[Dale] Are you ready for Uncle Dale's meatballs?
Do y'all like Parmesan cheese?
I'll let you taste it before we put in the sauce.
-Deal? -Okay.
-Deal? -Mmm-hmm.
I love it when Uncle Dale cooks food.
-Looky there. -Ew.
-[Adam speaks indistinctly] -Taste...
It's like monkey brains.
What smells good already?
He cooks gumbo and tacos.
[Kiki] When your mama makes spaghetti,
do y'all have chunky sauce?
-I don't know. -Is y'all sauce chunky--
Is yours chunky? Is all y'all sauce chunky like Kiki's butt?
[laughter]
-Why are y'all laughing? -[Adam] I like chunky sauce.
I don't. I like it smooth.
[indistinct talking]
[Danielle] What is this?
"All about me"?
[Adam] Uh-oh, y'all got homework?
Y'all got a project?
Okay... Okay. So, what do you have to do?
"Interview your family and learn
about what makes them special,
and how you are special within your family.
You should interview various people in your family
and ask them questions below.
Tell us how you are unique,
and tell us what your favorite family memories are,
and then come up with a creative way to present that."
Are you supposed to write the answers down?
-Or what's a creative way-- -Be creative?
-...creative way to capture these questions. -I'm the creative one here.
-[softly] Hmm. -[indistinct talking]
-Okay. -So, you gotta go--
-Hey, our family... -You got to ask-- Wait.
...what's so creative about our family?
-We make videos, right? -[softly] Yes.
[Adam] All right. Let's do that. I got some cameras.
So, y'all take a paper and a camera.
And Daddy's got plenty.
-And y'all... -Kenzie, Bronson, and Blayke, y'all can help them
-if y'all want. -[Adam] Y'all go run... Y'all go run around.
-I'm gonna help Riley. -I bet y'all can...
Y'all can knock this out super-fast.
Right off the bat, I mean,
what makes our family unique is,
we have the first set of all-girl quintuplets born
in the United States.
Here, Hazel.
-No, no, I want this one. I want this one. -Wait, wait, wait.
Let me make sure these are... All right.
-This one's rolling. -[Parker] Mine. Mine.
This one's rolling.
[Hazel] We're gonna take this camera,
and ask our family questions.
We can ask them what our favorite memories of us are.
-What are you gonna ask? -[blender whirring]
[Danielle] You gotta have the camera.
Whoa! I can't hear you.
[Adam] Letting five kids loose with cameras
all over the house, there's a lot of stuff
that can go sideways.
The footage comes out...
-Literally. [chuckles] -...like, upside down, or looks like a horror movie.
[Danielle chuckles]
[children laughing]
What makes...
me unique?
What makes Riley Paige unique?
Hmm...
[giggling] Not that close.
Riley Paige is a firecracker.
-You-- -What's a firecracker? I'm not a cracker,
-I'm not on fire! -[laughs]
You're always outspoken, love to ask questions.
You're not really too scared of, like, new things
of, um, adventure.
And you always are kind of, like,
the first to jump in and try it.
[Danielle clapping and shouting] Yay!
[exclaiming]
[Danielle exclaims]
[Adam] The name that we gave Riley
in the womb before everything, was "Rowdy Riley."
Because she was just nuts,
even in flipping around,
and doing all kinds of crazy stuff, kicking Danielle,
like, in the womb.
-And it has carried over today. -[chuckles softly]
[Danielle shouting] Jump big!
Raising Riley over these last years
has not always been easy.
[crying and shrieking] Mama!
[screeching]
[crying]
[loud shrieking]
Yeah, I don't think you'll ever have to worry
about what is on Riley's mind,
because she will always share. [chuckles sheepishly]
[Riley yelling] Parker, down!
Nose to the ground, Hazel.
Who is the bossiest? Is right here.
Her!
Point that finger the other way around.
-[faint chuckle] -Her.
-[screaming] Ah! Ahhh! -[giggling]
[laughter]
I was on the waterslide.
-I would go-- -I was on by myself.
Excuse me? Do you not hear me talking?
-No, I don't. -It's called interrupting.
Riley's always got something to say, huh?
Uh... huh.
[Danielle giggles]
-[Olivia] Lily! -[Adam] Hey, there's Lily and Charlie.
[Olivia] I missed you.
[Dale] Look what the cat drug in.
Something else that's unique about the quints and their family,
is that our... our extended family, we're really close with.
My sisters are twins.
We have great relationships with the brother-in-laws.
The kids are always together,
the cousins love each other.
[Adam] The girls are working
on a little project for school.
About, like, what makes them different.
