Speaker 1: Starting next week on July eleventh, at nine pm Eastern
Speaker 1: eight pm Central. People ask me all the time, Delilah,
Speaker 1: how do you do it as a parent of thirteen kids.
Speaker 1: It's busy, but I can't imagine what it's like for
Speaker 1: Adam and Danielle Busby, who have five girls all turning
Speaker 1: two at the same time. Qute turns chaotic very fast
Speaker 1: as they're walking, talking, and body training. Welcome to the
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Speaker 1: Right now with me on this podcast are Danielle and
Speaker 1: Adam Busby. Now, if you thought you had your hands
Speaker 1: full of kids this summer, oh honey, you ain't seen nothing.
Speaker 1: Wait till you hear their story. Adam and daniel Busby. Welcome, Hi, Hi, Danielle.
Speaker 1: So the TV show was just picked up again for
Speaker 1: a third season, Out Doddered, Yes, ma'am, because you you
Speaker 1: two have six girls, the babies, and then how old
Speaker 1: is your older daughter?
Speaker 2: She just turned six years old. So the babies just
Speaker 2: turned two on April the fifth and April the eighth. Sorry,
Speaker 2: Blake just turned six on April the eighth, and the Quinn.
Speaker 3: Six on April fifth, and the Quint turned two on
Speaker 3: April eighth.
Speaker 1: I'm not even I'm not even gonna ask you your anniversary?
Speaker 1: Are you going to be in big trouble?
Speaker 3: Adam? Adam just had his birthday like two weeks ago too,
Speaker 3: so do you know that?
Speaker 2: One?
Speaker 3: Buzz?
Speaker 1: So the Quints were born at how many weeks? Twenty
Speaker 1: eight weeks?
Speaker 3: Twenty eight weeks and two days.
Speaker 1: And they spent the first couple of months of their
Speaker 1: life the Niko.
Speaker 3: That's correct, up to three months. We had them come
Speaker 3: home kind of sporadically. So Ava was the last baby
Speaker 3: to come home, and she made it out right at
Speaker 3: the three months mark, So basically on my actual do
Speaker 3: date is when they started really coming home.
Speaker 1: How big was each one of the five babies at birth?
Speaker 3: So they all were pretty equal in size. Hazel was
Speaker 3: the smallest at exactly two pounds, Ava, Riley, and Parker
Speaker 3: were all two pounds four ounces, and Olivia was two
Speaker 3: pounds six ounces.
Speaker 1: Wow, because I've seen pictures of them recently and they
Speaker 1: don't look like they started out that tiny. I gotta
Speaker 1: tell y'all, you would.
Speaker 3: Never even know. It's crazy. I mean, they're actually bigger
Speaker 3: babies and stockier babies and chubber babies than Blake ever.
Speaker 1: One, they do not look like they were fighting for
Speaker 1: their life those first few months. They look so healthy
Speaker 1: and beautiful and for.
Speaker 3: Sure having five little healthy.
Speaker 1: Babies, Praise God for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Amen. So Blake is six is she's starting first grade
Speaker 1: next year a second.
Speaker 3: She will be going to first grade. So she just
Speaker 3: graduated from kindergarten a couple of weeks ago, and she
Speaker 3: is a little bit nervous about going to first grade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is it hard for her to be away all
Speaker 1: day away from the girls because it looks like she's
Speaker 1: so good. I mean, from what I see, she's an
Speaker 1: incredible big sister.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she is. She's amazing. I mean, as much as
Speaker 3: she doesn't realize she helps, but she plays with them
Speaker 3: and she interacts with them all the time. But I
Speaker 3: think she's really enjoyed going to school. She's always been
Speaker 3: a child that loves to learn and loves new things
Speaker 3: and learning about new things, and so I think going
Speaker 3: to school really kind of gives her that division of
Speaker 3: you know, just a little bit about it's just Blake
Speaker 3: and it's herself, and it's about Blake when she goes
Speaker 3: to kindergarten, when she goes to school, so she doesn't
Speaker 3: have to share anything. When she's at school, it's all
Speaker 3: for her, you know, along with the other twenty kids
Speaker 3: in her class. But I think she likes that kind
Speaker 3: of you know, she's in the house and it's always
Speaker 3: mommy and Daddy with all six of them and sharing
Speaker 3: this and sharing that. But at school she gets her
Speaker 3: a little bit of individual individuality, so I think she
Speaker 3: enjoys it.
Speaker 1: Well, it looks like you have been blessed with a wonderful, wonderful, healthy,
Speaker 1: blessed family. But challenging. Oh yeah, challenging.
Speaker 2: It's definitely busy. We never we never stopped.
