah, that doll in the dollhouse looks like a Justin Bieber doll… Can you imagine how incredibly happy the little exterminator girl from last week would have been if the snake had eaten the doll? Mission Accomplished!
Ah, dear crabby– you never let us down, and after 630+ comments on the mini, I wondered what more could be said. Carl the “bodyguard” scared the crap outta me, too. I have seen Gia do better on stage, but she is shy (I am guessing that is what Kelly was alluding to with “not in her personality”, and by 4, you can really tell if a kid loves it or doesn’t. Even if they’re “off” that day, a 4-yr-old who loves it won’t stand there and scowl. The most expensive dress I have ever seen was a bit under $3,000, and it was for a 12yr old with a long skirt (waaaaay more fabric involved) and covered with so many stones it looked like the Vegas strip. So I think it can be safely said that either Kelly over-inflated the price of the dress or the designer saw “sucker” written across her forehead and charged her triple what it was worth. Kudos to the “designer”, I guess. I get the feeling thatching pageant was semi-glitz, because no-one’s hair/makeup was overdone, and in a full-glitz pageant, poor Kali, though she rocked in every other way, would have been counted off for the teeth. Beauty supreme is usually 1 of 2 things– either highest (after higher supremes are pulled) score IN beauty(the event in the dress) or highest (again, after higher titles are pulled) score in facial beauty only. I LOVED chante’s attitude about the teeth, though– making it seem like a great thing. What a great mom to turn something Kali might be self-conscious about into something she is proud of. Good mom! I hope the reason it looked like buster was in a crate all the time was that they kept him crated to keep him from biting the film crew. I have a dog like that. My 15 year old mutt is awesome but he would bite a stranger with a camera in his face. Loved karley’s family (but please stop strangling that poor snake!!) and loved that (dad?) even brought a totally proper setup for him for the hotel.
Thatching= that this. Dumb autocorrect.
I did not see the coming attractions. Did they announce who else is going to be on the show with Mak? I always get super envious of Juanna. I want whatever she is taking, lol. I was discussing the parents behavior during filming with Beth on the minicap and said if she ever films again she needs to be more like Juanna
Speaking of Beth and her designs, I hope she joins us and shows us pics of the girls new dresses. They are beautiful. I love the design of Gabby’s and it looks great on her. The color is great on her as well.
Zoe’s lime green is shown briefly in beth’s episode, I think, during crowning. It’s gorgeous. I am actually going to have beth do my granddaughter’s next dress, I think.
PG, I think you mentioned that you saw Gabby’s new dress. I love it so much! I am not involved with pageants, to me the style is a bit different from what I have seen on the show so I don’t know if that is good or bad. I like it so much better than a lot of the typical dresses we have seen.
@CrisB83-Excellent!
I failed to mention Carl, there is no way he is their bodyguard. Carl is probably a ranch hand they convinced(with a bottle of hooch) to put up the front. Honestly based on his looks I would be terrified to have him anywhere near my children. I’m hoping his limited speech was due to a bit of stage fright.
I so want to see Slither wearing his crown:)
Not to nitpick, but does that child have a boa constrictor around her neck? As a snake enthusiast, I find that extremely dangerous. A snake that size or even smaller, if startled or frightened, could close off that kid’s carotid artery with not much effort.
Even with supervision it’s a BAD idea to allow kids to put their pet constrictors around their necks. Boas are nice snakes but they’re not smart enough to distinguish between a child, a source of food, or a potential predator. That’s just asking for a preventable tragedy.
We have 2 pet snakes. One is a ball python (like slither) and one is a red-tailed boa. Neither is allowed out of their tank without an adult present, the red-tail (small- about 6 ft) is required to have an adult pair of hands on her at all times.
Jennifer Lopez, please come back!
So I had to share. I ran a sale on my pageant- design page last week, and today I was ready to ship. I printed out my shipping labels, and one was “Jennifer Lopez”. I freaked out for a minute until I checked the address, and its not her. Thank goodness.
did anyone else notice that Kelly & crew where on Dr.Phil about a year ago??
Im looking back at past seasons of this show on netflix. I’m watching Southern Majestic in the second season. I think these girls were ‘shown’ (not followed obviously but some of the extra girls they show.) They showed an Aly (not spelling that name either hahah) for all 3 competitions and a Giavonna for outfit of choice. No way that combination could be anything but them.
as far as this goes, I was glad to see the Ball Python! I love Reggie (my work snake). They are amazing creatures and I’m glad to see one was shown so positively, even if I did make a face at some of her handling of the snake. But he’s probably used to it by now and just sort of brushes it off at this point in his life
I may have cheered out loud when Kali got beauty supreme. It’s a good title and I am glad she can go up there with her silver grill and be so confident and cute.
I popped Jill’s name into facebook and it came up with a listing for an upcoming Cheetalicious Pageant that will be filmed for T&T.
The criteria were “Beauty Attire: Contestants can wear Pageant, Flower Girl, Prom or Cinderella dress” which screams out “semi-glitz” – aka try to suck in the newbies even though chances are a glitz girl is going to win the big prize. I hate these kinds of pageants because the rules aren’t clearly defined and you don’t know what the judges are looking for. I can’t find anything else out about this system, maybe the other moms know more.
Most of the time when they are nor specific on dress, it’s a natural pageant (little/no makeup, no fake hair, no flippers, no spray tans) and try aren’t actually judged on their dress beyond fit/flatter (ie, does it fit, and does the color/design flatter the contestant?). When we have done those types of pageants, the winners have worb everything from a glitz dress to something they’d wear to church.
Ugh. Autocorrect– apple’s way of making people look like they are drunk texting when they are not! Lol.
Autocorrect = Apple’s way of thinning the herd.
I prefer systems that are more specific about what they want. If it’s natural and off the rack, then we wear natural and off the rack. If it’s glitz then tell us to go glitz. When the rules are ambiguous then you have moms who are mad because they went glitz and the winner was in an off the rack dress, or you have moms who are mad because they went natural and the winner was full glitz. And if you are really lucky they throw trophies and scream in a Russian accent leaving you with recapper’s gold.
So far, so good for us– her only “loss” was at a full glitz pageant on a really off day. We live in a northern state where glitz isn’t common, and most pageants are either really specific (ie, Sunday-best) or they don’t specify, because attire isn’t scored anyway, so we’re used to seeing it like that. My granddaughter does natural-full glitz and everything in between. As a side note, I KNEW I recognized chante/Kali from somewhere! We me them at crown beauties glitzy divas (madi, Adriana, and ever rose were followed).
“Alycendrau” or however she is spelling that name is not a misspelling of “Alexandra”, per se. It is a botched spelling of “Allesandra”, an Italian version of “Alexandra”. Neither Kelly nor her husband looked Italian to me, but “Giavanna” is a botched spelling of yet another Italian name, “Giovanna”, so maybe they are. Regardless, the stupid spellings are getting old. I feel sorry for these kids trying to learn to spell their names in Kindergarten.
Sorry kids, but having directed her over here the first time, I don’t miss that one trick pony. Our Gasmi are fun and snarky, and I don’t want somebody simply (as in simple-mindedly) throwing out obscenities and mean comments.
I know it generated lots of comments (wow) but I stopped reading because of the nastiness. It’s better when the discussion centers on the stupid moms who (however mildly) abuse their little girls by fulfilling their own dreams.