-[child mumbling indistinctly] -It should be pretty easy, huh?
We just have a great dynamic
where we're always getting together.
[Hazel] What favorite memories do you have of us?
You know, one of my favorite memories with you...
-What? -...is whenever we were in Hawaii,
and when I was putting you to bed.
And you told me, "Kiss my forehead."
And then you said, "Kiss my eyebrows."
-[Hazel giggles] -[faint laughter]
-[Danielle] Yeah, that was cute.
It was super cute.
That was one of my favorite memories.
-Kiss my hand. -Kiss your hand?
-[kisses] -[giggles]
-Kiss my hand. -[kisses hand]
[Adam] There.
Kiss my eyebrows.
-[kisses and exclaims softly] -Kiss my head.
Kiss your head?
Mwah.
[Danielle] I mean, Hazel is definitely unique.
Hazel has always been the sweetest little lovebug,
-and... -[Adam] She always just, like,
-captures everybody's heart. -[Danielle] Yeah.
All... Anyone that's around her.
Would you like to share with your sisters?
All the sisters.
All the sisters?
[Riley] The funniest thing that Hazel does,
-is the "Hazel Dance." -[producer] How does it go?
-It's like... -[Hazel] I'm gonna go behind the couch.
...uh, when you move your feet?
[Hazel] It goes like this.
-[Riley] No. -[Parker] No, it doesn't.
-[Olivia] No, you put your hands up. -It goes like this.
-[Riley] Yeah, Hazel, you always did that. -[faint laughter]
Why aren't you putting your hands up?
Hey. So, where's the ornaments?
[speaking indistinctly]
[Danielle] Oh, come put them on the tree.
-Okay! -[Danielle] Okay.
Hazel is definitely
a strong little one, though.
She might be sweet, but she's... ultraly strong.
I mean, she doesn't back down when she's set on something.
Like, she gets it done.
[faint giggle]
She's had a couple medical issues.
She's had surgery in her eyes, and...
She's never let that change
any form of, like, her spirit.
Hey, Mommy!
-Hey... [continues indistinctly] -[girl babbles]
[Danielle] Hey, Hazel.
And that's still who Hazel is today.
I mean, she's just still our loving, little sweet Hazel.
-[woman] Do you love it? -Yes.
[woman laughs]
Uncle Dale, were you the person
that brought that shrimp home
-for Hazel, or was it Kiki? -No,
-it was Kiki. -[Kiki] It was me.
-Kiki did that. -[Kiki] Mmm-hmm. Yeah,
I let her... Remember that, Hazel?
Remember that when you... you played
with the little shrimp for the longest time?
And then the day we left,
we had to let it go in the ocean?
-[Blayke] It was so sad. -Do remember that? Do you remember
what the name... Do you remember what you named it?
No... Nah, I don't remember what you named it.
Y'all remember?
Oh, look at that, Hazel.
-[Hazel] Aw! -The... This is shrimp. We eat shrimp.
It won't bite.
[man] You want to take him home?
[Hazel speaking]
[both exclaim]
-[man] Ah, see? -He don't... He won't get you, though.
This one's like Riley, rowdy, hyper, huh?
-[man] Enjoy yourself, kid. -All right!
She does make friends everywhere she goes.
-[woman] So, what do you think about Peaches? -They're cool.
[woman] Is she your favorite?
Yeah, she's your favorite.
Whether it's people, animals,
leaves... [laughs]
[woman, distantly] That's why we want to give back.
You can't have too many friends.
What's one of your favorite memories of me?
[Danielle] One of my favorite memories,
is when we went camping
with the RVs. Do you remember that?
We floated the river for the first time?
And what did we see?
The rope swing.
And I was so amazed
that you wanted to go on that rope swing.
[woman] Okay, here's Parker.
[indistinct shouting]
Let go! Jump! Yeah.
[indistinct shouting and cheering]
-[Adam shouts indistinctly] -[woman] Yay!
-Parker! -[indistinct shouting, applause and cheering]
-[cheering stops] -[woman laughs]
I mean, whenever Parker was younger,
I mean, she was just this shy,
timid, uh, super-reserved little kid.
[Parker crying] Mommy.
-[continues sobbing] -I'm right here.
-[Parker blubbering] -You don't wanna tr-- Hey, do you wanna try?
When I was little, I was a little scared to ride a horse.
But now, uh, when I'm a... a little... big...
But I'm a big kid,
and... and now I like to ride them.
[Danielle] Go, PK!
-[women cheering] -Awesome.
-[Adam] All right, you can steer him, Parker. -[woman] There you go.
[gasps softly] Oh! There we go.
Hi, Parker!