Speaker 1: So, Adam, what's the most challenging aspect of fatherhood to
Speaker 1: six girls and a wife? So you are not just
Speaker 1: our daughter, you are out out girled the there's just
Speaker 1: too much estrogen going on. Wait a few more years.
Speaker 1: What's the most challenging thing you do with on a
Speaker 1: daily basis?
Speaker 2: At him, I'm the sole breadwinner of the house and
Speaker 2: so i'm you know, I go to work, you know,
Speaker 2: five days a week. You know, most dads, most guys,
Speaker 2: you know, whenever they come home from work, you know,
Speaker 2: you have that time to kind of decompress a little bit.
Speaker 2: And whenever I walk through the door, what you know,
Speaker 2: and thing thing just feed up for me.
Speaker 1: Daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy.
Speaker 2: And I mean, for the most part, I mean, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't trade that for anything. I mean, I love walking
Speaker 2: through the door and then just hear hearing the daddy
Speaker 2: and they all come running up to me.
Speaker 3: And stampede of kids. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1: There's stampede of adorableness. Oh yeah, Okay, So Danielle, how
Speaker 1: long is your honeydew list?
Speaker 3: You know? I mean, I know, he worked all day
Speaker 3: and he comes home, but the hours when he comes home,
Speaker 3: it's literally the worst hours of the day because it's
Speaker 3: witching hour we call it. And it's the time where
Speaker 3: they're at dinner and they're tired from the day and
Speaker 3: they're getting worn out, and so it's a it's the cranky,
Speaker 3: fussy time. And you know, as long as you can
Speaker 3: help them for hours, you can do whatever you want
Speaker 3: after they.
Speaker 1: Go, after they get out of the tubby and are
Speaker 1: in their little pj's and now all the pictures I
Speaker 1: see online, they're always dressed in cute little matching outfits,
Speaker 1: like adorable matching outfits? Are that?
Speaker 2: Do you?
Speaker 1: I mean, are you really that good at keeping them
Speaker 1: that clean and that cute? Or is that just for
Speaker 1: TV and press?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm about to be really humbled if your girls,
Speaker 1: Blake and the babies always look that stinking adorable.
Speaker 3: I mean, I do dress them alike most days, just because,
Speaker 3: especially if for going out somewheres, I'm probably gonna make
Speaker 3: them dressed alike because you know, they're unique and they're Quints,
Speaker 3: and it's not something you see every day, and.
Speaker 1: They're the only female Quints I understand in America.
Speaker 3: That's right, So as long as I get to pick
Speaker 3: what they're wearing, I want to make them dress alike.
Speaker 3: It's hard to always find five of the same outfit,
Speaker 3: but it's not out due to for their identical twins
Speaker 3: in the mix and then three for the others. So Blake,
Speaker 3: around three years old kind of started to get a
Speaker 3: little bit more independent on what she wanted to wear.
Speaker 3: And so I know my time's going to be running
Speaker 3: out short when they're going to start getting picky themselves,
Speaker 3: and I don't want to wear that. And I don't
Speaker 3: want to wear that. So right now I still get to,
Speaker 3: you know, be the decision maker of what they're wearing.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to dress them alike and dress them
Speaker 3: chetas for the second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and another positive of that, you know, because a
Speaker 2: lot of people like will make comments, well why do
Speaker 2: you always dress them alike? And you know, don't you
Speaker 2: want to give them their individuality and stuff like that?
Speaker 2: But I mean, yes we do, but I mean right now,
Speaker 2: they're babies and they don't care. It's easy on us
Speaker 2: if we dress them alike and we're out in public,
Speaker 2: or if we're out our to part and all the
Speaker 2: babies are dress like, it's easy to put your eyes
Speaker 2: on them, you know. If you do a quick scan,
Speaker 2: they're all wearing the same thing. You know, it's so
Speaker 2: much easier to find them. Whenever you're looking for five babies.
Speaker 1: Do you want to know a little secret? What's that
Speaker 1: that applies as they grow? I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys know this, but I got you beat in the outdoordared.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I just don't have them all in
Speaker 1: the same age you got. I can't imagine what that's like.
Speaker 1: But I am the mother of thirteen children. And when
Speaker 1: we go, you know, to the park or to the zoo,
Speaker 1: or to you know, an outing up until they hit
Speaker 1: about fifteen sixteen, I make them all wear the same
Speaker 1: color T shirts. Yeah, for the same reason, because I
Speaker 1: got to do the quick eye scan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Once you three for five four five. Now you feel
Speaker 3: like a lifeguard.
Speaker 2: You're just constantly counting head.
Speaker 1: You are a lifeguard. You are the ultimate lifeguards. The
Speaker 1: Lord has given you some precious, precious little lives to guard.
