I love that they named the change in Harper’s personality! It’s easy to get caught up in “baby A is ____.” and say that until the end of time. It’s important to allow babies (and children) to change as they grow. Well done 🎉
It's great that you're managing well on your own. It says a lot about your routine and your ability to manage stress. I've seen a couple with one baby brought to their knees in tears and struggling to deal with the crying, feeding and lack of sleep. That was my sister!
Thank you for this & all of your videos. I'm not young. I have raised my children. I learn from you about staying positive,.loving & involved...I really love your positive, no drama way of thinking & living.
The love for your babies and each other comes through loud and clear….awesome! It hit my heart hearing you say that church is even different….not quite paying attention to the sermon because your babies need/distract you….truly feel like that’s not a distraction as much as Gods plan all along and the smile on his face watching you love them and praise our God at the same time. Thank you for taking the time to share a part of your life….Merry Christmas♥
I agree. Our granddaughter who was born the same day had the best NICU team. We were so blessed to be born in the same hospital with the best team! Your babies look great! Congratulations.
Love your podcast! Very informative and sweet. So glad your family is centered in Christ! He will bless your beautiful family as you live for Him! He will fill your home with Love, Peace and Joy! 🙏❤️🙏
I have been watching the three videos and admiring you couples. God bless you all and with the best and healthy, wealthy, happy life beside each. other.
Really impressed with the formula mix video. Reasearching a problematic formula issue, better tummies, healthier, with mommy feeds really exciting for their development.
We benefited greatly from this family’s information/experience. We are now doing the same formula. The nutritional difference is incredible. Even the commercial goats milk formula is less quality then making it. I had noooooo idea it was even possible to make our own formula. It is a little trickier when traveling (sometimes we use Aussie Bubs for travel. The bottles are trickier to clean because they get “oily”
Our kids had twins 4 years ago and then they had another baby this past year. It has been a wonderful experience. Congratulations on this most exciting adventure. I will be watching with such undiluted pleasure.
Whoo I had two under 2 and I’ve definitely lost my cool lots of times. I’ll be praying for you guys, them all getting sick at the same time would be sooo hard! 😢❤
Jehovah Jireh...God is our provider. ❤️ He will supply all of your needs sweet family. You guys have a platform here and you are honoring God through it. We are a family of 11, 5 biological kiddos and 4 adopted (including a set of twins) and our youngest three were like having triplets because we adopted our son Josiah in June and went out to Colorado in October to adopt our twin daughters. My heart goes out to you two and you had two MORE than we did. It’s hard work, but the biggest BLESSING. My husband and I are still happily married (going on 23 years). Keep HUMOR as well as HUMILITY in your marriage with God as the center and you’ll do just fine. We also home educate/disciple them and having their whole heart has been KEY in fully enjoying our children through the teenage years. You are so blessed! Merry Christmas!!! Thank you for sharing your lives with us. The babies are beautiful and you are doing a great job!!! 🙌🏻❤️
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me! Isn't it a blessing to know that you are a united front to help raise those precious babies?! Thank you for ministering to me by showing such a Godly example of how husbands and wives are to treat one another & thank you for sharing your lives with us all! ❤
Thank you for taking the time to answer so many questions in detail. Could you please put a name with each baby on the videos? Maybe just create an opener with each baby having their name in front of them so we can learn the girls by sight. I can pick out Fisher, but the girls confuse me still. I absolutely adore the names you chose.
I think the answers to these questions will be totally different in a year when they are walking and getting into stuff lol you guys are doing a great job!!!
I am on my husband account and after 25 years of marriage the one piece of advice I will give to keep the relationship strong is be willing to fight for the marriage, marriage is hard and takes a lot of work be stubborn don’t quit
I feel your heart ❤️ God is so amazing and he gives us desires and fills our desires in so many different ways. I also had fertility treatment and only 1 pregnancy it was atopic pregnancy. But God and his mercies and grace gave us a foster baby to raise at 3 months old and he left at 20 years old .we now have 3 grandchildren and without Gods beautiful blessing we would not of experience it .we are you are so incredibly Blessed ❤️
It has been easy for now but when a few of them get sick at the same time it will get hard. Just hang on and know this too shall pass. I have 3 children and them getting the chicken pox back to back was rough. Strep went through and kept coming back until we had tonsils out. Those days just get crazy but know that you can handle this! 😊
I loved bath time with each of my babies so I was wondering how you manage that with 5 babies? This video was well done and very informative. Hearing about your faith and trust in God is awesome too.