-Hey... -[Danielle] Look! Hey!
You're riding a horsey! I'm so proud of you.
The older Parker is getting,
the more she's becoming out of her shell
and comfortable out of her shell,
and she's... becoming more confident.
[Adam] It's all Parker.
Parker's driving that horse.
Parker has built her confidence up,
which we love. But, these days,
she's probably the biggest button-pusher... in the house.
-[yells] -Just throw it.
[Hazel whining] Parker!
Mama, Parker just made my stick in the tree!
[locks car]
It is non-stop. [chuckles]
I mean, the girl is the most girliest,
but the most tomboyish.
And it's, like, she's all of the above.
Ooh! Oh, I love that top.
I mean, she's gonna grow up to a... a super-confident,
take-charge type of girl.
Yes!
What's your favorite thing about me?
You've always been a mama's girl.
-[laughs heartily] -[chuckles]
[Adam] Is that true?
-[Ava] Yes. -[smooches]
[gasps] Here we go!
-Oh! Look! -[woman] Whoa! Ava!
Ava's personality has always been a mama's girl.
-[giggles sheepishly] -[chuckles]
[faint giggles]
[Danielle laughs whimsically]
Ava is one that needs a little bit more attention.
You're going to use that pillow?
[softly] Yes.
But she has always...
Been the dramatic one,
-a little drama queen. -Yes, she is our drama queen...
[screeches]
-[Danielle] Ava? -[giggles]
Ava is a diva.
She wants everyone to do things for her all the time.
[mutters indistinctly]
[mimicking fart]
-[screams] -[Danielle] Ava?
Mama, Hazel and Parker are being mean to me!
[Hazel] Ava is being mean to us.
[Danielle] ...but also,
very kind-hearted and super sweet,
-and sensitive. -Yeah.
-Love you. -Love you.
-[playful kissing noises] -[giggles]
-Okay. Lulu... -[indistinct murmuring]
Who's the craziest sibling
-out of all of y'all? -Me.
-[Kenzie laughs] Oh... -[laughter]
When Olivia was little,
she used to climb out of her crib.
[laughter]
[giggles]
[Danielle] Oh, and here she goes.
-Adam, she's-- Look. -Adam!
-[laughter] -Olivia's about to crawl out of her bed.
-Catch her! -[Mimi chuckling]
[Danielle] Don't laugh, that makes me nervous.
[Mimi] We all did it. You did it.
[Olivia crying]
-[crying continues and stops] -[Adam] Hey, hey.
You can't crawl out of your bed.
Olivia, uh, just always has a ton of energy.
[Adam] Go, Lulu! Go, Lulu! Go!
[rhythmically] Go, Lulu! Go, Lulu! Go!
Ever since she's been a baby,
she's just kind of been, like, the goofy entertainer.
[Olivia] Why did I climb up here? Now I'm stuck.
-Olivia, right there! -Right where?
[Adam] She always wants to make people
around her laugh and smile.
-[Adam shouting] Yeah, Lulu! -[women shouting and cheering]
[Danielle] It's interesting to see
that all five of these girls
-all came from the same place... -At the same time.
...and that they're all so different.
[yelling and stops]
You know, they definitely keep us on our toes.
-Three... -[baby crying]
Look at the camera.
-Blayke! Get your foot down! -[faint laughter]
-Say "Busbys." -[softly] "Busbys."
-[laughter] -[crying continues]
[Adam] Riley Paige. Hey, baby.
[Danielle] It's heart-crushing
to just see, like, your little two-pound baby...
I just remember thinking, like, "Are they gonna sur..."
Like, "Are they going to make it?"
[heart monitor beeping softly]
Charlie.
What makes the Busby family unique?
[laughs sheepishly]
My first memory...
[Dale] Is when his wife would leave at 3:00 in the morning
to go feed y'all.
-[Nick] Yeah. -[both chuckle]
[soft knocking on door]
[Ashley whistles softly] Didi?
It's 2:00.
No hanky-panky.
We've got five babies out here.
[crying]
[crying continues]
[Adam] Whenever we were just trying to figure things out
at the very beginning and,
you know, and going through,
like, the late-night feedings,
you know, it was just 24 hours a day.
Like, it took a village. And, you know,
we were super fortunate
to have the extended family that we have,
that stepped right in and stepped up, and were willing to help.
And, you know, and... and sacrifice,
and... and come in and... and do whatever it took.
That was wild.
Yeah. What about you?
Man, my first memory,
which always cracks me up to look back at pictures,
Is y'all's little round heads.
All five of y'all.
-I don't have a round head. -No, you did.
