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Toddlers & Tiaras: Season Finale Circus
Toddlers and Tiaras
Sunday, February 10, 2013
1:39 pm
66 Comments
Katllyn is getting ready and is convinced she’s winning Grand Supreme. Which means she just jinxed it. She gets onstage and tilts her head back so far it looks like it’s about to fall off her body. Also, I find it odd that one of the judges is taking so many pictures.
Someone get a level, she seems to be unbalanced.
Katlyn’s goal is to become a “princess in a big castle.” Good luck with that. Renee says Katlyn’s hair is the best at the pageant and clearly she’s in the running for Supreme. Pizza, is my guess.
Judge Man Rene suggests smoother hair for Katlyn who “had some frizziness going on.” Tragedy, when you think of what is going on elsewhere in the world.
Circus Freak Wear! They are attempting to put Oli in her costume and she is throwing a total and complete shit fit, screaming and yelling and fighting them all the way. And that is when Delia finds out Oli’s shoes don’t fit! No way! Kids grow?
Tot Town is in major distress.
Turns out they have not tried Oli’s shoes on in a couple of months, and I’m going to have to throw out a huge “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?” to them…kids grow NON-STOP. Why wouldn’t you have checked that?
But once again, faux crisis was averted when they borrowed boots from another competitor.
Oli gets onstage and looks really cute in her costume. Dad helps her along and here’s what I can say…don’t be opening that coaching studio soon because Oli is totally lost. Oli just stands there and Dad tries to get her to do things but it doesn’t work. Also, Dad takes off her feathery collar so she thinks it’s a striptease and begins taking off other things…and she seriously seems mesmerized by the crowd. She does nothing but stand there and smile. It’s like they forgot to wind her up or something.
At least dad has the moves down.
Judge Man Rene says Oli got too distracted when the collar was taken off and clearly she ran out of steam. That’s for damn sure. “At least she wasn’t screaming,” Delia says. Way to find the silver lining in the screw up that was your daughter’s routine.
Lauren, who for some reason is now encrusted with face glitter, tells us they decided to dress Ali like Britney Spears, because really, who is a better role model for younger girls? At least they are sticking closely to the Circus Freak theme.
Ali doesn’t want to practice before she goes onstage so you know she’s going to blow it. Also, she looks freakin’ ridiculous in that blonde wig with those dark, thick eyebrows. I know she’s too young for the non-matching carpet/drapes comment, but it’s hard to resist even a little mention.
Uh, are you expecting anything more from me? Because I’m kind of spent here.
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I agree DearCrabby, this had to be fixed! And what a lame ass season finale. Thanks for all the great laughs this season, reading you is so much better than watching the show!
\Serves your right for playing with the electric sockets.\ It’s observations like that (so Seinfeld-like!) that make it so much fun reading your recaps.
I’m with you on being blind-sided at this being the season finale. I guess T&T pulled out all the stops with that big showdown between Evan Wood & MacKenzie a couple of years ago (you know…the one where neither one of them won the contest?) and they just can’t reach for the stars anymore. Somehow I don’t think we’ll see any of these contestants again except as background nose-pickers in future seasons.
This episode was so boring, I just focused in on the crowd and the other tot moms and kids we may have seen before…I could only pick out Paisley’s mom near the end….Blake wasn’t with her.
Did anyone notice that Katlyn’s grandpa looked exactly like Boomhouwer from King of the Hill, and talked like him too? The resemblance was uncanny.
Did ANYONE catch what the director said when she was talking about the tans and the glitz, and then she said “but we don’t want them to look like…” and I didn’t get the rest. I watched it over and over but just couldn’t make out what she was saying. If anyone has it taped it is at the section where some little girl in a neon outfit with fishnet arms is shimmying on stage.
Most men I know think of nothing but sex all day long, so Oliviana’s dad pretty much outed himself, in my opinion! He should meet up with David Perez.
I’ll be surprised if this show gets picked up for another season…this season was really lame.
