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The Best Part About Having Multiples

My kids always have someone to play with, even if they don’t always get along! The bond between my kids is an amazing thing to witness. It’s fun to see how four kids that are the same age and raised by the same parents are so incredibly different. I really enjoy watching their different personalities develop.

The Hardest Part About Having Multiples

Not having enough one on one time with each of my kids. I struggle everyday with giving each of my kids some “alone” time with just me. It’s hard to do, but I want each of them to know how important they, as an individual, are to me.

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The Best Part About Having Multiples

Not sure I can pick one specific part, honestly. I have learned so much since entering the world of multiples...a lot about myself, a lot about how delicate life really is, I have learned how to truly "Let Go & Let God." God has used this part of my life to bring me closer to Him and to teach me how to rely on Him alone. These life lessons are huge and I know I'll continue to learn as our journey through parenthood continues.

The Hardest Part About Having Multiples

Daily life in general is hard having quadruplets, everything has changed and even the simplest tasks take hours if not days of organizing and planning! I'd say one of the hardest has got to be the feeling of not being "normal." I am reminded of that each time I step out my front door. Going to the grocery store, a doctor's appointment, church, or even on a simple walk around the block is not what it used to be. We stick out like a sore thumb and are stopped constantly to answer questions and pose for pictures. It's understandable but definitely takes some getting used to!

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1. And Then There Were 4 — The day we finally came home as a family!
2. Proof That I Am One Funny Mom — Quads' sweet laughter caught on video!
3. Let's Have a Baby! — Where it all started. The story of finding out we were pregnant with quadruplets  and how we told our closest friends and family.  

The Best Part About Having Multiples

Our girls are best friends with each other, and have learned to share, and to get along with each other pretty quickly for their age. Other parents are amazed at how advanced our girls are about those things, but they had no choice — because we don't buy two of everything, and the girls are around each other day and night. Unlike playdates where kids only see each other for a short time, and not too frequently, our girls are in each others' faces constantly — when they're happy, sad, cranky and having temper tantrums. 

What applies to one in terms of discipline also applies to the other, so they learn from seeing what happens to the other one when she misbehaves. It's applicable to their own age/level of development, unlike two siblings of different ages (because then you're dealing with one who's more mature than the other).

The Hardest Part About Having Multiples

When they were newborns and twinfants, it meant being on-call 24/7, because just as one went to sleep, the other would wake up! And when they had colic, it meant both my husband and myself were up all night rubbing tummies and trying to get them to stop crying — for hours!  The old adage "When the baby sleeps — you sleep!" just didn't apply in our situation.

The hardest part as they get older is when they double-team me! When they are both whining or shrieking at top volume, it's impossible to think straight! Also, when they start plotting together — what one doesn't think of, the other one will! I'm always a little nervous when they're playing TOO quietly.

When we go out and they run in opposite directions — it's so hard to catch them both before disaster happens!  During cold season, just when I get one all healthy again, her sister's gotten sick from whatever the first one had, so it's another few days/week of nursing that one back to health.

Additionally, we've had to work extra hard to make sure there's no sibling rivalry. We've tried to balance the attention between them — they were very different personalities and had different needs — and trying to convince well-meaning onlookers that we weren't favoring one twin over the other when one child needed and wanted more of certain kinds of attention than her sister did.

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