-Big-old round heads. -You had some big-old round heads.
[crying]
-Are you getting hungry? -[crying continues]
[other baby continues crying]
Hazel, you're like a running faucet.
We were, like, this small.
-[chuckles] -[Parker] We were, like...
If we were that small, we would...
We wouldn't even be born.
-[laughter] -[Parker] This small?
-No, this small. -No, I said this small.
[Riley] Yes, that is... This small?
-[Hazel] About this small. -If we were that...
-This small? -If we were that small, we would be dead.
-[chuckling] This small? -No, we wouldn't...
-We wouldn't even be created. -[Olivia] This small?
-Riley, you're too small. [laughs] -[faint laughter]
-[baby crying, cooing] -[farts]
Okay, Olivia.
How am I unique within our family?
Because you're a great big sister?
-[Blayke] That sounded like a question... -[laughter]
-[chuckling] ...not an answer. -[chuckles softly]
-[faint laughter] -What?
-[Kenzie chuckling] Okay. -[laughter]
-No, wait, stay here. -[continuous laughter]
-Wait. Stay here. I'm gonna... -[Kenzie] Turn around, turn around.
-No, I'm going to give y'all a jacket. -[continuous laughter]
Come on, stand up!
Blayke is kind,
super sweet...
And kind, again.
Girls, do you want me to do y'all's hair for the fashion show?
-Yeah! -Yeah?
Riley, do you want me to do your hair for the fashion show?
Uh-uh.
[Olivia] She is playful.
She is?
-[Riley yelps] No, no! No! -[grunts]
[Blayke] Riley, don't you wanna go sit on the street?
[giggles] No.
You should, because tomorrow is trash day.
[laughter]
-[mutters indistinctly] - [Blayke] Being a big sister
to five eight-year-olds,
it's very wild and crazy
because they're constantly doing something.
They... They like to run around
and make messes a lot, so it makes everything dirty.
I love dirtiness.
[others giggling]
What do you rate mine on a scale of one to ten?
One is the worst, and ten is the best.
Ten out of ten.
-Ten out of ten? -Yes.
I think yours is 100 out of ten.
[Adam] What makes Blayke unique in our family,
is just that, like, she is the one
that's not a quint.
And she's the big sister of the quints.
Can you hear them in there?
Hello? Anybody in there?
[both giggle]
She's also the one that
all of the other girls in the house look up to,
and she's, like, the leader of our,
like, little pack of kids.
[Danielle chuckles]
Look at you go.
She's still sweet as can be,
but, I mean, she's almost a teenager. So,
she's definitely growing into that attitude, and, um,
the sassiness.
[Adam] Have a good day.
[Adam cackles]
[Adam exclaims and chuckles]
She's... She's too... [laughs]
[both chuckle]
If one of my sweetest children that we've had, Blayke,
can be as sassy, and too sassy at times,
I cannot think about the ones that are actually are sassy...
-Right now. [chuckles] -...in third grade,
[chuckling] what they will be like
when they're in middle school.
-[continues chuckling] -[chuckles nervously]
Here we go. Another party?
[Blayke sighing] Yeah.
It's because I'm the cool mom.
-Yeah, you can say that. -[chuckles]
Now, what is your favorite memory with Aunt Kiki?
Mmm-mmm. Nothing.
-[Kiki] Nothing? -[Dale laughing] Oh!
[Kiki] Well, guess who ain't coming to my house again?
You know what's coming up? Christmas.
And this is gonna go...
-[Kiki] Yes. -...into our consideration
-for Christmas gifts, okay? -[Kiki] Exactly.
So, what's your... what's your favorite thing of Kiki?
What's the funniest thing Kiki's ever done?
[Nick] Oh, man.
-Um, um... [clicks tongue] Said that octopus was cheese. -[laughter]
[Danielle] One of these days,
we're gonna cook some lobster.
-And we're going to cook octopus, too. -[children cheering]
[cheering continues]
Blayke, you've had octopus before.
That's, like, calamari. That's cheese.
-[woman] What? -[raucous laughter]
[Danielle laughing] What?
-[Nick] Oh, my God. -[Danielle] Wait... What?
It's cheese?
Yes, I thought octopus is cheese.
[Danielle laughs raucously]
Squid is cheese, and that's calamari, right?
[laughter]
[Danielle] It's not just adults
like us, not letting Crystal down
on the thinking squid was cheese.
Our children, the quints, still give Kiki a hard time
about cheese and squid.
[laughs]
-I'm like... -It just...
Like, that seriously, like, embarrassed our kids.
[laughs raucously]
It's really weird that Kiki thinks the squid is cheese.