Bath time has been a challenge! We often keep saying "We'll do baths tomorrow!" Right now we are doing one full bath per week, and one quick wash once per week. Stephanie handles the bathing, and I change clothes/diapers, and weigh the babies each week. It's an assembly line for sure. We look forward to when they can sit up and we can bath them all together
love to see your videos they have brought me so much hope that the lord will bless me with another baby but this time he will let me keep with me here in the earth ❤. we need more content 😊but i can also understand u guys. thanks
my son developed seasonal allergies and food sensitivities around the age of 2 and he was a preemie born at 31 weeks who was exclusively breastfed for 2 years so it does happen later in life...
I know this is just my opinion but more videos that are shorter than 10 minutes makes it easier to keep up. Taking time to watch an hour long video is hard. Good luck with everything. Cute family.
Agreed! We will be making a lot of changes going into 2024, still playing a little catch up. We had so many questions we wanted to answer. Thank you for watching!
Did you wait for all the babies to be there and then see and feel which Baby fitted which name best. Or did you already decide before birth with baby would get which name
Love it. If u don’t want to answer then just say Did u sell ur house before u moved to phoenix n now living with Steph parents do u want to get house eventually? If Steph gets pregnant again will there been any complications after carrying 5 babies?? Xx
Ha! It was fun! Hope life is good in Wilmington- we loved it there! Stephanie graduated, and I (Graham) chose to dropout and start a business so we could get married.
My brother Graham (the eldest of us all) was gifted with 4 sisters over the next 7 years ... only he doesn't see it that way, according to Mum with each delivery he became more and more desperate for a brother. A mistake was made and my father was informed that my sister (baby no. 4) was a boy...after many celebrations and my brother getting his toy cars out and preparing them ... (he was always very organised) the news was broken that his new baby brother had a part missing...ie he was in fact another sister. When I was born it almost broke him, yet another girl...I quickly grew into a tomboy though at which he exclaimed...oh well I guess she'll have to do lets go play soldiers!! lol
I’m hoping you aren’t saying that the reason you had babies because God gives you the desires of your heart. God gives us the desires of our hearts as long as it aligns with his plan for our life and brings Him the most glory and is for our good. Many Christians desire babies and are not able to have babies. Doesn’t mean God will withhold that blessing but may bring it through other avenues. God is a mystery we don’t always understand His ways they are higher than ours.
I love your story. I have a personal relationship with Christ and had to wait on him for my infertility. I have 3 daughters and I am a grandma now. But I know that the Lord sometimes has other plans. My niece has wanted a child for so many years. They did do IVF 4 times. But it has never worked. Now her endometriosis is so severe and she is older, so unless the Lord does a miracle she may never have a child. Not that God ever makes mistakes but he does bless people other ways.
I know it isn't for everyone, but adoption is a beautiful thing! My sister and her husband adopted twins almost 4 years ago. I honestly don't think about it that much. They are just part of our family! They have an awesome relationship with the birth mom which I know is rare. I'm so happy for them. They went through infertility and miscarriages. It's such a blessing that they get to be parents now!
Is there a higher chance that they may develop any disabilities when they get older? I know with preemies and especially high-order multiples the chances are largely increased for learning difficulties, vision/hearing problems etc.
I wanted to hear what you had to say. But I couldn’t handle how long it talk to get thru each Q/A. As you said, you both like to talk I’d like you to consider having a seasoned Interviewer lead the next Q& A so things go more efficiently. Hope my suggestion doesn’t offend. I truly admire you both-even just looking at these beautiful babies, watching their reactions is wonderful. God bless you all
Not to answer for them, but we use the same homemade formula and you have to get a portion of formula extremely hot. We were lucky and our infant (same age as the quints) easily took an ordinary cheapie Walmart bottle. So we bought about 30. We have to wash them in extreme hot water as they get an oily film. We usually boil water and soak in Dawn degreaser hand soap. We triple rinse.
What are you looking forward to most when they are abit older? Also Can you imagine having five teenagers in your house at once and four of them girls?
@@erickaotterman5957I have five children spaced out about three years between each one. I'm in my 17th year of continuous puberty. As one is growing out of it the next is starting. I need some sort of medal at the very least 😂
It is easy to say you want more when they are just babies. Wait till you experience toddler years and think about how many teenagers are going to have to experiencethat's the Most chaotic part apparently good luck on the potty training.