Boring as shit. I’m so glad you got the screen shot of the mom with the baby and pixie stick. I was watching it and all I could think of was did Dear Crabby see that LOL
i agree this was a snoozefest for a finale. boo
and worst of all, i will now have to wait and wait for the next season and more crabby recaps. boo to that, too!
I thought it was interesting seeing the people screw together the trophies too. That explains why they break so easily.
Man Renee also looks like the big- mouthed green ghost in ” Ghostbusters.”
oh, and i bet one time someone called a pageant to find out if oliviana was competing so they could avoid her demonics, and somehow delusiona delia turned that phones ringing off the hook.
@rollingeyes — oompa loompas is what you missed.
Was this episode just super boring or have I outgrown T&T? It can really go either way – this whole season has been kind of blah. Nikki, as horrid as she was, still seemed like manufactured drama. I think that maybe they can’t get anyone good to do the show anymore. Did we even see Betty this season? Maybe at the beginning? I don’t know.
Man I am a grown ass woman who is obsessed with Britney Spears and wants a Ring master costume so I can wear it to the club and prance around like Brit Brit to Circus. Don’t stomp all over my hopes and dreams damn you!
I should blame my mother for never putting me in glitz trash pageants so I could have done it when I was 3!
I am joking about the second paragraph, not the first. Totally seriously.
Good point about the murderers and the stick families. We have one on our car and I was about to get one from my son’s dance studio with his name on it. I know I am lame. My friends like it because they say they know its me from the stickers if they see me out and about. My car is a very common car in a very common color.
The girl who won Mega Grand Supreme is Jayla from the Southern Living Out of This World pageant.
Show got picked up for another season. How I am not sure. I think the parents ARE wising up to the show and how it work s though. You would have to be stupid NOT to. I mean they surely have watched the show before? No way they can’t know what the producers are doing.
And why in the hell was a judge taking photos of the children? Creepy! I would have taken my kid and run. God knows what he does with those photos.
Why do people put BABIES in p ageants and then either get mad when the kid won’t perform like a trained monkey or the judges say “They didn’t LOOK at me” well hello. They don’t know they are supposed to look at the judges! Most of those little ones are afraid of strangers.
And I would have called CPS on the mom who poured a pixie stix down her 7 month olds throat! Assuming she was even that old.
It always floors me when the parents admit their kid is a brat but then act as if they have had NO part in that and act like they can’t control the kid either.
Nancy…… I once told a mother of one of the kids in my singing group that she had spent most of the lesson in the corner with her nose to the wall. She replied that her teacher at school couldn’t control her either. Aaaaahhhh aren’t the parents supposed to TEACH the child to behave? Not send them to school and endless activities in the vain hope that someone else will teach them.
Pouring a pixie stick into a tiny baby’s mouth. WTF !!!!!!!
Hilarious recap Crabby. Hubby wanted to know why I was laughing at the computer screen.
“Are all southerners just born on ATVs?” No.
I am still trying to figure out what that picture is on the top with the tetherball girl?! Can someone please explain that to me!?
Thanks, Ellemenop!
I laughed out loud when Delia said that Oliviana picked the yellow dress because “she knows what looks good on her”. No, you dipwad, she picked it because it was much brighter than the white and blue dress, and you know, little kids are drawn to bright colours. Do these women not realize how stupid they sound? Do they truly believe it when they say that their infants enjoy pageants or their preschoolers have a sense of style? Ridiculous!!!
“Pageant Judge DeAnna, who is a man who clearly ate Rene Russo…”
OK – I’m not done reading, but I have to say that is one of the best lines I have ever read…
@cyn tv — omg, yes … last night I could NOT stop laughing at that, to the point that my husband, who was sitting next to me watching tv started squirming uncomfortably. I read it to him and showed him the accompanying picture, though, and he agreed.
Hey – I think I read they will be doing 13 episodes next season…I could be wrong because it was an article on that and Cheer Perfection. There truly is no lack of need to be famous in this world, is there?
A judge wasn’t taking pictures. The photographer ( you aren’t allowed to take pics in the ballroom, so you have to buy pro pics) was probably seated at the judges table.