A squid is a thing, like an octopus,
but with no, um, tentacles, and, um,
it squirts out ink out of its butt.
-[children yelling] Ew! -[man 1] Aw, Kiki and her "cheese."
-[man 2] Now take a bite. -[laughter]
Now, does that look like cheese to you?
I mean, it seems like it would taste like cheese.
-[man] Oh, my God. -Are you kidding?
-[indistinct shouting and laughter] -You can't say that.
[Dale] We're still on that?
I know it might not taste like cheese,
but it reminds me of cheese.
-I guess, the look of it, the shape of it. [chuckling] -Oh, my God.
I know I'm learning something every day.
[Dale] What was a fun memory of me and you?
-What's your favorite memory? -[camera beeps]
-The pizzeria. -[Dale] Pizzeria?
-Mmm. -[Dale] That was fun.
Remember how good those pizzas were?
Quints, you're each gonna get a dough ball.
[Dale] Okay?
[Dale] What'd you say?
Good. We're gonna lay all of them out,
spread it around. Do it like that.
[Kiki] They don't understand, Dale.
They've never done this before.
[Dale] Well, no kidding. Me neither.
I had seen this on a TV show once.
I love making pizzas with Uncle Dale.
[Dale] Girls, do you like it?
-Poo-poo! -Poo-poo.
[Dale laughs nervously]
-Poo-poo? -[laughter]
Poo-poo.
-[Dale] That's funny? -Poopy pie.
[Dale] Why are you all so infatuated with saying the word, "poo-poo"?
[giggling]
Y'all are an easy crowd. Anyone want some water?
Water? Who comes to Kiki's house and has water?
Oh, my bad. [sarcastically] You want vodka?
-[girl giggling] -[Kiki] Oh, Dale, don't tell them that.
-You're teaching them bad habits. -[Dale] It's a joke.
What's your favorite memory of me?
Of you?
Um...
-You farting. [chuckles] -[Adam] That...
That time you farted at the aerial yoga.
Oh, yeah, dude.
-Sorry. Sometimes you gotta let it go. -[Ava giggles]
-So this feels good on your legs? Yeah? -It does.
-But my knees... I have a problem with my-- -[Dale farts]
[chuckling]
[laughing] Dale!
[Dale] I let it go aways.
[Danielle] Dale, did you force that?
No.
-[Adam] Dale... -You're so disgusting.
[Danielle] That is so embarrassing.
-[Crystal] Dale, tell Ms. Peggy, "Excuse me." -I was stretching.
We're in a safe place here.
[Danielle laughs] Now your stomach's not in the way.
After I... I can touch my toes now, look.
-[all laughing] -[Peggy] Yes.
[Danielle] "Does it smell bad?" You're gonna go over there?
-Gross, Riley! -[all laughing]
-Hey, atta girl. -[Adam] Riley, you gonna eat them eggs?
[Dale] That was loud.
-It was so loud. -I mean, he surprised himself.
And he's like, "Oh."
[Dale] Yeah, the girls were laughing so hard.
Oh, she pooped. Oh, my God. Did yours poop?
-No, I'll probably need... -Thought she was exploding over here.
I do love the fact that, you know, the kids
love Kiki and Uncle Dale and that they just...
They love 'em so much that they can pick on them.
And we say when you can make a joke about someone to their face about them,
that means you just really do love them.
And it's a special little bond there.
[Riley] Uncle Dale has girl hair!
[Danielle] Oh, no, no, no.
-Look what you're doing to her. -[baby crying]
-[Danielle] No. -[baby crying]
Adam, he just is always scaring everybody.
[crying hysterically]
I'm like, "Great, now I gotta deal with all the crying kids
that you decided to scare just so you could laugh at it."
You're just frustrated because nobody can scare me.
-[Danielle] This is just the Easter Bunny! -[girls screaming]
[Adam] We're gonna toast this French bread, right?
Let's do the sauce first, that's the last thing.
What's something people may not know about our family?
[Danielle] Well, we have a lot of family traditions.
But what I love the most is always doing birthday dates.
Do you remember the tea party? That was so cute.
We were pinkies up and y'all had y'all's baby dolls with you
and y'all matched and it was the cutest thing ever.
Say, "Happy birthday date."
Happy birthday date!
-[Danielle] I love you. Kiss. -I love you.
[Adam] Give me a kiss.
Each quint does share their birthday with four other sisters
and so we've always tried to make it extra special for them
and take them out on birthday dates
as a single birthday or a doubles birthday date
to just let them have that experience of, like,
"This is for you and we love you,
and, yes, you share your birthday,
but we wanna celebrate you."
