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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are doing a divide and conquer with the kids, making sure they all get some special outings. While Angelina has the older girls in New York City for sightseeing and art shopping, Brad Pitt took Maddox and Pax to Las Vegas for a little getaway.
According to People.com, Brad was spotted with Maddox and Pax at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Wednesday night. No word on what they’re doing out there, but I know there is a ton of stuff to do in Vegas with young kids – maybe they’re going to go see the sting rays at Mandalay Bay!
Either way, the kids are all sure to be having a blast with all the big girls together and all the big boys together as well. There was nothing clear as to where the babies are, but maybe Knox and Vivienne are with Brad‘s mom and dad. The whole family will get together again shortly what with the Oscar Awards being just a few more days away.
You know what’s particularly impressive about this boys-only trip to Las Vegas? No pictures! The picture I included with this post is not from the current excursion, it’s from August 2007 when the family was in New York. People used an old photo as well. I checked every photo agency that I use and – so far at least – no one had any photos of Brad, Maddox, and Pax in Las Vegas. I am amazed that in a city as bustling as Vegas, they managed to be spotted but not photographed by any paparazzi. Wow!
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jpfanatic, thanks :) i also agree with your post, and i wasn’t aware of the things you mentioned, i.e. gwen lending angie one of her dresses.
Neela, very well said! I agree with you completely, and I also want to add here: Despite the paps and other challanges of being celeb kids, Mad, Pax, and Zee Zee have a much better life than they would have if they hadn’t been adopted.
Mad and Pax (especially Pax, since most people don’t want to adopt older kids) would probably have faced a childhood in the orphanage (and likely a life on the streets once they “aged out” of the orphanage) had they not been adopted by Angie and Brad.
Sweet little Zee Zee probably wouldn’t even be alive today if Angie and Brad hadn’t adopted her. She was a very, very sick little girl when Angie adopted her (from what I’ve read, even the doctor who basically saved Zahara’s life said that she almost certainly would have died if Angie hadn’t adopted her).
Deborah, you explained things very well. :)
under mod: @nikita, why i reacted to your first comment and why i felt it was judgmental. however, i can understand your concern, as you have voiced in your second comment. they’ll have to deal with fame that they never sought for themselves. the jp kids are part of a famous family: the three were born into it and the other three were saved from worse conditions.
Nikita, let me just explain why I reacted to your first comment. Your first comment came across as being judgmental to me because the statement assumed the JP kids had no friends. I don’t mean to parse your statement, but claiming that Brad and Angie are “stealing” their kids’ childhood sounds rather judgmental to me and critical of their parenting approach. And in your words, “These poor children are going to have a rough time as they grow older and start throwing their famous parents names around to excuse there inexcusable behavior.” That’s quite an assumption, and to me it’s a negative expectation. There’s no way of knowing how they will grow up, and there’s no way of knowing how much of their childhood is spent missing out on things.
Now, I appreciate your effort to expound with the second comment. I acknowledge your concern. I understand where you’re coming from because to an extent, I do feel bad for the JP kids. They aren’t just any common kid in a regular neighborhood, and they will have to deal with their “fame” forever. Three of them just happen to be born into a famous family. The other three were saved from very dismal circumstances, and granted that they may miss out on some of the typical childhood experiences, it’s still a blessing that they have the kind of childhood that doesn’t leave them abandoned or begging for food and so on. All the JP kids may be missing out on some things that we normal folks take for granted, but they are also experiencing many things that only millions of other children can dream of. My point is, it really could be worse. Considering that Brad and Angie do not have the normal, middle class family, I think they do the best they can as parents. We can only try to imagine what it would be like in their shoes, but that’s the extent of it. As parents, they face challenges that other parents won’t ever have to. So, I think it’s worth giving them the benefit of the doubt, and just hope that their children continue to grow up healthy and that they turn out to be as kind and as compassionate as their parents.
I don’t want us to engage in an unpleasant discourse, so, let’s just agree to disagree and just remember that every person hold unique values.
Oh, and Nikitia, I do want you to know that I think you worded your comment very well, without coming across as nasty or judgemental!
UNDER MOD- Response to Nikitia.
Nikita, I’m not sure what your definition of “life long friendship” is, so I’m not going to say that the J-P kids do or don’t have lifelong friends (they may by my definition but not by yours, which is fine. All I’m saying is that it’s one of those things where the answer really depends on your definition).
However, I WILL say that it DOES seem like they have at least a few consistent friends. For example, the J-P kids (minus the twins, who weren’t around then, and Shiloh, who was too young for most “big kid” outings at the time), especially Maddox, have been seen hanging out with Adam Pearl (Marianne Pearl’s son) many times.
