Okee dokee, Annabel is blissfully asleep, so I'm going to torture myself and watch the second episode of Baby Borrowers. You get the rundown, as long as I don't get too irritated and throw my laptop at the TV.
On a side note, I have to say there is nothing better in the whole wide world than holding your sleeping baby in your arms. She's soft and warm, and you know that she completely relies on you to keep her safe. And then it hits you that that is your whole life's mission is to make sure that she's happy and safe. Chris and I love each other with all our hearts and souls, but we never knew we were capable of the kind of love that Annabel has brought us. She's a miracle, our little girl.
Back to the mayhem that is reality television... of course we start off with the recap of episode one, all that drama in 15 seconds. And the announcer reminds us that the fate of all these teens' relationships rests on the outcome of this experiment. Wow. Drama. Back to the present, we're watching the teens deal with their first nights with the babies. The funny thing is, the parents are all watching all night long. Although, now that I think about it, if my child were in the hands of any of these people, I'd stay up all night watching them too.
So the challenge for today is that one "parent" from each of the couples has to leave and go to work while the other stays at home with the baby. The working parent will earn $100 per day to buy food for themselves and the baby and pay rent on the house they were given. Alicea (we'll call her Diva) decides that she's not going to stay at home with baby Karson because I guess she still hates Karson's Mommy. The funny thing is, the show decides that her job is going to be at a lumber yard... yep! A LUMBER YARD. Sweet. I can't wait to see this.
Kelsey (who has baby "It," otherwise known as Etta) says that she's "sick" and can't stay at home alone with the baby. So Sean forgoes a day of salary to help Kelsey (who is totally freaking out) at home. Etta's mom comes over and is actually very nice to Kelsey, and tells her how she was in her shoes, she doesn't get any do-overs, that she still has to take care of the baby, etc. etc.
Meantime, Kelly (the Georgia peach who didn't want to be pregnant) seems to have made a "complete 180" according to the announcer. She's totally connected with the baby and tells us that the urge to have a baby has increased "like, 10 times." Well, Peach, did you forget that you have to be pregnant, first? Apparently so... I guess she'll adopt.
Diva comes home from work (where she complained the whole time, and her "boss" said that if it was real, he would have fired her already) and still refuses to take care of the baby. That night, Karson wakes up at about 2am, and Diva's SO, Corey, tries to wake her up to take care of the baby, but she ignores him. Since he's the only one out of the two who has a heart, Corey gets up to bring the baby to bed to get him to stop crying. Diva sleeps through the whole thing. In his interview, Corey says he's got two babies in his house. Ha! So true. Here's the clip I'm talking about...
Day 2, Diva says she's too tired to go to work and she doesn't want to get blisters. So she makes Corey go. What? Are they relaxing the rules on us here? I thought whoever went to work the first day was supposed to be the working parent all the way through? At the very least, shouldn't Diva face some sort of consequence for being such a pain in the butt? Sheeeeesh.
In the house next door, Kelsey goes to work and leaves Sean at home with Etta. He tells her not to get fired because they're already a day without a salary. Ha! I gotta say, these girls are all giving Moms a bad rap, because it's totally the guys that are stepping up to the plate here. The girls are the ones being the drama queens while the guys just plod through. Also, there hasn't really been any footage of my fave Houston couple, Sasha and Jordan. I guess they're just doing so well, there's no drama to show. Yay! Go Sasha and Jordan!
Next up, the teens get a visit from their own Moms. Sean's mom shows up and Kelsey admits that she doesn't want kids anymore. Peach gushes to Austin's mom about how they have the best baby ever. Diva and Corey are still in denial and say that they would do better with their own baby and not someone else's. Diva's mom tells them that they need to get over themselves (hmmm... how many adults have told them this now? maybe I should have a counter) and that sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do in order to take care of your family. Sasha's mom is impressed by Sasha and Jordan's maturity and how they've stuck together to take care of their baby. And finally, Surfer Girl and her mom clash because... not really sure why, actually. Surfer Girl just keeps throwing a teen temper tantrum about how her mom doesn't ask her about what's going on with her. So of course, Mom asks her what's going on with her. Surfer Girl responds by rolling her eyes, huffing and stomping up the stairs. Oooookaaaaaay...
Finally, what I've been waiting for! The parents get to pick their kids up and evaluate the teens. But there's only five minutes left in the show, so I guess I won't get to see the butt whippings that I really want to see. Aaaawww... the babies' faces just light up when they see their parents! Miley's parents tell Surfer Girl to patch things up with her mom because she's really going to need her when she has her own baby. The parents of Sasha and Jordan's baby tell them how proud they were and how lucky they felt to have their baby with them. Same for the Peaches. Of course, the parents of Diva and Corey's baby told them how mad they were, and Corey actually admitted that they "have a lot of growing up to do" while Diva just sat there and pouted. And finally, Sean is all grown up while Kelsey "checked out." Yawn. That was disappointing. Well, hopefully the toddler episodes will prove to be more fun/disastrous for these teens.
Time for Annabel's meal! Til next time... Cheers!
After a hard day of playing, brother and sister are ready for a good night's sleep!