I responded in what I thought was a playful manner to a Gasmi On another post with whom I had been in a teasing match for quite a while, and with all the real fighting going on she was upset thinking she had hurt my feelings. We can’t be worried about offending somebody just because others do just that.
I prefer the light, snarky, well-directed slings and arrows of outrageous Gasmii.
*gets off soapbox*
Okay so fine. I stand alone in thinking that the turkey was A D O R A B L E on his little leash. Pecking at his little corn feed, ignoring all the screaming brats around him. awwwwww!!! Good boy Tom!
@Snowcat, I full agree with you, while she generated comments, they were mean and so off topic. While I have no problem with the F word or any words for that matter, I’m not sure what age group could be reading these comments. I don’t want to hear some 8 year old coming out with the C word to a friend. She really did try to turn everyone against each other. I too like the snark as I have that type of personality, dry sense of humor as well
I don’t care what nationality you are, where you come from, race, sex or anything what I do care about is that you treat me with respect and allthe Gasmii on here usually do that with each other. As you said “I prefer the light, snarky, well-directed slings and arrows of outrageous Gasmii.”
Crabby..what an awesome recap.
I giggle when you make the Jamie Sterling references.
I’m with you, @snowshoe, it was fun, but I don’t have the energy for it on every recap. I don’t want her back; A little crazy goes a long way. If I got called a cunt and a twat every time I posted, I think I’d have to flee the Gasmosphere, and that would make me sad…
I missed the preview fo this week too, had no idea Mak was coming back. I wonder if baby sis Madellie (“rhymes with Natalie”) will be competing any time soon. BTW, Guano, Makenzie does NOT rhyme with Lindsey! You can’t just make letters have sounds that they DON’T!!! The T&T baby name post could have had a whole chapter on Guano and her unique naming abilities, rolling her eyes every time someone pronounced Makenzie’s “e” like an e and not an “i!”
And yes, as someone else commented, she DAMN WELL BETTER have a new beauty dress! Hopefully she will have grown into her flipper by now and won’t look “like a bunny!” She nailed that one!
This week’s episode has Mackenzie, Damitri’ana (here we go…) and Lacy Mae…I didn’t see the preview but just know from my DVR description. I’m assuming it’s Mak attack but I’m sure there are other kids with that name. Not so much on the Damitri’ana situation, however. Hope she enjoys being a receptionist at a mani/pedi-sweat shop.
Well said snowshoecat
Hmm, that’s a different spelling, so maybe it’s not Mak after all…boo!
Dimitr…wait, where do I put the apostrophe…shit, I’m already bored.
I think the new t&t application requirements, besides whether or not you are willing to lie to your spouse (or the public in general) about how much you spend on pageants, and how crazy you are willing to be on camera (or really are– editing can only do so much), etc, they surely must now be checking how goofily you spelled your child’s name. I loved little Kali, but she’s going to spend the rest of her life explaining her name is pronounced “Kay-lee” and not “Callie”.
Speaking of bad baby names and gossip (I swear I’m not obsessed it was pointed out to me by another pageant mom) Alaska is going to be a big sister again. Mom posted asking for baby name suggestions and I wasted an hour of my life lmao over the suggestions from others. Razor, Princeton, Kingstyn…oh my. Apologies in advance if you have a child named Razor and you are offended by my laughing.
Razor. Might as well name the kid soapdish or loofah. I actually like the name Alaska. My sons went to daycare with a girl by that name (who was also blonde and blue-eyed). I’d rather an unusual name with a “normal” spelling than a common name with a “unique” spelling, but I realize that might be just me.
I vote Hicks. She already has Braxton.
Pheighdeaux…although maybe that is better for a dog?
@ash1 correct spelling would by Hyxx
H’ ikkz
Or she could stick with the state theme– rhode island has a nick ring to it.
Kelly is a horrible mother, I thought I was watching Jamie Sterling again. She loves one twin, the other- Not so much. How could she berate her child like that? What a sicko, I’d like to slap the shit out of her.
I can hear it now. “I’m Laurie. Me and my pageant prince Razor are gonna shave the competition at this weeks pageant!” Sorry, but I think Cutie Patootie has this one in the bag.
Nice
haha you guys crack me up! Braxton and Hicks would be awesome sibling names. I’m with the folks that have had enough of Jennifer L. All she would do is keep whining about how we’re picking on her child, and blah blah. And she seemed confused why so many of us remarked on her language. Is c*nt a common word to use where she lives? Sad
I loved Karley and Kali in this epi. Both cute and happy kids. Good for them for doing so well. Katie (of Katie’s Cuties) does a great job, but we need to find her business’s website and flood her with emails explaining why teaching little girls to strip is trashy. The girls she coaches all do well so there’s no need for that.
The mom of the twins was awful. I don’t care if people posted on the minicap that she doesn’t favor one over the other… as far as I can see, she does! I have two girls (not twins) and I would NEVER EVER say “I have one kid who is great, and one who is a brat”. Not jokingly, not on tv, not ever. That’s just terrible. Maybe she just needs to acknowledge that she has one kid who likes pageants and one who doesn’t. I think that it’s every parents job to appreciate each child for who they are, and to nurture their interests whether they match yours or not.
And since they’re sisters, why didn’t they both use the lamb? I’m sure it would have been fine – if their family had just one dog, that’s probably what they would have done. That turkey outfit was hideous.
I thought the turkey outfit was cute, but clearly Gia did not want to be up there with him (or at all, for that matter!). I agree they should have both used the lamb, or even let the “less agreeable twin” have first pick of which animal to use. Or, heck, save yourself a ton of money and just do pageants with the twin who enjoys them. She even said in the “Pre” interviews (if it really happened before– they often film that part after), that one really enjoys pageants and the other “it’s just not in her personality”. I know plenty of sibling sets where one does pageants (or soccer, or karate, or whatever) and the other doesn’t.
Exactly my point! You have to see your kids for who they are and figure out where they shine and what they love. My two girls are involved in different things and both are thriving.
My guess is that Kelly thinks Gia is the prettier twin so she wants her to stay in pageants. She prob thinks Gia has a better chance of being Miss America! (and we can all see how important pageants are to Gia…snort)
I really feel for Gia. I believe that Kelly enjoys the attention that comes with having twins which she would lose if only one gorl competed. I don’t understand these parents that have siblings competing against each other. We have seen it many times. Of course it could just be drama for the show. Even if they are in different age divisions in many of the pageants that are all up for the ultimate pizza with everything but the kitchen sink. That being said, if the siblings are truly okay with it then I would proceed with caution. I do understand that some familes travel a long was for a pageant and feel as though that it is worth it for 2 instead of 1.
I am the middle of 3 sisters, 2 years on either side. We all competed in baton twirling, though my older sister quit before my younger sister started, so only 2 of us competed at a time. Usually we were in separate age divisions, but occasionally we weren’t, and my mom always asked us first. We were aleays okay with it, because among the other lessons we had learned along the way was to cheer on our competition, even if that was our sister, and to win and lose gracefully.
