Bringing Up Bates"Home Sweet Home and Nathan's Love"
- Tori and Bobby have just moved into their first home. They had been looking for a while but hadn’t seen much on the market. And then they found a place for sale just two houses down from Zach and Whitney, and they snapped it up. Tori and Bobby give Zach, Whitney, Michael, and Brandon a tour.
- Tori jokes that Chad and Erin are coming up with her design and decorations. Chad is planning to build a back porch, which Tori is very excited about. She laughs when she tells her sister and sister-in-law that she made Bobby put his clothes in the boys’ large closet so she could have their closet all to herself.
- Later, the Bates and Stewarts take a trip to Zoo Knoxville for Layla’s first birthday. And in Florida, Alyssa and John are assembling baby items for Maci’s arrival. “You would think that after three kids, we would be like completely prepared, but for some reason, setting up a baby swing this time around and a car seat was more complicated than it looked,” says Alyssa.
- Alyssa’s first three daughters were born at a birth center with a midwife, but because of the heart complications and surgeries that she had, she is delivering this baby at a hospital.
- “I feel like we’ve kind of reversed the roles of what most people do,” says Alyssa. “A lot of people get married and wait a while to have kids. We’re going to have our fourth kid, and I’m 26. And by the time we’re 40, we’re going to have like grown kids in college, and we’ll be able to enjoy grandkids.”
- Meanwhile, Paine Construction is busy building out the new retail space for the Bates Sisters Boutique. And Zach is now working in Gil’s tree business.
- “I would love to be 56 moving around like my dad, instead of 33 moving around like I am right now,” says Zach.
- “My dad is definitely getting older, but he is still the man,” says Carlin. “The guy’s a rock. He is like still killing it. He’s still all of our heroes.”
- Nathan, who isn’t usually in Tennessee, is home and helps out on a tree job. During a break, Nathan reveals to his dad and brothers that he is hoping to get engaged in the spring. “I think I’m ready to take the next step and change her from a girlfriend to a fiancé,” he says. He hopes to pop the question in the Bahamas.