Indubitably, fans can’t ignore Khloe and ex Tristan’s 2-year-mature son Tatum Thompson, who used to be born in July 2022 and is the spitting image of her brother Rob Kardashian.

“I’m so proud to be your mommy,” the podcast host wrote on Instagram for his first birthday. “So happy with the love and laughter we now enjoy in our condominium. So happy alongside with your beautiful, mild, loving, infectious spirit. You mild up each room. There’s no denying that Each person smiles once they look at you! Particularly Handsome she is so proud to call you hers. Tatum, That you would be capable to enjoy modified mine and Handsome’s lives and not using a extinguish in sight. We each wished you.”

Over the last year, Khloe has watched her younger folks struggle via predominant milestones—together with Tatum discovering out unique phrases and increasing from a child to (as his aunt Kim Kardashian known as him) a “little man.” Handsome moreover conducted in her third-year dance recital and began first grade. And whereas Khloe used to be happy about her daughter origin a novel faculty year, she admitted on Instagram she used to be moreover feeling “now not OK” about it.

“There’s this easy feeling that I’m shedding ingredients of who she used to be with day after day that passes,” the mum of two further explained on Snapchat in August. “The little ingredients of who she feeble to be are being modified with unique ingredients that may perchance enjoy up the subsequent little ultimate person she’s going to turn into. And I omit her. The final little variations of her who I feeble to know. Time moves rapid, sooner yearly it feels devour, and this unique faculty year is a reminder to me to fully embrace every moment and soak it all in.”

These shut to and pricey moments differ from family holidays and vacation celebrations to loyal day-to-day lifestyles at home and time spent with cousins (whereas Khloe’s younger folks are shut to all her siblings' children, she’s grand they’re “besties” with Rob’s 7-year-mature daughter Dream Kardashian and that the connection Kim’s son Saint West has with Tatum is “one which can’t be explained.”)

In phrases of their day-to-day routine, Khloe's younger folks apply a neatly-established agenda. And despite the truth that she’s infrequently felt judged by just a few of her famed relatives—who as neatly as to Rob and Kim encompass sisters Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner as neatly as mother Kris Jenner—she’s now not going to allow them to make a selection her parenting vogue.

“My sisters and I, all of us enjoy somewhat quite so a lot of households. We elevate our younger folks in every other device,” Khloe stated on a 2024 episode of their Hulu series The Kardashians. “I’m now not judging. If everybody is healthy, happy and big, then exceptional. However my vogue of parenting is we enact all the pieces by a agenda. Like, my younger folks enact love the safety, for folk who will, of intellectual, ‘OK, after I take a bathtub, I understand it’s time to fetch in my pajamas and lay in mattress and scrutinize TV with my mommy.’ It works for me and my family.”

However, this judgment isn’t the one arena Khloe has faced. She’s moreover spoken honestly about how she had a troublesome time welcoming Tatum via surrogate and how she in the origin struggled to join with him.

“I enact think it used to be a storm of both traumas or emotions,” Khloe recalled on a February episode of The Kardashians, referencing Tristan fathering a child with every other lady months sooner than Tatum used to be born. “I imply, I knew he used to be my son and I cherished him and I took care of him, however I loyal did now not enjoy that instinctual feeling that I had with Handsome true now.”

However, she knew she would finally fetch that deeply strong bond they enjoy at present time.

“I didn’t think Tatum used to be gonna be 5 years mature, and I would fetch now not enjoy any attachment to him,” she clarified. “I by no reach thought that in any respect. I merely used to be truly angry at myself. These feelings aren’t about Tatum. He is the handiest, sweetest, most loving boy. It used to be the fear and all the pieces that I went via, and I was more angry at myself that I couldn’t fetch over it sooner.”

Khloe has moreover unfolded about persevering with to co-parenting with Tristan, after they split for dazzling in 2021 following his cheating scandals.

“Handsome thinks me and Tristan are married,” she stated on the March 6 episode of The Kardashians. “It is the accurate part to enact, individually—fetch married, enjoy younger folks. That’s what I wanna educate her.”

And whereas Khloe, who by no reach tied the knot with the Cleveland Cavaliers participant, has gotten some stress from her siblings to re-enter the dating scene, she’s perfectly happy loyal being at home with Tatum and Handsome.

“Ensuing from I if truth be told don’t desire to accurate now, I’m now not dating,” she stated on a January episode of Khloé in Wonder Land. “Ensuing from my relationship with younger folks—it’s all the pieces to me. And now not that which reach—those which may perchance well perchance be dating once they enjoy younger folks—anything. However the save I’m in my lifestyles accurate now, I loyal truly desire to nurture this love, and I loyal desire to be as hide as I’m able to. I don’t desire any distractions accurate now in my lifestyles. If I meet someone in two months, two years, and I fall in love, big. However I’m now not actively on the dating scene, browsing for someone, and I’m so happy.”

And as fans wish a happy birthday to Handsome, defend discovering out to appear more of Khloe's pictures of her and Tatum over the years.