Most pageants do offer a sibling discount, but even so, it’s not like “buy one get one free”. You save some on the entry fee, but you still have double the dresses and other outfits, etc. Pageants are such an insanely expensive hobby I will never understand the moms who insist on entering a child who doesn’t like them! Do they really wake up one morning, and say “I know, I think I’ll go broke AND torture my child! YEAH! Great plan!”. ??
It is always so obvious who wants to be there because they do great on stage. Usually the ones that really want to be there are typically the normal families we see. I loved watching Kali and Karley because they love pageants and it shows. I don’t understand the families that spend so much money on the kids that do not want to do pageants. What is their motivation?
@closetfan kids who hate being on stage don’t usually win. Eventually mom and dad get tired of wasting money and quit. Unless they are moneybag moms of twins.
This is true. At best, they may get queen, but you rarely see the kids who hate it end up supreming. The ones whose parents insist on doing it anyway, even if the kid clearly hates it, are often the sibling (twin or not, but I see it more with twins– as someone else noted, it may be the attention factor), being “dragged along”.
Candyass and her daughter come to mind. She can scream editing and set up all she wants but the bottom line her daughter yelled no for the entire episode. She did not want to practice or have her hair cut. She wanted nothing to do with pageants. Her parents bribed her the entire time. At the end while the whole world could read (except poor Eden) the writing on the wall her crazy ass mother was talking about the next pageant.
Does any one remember how Alexxessess did in the pageant? By the end I was just blocking them out.
She got overall American wear, which they didn’t show. They implied “sandy” was her American wear, but in the scene where they show her whipped parents caving and buying the stuffed puppy, she is wearing a r/w/b outfit.
I have to admit that I prefer animals to children. Not only am I against kids under 10 being in pageants, but please, spare the innocent beasts as well! The ASPCA should have been alerted to this travesty. Poor creatures. Buster the dog looks like he’s about 20 years old. The old guy probably has aches and pains, which being manhandled and stuffed in a crate don’t help. No wonder he’s growling and snapping. Turkeys really aren’t as dumb as people think they are (I have a hard time at Thanksgiving), but neither he nor his human partner are suited to the pageant life. The little lamb was adorable but should have been home with its mommy. I hope when one of those lambs grows up (if they aren’t eaten and garnished with mint jelly first), it becomes a big, tough ram and butts Kelly into the next county. Slither the snake is beautiful and cool enough (no limbic brain system, so no cares or woes) to be fine with everything. I loved him swirling around the Barbie Dreamhouse. I’ve never understood why non-venomous snakes are so feared. Their skin patterns and colors are gorgeous and cool to the touch. Outside of the squeezing/strangling-to-death thing, they aren’t going to do any harm. Why anybody would want a big python or boa as a pet is beyond me, though. They belong in their natural habitat. Besides, I couldn’t bear to send all those cute mice and rats to their demise.
My guess is that the motivation in some of these cases is that mommy wants a pageant princess and just stays blind to the fact that the daughter is miserable. Like Stagemom said, they prob figure it out eventually and stop. Either that or the child gets old enough to make their feelings known!
I have a hard time at Thanksgiving, too. I can’t figure out why we don’t just kill three turkeys per family, and then NOBODY would have to eat the dark meat if they didn’t want to.
I will say that though Candice was, well, an ass, and their parenting left much to be desired, if you really watch their episode, alexes really was edited pretty badly. Most of the times she screams “leave me alone” she is looking at the camera, and “several” of her tantrums appear to be parts of the same one, spliced apart. When they show her freaking out “after” her haircut, if you look, her hair hasn’t yet been cut. But you know it couldn’t have been all editing because Candice was all about the episode until someone on her fb pointed out how bad it looked.
Agree with Jazzy- case in point, “Miss Samijo Grace, Miss America, Miss United States, Miss Samijo Grace, YEAH!!” Beautiful child who frickin’ hates pageants…
The best part of that episode is when she was mesmerized by the swirly thing.
Is it weird or awful that I am seriously considering naming my daughter SamiJo Grace? Would me not putting her in pageants make it any better? Lol
SamiJo was a character on Dynasty, I do believe. My dad told me that when I asked him why he calls my cousin Samantha, SamiJo. I now call her that, just for fun
How much you wanna bet that Tricia named her something like Samantha Josephine Grace and that poor kid has like 2 other names tacked onto the end, and she just calls her SamiJo for the heck of it. SamiJo is a doll though, I can’t wait for the episode of T&T where SJ has a complete meltdown and Tricia doesn’t know what to do about it! Cause we have not seen SJ be an actual 2 yr old yet. No tantrums, no finger in the nose…nothing, just the fact that she is a 17 yr old stuck in a 2 yr old body…
I also thought the little girl that brought her goldfish was cute. I would never thing to bring my goldfish to a pageant!
Yes, Sami Jo was on Dynasty. So was Fallon, which was on my Top Five list when I was preggo…don’t worry, I had a boy!
ooh, should clarify. Fallon would have been for a girl. Little1 actually has a pretty generic boy’s name with normal spelling.
See Mr Z won’t let me name our boy(if we were to ever get preg) Roman. He doesn’t like that name. It is his middle name…Not sure if it is because it is Biblical or what…For a girl I would name her Terisa, after my late cousin..We have a long list of names that we can’t use either. So for me, it is hard, have a fun unique name, or give our child a long ass name
I would not say that My first name is a “unique” spelling, it is just uncommon-Alison. I get my name spelled wrong all of the time.
A friend of my just had a baby over the weekend and they named him Kellan. MR Z and I are more along the lines of, and again if we have babies, we will have a couple names picked out, then we will wait until the baby comes. Because what if we pick out the name and the baby doesn’t look like a “insertnamehere”.
Notwithoutmytv, I think I love you! You never fail to make me laugh!
How about Merlin for the name. I must add that I have a girl named Montana, one called Georgia and a boy named Dakota…..did I mention they were cats. :p
Did they have a kid named Samijo on Petticoat Junction? You know that show that spun off the Beverly Hillbillies
My poor kid’s inherrited a long, often misspelled/mispronounces last name from ther father (it actually looks exactly like it sounds, but no one gets it right on the first try), so to be kind, I gave them short, easy first names with the common spelling. They thank me for it.
Has anyone heard anything from the Sterlings recently?
Kids. Not kid’s. I do know how to properly use an apostrophe.
My wonderful mother decided to name my twin brothers Kevin and Kelvin. People were forever dropping the L from Kelvin and it pissed him right off. My name is easy and no chance of screwing it up unless you leave out the e in my name (I’m an E’r)
Good for you PG about the first names.
And mispronounced, not mispronounces. I need to go back to only checking this on my computer. I apparently am autocorrect-impaired!
Ah, yes– the rhyming and/or matchy twin-names. The bane of many twins’ existence.
Oh since we are talking about names, if you remember that horrible movie The Chronicles of Riddick…..well my daughters name(hate it) was said in the first few minutes. She is often called Visa and Jesus. My son has our variation of our family middle name(which tradition my father tried to kill) , which is now quite common.
My name was an uncommon name(which became hella popular from the 80′s on…) that my mother tried spelling it so people could pronounce it….it didn’t work. Instead of Monet, I’m Monae(no freaking unnecessary accent mark). Since I was 5 I wanted my name to be Samantha Marie(love this name).