One of the first birthday dates I took you and Ava.
Do you remember when we went strawberry picking?
We went to the strawberry farm.
-Yeah. -[Danielle] Yeah? I loved that.
Oh! You got it!
[Danielle] Okay, go, run.
Riley, we did with Blayke,
and we went to the Science Museum. Butterfly Museum.
[woman] Is he gonna fly, Ri-Ri?
-[gasps] Look, there it goes. -Ooh, there it goes.
Look at that! It's a beautiful blue morpho!
Of course, Blayke also gets her own birthday date
so that she has her own special experience apart from the quints.
For your birthday, I always end up getting makeup or--
[Lily] 'Cause girls are the best.
-Your hands need, like, 50 layers of nail polish. -Huh?
Why do you have such hairy hands?
-[Adam] 'Cause I'm a man! -[girls laughing]
Isn't it nice not having my sisters here screaming and fighting all the time?
[girls] Yes.
We also have to pay attention
to focusing on us and date nights for us, because it's a lot of work.
You know, just this busy life of a family of eight.
And so we have to pay attention
and make effort to work on our relationship.
This doesn't really look like a date spot.
-Let's go. -Looks a doctor's office.
So today's my date for Adam and he's gonna have so much fun.
-This is right up your alley. -What's "this"?
We do all kinds of different procedures.
You love your muscles,
you know, we have the Emsculpt procedure,
which can force, you know, 20,000 sit-ups in 30 minutes.
We can do that. You know--
-20,000 sit-ups in 30 minutes? -Yep.
We've been married almost 18 years,
and so you've gotta keep it fresh.
-Unconventional stuff sometimes. -Yeah.
[Angelica] You ready?
-[machine vibrating] -Oh!
-[all laughing] -You ready?
[Danielle] Relax, Adam. You seem stressed.
[exhales]
[both laughing]
There are things that I really do enjoy watching.
You're only at 15%.
-Thirteen? -Fifteen.
-[Danielle] Relax. -[Angelica] How you feeling? You okay?
-Crank it up! -I know!
Adam losing it in that chair,
pretty much kicking his leg up,
that was the highlight of the year right there.
This is 65.
It's 70.
How high did I go?
Forty-five is what you maintained at.
What a wuss.
I go put the machine on to see, like really, is it really that bad?
[laughing] It wasn't.
That was just so good.
-This is my favorite date. -[chuckling] Oh, my gosh.
Ooh, my favorite thing is to scare y'all.
[Danielle] Oh, no, no, no. Get your face... Git.
-[crying] -[Danielle] Look what you're doing to her.
-Oh, no. -[babies crying]
[Danielle] Adam, he just is always scaring everybody.
It's frustrating at times because I'm like,
"Great, now I gotta deal with all the crying kids that you decided to scare
so just so you could laugh at it."
You're just frustrated because nobody can scare me.
-Danielle. I can see you in the mirror. -[Danielle growls]
Nice try. You can't scare me.
I mean, Danielle can be good at pranks, but, I mean,
she just clearly does not hold a candle to me.
-The master pranker? -Yeah.
[Danielle yells]
[Danielle laughing]
Fine. That's funny.
[Danielle] I actually got you that day.
That was funny.
-Danielle. -What?
[Danielle] You were terrified.
Oh, I was definitely terrified.
Got you.
What about all the times that we scared y'all with the Easter Bunny?
[Dale] Oh, man.
[Danielle] Y'all think y'all found all the eggs?
Let's go see if there's eggs over here.
[Nick] Oh, my goodness.
What is that?
[Danielle] Do y'all see what I see?
[babies crying]
I mean, the very first Easter that we had with the quints,
I mean, like, honestly,
it was, like, very good intentioned.
[crying hysterically]
[Danielle] It's a bunny.
No, it literally was torture.
It was so bad, it was hilarious.
-[children crying] -[adults laughing]
That year was not meant to be a prank, but the next year?
That was a whole 'nother story.
[Danielle] Find 'em. You get 'em, Ava?
-[screaming] -[crying]
[Adam] It's the Easter Bunny.
I remember when the Easter Bunny came when I was like
six or seven years old,
and I was hiding inside by the door.
You were way littler.
-[girls screaming] -[Adam] What's wrong?
Of course you had to do it again the following year.
I mean, now it's like instant tradition.
[girls screaming]
[Danielle] It's the Easter Bunny.
[girls screaming]
I will be sad one day whenever the girls won't be scared anymore of things,
because, I mean, like, the Easter Bunny? Probably our best tradition.
-[Danielle] Go! -[girls screaming]
[woman] We've got another baby.