Speaker 1: And yes, you are the lifeguard, the heart guard, the
Speaker 1: soul guard. You guys are the doorkeepers. And oh I'm
Speaker 1: looking at pictures of them as I talk to you.
Speaker 1: Oh my word, I want to squeeze them.
Speaker 2: Maybe they are beauties, for sure, that's the bad thing.
Speaker 3: They are really cute, so when they get in trouble,
Speaker 3: they love to make these cute little smirks. And you're like,
Speaker 3: don't do that to me.
Speaker 1: So have they got the daddy eyes down, pat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's it makes it pretty difficult
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So sure, sure you do, Adam, keep telling yourself that. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: of the of the five, who is the one whose
Speaker 1: personality has emerged as the one that is the show
Speaker 1: has the show off gene like I do. Who's the
Speaker 1: one that loves to perform for an audience?
Speaker 2: Hmmm, that's it kind of comes down to two. I
Speaker 2: would say that would be either Riley and she's the
Speaker 2: one that's just constantly demanding attention.
Speaker 3: Riley is an only child in her eyes, so she
Speaker 3: always is the first to need and want people to
Speaker 3: notice her for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, new people walk in the house. I mean, she's
Speaker 2: she's the greeting committee, Like she's the first baby that's
Speaker 2: going to go up and approach them. When the other
Speaker 2: babies are kind of shy and staying back a little bit,
Speaker 2: Riley will just go right at them and just demand
Speaker 2: the attention. But then we also have one of the
Speaker 2: identical twins, Olivia, and.
Speaker 3: She is a little showboat.
Speaker 1: She loves to.
Speaker 2: Just dance and make people laugh, and she just constantly giggling,
Speaker 2: and she he loves people to laugh at her.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So who which one of I should say
Speaker 1: the six because you or Blake could be this. Which
Speaker 1: is the one that is going to be most likely
Speaker 1: to get the first speeding ticket.
Speaker 3: Blake Louise. We always laugh at her because she has
Speaker 3: like the little those little four wheeler power reel whatever
Speaker 3: they are, and she's just always I just imagine her
Speaker 3: when she's fifteen sixteen driving oh care of the world,
Speaker 3: just cruising down and waving, and everybody always like her.
Speaker 3: You gotta wash the road, you gotta look where you going.
Speaker 1: So she's the one that's going to give you a
Speaker 1: heart attack when you two start giving them driving lessons.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I for sure think that's going to be
Speaker 3: Blake out of all six of them.
Speaker 1: Because I'm looking at a picture of them right now
Speaker 1: and they've got little heart shirts on and little polka dots,
Speaker 1: and Blake's behind them, and oh my gosh, she looks
Speaker 1: as sweet as honey, like.
Speaker 3: Blake is a very sweet, innocent, little blessed little soul.
Speaker 1: There, Danielle, How is it you look so good after
Speaker 1: giving birth to that many babies all at once?
Speaker 3: No, I love I love working out, and I love
Speaker 3: fitness that I find time for it. But most of
Speaker 3: my days are filled with fitness activities of chasing kids
Speaker 3: all day, constantly going up and downstairs constantly picking up kids,
Speaker 3: and I'm just from about seven thirty in the morning
Speaker 3: to seven pm. It's just a constant go like all day.
Speaker 1: Well, you look beautiful at how many bedrooms do you
Speaker 1: have now? And how many bedrooms will you have as
Speaker 1: they become teenagers?
Speaker 3: Do you think, Well, we have our house right now
Speaker 3: has five bedrooms, and so Blake has a room. We
Speaker 3: have the identical twins in one room and the other
Speaker 3: three in another room, and so we do have one
Speaker 3: spare room currently. I don't ever envisioning wanting to ever
Speaker 3: move again after we moved into this house, but as
Speaker 3: they get older, I feel that if this house works
Speaker 3: for us, will turn one of the playrooms into another bedroom.
Speaker 3: Somebody will move downstairs in a spare bedroom. But they're
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to share. I mean I had to
Speaker 3: share with my sisters and so I moved out of
Speaker 3: the house, and so I feel like they're just gonna
Speaker 3: have to love each other to share rooms with them.
Speaker 1: Well, I insist that my kids share. I have the option.