@Closet Fan “At the end while the whole world could read (except poor Eden) the writing on the wall”
Awesome hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Dammit first time ever as post 100…COCK and Snarkle Baby
No unique name or unusual spelling for me. Although I have had someone spell my name Kimberlee before. The most unusual name in my family probable belongs to my cousin Chynna pronounced China. My mom and other family tried to talk my aunt out of it, but as you can see it didn’t work.
OMG! DearCrabby, you are awesome! I have such an awful toothache, but reading your excellent recap helped to distract me somewhat. And then I had at least 2 minutes of complete relief when I read your picture caption: “No one asked you to DO him, just WALK him!” I just fell out. Oh, man. I’m snickering again. So, I’m gonna get hammered now, cuz unfortunately, acetaminophen and meleleuca oil ain’t touching this pain! AAARGH!
We don’t have any unsual names in my family yet….
My cousing her name is Marissa Grace. We call her Grace. She was adopted, and her birth mother gave her the first name of Marissa. My aunt did not have the heart to change her first name. Grace knows that she is Marissa Grace, and she knows she is in BIG trouble when she gets called “Marissa Grace”. Grace also knows that she is allowed to be called by either, and if or when she chooses, everyone is fine with that. To us she looks like a Grace…
There is an Advil commercial, that I have seen a few times during T&T and the woman who is in the commercial, well her name is SunShine…
In our family-both MR Z and mine- there are some double names, Stephanie, Mark, we have a Marie and Mary. Grandma is Esther, Rick. So I guess you could say we are running out of names..also all of the animals in our family have “human names” as well, so we can’t got with Chloe, Stella, George, Max, Annie or Otis…
@Moli – our neighbor’s daughter is named Samantha Marie. I gave my girls normal names with normal spellings. I would never give a name that sounded normal with a weirdo spelling – why have the poor kid have to spell their name over and over? I had a friend in college whose name sounded like “Diane” but had an extra n – Dianne. No one ever got it right.
I guess I’m guilty of that, darn it. I have a Kristofer and a Nikolas. I figured at the time (over 20 years ago), English is such a nightmare already. The least I can do is give my kids phonetic spellings so their names make sense when they first learn to spell them. But Jazzy is right, years of “That’s Kristofer with a K” Damn too late. . there’s the Ch. . .sigh.
However my Kritter and my Niko say they don’t mind it at all. So, there’s that anyway : -)
I have a niece named Amy, which is a lovely classic name. She went to school with girls who had unusual and unique names. Her best friend was named Brandee Alexandria, which should be a crime. So Amy changed the spelling of her name from Amy to Ami to Aimee to A’ mee. She’s back to Amy now, just in time for her wedding invitations to be printed. When my brother expressed frustration during the “spelling wars” I told him that this was a pretty small teenage rebellion. So I wonder if the opposite will be true for some of the kids with unusual names. I hope that Alycesaundra insists on being Allie because no one can spell or pronounce that crazy name, and it would drive Kelly batshit.
My younger son has a very simple, 4-letter first name. Sounds exactly like it looks. It’s a stand-alone, strong guy’s first ne, but it is often a nickne for a couple of other boy’s names. I get a crap-load of flack for it. What is it short for? NOTHING! The poor kid already got saddled with an 12-letter last name AND 2 middle names!!! I went EASY on him with the first name (as a result, he mostly goes by his first initial, in and of itself a “name”, if spelled out). I can’t win. Granddaughter’s name, I thought would be far more common than it is. We’ve never encountered another, in pageants or anywhere else. But everyone can spell it, and everyone can pronounce it, on the first try.
My middle name is Dianne. I’m told I was named after someone, and since it’s my middle, ita never been an issue. To hear my mother tell it, she made up all 3 of the names she gave my sisters and me– the 3 most common names of the late-60′s early 70′s. My younger sister got a “unique” spelling. She HATES it.
I watched her talk about holding that lamb several times, and laughed til I cried. I only stopped because the phone rang.
FYI, TLC is showing 5 episodes starting at 3 pm EST tomorrow.
Pageant-grandma, people are weird! Do they really think that as his mother you don’t know whether your son’s name is a nickname or not? I have a good friend named Jack who is constantly irritated by people who assume that it’s a nickname for John. (I know JFK did that, but not all Jacks are Johns.) I have another friend however whose legal name is David Richard, but everyone calls him Mike, just because he loved that name as a little kid. But none of those names create limits for their owners. As other posters have mentioned, CEO’s, professors, doctors, computer scientists, etc are rarely named Destinee, Tiajuana, or Alycesaundra.
And I thought (because that son, being the last one, got 2 middle names, one of which is gaelic and therefore screwy in spelling!) I was doing him a favor in giving him a short, easy first name!!!
Dear Crabby: The title of this recap just hit me – you’re too young to remember when “turkey” was another word for idiots and even assholes! “Don’t let the assholes get you down” – how true!
Well, Hello All
. Been a very busy weekend and week so far for me to check in! Dear Crabby, thanks for the kind vote of confidence on the dress work, feel extra Grand Supreme Special w/a Cherry on Top!
Oh that poor dress, I get what you all are saying about the bodice, looks to me like it is a little to big and they really wanted a” flared bodice” which didn’t work, maybe? The skirt is just too small, it needs to be more full and wider.
Pageant Grandma…see you this weekend! Maybe this week or weekend I will figure how to post a dress picture, can’t be too hard! Again, totally appreciate the shout outs from my sewing fans, lol!
Names…Gabby and Zoe, typical” boring” names. BUT they sure do fit my little divas!
Growing up I hated my name. I’m a Georgia and I’m 24 so I went to school during the heyday of Brittanys and autumns and ashleys while I had an old lady name. Now I love being Georgia Helen (I was supposed to be a boy, George Washington Lastname III) and named my daughter Olivia Rose. First name came from the top of our wads and the middle after my grandma Rose. Judging off the list of most popular baby names of 2011 the classics are making a comeback.
Also, the first yooneek spelling of a name I ever encountered was my first grade friend Brytani (Brittany). I also went to school with a Marcia (marseea) Garcia and I always felt bad for her. Double also, I was at a state track meet over the weekend and there was a girl in the program named jenoside. Pronounced genocide. True story.
Hahaha “top of our wads” is way better than top of our heads. I may have to start using that on purpose.
Gigi, in 1989 Dynasty was on television and spawned more names: Krystal, Alexis, Blake, Colby. Add those to the ones you mentioned plus add in a few Whitneys and Tiffanis and all the little girls named Mary, Betty, Susan, etc were over for a while. I added another name to an earlier comment today…Tiajuana. A friend told me about it. This mother she knows wanted to name her baby after her sister, but she hated her sister’s name, Jane. So being one of those who strive for the unique, she named the baby Tiajuana, which means Aunt Jane in Spanish. But she gets very put out because many people assume she meant Tijuana and spelled it wrong. Then there is the whole thing about having people assume you named your child for a Mexican border town, not your sister.
Jaime Sommers, I’m with you….I loved Tom! If I was one of the judges I would have given Gia full points just based on the turkey!
did I miss something? Aside from the casual mention here and there, did our darling Crabby choose to not include squidly in this recap?
@J-Nut – I DO remember turkey meant asshole or idiot (I’m old!). In fact, I had an older friend/babysitter get me a mug that had that saying so I could remember once I hit junior high/high school…she could not have been more right!