Pageant people out there: Do people really call directors in advance to find out if certain kids are going so that they can pull their kid out if said “threat” is indeed attending? I find that not only hard to believe, but also idiotic. Why compete at all if you just want an easy win? That is SO stupid. I define a “win” as working your butt off and competing against the best and beating them. But, that’s just how I am, and I was always highly competitive when I used to compete in things. I just think it is dumb that some people would have so little faith in their kid (when most pageant parents claim that they are teaching their kids confidence) that they would call in advance and pull their kid if a big competitor was coming. How is that beneficial at all to teach a child to back out if they can’t get a sure win?
Sigh. I totally agree this episode was far too tame, er, no pun intended. Although I wanted to smack the piss out of that snotty little asshat four year old with her back talk at practice. Agreed, Crabby. That would NOT have flown with my folks.
@WerkItSmoochy: Sorry if I’m late to the party, so to speak (I usually am), but love love LOVE your Gasm name!!
AmyOops
She’s 4. She doesn’t know better until she is taught better. And clearly mom and dad don’t care to teach her. Kids are not born knowing how to behave. They need to be taught not to hit,bite,etc just like they have to be taught how to go potty and eat with a spoon. I don’t blame the child. Children can only do as they are allowed. If she is being allowed to talk back that is a parent issue. They are not doing their job. Don’t blame the kid for the failure of the parent. Not at that age.And really? calling a 4 year old an asshat? Real classy!
Nancy,
I disagree. Sort of. Kids come out already crapping and hungry. Nobody needs to teach them that. They just need to be taught where not to crap and how to eat.
Hitting and biting is a learned behavior too. Somebody taught that child about hitting. So I agree with you there. Don’t blame the kid.
PS, All my Mom had to do was look at me while biting her bottom lip and I STFU.
My kids bit me and hit me and I certainly never hit or bit someone in front of them first. That is kinda of cave man thing embedded in us. The first time they did it I shut it down and they did not do it again. But certainly no one ever taught them to do it either.
WHy don’t these parents know the ‘look’, you know the one that to this day if your Mother did it you would revert back to 5 years old(or is that just me). I give it to my kids and whatever they were doing is completely forgotten. BTW, today is Little Moli’s 8th birthday.
WerkIt–
Yes, some moms will try to find out who all is going to a pageant. Most directors won’t tell, but other moms and some coaches will. There is a girl in my DD’s age group that avoids competing with my DD— they look so alike they could almost be twins and my DD usually stomps in events like Interview–making it hard to beat her on the stage alone. I’ve a pseudo friend who will also only go to a pageant if it means a good chance at a win. Some forget that its supposed to be about the competition and not about the crown.
Happy Birthday to Little Moli! My daughter just turned 21(! ) on Friday. I can’t even wrap my mind around her being able to go in bars. It seems like just yesterday she was 8…
Enjoy! It goes wayyy too fast.
@KJNI can’t wait to show her, she is so happy when I speak about her or someone references her on the internet now
Awesome recap, as per usual! The kids were cute but, as usual, the parents weren’t too bright. I am sad that this was the season finale, it was kind of a blah episode. I want Mak!!!
Also, I have news: My sister has entered a pageant for a joke. It’s in April – the “Wish Upon A Star” pageant. Judging by the pictures though, Canadian pageants are WAY different. There’s no fake hair, no flippers, no tanning, no cupcake dresses. Just girls in knee-length party dresses (although some of the teens and adults wore gowns) with minimal makeup and pretty basic hair, nothing fancy. On the website all it says is to “come in your Sunday best”. I don’t know if this is considered a glitz pageant or not, but it seems much less horrifying than the pageants on T & T, at any rate. It’s held at a seniors’ recreation complex, hahaha.
AND THERE IS A HUGE CASTLE TIARA. It seriously looks amazing. There are two for the contestants with the highest scores and apparently, there are a bunch that the audience members can win in a raffle.
