Have you heard the exciting news? Lawson and Tiffany Bates delivered their baby boy! William Daniel Bates arrived July 19th, 2024, and weighed 7 lbs 2 oz. William is the 30th Bates grandchild, and he shares a birthday with five-year-old Willow Balka, the 10th Bates grandchild. That makes seven shared birthdays for Gil and Kelly Bates' clan.
William arrived eight days before Lawson's 32nd birthday. Part two of William's birth story is now on YouTube, and it features plenty of adorable face shots of the little guy.
He’s adorable
ReplyDeleteHe’s adorable
ReplyDeleteThank you Lord for a healthy baby boy. Congratulations to you both!!!
ReplyDeleteIf the next one is a girl, it'll probably get a silly name, like Bobbi or Cassi or Maci. The boys get the strong, conventional names in this family and the girls get the cutsey ones. The Websters are a good example of this.
ReplyDeleteYep. The boys get "strong conventional" names like Ryker Cruise, Kolter and Zade.
DeleteSharing a birthday, especially in a large family, is no big deal. It only takes 23 people in a group to have a 50-50 chance of two of them sharing a birthday. Up it to 30 people and it's a 70% chance. Up it to 70 people and it's almost a guarantee that two share a birthday. It's math permutations.
ReplyDeleteI highly doubt that the Bateses know this. Homeschooling teaches you how to count but not much more.
DeleteWow, such slander, 6:27.
DeleteWow @ 6:27 that comment just shows your ignorance. Homeschooling curriculum sets high standards of learning. ABEKA is one of the best. Secular colleges actually want homeschoolers because they have the highest grade averages of any student when compared to public and even private schools. I was homeschooled and I have twice been offered jobs working in history museums because I so impressed the tour guides with my ability to talk on the same level with them and above. Not bragging just stating a fact.
DeleteWhat kind of comment is that!? Homeschooling is the best option for educating your kids if you can do it. Second best would be private schools. Good grief, do your homework! Homeschoolers are really smart. They could tell you what WW2 is. My teenage neighbor who went to public school had never heard of World War 2. That's a problem!
DeleteMy cousin told me his public school friends mock him for believing the Holocaust happened. I'll bet a homeschooler wouldn't do that to him.
DeleteOkay gonna try this again. My phone wasn't working earlier...Ahem: Excuse me!? Only 3% of American public high schoolers can pass the US Citizenship exam which is 10 questions. To pass you must answer 6 out of 10. I just quizzed my homeschooled high school brother and he got 10 out of 10! My sister and i got 9 out of 10. We were homeschooled too.
DeleteI was homeschooled, and more than once while I was shopping at antique stores and conversing knowledgeably on numerous historical topics, the store owners asked if I was homeschooled. I asked how they knew. Their response, "You know things". Not boasting or anything...just telling a true story.
DeleteThe majority of spelling bee champs are homeschoolers.
Delete6:27 is so silly and must not know many homeschoolers.
DeleteApparently @10:25 but the amount of homeschoolers in this country is growing yearly so there'll be more to run into. Homeschooling doubled in just the 2021-2022 school year alone! My cousin who works in statistics says schooling in this country will become privatized. I also heard that in five years or so whole school districts in Florida may have to shut down because so many parents are choosing homeschool or private schools.
DeleteWow, I love how the homeschoolers showed up for this conversation! I was homeschooled from 4th - 12th grade and have a master's degree in education, one of my sisters has a master's degree, and my other sister has a bachelor's degree. My three oldest are all in college and were homeschooled K - 12th. I know a great number of fellow homeschooled kids who are now successful adults. Hopefully the one who wrote the unkind and prejudiced comment about being homeschooled has learned from her mistake.
Delete@2:39 The idea that public schools would have to shut down is not based on evidence. While enrollment may be declining, for any number of reasons, including the dropping birth rate, there will continue to be a need for them. Not everyone can stay quite their job homeschool their kids and private schools are expensive. There are also special needs populations that rely on public schools for their services.
DeleteYou have to remember that the quality of homeschool education depends on who's overseeing it and what curriculum they're using. Since we're on the topic of kids who grew up on TV on TLC, we already saw what their schooling was like...or what it wasn't like... So we can certainly wonder out loud about their math skills. What happened at everyone else's homeschool doesn't count here.
Delete7:52, no, we're responding to the first commenter who made a blanket statement (a rude, inaccurate one) of homeschoolers.
Delete@2:18 Ma'am, this is a Bates and Duggar adjacent blog. I think we know which homeschoolers that person was talking about.
DeleteNow that William arrived, I'm sure the next round of pregnancy announcements will begin. I see 4 or 5 coming soon.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the addition of Little Will.
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