@whoochile…yeah, didn’t want to poke the beast too much, thought we could use a break from the language and poor grammar (but mostly the language…don’t get me wrong, swearing is like cardio for me, but the c-word is just a little too much, even for me). If anyone sees J-Lo at a pageant, though, give her a big hug from the Gasmii!
I didn’t miss reading about her, it was refreshing. Thanks for saving my eyeballs from sure hemorrhaging.
Hey Beth, make sure you let us know how the weekend goes. I might have missed something before but do you have a website with all your dresses? I would love to see them, for all my life I’ve been like a crow shiney things stop me dead in my tracks lol and I love to watch this show just to see the dresses.
Hey Gigi, I’m a Shelley Ann and I was teased all my life with smelly shelley, shelley belly and others. I have learnt to really hate my name. My mom used to call me Michelle and here at work they call me Shell. Love to hear Shelley with that french accent
one of our guys has.
Ironic that someone should mention names from “The Chronicles of Riddick”. My nieces name is Kira. Lol!!
The Mackenzie on tonight is not “our” Mak Attack. At least, I don’t see how it could be. The blurb on the DVR says Mackenzie, 4. Mak is 6, pushing 7 now. Plus, they would have plastered commercials all over TLC if she were coming back, and I haven’t seen one. She hasn’t been competing a whole lot lately, she is involved in other activities as well.
The Mackenzie this week is not the infamous mak. This Mackenzie lives in Texas, and is older– 10, I believe. I know this family as well.
@confusedinCanada
I don’t have a website yet, I am basically using word of mouth and Facebook. I made a separate. Pageant page recently to save my family from the. Constant pageant ramblings, lol! You can find me there if you’d like 
I just haven’t transferred all my pics over yet!
And thanks so much for he Good Luck wishes, we will be at the ever favorite Southern Celebrity with Maxine!
I was also adopted, and my parents kept the name my birth mother gave me. It’s now my middle name (which I use) and my first name is the same as my Mom’s. Other than the hassle of first initial, middle name, I like it. My son’s name is Michael. Pretty straightforward, hard to mess up. No unusual spelling either. I remember years ago, I knew a woman who named her daughter “Tchnavian”, pronounced without the “T”. It was the name of a sexy bra. Yes dear, you were named after a bra! I also remember a woman who named her daughter Tyranny, but I don’t know the spelling. Of course, there’s also “Female”, pronounced Feh-mal-e. My neightbor just named her bay “Emma”. Thanks goodness for the old fashioned names.
Oops, that was supposed to be “baby”, not “bay”.
Yes, that dress at the top of page 6 was horrible! It made the child’s body look out of proporation and it seemed so stiff, like the bodice was made out of cardboard.
When I was pregnant I knew I was having a girl and I knew I wanted to name her Sydney. I toyed (briefly) with the alternative spellings of Sydni and Sydnee, but decided that (a) I would never be able to find anything personalized with her name on it, and (b) she would most likely not be taken seriously as an adult if she had a cutsey spelling of her name.
Gigi, I love Georgia, I only have one son BUT if I had a girl she was going to be named Georgia Brown Bailey, My Hubby said I was Cray cray but I LOVE THAT name. My Pageant princess Georgia Brown!!
I like when people are named after the states that they live in. Georgia, Virginia, Montana. Jelly…
I apologize for the people who call you smelly shelly Confused. But I also apologize for being in my 30s and giggling as if I was one of the kids on the playground.
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I want to jump in on the name thing because we have a few terrible names in our family. I have cousins named Holli Sunshine, Aimee (although that’s the correct spelling in France, we do not live in France) and Lori (not short for anything)
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Ok, I will figure this out for those that want to see the dresses
Gabby’s new dress
I can’t delete posts that dont’ work for some reason, sorry
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Zoe’s dress
LOVE LOVE LOVE their dresses
Beautiful dresses! Can I have one? Beautiful girls, too!
Don’t know if anyone’s seen this yet, but our favorite little seafood delicacy made it to her local newspaper recently: http://www.madillrecord.net/editionviewer/default.aspx?Edition=754bdd3f-490b-4944-92a4-9f5f9dfaba6e&Page=fb1416b1-d7c5-47cd-a6f4-6c45a62d582c
I’m sure as ‘Hell not going to shell out the $26 to read the “truth” according to the Divine Thunderc*nt La Lopez, but if anyone else does, PLEASE share with the group!!!
Wow… all the way to the local paper! Now, she’s REALLY “famous” ;P
Thank you!! I would love to spend a week with Sondra Celli from Gypsy Wedding and get ideas from her….oh could you imagine a Gypsy Pageant and all it’s ruffle and rhinestone glory?????
I think its funny that common names can sometimes end up being unique by themselves. Even without the crazy spellings. I’m 22 and I can count on my fingers the number of times I’ve encountered other Kimberlys. I never had another Kimberly in the same class as me, until last year.
@Beth The dresses are gorgeous.
Zoe’s dress is dog ugly.. sorry but dont like it at all.. seen a whole lot prettier!
talking about the green one.. sorry.. its ugly!!
@SagKim
Thanks! It is so hard to tell with the picture, but the “circles” are flowers that are on it, hard to see with all the stones on the lights, etc.
@talk it…it’s not for everyone, thank you for the feedback. Thankfully the judges always seem to love it on her, so that is all that matters to me!
@jerzgrrrl72, I tried reading it and the jest of what I read was that her kid was not fairly portrayed correctly on the reality show. She’s not Down’s syndrome at all. Jennifer used to be in pageants as a kid, she wants to set the record straight.
NOW she really is famous, come to think of it, I am as well, I was on the radio this morning as I was calling in to ask about what group was in town for a concert as tour buses where blocking the highway by going slow and I needed to get to work LOL
OMG Beth, these are stunning….sparkle and sparkle….do you do fat size people dresses LOL, if so I want one. Girl you should have a website or go on ESTY.com and sell these they are great.
@Confused
I would love to work on women’s clothes, then I could tap into a whole new market!! I am going to work on a website/etsy over the summer since we don’t do as many pageants then with the kids home and baseball season. I have a few I did for others I am waiting on some good pics of! I started a store there two years ago just never filled it up.
@classy drunk you’re forgiven for laughing
I’m also a red head so I got the “redhead is dead” since those stupid commericals for Brycream (sp?) came out about them.
When you do please let me know I would love to have a dress or a shirt done up. I loved Gabby’s dress and I to thought she was ripped off
@Beth – LOVE the dresses, they are both so pretty…that green is a hard color to pull off but Zoe does a great job! Thanks for sharing the photos
Beth, well get back on there, you are good and there is a huge market out there for clothes like this.
Is that a full southern skirt on Gabbi’s new dress? I loved that style of shirt so much, I think the cupcakes are ugly once a child is much more than 3 or 4 years old.
I meant to add that British Big Fat Gypsy Weddings had a pageant in the recent series. Sadly it was not for little girls but the older teen girls, who dressed horribly for it. At the time my mum and myself had said that the organiser should have had it for the little girls, we think they could have outdone some of the TnT outfits/costumes.
