Chapter 01 - Raising Quads

Raising a toddler and 4 newborns was more than a handful so they had a lot of help from Nanny Lexie Anderson.

Growing up with quads as siblings, Yen adjusted pretty good and loved to help his parents with the babies.

Soon the quads were all toddlers. Here is Bayley. She loves to have her mother play with her hair and dance with her.

Beah, she is into everything and hates to have her hair combed, so they had to cut her hair short.

Bien, she is the quietest of the four and rarely fusses.

Yizidor, he’s a real boy and loves to play rough.

They had to add an extension to the house. They added a bedroom for the quads, made Yen’s room larger, and added a playroom, where they spent most of their times.

Luckily Arielle was able to stay home with the kids and spend a lot of time with them, and when Zack was home he’d spend his time with them as well.

Arielle still found some one on one quality time with each children. Yen loved to learn to fish with her.

Yen loved to dance and had a stereo in his room where he’d pretend he was a dance teacher and he’d dance with his siblings.

They decided to put Yen in dancing classes. He would practice ballet every night in his room.

Zack loved to read them stories. They all would sit around and listen, except for Beah who would often crawl away to something else. By the way they finally got her hair to grow again.

They were interesting and fun children to have. All looking so much alike, yet they were all so different. Bien, the quietest, loves to have cuddles while she sucks on her pacifier.

Arielle feeds her family with the food she harvests from the garden.

Yen’s best friend is Lila Young. [I gave her a little plastic surgery and makeover.]

The quads spending time outside early winter. Later that day it snowed.

Arielle making a snow angel.

Arielle got carried away playing in the snow and was starting to freeze. Here she is warming herself up besides the wood stove.

More stories from their parents before bedtime.