00:00People think our family is a cult.
00:02We're parents with 10 children.
00:05Would you like colour coordinating with your family?
00:07Even the doctors, are you guys a cult?
00:10We would like to have more children.
00:12Okay, look, I thought I'd give you some good news.
00:17Oh my God.
00:20I'm a little bit disappointed, really.
00:22Where's mum? I'm the first one in the kitchen today.
00:25Are you the first today?
00:26There you are.
00:28Alright, what have you got for breakfast?
00:30What would you like?
00:31Pancakes.
00:32Alright, pancakes it is.
00:34My name is Mitch and I'm 62.
00:38My name is Chella and I'm 40.
00:40We have 10 children.
00:42The oldest are twins, Oriel and Sheena.
00:45They're 16.
00:47Chelise, she's 15.
00:50Shayla is 13.
00:53Orion is 12.
00:55Orison is 10.
00:58Renee is 8.
00:59Chelise is 6.
01:01Shandel is 4.
01:03And Azrael is 2.
01:05We all eat the same foods.
01:08We don't cook different meals, really.
01:10Unless someone doesn't particularly really like something.
01:13But that's not often, so.
01:15How much do you spend on groceries a month?
01:17About $3,000 to $4,000, yeah.
01:21Do you usually make breakfast for your family?
01:24Yeah, but everyone kind of like helps.
01:26How did you two meet?
01:29Ooh, goes back many years.
01:31I was singing at a restaurant and she requested a song.
01:36Yeah, the rest unfolded later on.
01:39Mitch, did you always want a big family?
01:42Well, it just happened, you know.
01:44I just went with the flow.
01:46Twins came first and after that,
01:49third, fourth, fifth, sixth, just ball kept rolling
01:52and I just kept on bowling.
01:55How do you make time together as a couple?
01:56Or do you make time together as a couple?
01:59As you can hear in the background,
02:01it's very hard.
02:02I think there's no time for us, but...
02:04There'll be plenty of time later, hopefully.
02:06Now, taste that.
02:08Taste that?
02:10First you're going to give me a taste.
02:12Ah, it's really good with the maple syrup.
02:14So we've got the time there when we go shopping
02:17or to the beach or to the park, you know.
02:19We're all together.
02:21Always all together.
02:23Let's go.
02:26You all want to go and have a look?
02:27Purple? Purple, you like the shirt?
02:29So we're wearing purple tomorrow.
02:31Do you want to wear a skirt with that?
02:33We like colour coordinating as a family
02:36because when we go to the store,
02:38we all see this top and we all like it
02:40and want to get it.
02:41Colour coordinating is an everyday thing for us, so...
02:45Yeah, we enjoy it.
02:47Why do you colour coordinate as a family?
02:49The colour coordinating started
02:53well, with the twins.
02:54I used to dress them the same and then
02:56Chelise came along and
02:58she wanted to wear the same outfit as the twins did, so...
03:02But it just looks so good, you know.
03:03I mean, it's like an entourage.
03:05Whenever we go to a shopping centre or something like that
03:08and everyone just looks and...
03:10It's not that we want the attention, but...
03:13That's what happens.
03:14How much do you spend on clothes a month?
03:17Probably three to five hundred on clothes,
03:20depending on the month and whose birthday it is.
03:24What's it like having nine siblings?
03:25Crazy and fun.
03:28Yeah, you always got someone to play with, so...
03:29Yeah, you're never lonely or anything.
03:32There's always screaming or something.
03:34Yeah.
03:35Who's the eldest?
03:37I am.
03:38I have some responsibilities as
03:42making sure that no one gets lost in the shops.
03:46We all kind of do that.
03:48Yeah, we all kind of do that.
03:49I watch them.
03:54You want me to sit in the front?
03:55Oh, thank you.
03:56How many can you fit into your car?
03:58And now we've got one and it seats 14, so...
04:0014 people in there.
04:01All right, let's go to the park.
04:08The challenges with having a big family are
04:11probably more the outside people.
04:14You get treated different.
04:16So, some of the comments we got online are
04:18I feel bad for them.
04:19Two parents could never give 10 kids
04:21the amount of attention they really need.
04:23I don't know why they would say this.
04:25They go wherever they want.
04:26Yeah, we're always with them, so...
04:29Yeah, plenty of attention.
04:30Too much, I think.
04:31Too much attention.
04:32Why do you always dress them alike?
04:34They need to have their own style.
04:36I think they dressed us alike.
04:38They don't want to have their own style.
04:39They just want to have everyone the same.
04:41Why didn't you give them normal names?
04:43Normal names?
04:45We've given them beautiful names,
04:47but somebody else's opinion is...
04:49Yeah, I'm happy with their names.
04:51They're happy with their names.
04:52They're happy.
04:53They look like their own cult.
04:55Even the doctors, when you were having the last child,
04:58we were in the hospital.
05:00Are you guys a cult?
05:02Well, when you go to school, you all dress alike
05:04and you belong to that community.
05:07Yeah, even when you go to work,
05:09you all have to dress the same.
05:11Same.
05:12I guess we're all a cult.
05:13At the end of the day.
05:14In one way or another.
05:15One way or another.
05:17Would you like to have more children?
05:18Yeah, we would like to have more children.
05:20Yes, definitely.
05:21We're definitely trying.
05:24Just a matter of time.
05:25We did try to have another one,
05:27but that ended up in a miscarriage.
05:29Miscarriage last year.
05:30What do your friends and family
05:32think of you having another baby?
05:34They just say, you're crazy.
05:36Why would you want to do that?
05:39And I haven't told her mum yet,
05:41but I think that's what she's going to say.
05:45Yes, Susie, hi.
05:47Hi.
05:48How are you?
05:48Had a good day?
05:50Yes, really good.
05:52Alright.
05:53Okay, look,
05:55I thought I'd give you some good news.
05:57What's that?
05:59The good news is
06:01Chella and I,
06:04we're trying for a baby.
06:06Oh boy.
06:08Are you crazy?
06:09But you've got 10 lovely children already.
06:12Why do you need more?
06:13Why not?
06:15You heard it from your daughter.
06:17Why not?
06:18More the merrier.
06:19More the merrier.
06:20Oh my God.
06:22Really thought that maybe the 10 was enough
06:25and you're both pretty worn out anyway.
06:27You're getting on.
06:29And by the time that baby's 20,
06:32you're going to be an old man.
06:35Sorry, say that again?
06:36I don't look old and I don't plan to age.
06:40I'm a little bit disappointed really
06:42that, you know,
06:45you don't agree with Chella and I.
06:48All we needed was a little bit of family support
06:50and you're not being rude,
06:53you've let us down.
06:55It doesn't mean that I'm not going to support you.
06:57Of course I will.
06:59You're entitled to your opinion.
07:01Yes.
07:01We're entitled to ours
07:02and I guess we have to agree to disagree.
07:05By the way, I'm still young, Susie.
07:08I'm not an old man.
07:10I don't have any grey hairs.
07:12Not today.
07:14There's no grey hairs on me at all.
07:16Susie, even though you don't agree with us,
07:20we still love you and
07:23yeah, we're going to have to love you and leave you
07:26and goodbye for now.
07:28Yeah.
07:29I love you too
07:31and I will always go along with you.
07:33Thank you very much.
07:35Goodbye.
07:36Alright, have a good night.
07:37See ya.
07:39What we hope the future holds for our family is
07:42more kids.
07:43One word to describe the family?
07:46Fun.
07:46Fun, loving,
07:49yeah, live entertainment.
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