@sagittariuskim, I once worked with 4 other Shelley’s. Almost drove the boss out of his mind when he called out Shelley and we were all on shift and at the coffee machine LOL. We eneded up being Shelley 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
@moragkim Gabby’s skirt in the picture was a white cupcake, sorta, it wasn’t super full and I had added a lace bottom to her bodice that I stoned. It is so heavy it weighed the skirt down
SO, I am actually finishing up a pink cupcake to match the pink in her top so that the lace lays right. It will be a short skirt still, but I think her bodice is pretty mature looking as to not look too much like a little girl dress 
The skirt she had when we were featured was more of a southern style skirt.
I cannot imagine what those Gypsies could do with some pageant wear, it would be wild!!!!
From what I’ve seen on the Gypsy show they would out sparkle the T&T kids anytime. Have you seen My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding from the UK, OMG, if my kid wore those clothes they wouldn’t be allowed out of the house for life.
1) All little Gypsy girls would have their own tour bus/RV with pictures plastered across (they travel anyway, so it will make it easier to hit the pageant scene)
2) Cupcake skirts would be 6 ft wide and the bodices would weigh more than the child when the stones were added
3) The girls would already have their crowns on their head BEFORE beauty like they wear for their wedding
4) They have been spraytanning since they were born so they wouldn’t fuss on camera
5) “Gorger” Pageant moms better just sit back because it is over for us
The everyday clothes kill me!! I can’t imagine my daughter dressing like that, woo hooo! I know it is almost “Pot meet Kettle” but the way my girls dress is for 90seconds at a time in a controlled environment, not out in the “true public” But at least they would have a wide variety of crowns to chose from for their wedding day, LMAO!
@ConfusedinCanada….
We”re Shell(ey)(i)(ie)(eye) sisters!
Beth, I full agree….my god, I didn’t dress like that in my wild skinny days of the 80′s when trash was in and you’re right, the girls might be dressed up with makeup but it is a controlled place, those kids on the show are out husband hunting at 14. I love the show with the bride (15 I think she was) dressed up as Palm tree.
sheesh, sweet I always wanted a sister instead of 3 brothers
@sagittariuskim, In my 31 years and I have moved around alot because my father was in the military I always had a friend with the same name that I did.
If you’ve ever seen the communion dresses the girls aged anywhere from about 6 through to 10, wear on the show, they are so stoned it scares me. I remember a little girl who’s dress bruised her sides from rubbing because it was so heavy. I’ve also noticed a few cupcake style skirts on toddlers on the show at parties. My mum usually goes to Appleby, a horse fair type event, often featured on the show and she says the little girls wear really OTT dresses until they reach about 5, all frills and cupcakes and that sort of thing.
@beth I loved that Gabby’s dress on the show had that style of skirt. I love the bodice of her new dress though, it’s more grown up than a toddler dress without being too mature.
I think I would have to add my name to the list of people who would love a dress made by you.
@beth, the pink dress has that row of glitz on the arm, I want that …really I do. I’ll even wear cap or no sleeves for it.
I posted on the gypsy wedding post that Pricillas dad was a wanna be pageant dad. I also think I need that outfit with the boots as an ooc.
Bet Sondra could make a $8000 pageant dress. I think we need a Big Fat American Gypsy Toddlers & Tiaras cross over show. It would have it all. Crazy parents, crazy kids, outrageous dresses. I’d watch it!
I’m with you StageMom that would be great
Oh I am all in SPARKLE BABY Gypsy meets Cray Cray Pageant Mom!!!! I would work 10 days straight myself to let the girls compete with dresses like them LOL!!!
@Confused, the stones that were around Gabby’s upper arm? That is actually a cuff bracelet that I put rhinestones all over and slid it up her arm
@moragkim I’ll mark you down
I loved Gabby’s new dress. Zoe’s is lovely too, but I’m partial to pink.
Just to get back to the crazy names for a minute: I think the nuttiest name I ever encountered was on a trip to Italy. I met a crazy couple from California in their 70′s travelling with their 40 year old daughter who was named…..HONEYBEE! Seriously! I thought it was a nickname but no, it was the name on her birth certificate and Daddy couldn’t have been prouder of it.
Long time reader, first time poster.
J-Lo deleted the comment on the Facebook page asking if was her making comments on the site. Definitely not helping her case.
I did pageants for about a year when I was 12. I have no idea why…and it was entirely my choice, much to my mother’s chagrin. Pretty sure that entire experience is why my mom started going grey.
Pageant Grandma– the 10 year old Mackenzie is not on tonight either. Her episode will be next season, its a UR pageant. I know them very well (unless there are 2 10 year old Mackenzies from Texas that will be on)
Oh, gotcha. Good. Her mom had told me she thought it was this season. I will miss tonight’s, so I’m glad it’s not her.
Hey Flipit,
you posted in the mini recap that you were going to do up some Snarkle Baby shirts have you gotten around to them yet
Talk-it– zoe’s dress owning prettier in person.
@Beth “the stones that were around Gabby’s upper arm? That is actually a cuff bracelet that I put rhinestones all over and slid it up her arm ” damn girl, you are great I never would have thought about that. Now I have to go shopping to find one that I can do that to
@LoyalViewer “Honeybee” I would have burst out laughing. I had a classmate in school ( I changed careers at 39) and her grandaughters name was Teal Rain Morning Dew, no shit it was. I remember thinking what drugs is mom on.
Wouldn’t it be funny if one of the pagnent mom’s said “snarklebaby” instead of the “sparkle baby”
We’ve all seen what crazy names celebrities give their kids!
@SnarkyShark, just wait till you have kid and they want to go into pagments, your mom’s going to love it
Grey hair indeed 
@flalady starting with Moon Unit Zappa
Lol PG– when Texas Mackenzie is on.. it will be her AND her brother
I’m wondering how they are gonna look on TV. Could go either way…..
@ConfusedinCanada – if I’m lucky enough to have a kid, I’d be happy if they wanted to do “pagments” lol.
Unless my (future) child has aspirations to grow up to be a travel agent for guilt trips, I doubt they could say anything that could convince me to allow that type of torture.
And I can’t even tell you how much I love this site. Snark is such an under appreciated art form.
Clarification – if I ever have kids, I’d much rather them to “pagments” which I envision to be whatever their imagination deems it to be rather than pageants.
Kelly was actually featured in Southern Celebrity North Carolina State pageant. She was Aniston’s coach and we actually got a glimpse of Alycesaundra as a babie.
Beth, both of your daughters look gorgeous in those dresses!
And isn’t “PAGMENT” when you are pregnant with a baby girl so you can name her something like “Destineigh” and she can be in pageants just like her mother?
Stage mom way to repeat exactly what I said last week on the mini recap about wearing an $8,000 dress for crowning. Get your own thoughts.
Dear Twaty: I changed your name again to something more fitting and cunt was too offensive for some. But this recap sucked. I mean it is so boring and a complete waste of time. Or maybe my daughter was so awesome and entertaining you couldn’t help but give her so much attention. It’s ok Turing haters into fans one day at a time. Go Camarie!!
Oh no. What is she Beetlejuice?
Dear Twaty, and your still talking about Camarie. Thats what I thought a fan in denial.
OMG!
I. am. so. freaking. excited.
Hey Jennifer! Thanks for coming by.
Anyone else feel like they have the tail end of that last flu that went around that you just can’t shake?
JHo you ignorant twat. You add nothing to the conversation other than comic relief and even that gets old. I ignore most of your tirades because you are starting to bore me.