To answer the obvious questions: YES, I am absolutely going and YES, I am definitely going to buy me a shitload of raffle tickets to try and win one of those crowns. Although I find it totally baffling that they don’t give out more crowns to the winners instead of the audience…
And I plan to take copious notes and observe the behaviour of the children/parents to see if they’re any different than the circuses in the South. I’ll keep you posted…
happy birthday, dear Moli! you are such a sweet girl!
Hope you get tons of presents (-:
Happy Birthday Little Moli! Be sure to blow out all your candles so you can get your wish!!
You’re right, Grown-up Moli, whatever happened to the \look\ ? I only have one child but I perfected \The Look\. As for reducing someone to a 5 year old, it still works on my daughter and she’s 25! In fact, she knows when I’m giving it to her over the phone. A few months ago we were on the phone, she said something I didn’t appreciate and I gave \The Look\. She then smart-mouthed me by saying \you know, \The Look\ doesn’t work over the phone\ (I didn’t tell her I was giving her \The Look\ – we’re very much in tune – it’s kinda spooky). I immediately hung up on her and refused to take her calls for the next two hours. Needless to say, \The Look\ does eventually work over the phone!!
Congratulations to little Moli, from far far away I want to wish you a very happy 8th birthday. It is mine too today. I wish it was my 8th, but unfortunatly that was 38 years ago. People born on February 12th are just the luckiest people in the world! My daughters grandfather had the same birthday as you and me, and he was the smartest, most loving man I know.
Veruca ….. just wondering. If you pay the pageant fees which from looking at some of the websites are quite expensive; why would you back out? Wouldn’t you lose the money? Most of the entry forms I have read say there are no refunds. So I can’t believe that mothers would pull their kids out of a pageant because of other entrants.
Also, could someone please explain why, when they win a savings bond they only get half the value in cash.
Paper bonds are sold at 50% of face value, so they give you half the amount in cash. You can buy the bond if you want. And yes, you are usually out the fees, if you choose to skip it. But I honestly, as much as people like to claim it happens because of their kid, have never heard of a child who is such a threat that people won’t go if they will be there.
I am 42, and “the look” from Mom still works on me. I think it is because we were taught respect and discipline, something that seems to be sorely lacking in today’s kids.
Thanks DC for all of the fantastic recaps this season.
*seasonfinalesadhorns*
And my captcha is first year free. HA!
As far as backing out goes– most pageants only require a deposit, with the remainder due at the pageant. Deposits for Nationals generally run around 100-150 at most. Compared to the 600-1000 entry fees, its not really a big hit.
There are some who won’t go if they have to face off against certain people. I’ve seen girls back out if AT, CD, MD, MO, IR, and a few others were rumored to be coming. We’ve always enjoyed the competition aspect of it all, even despite never beating one particular heavy hitter in her age group
No experience with pageants but my daughter has been doing singing and dance competitions since she was 5. There has always been at different times other singers or dancers that always seem hard to beat.
However, we have been to competitions and won. Last year she won Queensland Contralto.
Winning is so much more satisfying when you have practised and worked hard and beaten the others. Otherwise it is not a competition.
My code is quality time………what some delusional T & T mothers think they are having with their kids who are constantly screaming NO
Just wanted to add……….. the next singing competition is at Easter over 4 days. It is the equivalent of a National pageant. For this she will have a new musical theatre costume, a manicure and a pedicure (for pretty feet and hands). Now she is grown up she does her own hair and make up unless it is something different. Last year I painted her green for a song from Wicked. It is NOT necessary to have hair and make up, an expensive dress, or even a spray tan to win a prize. It is up to the competitor. Entry fees are $10 per song and she is doing 4. Adding on hotel, meals etc. it still doesn’t add up to the cost that I have worked out a glitz pageant would be. Although, there are no crowns or sashes. Just a trophy and prize money up to $500 depending on whether she places 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. If she gets a place with 3 songs it will be worthwhile going but as Pageant Grandma and Veruca would probably agree it is not about what you gain in prize money. The gain is in the competing. Veruca, I am sure that there will be a pageant where your daughter will beat that heavy hitter.