Speaker 1: I could, I could move, I could build a bigger house,
Speaker 1: I could add more rooms. I choose not to because
Speaker 1: I think that the life lessons of sharing and being
Speaker 1: close and having intimate relationships is far more valuable than
Speaker 1: the life lesson of being selfish and having a room
Speaker 1: to yourself.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I grew up with two sisters who are twins,
Speaker 3: and we always pretty much shared a room. And it
Speaker 3: is I mean, we're we're all like best friends. We're
Speaker 3: super close and bonded. And I think it's because though,
Speaker 3: no matter what, if you were mad at each other,
Speaker 3: you still had to talk to each other, and you
Speaker 3: still have to go to a room in bed in
Speaker 3: the same room, and you were going to say good
Speaker 3: night and you're gonna say see you in the morning,
Speaker 3: no matter what. So it does it kind of folds
Speaker 3: in an extra bond that you'll for sure have. Besides,
Speaker 3: you know, you had the option for me to have
Speaker 3: another room and be in the other room because they
Speaker 3: were twins. But yeah, it just kind of gives an
Speaker 3: extra little bond.
Speaker 1: And those bonds will will last a lifetime. I mean. Correct,
Speaker 1: My sister and I shared a room and fought constantly.
Speaker 1: She's my best, best, best, best best friend in the world.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: So and those memories that we forged in that tiny
Speaker 1: little bedroom, you know, make us laugh and smile to
Speaker 1: this day. Yeah, well, I thank you for taking the
Speaker 1: time to talk to us. I thank you for uh
Speaker 1: for just sounding like you got great values and a
Speaker 1: great appreciation for the blessings that the Lord has given you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Season three starts this July, and tell me some of
Speaker 1: the fun things that folks can look forward to and
Speaker 1: in your summer, what you're going to be doing with
Speaker 1: the girls.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's really it's just a bunch of chaoticness
Speaker 3: because the Quints, you know, Blake start at school, she's
Speaker 3: you know, just finding her little independent self through that,
Speaker 3: and the Quints are hitting the terrible twos, and they've
Speaker 3: hit the terrible twos and they're walking and climbing, and
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just a madhouse.
Speaker 1: Of They're right on track. They're right on track, They're
Speaker 1: right where they're supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Definitely keep us on our toes and make we have
Speaker 2: to make sure we have all the TV's bolted down
Speaker 2: and the dresser's bolted to the walls and stuff, because
Speaker 2: if you just step out of the room for any
Speaker 2: length of time and then come back in, they're pretty
Speaker 2: much on top of everything. Like little billy goats.
Speaker 1: So who helps do you have like an auntie, a mom,
Speaker 1: a grandmam, a nanny who's there to into helping hands.
Speaker 1: So when you do step out of the room and
Speaker 1: they do become billy goats, Uh, you don't come back
Speaker 1: to total chaos or is it just just you two?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean my mom. You'll see that. My mom
Speaker 3: moved out on her own and so now it's just
Speaker 3: kind of a tectic full time placement with me in
Speaker 3: there with all the kids. But uh, you know, I
Speaker 3: do wish Adam could be around more, but got to work.
Speaker 3: You've got to provide for us. But you know, we
Speaker 3: do have My sisters are local. They're both in our
Speaker 3: neighborhood and close closely around and so if we ever
Speaker 3: need something, they're definitely hands a phone call away and
Speaker 3: they'll walk down the street. Pretty much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've we've been very fortunate to have, you know,
Speaker 2: a very close church family and and there's just some
Speaker 2: ladies that are that are at our church that I mean,
Speaker 2: they they come over, they have like a set a
Speaker 2: set few days that they come over during the week
Speaker 2: and they'll help out for you know, an hour or two.
Speaker 2: So Danielle can kind of take care of and stuff
Speaker 2: and run Maren's or you know, just kind of have
Speaker 2: a little Danielle time. And so we've been very lucky
Speaker 2: to have, you know, people like that in our lives
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Danielle, do you ever just feel like escaping to the
Speaker 1: bathroom and locking the door for just two or three minutes?
Speaker 3: Oh? I do it all the time. And then next
Speaker 3: thing you know, their little toes and fingers are all
Speaker 3: under the.
Speaker 1: Door, under the door, and you look and you see
Speaker 1: the little eyes as they lay down on the side
Speaker 1: of them, like, oh, please just give me five minutes.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. They love the laundry room too, And I'm
Speaker 3: like sometimes I'll just go in there real quick and
Speaker 3: close the door just to like get the clothes in
Speaker 3: the washing machine, because I know they'll just sit here
Speaker 3: and bring them down the hall and run like they
Speaker 3: just start grabbing stuff and take off with it. And
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'll just close the door real quick, throw
Speaker 3: the stuff and wash her. And then there they are
Speaker 3: just hands under the toes mom, and Mom like I'm
Speaker 3: just trying to wash. Well.
Speaker 1: You are blessed, blessed, blessed beyond measure. And I love
Speaker 1: the fact that you know that.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Delilah, thank
Speaker 1: You, Bye bye, so down and bless on Lord with you, Lineland,