As Bob Barker used to say, help control the animal population and spay or neuter your pets.
@SnarkyShark LOL, I never said I could spell LOL
In my own defense I was just leaving work and typing fast
Long day… who is ready for tonight’s show?
I’m going to probably get yelled but what the heck….by the way if you yell my name is Shelley. Jennifer, I laughed with you when you told the story of why you named your daughter Camarie I thought it was funny. I didn’t like the way she treated your dogs, I thought it was cruel that way she pulled the one down by the jowls. I didn’t even noticed that they were pitbulls as I’m not familar with the bred. But, and here it goes, in my opinion, this site is created and has been created for people to just come and snark on these shows. I do find your language to be offensive, and again that’s my opinion. You must have realized that T&T was going to edit your family to make you look like the dumbest hicks they could. Jesus they made Mickie Wood look like a complete and udder fool, the perfect “stage mom” from the 50′s. If Camarie had an off day so be it, but the editing made her look like she was a special needs child. If it’s anyone you should be angry at it’s yourself for subjecting her to this show.
Catching up with comments. Beth I love the light pink dress with the arm band. I really like her h&m there too.
Looking forward to Texas Mackenzie’s episode. Her mom has always been very sweet to us and I’m hoping they don’t look crazy on the show. Sometimes I get a feeling of dread when friends are being followed but I wasn’t as worried about her.
I came home tonight with visions of glitz in my mind, had to stop and buy the girls, (their dogs) a rhinestone collar. LOL
I get to snarkle and sparkle lucky 200! LOL 3:30 am comes early for me so I’m off for the night for those of you who care and those that don’t that’s okay too.
@stage mom, I bet you do. Here’s hoping they aren’t the crazy type but then again it’s better if they are for us
Is she really back?!?!?!?! Lets see how soon she sneaks a PG comment in.
I will miss tonight’s episode, so dearCrabby, I will be expecting the minicap pronto!!
@Beth-I am in awe. Your dresses are beautiful and I envy your patience.
Every single holiday, my next door neighbor dresses her family in matching holiday attire.
Last Christmas I decided that instead of pointing and laughing, I would surprise them by bedazzling my Ralphie ‘You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out” t-shirt. Unfortunately, patience was not included in the box.
SagiKim-LOL Beetlejuice. I was hoping that she fell prey to a tentacle.
Too bad Camari wasn’t in the pet pageant- she could have dressed like a puppy and brought the mama dog as her “pet”. Her tendency towards growls and grunts would have been a bonus…
Moli you are so pathetic. Look at you jumping on the bandwagon. You try to get symphathy for taking on your sister kids because you hate kids. But sorry they will never be yours as you didn’t birth them. A real mother wouldn’t act like you. Your sister was prob a nice person and it’s tragic she died. It’s also tragic her kids are stuck with an anti kid “women”. I hope they don’t turn out to be anything like you. I’m sure your sister never trash talked kids or lived on this site like you. Why don’t you go take care of your sisters kids and get the fuck off this site. Clearly you are a fan in denial too. Because you can’t get enough of me or Camarie.
Shelly you are stupid. You call my kid special needs and say my language is offensive. Humm. My kid is far from special needs and was liked as much as Eden which is why we are being followed two more times. So stay tuned. Love our fans. Please keep talking and making Camarie famous. I’m lovin it.
Stage mom you name says it all. You live through your daughter who can’t win a pageant you rig. I’m sure your force her into pageants and are too boring for TNT and am guessing you have applied for years but ant make the cut. So you in turn trash talk. Because you will never have a winner. Sorry. Again another fan in denial. I will keep turning you all into fans one by one.
They are trying to kill us with kindness. Great kids with great families. Dear Tabby I know you can do it.
Closet fan it’s no longer dear tabby it’s now Dear Twaty. Its Funny when you are all offended one minute and then stage mom is calling me a twat. What a two faced cunt. Please get your own lines. You keep using mine over and over.
Wait, bwahahahahahahahahahaha! Sympathy I’m sorry you have it twisted. As mentioned before I did tell my story and I guess defending another adoptive mother was an attempt to garner sympathy for myself. You can have your opinion regarding adoption and the relationship the parents have with their children, you know what that is fine. I have my opinion(my life) and you have yours…I must say that was a lovely attempt at a dig(Heh). Had you read my comments I am/was NOT anti-children, I was anti-pregnancy. As a matter of fact I went into almost graphic details regarding it. Had you read my comments you would have read that before my sister died my daughter had a room at my house. Of course I mentioned you…why are you still here ragging on DC? And last but not least when was the last time I said anything about your daughter?
Loved the girls and Lacey May’s Mom…AWESOME
@Moli, I believe you told your story because of me. I really appreciated then and now. your kids are so blessed to have you. Jennifer do you know what the work snark means? How about the phrase projecting? Have you even watch your episode? Your daughter hit you, bit you, referred to someone as a bitch, threw items and grunted. You yourself called her a brat. The director called her a demon child. We get that there is editing. You would know that if you read our comments. We commented on what we saw, an out of control child. They are following you again because you brought the crazy they are looking for. Did you watch tonight’s episode? You will not find very many negative comments because the girls and their families were nice and the girls wanted to be there. A lot of negative was said about you and your daughter because you gave us soooo much to work with.
Moli, ignore the trash troll…. how dare that nasty fat cow attack you
Seriously.. That lingering phlegmy cough, the runny nose…
I think its kind of funny that ABDC (America’s Best Dance Crew), is also doing an around the world theme tonight.
Good Lawd. Jho is back again?
Eden has 66,330 likes on Facebook. Camarie has 133. So close I can see how Jennifer got confused.
” Haters are just fans in denial”.This on Sami Jo’s FB page. Sound familiar? Jealous much.
Maybe if we “play dead” it will just sniff us and go away.
@Moli- My mom (and only parent) died when I was 14. Someone opened their home to me, just
like you did for the children in your family. It is a huge responsibility that requires giving up alot in your own life. There isn’t any way to express the gratitude I have for you and for those who have given someone like me a home when I needed one. There is nothing anyone could say to diminish your kind and selfless act.:)
Not that it matters but I picked StageMom because I’ve been doing community theater since I was a kid.
I love seeing involved dads. The dads this week had a good mix of being supportive without being creepy.
<3 <3 <3 <3 Lacey Mae! All the girls were great but she is now one of my favorites.
I just started reading the full recap but I swear, when Aly’s full name first flashed across the screen I thought it said “Applesauce.”
Seriously.
J-Lo, I started to count the number of spelling, grammar, and syntax errors in your posts but my head started to hurt. If you are going to come on to this site and ramble like and illiterate hillbilly please have the decency to use spell check so that we don’t have to waste time trying to decipher what you are trying to say. Such lovely language on you, too. I personally would love to see Camarie again on T&T – with any luck this time she will call someone a “cunt”. I’d love to see you try and put a positive spin on that.
that should be “an” illiterate hillbilly, folks…damn auto correct!
@JLo, I never said your child was special needs, I was stating that “If Camarie had an off day so be it, but the editing made her look like she was a special needs child.” The others on here are right, you don’t read the comments fully and you really don’t understand English.
