We’re just days away from October, but Monday’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 was a quick flashback to the early summertime, when Kate Gosselin took her children to the beach on Bald Head Island, N.C. In the new episode, Kate decided to a take a trip within the trip with her little girls, sextuplets Leah, Alexis and Hannah. (She’d already taken her boys to see a battleship, she explained.)
The ladies boarded a ferry off the island, waving at paparazzi on the dock, and headed into town, where a carriage drawn by a horse named Mikey picked them up and took them to the Wilmington Tea Room.
“It was nice to do fun, girly things,” Kate said as the girls dropped sugar cubes into their fruit-flavored teas. Still, she was worried about her 5-year-olds around all that fragile china. “I didn’t want to freak out and be nervous but let’s face it, I was,” she said. “There was just glass everywhere.”
Meanwhile at home in Wernersville, Pa., Jon was taking care of the older siblings, twins Mady and Cara, who were finishing up school. After bringing them earrings back from New York City, where he now resides, Jon kept them busy in the yard as they planted seeds for tomatoes, squash and cucumber, which they watered each day in hopes of harvesting some veggies in the future.
“They were actually keeping track of them until the dogs jumped up on the table and ate them,” Jon said. “So, that was the end of that.”
He also planned a bonfire in their yard and joked about using tabloids to fuel the fire. “We’re wasting good paper when we could be burning toilet trash,” he said as he stuffed newspaper under the firewood. “Of course, now the tabloids will critique me for my fire-building.”
Back on vacation, Kate and the little Gosselin girls had moved on to making bracelets and eating ice cream. After saying that her boys would have turned over all the trays of beads, Kate decided to make “world bracelets” for Cara and Mady to remind them that “anywhere in the world I am, they’re always in my heart and I would never leave them.”
As the episode ended, Kate explained why she enjoys taking her kids out in smaller groups to do more focused activities. “I didn’t get to do a lot of this when I was a kid,” she said, “so to turn around and be able to do this with my kids is very valuable.” –Aaron Parsley
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