Maddox in particular seems to be very good friends with him (and Zahara, at least as of a year ago, has a “crush” on Adam according to Angie. :))
Also, Angie seems to be good friends with Gwen Stefani (At the beginning of their pregnancies with Zuma and Knox and Viv respectively, Gwen even mentioned that she had loaned Angie one of her maternity dresses! Angie has spoken about the friendship as well, if I’m not mistaken), so it’s very possible that Shiloh has playdates with Kingston a lot (and I imagine Knox and Viv will be having playdates with Zuma).
It is also extremely possibly that the J-P kids have friends they see quite often that we don’t about. For example, they might have friends in New Orleans that they see whenever they’re in town.
Just because the J-Ps are in the public eye and one of the most followed and watched celeb families out there doesn’t mean that we know every detail about what goes on in their lives.
In fact, we probably actually know very little about what goes on in their lives (I know it sometimes SEEMS like the opposite is true, but keep in mind that they often keep a fairly low profile for extended periods of time. Case in point: With the exception of a handful of photos of Zahara taken just days after her birthday, we didn’t see any of the kids from about mid-November until the end of last month.).
Another thing to keep in mind is that works for one family or kid might not work for another. For example, you may not have enjoyed frequently traveling around the world when you were a kid, but maybe the J-P kids love it!
Someone over at Celebrity-Baby Blog (another blog that I visit and comment at regularly) recently even commented that they would have loved to have had that kind of lifestyle (the traveling, I mean) as a kid!
I also don’t understand your comment of: “These poor children are going to have a rough time as they grow older and start throwing their famous parents names around to excuse there inexcusable behavior.” Since when have the J-P kids displayed iexcusable behavior (and I mean actual, documented cases, not fabricated tabloid stories like the London hotel incident)? They actually seem to be exceptionally well-behaved!
I DO agree with you about the paps, though. It is unfourtnate they have to deal with them all the time!
All of that said, I agree with deborah, Mary Ann, and Neela. Like deborah said, you’d be surprised at the kid-friendly stuff in Vegas! You’d also be surprised at the things kids can enjoy! For example, when I was a kid, I absolutly LOVED staying in motels (I still do, for that matter!).
My family didn’t travel a lot, but when we did, I usually almost enjoyed the motel stay more than the actual event/attraction we were going to!
Neela
Feb 20, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Also, let’s just hope that what you’re predicting does not happen. What kind of a person expects the worse out of innocent children? These are just children. Whatever gripe one has against their parents is fine, but it’s in poor taste to be so negative about the children.
I am not being negative about the children. Children are taught many things as they grow up and they are taught by their parents. I raised four sons so I know about parenting. I took my boys many places, they had perfect manners, attended church, and had friends they started out in kindergarten right through high school graduation and still have them as friends. Lifelong friends. A play date here one day and then moving on is not making lifelong friends. I don’t know what is right and what is wrong but I just look at these little children and feel they are missing a childhood. I don’t judge them, just feel bad for them. Paps chasing them everywhere and trips to Vegas seems so sad!
Deborah, Bravo, well thought out, well written and so very very true. When we were raising our children starting 45 years ago we had nothing. But we kept on going year after year. And you know what our kids had a wonderful happy life. As for Brad and Angie in my opinion they are top notch parents who are teaching their children to value others.
Nikita, my husband and I have taken all three of our children to all of these places and many more. There is so much to do in Las Vegas outside of what you obviously think is the only entertainment and education there. If you have strong parenting skills and teach your children about the many different cultures and societies in the world in which we live, then that is preparing them to cope well with most anything that may come their way in life. I love Disneyland and Seaworld and have had many wonderful trips there through out the years but lets face facts here, there is a whole lot of jungle between home and these awesome places. Best thing you can teach your kids is how the real world is and how to live in it. Its not how much or where they might travel with their children, its the family values they instill in them. Children are children no matter where they are or where their going. Traveling around the world, well what better classroom could that possible be!
I too think we need to take a step back and take those history lessons we learned at our parents and grandparents knees and apply some good old fashion common sense in how we manage our financial and spirtial wellbeing. Yes the depression was hard to live and survive through as our parents were children at the time. So they fought hard to provide for us, in turn we, as babyboomers strived hard to provide our children with everything that they couldn’t. But somewhere along the way we have done our children a disservice, we have made things to easy for them because we too wanted the best for them. I just hope that some of the same survival instincts that our parents parents used to survive, help our childrens children future. I’m a firm believer in what goes around comes around. We are a nation of survivors!