Attacking individuals on here is just making us band together more and I feel sorry for you. You’re a sad woman, with a problem child, and no doubt a problem marriage trying to seek attention yourself in what ever way you can. Eden is “famous” as a pretty young girl, that has a nut case as a mom. The attention they are getting is the kind that makes us laugh and be happy that we aren’t them. A prime example of attention seeking women as those that can’t get enough of it at home, what’s wrong the husband not giving you the big “O”.
I have never been to the Eastern/Southern States and now I can see why, if you are an example of what people are like from that area, well you can fill in the rest. For those on here are from that area, I’m sorry you have someone like this representing you on TV. TLC makes people look like fools for the most part on this show, but you my dear take the cake. Have a nice life and enjoy your child. I’m done with you. Moving on to snark at the next recap. Dear Crabby, please bring it on.
@LoyalViewer, a standing applause for you
@Moli congratulations, you are a prime example of what a caring human being is about. You are a wonderful person, I’m sorry that those darling treasures came to you in such a horrible way. But I can only guess, since I don’t know you, that you are what they need. Because of you they have a chance at being the best they can be. Children don’t have to be born to the flesh to your children.
I can’t have kids as I had cancer, I fought it and won
but I have “adopted nieces and nephews” with all my friends and I love them as my own. I like to fill them up with junk food and send them home LOL
To JLo: How dare you suggest that an adopted child is not a “real” child. My mother didn’t birth me but she IS my mother! I was adopted at 6 months so I never knew my birth parents. My parents raised me , loved me, and nurtured me. All my birth parents did was donate the egg and sperm! I really didn’t want to start a comment war, but I couldn’t let your ignorance go unnoticed!
I think ConfusedinCanada is right about the big “O” and J-Ho…why else would she be so consumed with “twat” and “c#nt” ? Probably because hers isn’t getting any attention. It’s probably because she’s spending too much time fighting off the biting, kicking, screaming, throwing of objects and foul language of her chromosome-exempt offspring. It’s sad, really, if you think about it. So let’s not and move on.
@Flalady, remember who is typing that out. You have to be able to read English and understand it to read what you wrote. Being a egg or sperm donar doesn’t make you a parent, it’s the love and care you give to a child that makes you a mom or dad. Ignorance is a social disease and there’s no cure for it and she’s got it bad. You’re even more special to your mom, she didn’t birth you but she chose you from all the other babies she could have had. She wanted to be there for you when you first walked, talked and for those first brusises and broken heart so she could let you know it would be okay. She wanted to raise a child that would be the best they could be.
Thanks Dear Crabby, moving on here. It’s supposed to being rain/snowing here where I am, I hate spring weather in my Province so I’m going to enjoy the rest of my day and have fun. Hope you have a great one.
@Beth, how did you put the stones on the cuff? If it was glue, what kind?
@confused. You are absolutely right! She’s not worth wasting any more time or brainpower on!
Flalady
Hugs to you
Thank you everyone for your kind words, I love you guys.
@Confused, thanks so much!
Pageant Grandma— Its not like the flu, its more like herpes. Annoying, sometimes painful, festering, always comes back, and is focused on twats and cunts.
StageMom– I’d lay down dollars to donuts we probably know each other IRL. Too many similarities and common friends
@ Veruca great point LOL
I can just see Stage Mom and you at the next pagnent when you realize who each are LOL
@Flalady I just calls its likes I sees its, LOL as one of my nephews says he’s 6.
One last comment for J-Lo–there is a huge difference between famous and infamous.
Nah Confused— this place is like Fight Club. Nobody talks about Fight Club
@Veruca, okay but damn, I was hoping to read things like, I will be wearing a red flower in my hair, or I will have the peacock designed shirt on so you will know me LOL
@Dear Crabby & Pageant-grandma: I’m afraid her return is my fault. She’s like “Candyman”–say her name (or in this case, make reference to her,) and she’ll appear! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you all for making my work-day so much more tolerable–er, I mean “entertaining”
I love Lacey Mae as well because she wants to be there. Her mother was super supportive though see needs to relax a bit because her anxiousness will rub off on her daughter. I do agree with the judge that said her dress is too long. That being said, I am sure they spend a lot of money modifying all sorts of things to accommodate Lacey and as pageants are a hobby they may not be able to spend too much. Question to the pageant mothers, is it possible to shorten a cupcake dress and if so is it expensive? The last outfit she had on was just too much material , it sort of consumed her. I think if she continues in pageants and wants ultimate they may want to custome make her clothes. I loved her energy level and her confidence and her pretty blue eyes.
Hahahah Veruca – loved the herpes analogy! that’s the best laugh I’ve had all morning.
If JLo has nothing insightful or intelligent to say about this week’s T&T, can we just ignore her? It’s getting boring to read her repetitive posts. BTW, my dog has a FB page and has more likes that Camarie!
@ClosetFan – I was thinking the same thing…what about those 2-piece ones where the top and cupcake are separate? That way, they’d only have to shorten the top part – might be easier than shortening it and re-attaching the skirt. But I love the fact that they do not go crazy on the money.
I would also agree with you on her mom’s anxiety – she needs to dial that down or at least fake a smiley face. I’m sure she doesn’t mean to be so freaked but you can see by her face she’s stressing, and I think Lacey-Mae felt that after her Indian routine. What a cutie, though, huh?
@Dear Crabby – did you ever think you’d be able to give out expert advice on pageant dresses? You’ve learned a lot while recapping this show!! Remember when you were still figuring out why the kids who didn’t get crowns during their age group crownings were the real winners?
It’s been a long, strange trip. So many therapists!
I have a son with a disability and the last thing you want is for them to get their feelings hurt. I realized early on though that if my son doesn’t care about what is said then I shouldn’t either. I would never want my feelings to be a burden him.
I am looking forward to hearing from our sewing moms about the dress
Fine JHo, Maybe nothing is medically wrong with Squidy. Your stupid ass probably dropped her on her head several times when she was a baby. I hope you re followed on T&T again and i hope a pageant director confronts you about your behavior on this site. That would make some good TV! BTW, you suck at life, and you look like you smell. Toodles, bitch.
As far as shortening a dress– it depends. Most are 2 piece these days (the skirt and bodice are separate pieces). The skirt can usually be hiked up if it’s too long, but if the bodice is the “too long” part, you’re kinda screwed.
Beth I am so happy that you shared the pics of the girls. Gabby is beautiful. Like we discussed on FB, something was really off about her makeup during her episode. And I love Zoe dress! I like the wow factor of the color and it really suits her coloring. I really wish you would go on again. The issues with Lori worked against you and added stress and Gabby’s makeup hurt her.
@Confused E6000 glue, Pageant Mom’s best friend, lol!
But, I am in no hurry! Zoe on the other hand is itching for it.
@Closet You are a nut! I am still having hot flashes and nightmares over being filmed the first time! Maybe the powers that be at Authentic/TLC will want us back someday WITHOUT all the added drama
Beth, lol. The powers to be set up your episode to bring about the most drama. You can tell that you were so tired and just wanted to be done. And Gabby was not 100% sure of herself. And then there was winterwear… I said it before, I was not a fan. I would like to see you all have a chance without the Alaska set up. I am not saying that the only way Gabby could win was if she was not there. I just think that the drama wore you done. From what I have read, Lori lives for that sort of stuff and I don’t believe you do.