Bluedog – That sounds like a wonderful competition involving skill, hard work and creativity. I’m sure the parents enjoy the experience also. \\Painted her green\\ — that’s great!! I hope you took pictures.
Remind me of the years my daughter played travel basketball.
*Reminds
@Bdog, so great for your daughter to be involved in a meaningful activity that will truly make her a well rounded person and benefit her as an adult.
I gave always wondered about the judging at these pseudo contests. We see “our” little girls refuse to rehearse and get up onstage and call a bit of arm waving talent. Remember the divine Eden winning for walking around the stage dressed as a showgirl and knocking over her cardboard Elvis?
Ah talent.
From time to time we catch a glimpse of a contestant (not “ours”) who has real talent in dance, or gymnastics, possibly singing. Out of all the little girls entered, do the contests almost never have any girls with real skills? Who win?
I have seen “our” girls beat contestants who appear (in brief glimpses) to have had ability in a particular area and have wondered WTF? Is talent not factored in?
Help!
@Amy: Thanks gurl…I combined Honey Boo Boo with RuPaul and the product was WerkIt
@Veruca/Pageant-grandma: Thanks for the info! The pageant world is extremely interesting to me…not gonna lie, I would LOVE to have a pageant girl someday (mostly because I want to make the outfits/get my hands on one of those big crowns!). Are any of the girls that have been featured any of the girls that would make others want to back out? I don’t know initials since they usually don’t show the last names.
This episode…I thought Katlyn was just horrid, that kid really annoyed me. The spelling of her name is also annoying, as people have mentioned. I keep pronouncing it “cat-lynn” in my head. For realz though, if I had behaved the way Cat-Lynn did at 6…well, I wouldn’t have because my mom had whacked that behavior out of me long before age 6. Good behavior, obedience, and manners were a big thing in the Smoochy household, and I’m actually glad for it. Letting a 6 year old throw tantrums of that caliber is just ridiculous. She should have to sit out of activities until she learns to behave.
@georgiababe is this in Edmontom? Might have to make a road trip up there and see it if they allow specators.
@ georgiababe…yes, do tell. Where are you? I’m just outside of Toronto and would love to see it. I might be one I saw advertised a while ago – I think I mentioned I an earlier post that the poster had pictures of last year’s winners and I thought they were all in need of a tan and a flipper. Then I realized how desensitized I had become to everything! LOL!
MD is Madi Davis, who was followed in the episode with Ever Rose– the blonde kid with the annoying “grandma” schtick. Personally, my granddaughter wins some, and loses some. There is one kid she has a hard time beating when we compete locally, but that child has never supremed at a national, while my granddaughter has supremed at all but 2 nationals (1 she got queen, in a HUGE, very tough group, and 1 she earned her princess title in a BIG way). She has pulled UGS over some very big names, and been beaten by them, too. The only time we have pulled out of a pageant was when we discovered that the director of the system was very biased against a certain coaching group– ours– and that realistically, my granddaughter had no chance. Otherwise, we don’t care who is going– the tougher the competition, the sweeter the win, when it happens.
@rolling eyes – I’m in Edmonton.
@ConfusedinCanada – Yes, it’s in Edmonton! There was one in Red Deer on the 10th, if I’d known about it earlier I’d have told you about it! It seems to me like they allow spectators. It’s this website that’s holding this pageant: http://www.allcanadianpageants.com/
But there are a few other Canadian pageant circuits. From what I’ve seen, none of them have fake tans and flippers like they do in the US.
Oliviana’s mom said people are jealous. Of what???? Oliviana was kind of cute, but I wouldn’t yank my dog out of a pageant because she was participating. Her fat assed mom got on my nerves. Something tells me that dad dresses up in cupcake dresses and meets people on craigslist for late night tryists in seedy hotels.
Katlyn and that crying! That got old real quick! I cringed when she came on. Instant dislike!
Hatched One……… Unfortunately, no photos, they are not allowed because of copyright laws. Not even a professional photographer. So all photos have to be back stage. Even now, although she is grown up I still have tears sometimes when she sings.