To Joliepittfantic, I read years ago that his brother Doug is married to a girl Brad dated a couple of times in highschool, small town. I know he has kids, but its been awhile since I’ve seen anything in print. And as a nama to my 3 yr old granddaughter, we are soooo important in soooo many ways! LOL! But soooo true! And I love every minute of it. But a few days at this age is about all my daughter could handle too. After that her brain just goes to mush without our, opps, I mean her little bundle of joy. Hey, does anyone know how I might, somehow get her an introduction to Max or Pax? Guaranteed they’ll both fall madly in love with her the instant they meet her, as would their mom and pops. I know I sound over-the-moon about her, but she is the best part of the best part of me and that my friends is as about as good as it gets! What can I say, all in her universe love and adore her, they would be no exception. Anybody who knows me, knows I am not above playing at match maker:) I mean really she wouldn’t need to know anything until, say the day before the wedding. Hey! I wouldn’t just introduce her to just anyone you know. This is my pride and joy and heart I’m talking about here!
Heres to hoping everyone is keeping their spirts up and their pocketbooks locked down tight. That everyone gets and stays healthy and keeps or fines a job swiftly. To helping our fellow mankind in need and hoping we wont have the same need but knowing it will be returned in kind should we have need of it.
P.S. Sherry I’m afraid I wasn’t aware your daughter was ill. I hope it is not very serious and she gets well soon.. My 3 yr old granddaughter had pneumonia on her birthday a couple of weeks ago. Poor baby was such a trooper and all but she just wasn’t herself, it just about broke everyones hearts because she just lights up a room with her joy. Of course we didn’t know it was pneumonia until after the party. She had over 40 people there and not one person got sick.Totally weird!
Neela, ITA! Also, it’s pretty obvious that the J-P kids DO have friends. I mean, we’ve seen the entire family (minus Knox and Viv who weren’t even concieved yet) hanging out with Mariane Pearl and her son Adam, and Brad mentioned not all that long ago that his kids go to friends’ houses for playdates.
Angie has also said, when they were in Germany, that they have friends in Germany who have kids. She even said in one interview that Shi went on a playdate in Germany….and, at one point during the playdate, said, “Nein! Nein!” Typical toddler (“Nein”, in case anyone’s wondering, is the German word for just about every toddler’s favorite word: “No”!).
I also want to point out that Maddox, Pax, and Zahara have all been to school (remember all the pictures we saw of them going to and from school in Prague, as well as pictures of Maddox going to and from school in New York?). It’s a pretty safe bet that they socalized with other kids while there.
Plus, they seem to see their cousins (Brad’s sister has quite a few kids, including twins. I’m unsure whether or not Brad’s brother Doug has kids…or whether he’s even married/with someone at the moment, for that matter) on a fairly regular basis (they seem to make rather frequent visits to Missouri when they are in the U.S. for extended periods of time).
I just don’t get why some people seem to think that the Jolie-Pitt kids never play with other kids!
Kim, yes, time with grandparents is important. What I was trying to say is that, if I had a seven month old, I don’t think I would be able to stand leaving him/her, even for a few days!
under mod: what kind of person expects the worse in a childs’ future???
Also, let’s just hope that what you’re predicting does not happen. What kind of a person expects the worse out of innocent children? These are just children. Whatever gripe one has against their parents is fine, but it’s in poor taste to be so negative about the children.
Nikita, that’s your standard and your belief, but not everyone shares your same values. We’re all different, and seeing as we do not know them and aren’t privy to the actual happenings in their world, then, it’s safe to say that you’re being too judgmental of their parenting skills.
Uhm, these are little boys not “guys” hanging out in Vegas. I have been to the Hard Rock in Vegas and not a kid’s place. How inappropriate to take these little boys there. These two are stealing all their children’s childhood’s. No friends, no staying grounded, no childhood. I am sorry but how many of you take your little children to Vegas. Most people go to DisneyLand or Seaworld. These poor children are going to have a rough time as they grow older and start throwing their famous parents names around to excuse there inexcusable behavior
Kim, the few times we’ve been to Winnipeg in the winter wasn’t too bad. We haven’t gone back recently because the Canadian dollar is on par with the US dollar, not like a few years ago when it was more reasonable to be able to shop there. :):):).
Has anybody read/heard the news about the $20 million necklace that Angie supposedly want to wear at the Oscar’s just to outshine JA? That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard!! Angie has a lot of self-confidence to walk the RC and not depend on jewelry(ies) to boost her self-confidence! Besides, she’s got THE MAN! Who needs a $20 M baubble?? :):):)
sorry I meant recession not reaction