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October 19, 2009

Jon & Kate: Butterflies and water rockets

Tonight, on John & Kate Plus 2 Watch Jon & Kate Plus 8:

Where would the Gosselins be without a trip? Kate's going to Florida with the little girls while the boys do "destructive man stuff."

Kate S.: "They're going to Butterfly World! Do you think Sam would like that?"

John: "I guess we should mention for disclosure's sake that we have raised butterflies in our home."

Kate S.: "And for the record, we let them go in a lovely place. But it wasn't Florida."

John: "Hopefully, they're still alive...."

There are also parrots at Butterfly World.

Meanwhile, Jon and the boys -- oh, and the older twins -- are back home, and Jon is trying to put together some colossal rocket thingie.

John: "So I'm not supposed to notice this, but is separation making Jon get fatter?"

Kate S.: "Why are you not supposed to notice?"

John: "He's getting this huge gut!"

John: "You know what else I've noticed? As the marital strife has grown on this show, the Sonic commercials have disappeared. Coincidence? I think not."

Back to the little girls, who are holding nectar for the birds. One of the birds has bitten Kate.

Kate S.: "Oh, how cute, that she's having eight birds line her arms."

Says she's "very much into symbolism."

Kate S: "Next, she is forced to confront disgusting insects."

John: "Is this a metaphor for Jon?"

The rocket is set off, uninspiringly.

Kate is impressed that the little girls have no fear of the bugs. One walks around holding one!

Kate S.: "Sorry, but Kate is protesting a little too much."

John: "She's totally being a girl."

Kate S.: "Hey!"

Jon gets the rocket to go higher this time, and pronounces the results "awesome."

Kate G: "I love how old they're getting, that they can just torture me" with the bugs.

Kate S: "Excellent! Get used to it. The torture doesn't end."

Oh no. They aren't taking a hot air balloon ride now, in Florida. Not after balloon boy...

John: "I would never do that."

Kate S.: "Neither would I."

One girl says: "Not fun! At all!" Hot air balloons are, it turns out, hot.

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About Kate Shatzkin
Kate Shatzkin is the parenting and families content editor at The Baltimore Sun and, before that, was its family beat reporter. But her most challenging and rewarding job is being mother to Leah, 8, and Sam, 6.

In her 14 years at The Baltimore Sun, Kate also has covered nonprofit organizations, prisons and courts, and has written several investigative series. She was previously a Knight journalism fellow at Yale Law School and a reporter at the Seattle Times and at the Patriot-Ledger of Quincy, Mass. She lives in Baltimore with her family.

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