Forty-three on Baby D.
It's hard as a parent for the very first memory of your child
is seeing a doctor running out of the room
with your baby that's not breathing.
And that's the very first memory we had of all of our kids.
Mama, what dog is your favorite dog,
but you can't say both.
What dog is my favorite, but I can't say both?
[Crystal] Oh, my God, you can't answer that.
That's just like saying which child's her favorite?
[Crystal] No, it's not.
I mean, I'm not gonna say which one is my favorite, I love them both.
But Gus loves me more,
so he gets more of attention from me.
Yeah. I mean,
we've had some pretty scary moments in the NICU with y'all.
[woman] We've got another baby.
Forty-three on Baby D.
From the moment of, you know,
finding out I'm pregnant with quintuplets
to carrying them to then birthing them,
I mean, it literally was moment of life or death.
I mean, you just...
During C-section surgery, it's like they're pulling babies out of me
that are literally like the size of my hands, and you're just thinking,
"How is that supposed to survive? That's so tiny."
[Adam] I love you.
It's hard as a parent for the very first memory of your child
is seeing a doctor running out of the room
with your baby that's not breathing.
And that's the very first memory we had of all of our kids.
And they're just running to the NICU
because we've got to get this kid breathing,
and that's whenever, like just, it all, like, set in.
Like, "Oh, gosh." Like, you know, we're in for a wild ride.
[woman] You wanna meet Riley?
-No way. -We're coming to see Riley.
Is that my wild one?
We've got your wild one, yes. This is definitely your wild one.
Oh, my gosh, this is so exciting.
[woman] Here you go, Mom. Look at her little toesies.
[Danielle] I didn't get to see them for hours,
and I remember Riley coming and seeing,
like coming to see me, and that's all I wanted
was to just be able to see them.
Like, I just needed to see them.
And it's just an overwhelming sense
of noises, machinery, wires.
And that was for one, and then you wheel to the next,
and it was the same...
Like, all of it just all over again.
It's heart-crushing to just see like your little two-pound baby.
I just remember thinking, like, "Are they gonna..."
Like, "Are they gonna make it? Are they gonna make it?
They're so small, there's all these wires,
there's all these things plugged up on them.
They just don't look like they should have been born."
Look how big the diaper is.
It's so small that it's half my hand.
The NICU is just a hard topic to talk about.
Every day was a trial and a struggle.
And the second you're discharged from the hospital
to then having to now visit your babies in the NICU every day
was hard because you're just leaving your child
and praying that you get to see them tomorrow.
Yeah, last night, we had a pretty rough night.
We had a little setback with Riley.
She had a collapsed lung.
Three days in, Riley blew her lung out and had to have surgery
right then and there at the moment.
[Adam] Riley Paige. Hey, baby.
[Danielle] Ava came down with, like, this infection
and could just never leave the hospital, and...
Always had to be in isolation.
[Danielle] Every day was different.
Every single day, every single moment that you were there
was a different experience.
Mama, is it ever scary being a mama?
It's always hard being a mommy,
but especially gets super challenging
whenever there's times where y'all get sick or we have struggles.
[babies crying]
Not in a pretty face, Riley Paige. No, it's not. I agree.
[Adam] Hey.
Being a mom of quintuplets is challenging, it's scary.
It was scary carrying the girls,
it was scary being pregnant, it was scary delivering them,
it was scary walking to the NICU,
it's scary parenting them.
But I just have to trust that we were gonna make it through every day
the best we can.
-Hey! -[Adam and Danielle laugh]
[Danielle] Good morning, Olivia.
Danielle's personality is just unique in her ability to be a mom of six girls,
and, you know, five of them quintuplets.
[Danielle] We're the Busbys!
The term "supermom" is thrown around a lot for Danielle
because she's supermom personified.
Come on. Ri!
[Danielle] Whoo!
I mean, I don't really think of myself as the mom of six girls,
the mom of quintuplets.
I just see myself as, like, a mom.
You just do what you gotta do.
Whoa!
Cheese, Mommy.
Oh! And bend her over and spin her.
Thinking to the future as a dad,
how many more firsts are we really gonna have with them?
One, two, three, four, five.
[Danielle] Time is literally slipping away.
You're excited for what's next,
but they are growing up so fast.
[Dale] Here. You want to put these in here?
Oh, yeah, boy.
Oh, man, let's see. We've had some pretty cool vacations.
I love a lot of, like, the firsts.
So, like, the first time we went to the beach, the first time we rode horses,
the first time we went floating the river.
-[children screaming] -Let's do it.
Oh, my God. My foot went straight down.
One great thing about having six kids
is that every new experience we have,
we get that new experience six times over.
