I'm going to start with the Diaper Dash. I will fully admit, this was the lowest point for me and I felt wrong watching them here. I will also admit, I went to the Diaper Dash because my curiosity got the best of me and I really want to know if they were going to have Da Baby compete again. Even though he is walking--I wouldn't put anything past them. For those of you who haven't seen a DD, like everyone on the ship come out for it, it's adorable. So, we got there and I look down and there's Tim, holding Da Baby. Nanny is sitting in front of him and J$ is sitting in between her legs. Her body is enveloping his, that's the best way I can describe it. She's a smaller girl and her body is completely surrounding his. No Jenn. J$ is sitting there an his hands and fingers are going a mile a minute. He's rubbing his fingers together. He's rubbing his hands together. He's doing that finger posturing that we've seen him doing in the car on a few occasions. Nanny is getting tighter and tighter around him (if that makes sense). J$ is rubbing his head, he's rubbing his ears. He's visibily uncomfortable. All the other kids are sitting, just sitting. The race hasn't started yet, so it's not loud-loud but there are a ton of people so there is a lot of background noise.
It's giving me a hard time drawing on these pictures and uploading them....so they are behind the guy standing/leaning on the stair railing.
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So at one point, J$ squirms away from Nanny and starts swinging that blue velvet rope in front of him. The rope is swinging, swinging harder, swinging harder....the posts are swinging now. I say--loudly---is someone going to stop him? That pole is going to fall on someone. Like she heard me (she didn't) Nanny scoops him back into her---he wasn't sitting ON her lap but moreso in between her legs, where her legs were wrapped around him. J$ didn't like this. I do not know what she said to him, or if she said anything (I was upstairs) but he started smacking himself, with both hands on the sides of his head. Like clapping with his head in between. He did it maybe 3-4-5 times? Nanny quickly grabbed both his hands and squeezed him tightly. This calmed him down. I'm telling you guys---I'm not a religious person at all---this girl was send by some higher power for this kid.
So now, Jenn shows up. She sits next to Tim, but doesn't say anything to J$. At all. He doesn't look at her either. Literally no recognition or communication at all. Tim hands off Da Baby to Jenn and starts
bleeping around with his glasses. You can see the light when he's taking a photo/video. It's bright. But I was watching closely. He's taking pics/video of Da Baby. J$ is acting like he's not even part of that same family. Tim pulls out the big ass, fuzzy ball camera and shoves it in Da Baby's face. Da Baby grabs the lens and Tim is PISSED. YOU GO LITTLE GUY!!!!!
So the lights go down, the colored lights start shining and Tim starts hitting his glasses. I'm assuming that the darkness/crazy lighting effects did not work well with the creeper glasses because Tim quickly got up and moved clear across the room.
In this photo---Jenn/O/Nanny/J$ are on the bottom left. Nanny is holding her phone up. Tim and his fuzzy balls are on the top right, next to the guy in the grey shirt standing with his arms crossed.
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My two cents: They do know about J$ issues. They brought Jess back because she handles him well. Tim and Jenn do not handle him well. They give in to him because it's easier for them. But, I'm going to give Tim and Jenn a tad bit of credit here---they do a phenomenal job showing J$ good side in the videos. This must be a challenge for them. They for certain only show him at his absolute best and that could be why it takes so
bleeping long to edit some of these videos.
Back to the DD---I'm really anxious to see how he exploits these children. It was a really good DD as the children were super uncooperative. In the first race, this little girl crawled big circles in the middle of the mat while the other babies didn't move at all. She was adorable. The second round, this one baby tried to climb the stairs.
The winner of it all---stood up and walked away after collecting his prize. To which the entire crowd started screaming CHEATER. Loudly. The cruise director hypes up the Diaper Dash and talks about how if your kid walks you can't compete. They made a huge deal about the no walking rule during the race constantly. I want to see how Tim spins this---if he mentions it at all.
OK.....that's the end of Chapter 1
Sip on that for a while.
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