This week, for causes that maybe solely she herself totally understands, Khloe Kardashian paid tribute to Tristan Thompson.

On the floor, it was a candy household second of Tristan and his children. Effectively, some of his children.

Famously, Tristan has a number of children with a number of moms. And 15-month-old Theo was not a part of the household picture.

Instantly after Khloe’s pic(kme) publish, Maralee Nichols paid tribute to her valuable child.

On Monday, as we beforehand reported, Khloe posted a shoutout to Tristan Thompson.

Her dishonest ex turned 32 years outdated. So she celebrated his birthday with a tribute publish.

Khloe included their 7-month-old son (whose identify we don’t but know) and their almost-5-year-old daughter, True. They usually weren’t alone.

Khloe made positive to incorporate Tristan’s eldest little one, 6-year-old Prince Oliver.

He isn’t Khloe’s little one, however Tristan’s little one together with his ex, Jordan Craig.

And Khloe has spent years attempting to incorporate Prince in varied household actions.

Some speculated that this was out of guilt for “stealing” Tristan away (not fairly how that works).

Others puzzled if it was to push Tristan to type household bonds as a preface for her personal children with him.

Both means, Tristan has 4 youngsters (that we all know of), however solely three have been in Khloe’s celebratory image. What provides?

We don’t know the behind-the-scenes politics at play right here.

Possibly Maralee and Theo, who’s now 15 months outdated, didn’t really feel as much as touring to fulfill up for Tristan’s birthday.

It’s additionally potential that Maralee didn’t obtain an invite.

Or possibly they only didn’t need to make the journey. Possibly Marelee, particularly, didn’t wish to.

Tristan did an entire courtroom battle to attempt to battle paternity, solely to finally confess that he was the one who impregnated Maralee.

Oh, and he did that whereas dishonest on Khloe, lest we overlook.

It wasn’t lengthy after Khloe’s massive birthday tribute to Tristan and a few of his children that Maralee took to her Instagram Story with this picture.

We see her mendacity again in mattress, smiling peacefully together with her eyes closed.

Little Theo is resting on her chest, virtually definitely sleeping. The picture is past lovely.

Notably, Tristan has not really addressed Theo — even his existence, not to mention posting photographs of him — since he first confessed to fathering him.

And it did learn like a confession. As a result of not solely did he battle paternity in courtroom, however the admission additionally meant that he had not solely cheated on Khloe — however knew that Maralee’s little one was his when he and Khloe went forward with having Child #2 by way of surrogate.

And but, in spite of everything of this, Khloe continues to be devotedly singing the praises of the person who couldn’t respect their relationship, regardless of what number of possibilities she gave him.

Khloe praised Tristan as being the “finest father.” Fascinating interpretation.

“Your love, consideration, foolish dances, hugs, carpool rides, mattress time rituals, the best way u present up for them,” Khloe listed. “The entire above means greater than you’ll ever know to your loved ones of littles.”

She continued: “My birthday want for u is that u proceed to crave change, therapeutic, and transformation. Be sturdy, be sort, be affected person, be free. Proceed to Make your soul and your mommy proud.”