Snow Shoe Cat……. I have often wondered about how many points are given for actual talent. For example the two Mias. Russian Mia did in my opinion a very good job of singing Animal Crackers and deserved her win at her pageant, but Madonna Mia won talent supreme at another pagent for walking around the stage in a cone bra and she supposedly had points taken off for being late. Out of that entire pageant surely there was a competitor who was studying ballet, violin or singing who had some actual talent? Where were the kids like Brock who I think will be dancing on Broadway one day?
Is it because the talented kids are too busy with classes, performing, and other types of competitions to do pageants?
Happy Valentines Day everyone…….
I was taken out to dinner last night and lunch today. I feel very spoilt.
Mr Dog was given large bags of M & M’s. His favourite.
I’m in Edmonton, and this website was advertised in one of the buy and sell groups I belong to on Facebook:
http://www.princesspageants.ca/
They do glitz pageants…flippers, falls, spray tans, the whole deal. They say they are \introducing glitz pageants to Alberta for the first time\. I wouldn’t want to put m daughter in one, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t curious to watch one!
Oh Crabby, as always, your stellar recap has me howling. I’ve been pretty busy, so I haven’t watched the entire episode yet, but enough that I may not bother. It was a snooze for sure.
People calling to see if Oliviana was in the Pageant? Bitch, please, she is cute, but not don’t attend cause she will smoke the competition cute.
Why must we always have to point out this shit to the parents, yawn, exhausting.
Till we meet again, I will continue to read past comments on T&T- As I’ve said before, this is one of a handful of shows I watch, so can’t wait till it returns. Love you Crabby, you are the ying to my yang when it comes to snark. I freaking worship the snarky ground you walk on Baby!
Damn it to hell I haven’t been back here to check for comments from those that don’t quite get T&T and Crabby…
@Nancy: You’ve actually READ Crabby’s recaps, right? So you realize she (the AWESOME-EST RECAPPER) calls kids far worse things than I ever have, and you know what? We LOVE it. That’s why we’re here, reading a recap written by a hilarious non-kid person. You sound like the moms we try and bait to chime in! Soooo out of touch. I think perhaps Crabby’s recaps and the regular commenters feedback are too much for your delicate sensibilities, because my comment was downright TAME. Or you were having a bad day and took it out on me, in which case it’s all good.
Aaand thank you Robin! I guess some folks don’t quite get snark
Lastly, excellent name by design, then, Ms. Smoochie!
Hi, guys!
News about mrs Heather, ex-manager of Eden Wood
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2288691/Toddlers-Tiaras-talent-agent-release-tell-memoir-revealing-fame-games-abuse-Eden-Woods-stage-mom.html
@Gina, similar article! (Your link is to a better written one)
http://starcasm.net/archives/203386
Not even gonna lie–I’ll be buying it.
Director Ms Betty is coming back for an episode next season!
Only time I can recall parents pulling kids was vs Chooky, I think she’s been on once? Family looks like they could be crazy but they’re normal and the little girl is well mannered. Only reason I know that is my niece wound up being the only other girl in the age division. I’m spacing on her name.
I’ve heard of a few more, but we don’t do enough national to be concerned.
Only had to pull her once. She decided to be a surly, grumpy brat – and what kid isn’t some days – so I packed up and we went home. I’m the Diva Queen, not her. Once she got the clear picture, she’s had a few whiny moments, that do have reason – usually her hair is pulling – but esh no fits from hell.
Ugh, that didn’t read right. I do actually have a brain. I’m on my phone with a broken finger, so my typing is off.
Niece has actually never pitched a fit, she wanted to follow my daughter and totally adores being fussed over but she has actual manners. She sometimes pouts if she’s hungry or tired, but she’s good about saying so.
It was my DD who did the tantrum. Granted, it was maybe 1/10th of the fits we see on the show. But, I don’t play those games, so home we went. I think the whine session was about wanting to wear her OOC skirt vs beauty cupcake skirt. OOC skirt was (and still is) black ruffle fluff – doesn’t fly for beauty.