-Kick your feet. Kick, kick, kick. -Splash, splash!
Don't you splash me.
It's so fun seeing what our kids adapt to and what they like.
-[Adam] Bumper boats! -Adam!
[Adam] It was Hazel. It was Hazel. I'm sorry.
-Mommy! [crying] -I got you, I got you.
Look at Kiki and Ri-Ri.
Mommy! [crying]
-I got you. -Mommy!
[Danielle] When we experience a new activity or a new adventure,
the challenge is are they all gonna like it?
Are they all gonna hate it?
Or are some of them gonna like it and some of them don't?
Hey, you wanna go swimming out in the water?
No?
Hazel, do you like the beach now?
Yes.
[Danielle] Do you remember you did not like the beach?
[Danielle mimicking Hazel] "I don't like the beach."
It really is hard to predict who's going to react to what.
I mean, 'cause our kids truly are on every end of the spectrum
as far as like, you know, the daredevil and just, like, the more reserved
-and likes different things. -[Danielle] Nervous.
Yeah, being nervous versus, like, just full tilt.
One, two, three!
Twerky turkeys!
Strong turkeys!
-Ready? -Whoo!
Oh!
-[Adam] Where is Hazel? -[Danielle] Hazel! Come here!
[Adam] She's over there getting snacks.
It's ever-changing and you may get
six different reactions from every single activity.
What was your favorite vacation memory?
It's not a vacation,
but when we took a limo to the father-daughter dance.
Do y'all remember that? That was so fun.
[Adam] Ooh, y'all are gonna be the belles of the ball.
The very first father-daughter dance that we did,
it was just me and Blayke.
And then Nick brought Lily and Dale brought McKenzie, and we just did it big.
I mean, we got a limo for just the three girls
and it was the first big dance experience for the girls
where they got to get all dolled up.
-[man] Smile, girls. One, two, and... -[camera shutter clicks]
May I have this dance?
And you gotta just...
Oh! And bend her over and spin her.
It meant a lot for me to spend time with my dad at the daddy-daughter dance
because it was when my sisters were young.
So it was like we all had to pay attention to them
'cause they were, like, little little
and they were always needing a bunch of stuff.
So it was really special for me to get to have my own special time.
Hey, you're the belle of the ball, you know that?
You're the prettiest girl here.
After taking Blayke, the quints were super excited to do the daddy-daughter dance
and I had to do it big because we did it big with Blayke
and I feel like we knocked it out of the park.
[Adam] Who's ready to party?
People are gonna be like, "Why is there a pink limo over here?"
Daddy's gonna be dancing like this.
What are you two... That's a fish.
I don't flop around like a fish.
-And we made it. -Let's go. You ready to get out?
My favorite part was going in the limo and eating all of the candy.
And drinking the soda.
One, two, three, four, five.
It was so cute, and they had so much fun just dancing the night away
and it was just a super memorable moment.
-[Riley] Daddy, balloon! -[children screaming]
[Parker] That scared me.
[Adam] Thinking about the daddy-daughter dance now,
both of those firsts have have come and gone
and you know just thinking to the future, like,
how many more firsts are we really gonna have with them?
-You know, as a dad, you know... -I mean, it is...
I mean, time is literally slipping away.
They're growing up so fast.
You almost want it to slow down,
especially in these moments that are first experiences.
You wanna hold on to those forever and not let those go.
And, you know, you're excited for what's next,
but they are growing up so fast.
[Adam] Dinner's ready.
[Danielle] Okay.
That's the end of our interview project. Say it.
That's the end of our...
-End of our assignment. -End of our assignment.
-[Danielle] Peace out. -Peace out.
I love my family so much that I wouldn't change anything.
I love being such a big family
'cause if I wasn't in a family that is really big,
I'd be bored and I wouldn't have someone to play with.
We're all very different.
Yeah, we're totally gonna get an A on this assignment.
All right. Plates. Adam, get the plates and stuff out.
I mean, there's no shortage of uniqueness in our family
and as all six of our kids get older and older,
I mean, they're gonna...
That divide is gonna further grow
where they just get more and more
different from each other and more and more unique.
[Danielle] Everything is so ever-changing with the girls,
and I don't think we'll ever be used to or adjusted
to being parents of six kids. It's just...
This is our life and this is what we do.
All right. Dear Heavenly Father, just thank you for this day.
Thank you for letting us have these opportunities as family.
'Cause we're so close just to be able
to get together and just have dinner together.
I just thank you for this food, for this spaghetti.
Thank you for Uncle Dale for cooking.
And let's eat.
[all] Amen.