I did see T&T taping at one, but refused to sign a release. Mostly as they wanted it when she was sleeping through hair. She’s got a ton of hair and is well used to it being fussed about before school. I just get an early hair time and let her sleep or doze. She’s good about not mucking it up so this is easiest,
Well for those who are still following these comments. We went to the singing competition and won the Contralto again and placed third in another section. With some sections having over 30 competitors we are happy.
During songs, no one is allowed to enter the theatre and talk or do anything but sit quietly and listen. I was told that I would be walking home if I yelled out \Sparkle Baby\ . Since it was a 5 hour car trip I would still be walking. So I just said it to her before she walked up to the stage. One of the other competitors asked why I was saying it. Since she had never seen T & T I had to explain. Her reply was \Isn’t that the show with the child abusing mothers and bratty children?’\ \Weeeeelllllllll not all of them are but there are some.\
Pageantkidgrownup……. well done for taking your DD home. I did that once when my DD decided to throw a tantrum and be a little b**** at a competition. She never did it again and since she is now an adult and still entering I can’t have done too much wrong.
Congratulations Bluedog DD! That is a great job!
Yup DD hasn’t tried a tantrum since I marched her snotty brat butt home at 25 months old. Sure, she’d whine if her hair was pulling or something was annoying her, but she knew \I don’t speak Whinese\ and stop everything and she would tell anyone what the problem was. Granted, Daddy let her go out without her white lacy socks but she did well enough and she wasn’t screaming bloody murder about her itchy, owie socks. But she’s 8 now and she gets dilute apple juice or MAYBE Sprite, not energy drinks and caffeine dumped down her. So she also doesn’t have the crash so that helps behavior also. If I was pouring crap in her, she’d probably tank and be Snotty McCrabbyBratypants.
But, as she’s 8, I do expect far better behavior than her now 3 year old niece. But still, ack! Neither are perfect, but I have no shame in taking them in public. Granted, DD is hit and miss on OOC as she adores the black outfit. But it’s not Shirley Temple or Slutty Cop Wear, so black outfit it is.
Work is a yawn fest so I’ve read most of the recaps and comments.
It was mentioned before about going up a division. For age only, it’s tolerated at least for regional pageants. DD bumped up last year or she’d have had a total cake walk. Nationals, I kept her in her age because those were harder. It’s the division based on winnings that you can’t bump in. But age bumping is ok for some pageants.
For the whiny parents. It’s reality TV. Of course it’s cut to make the show a train wreck. You did not have to sign up for it. You wanted to, so train wreck it is. It’s why I refused to let my DD get filmed. They wouldn’t show her full coverage, no stripping or booty popping OOC or her extremely beautiful talent. It would have been her sleeping during hair because it’d get a reaction. Or her sleeping in her Daddy’s lap. Or her grumbling about her lipstick being sticky and wiping it off. Or eight million other things that are normal behavior, but if you only see 3 seconds, it’s that I’m mean for forcing her to get up on stage. Granted, I’m a biased mother, so maybe her routines aren’t as lovely as I see them – but I’m still not signing on for a train wreck.
Ok, ok, I’ll shut up soon….
When does next season start? I need me some train wrecks. But please, never again with the NiNi McKenzie or however her name is spelled.
Tetherball kid is Paisley, I’m about 99.99% sure. Can I say I like her and her mom? She’s acting like a normal kid, speaks clearly – I do not get why TLC subtitles her and mom – and doesn’t throw unreasonable fits. Mom may put less than tasteful outfits on her, but she’s admitted to doing this for herself and the kid seems happy on stage.
Heard Mom got sick of some behaviors at glitz pageants and has stopped entering them, not sure how much is true vs gossip vs anything else. I know I’ve seen her outside pageants, she and the twins from the pet pageant. The one who had the turkey is really stunning in the photos actually. But those are the only ones I remember seeing outside of this show.
I think I’m having T&T withdrawal. When, oh when, is the new season going to begin??? Hurry, summertime, hurry!
My capcha code is bath water, as in throwing the baby out with. Maybe I’m delirious but that’s tickling my funny bone right now.