00:00I mean, I've always known that I was going to be a parent, I don't know who Ryan was or when he was going to be along for the ride,
00:06but like, I made it clear to him from day one, like, we're going to have five kids, that's my plan.
00:10We really struggled with, first, a lot of caseworkers assuming that we shouldn't be adoptive parents,
00:33which is fascinating to me because we were only showing interest in children with disabilities,
00:38so who better to raise kids with disabilities than two adults with disabilities?
00:43Our two boys got placed with us very quickly after we were approved and it's been over a year now with them,
00:48and they're the coolest kids on earth.
00:53Our two boys got placed with us very quickly after we were approved and it's been over a year now with them and they're the coolest kids on earth.
01:02Our two boys got placed with us very quickly after we were approved and it's been over a year now with them,
01:08and they're the coolest kids on earth.
01:15It was a surprise. A very big shocking surprise.
01:31We didn't want to get our hopes up for a long time and so we kind of held it in for a little while that that was happening
01:40and that we had triplets even though we were extremely excited about it each and every day.
01:45So we created TikTok really as a space for our family and friends to just follow along in our journey if they wanted to see it.
02:10We had no intentions or inclinations that anyone else would even be interested.
02:17I love when people say like I have a disability and I want to have kids someday.
02:44some day and like your videos make me feel like it might be possible. I also
02:49just love the messages that people will say like you've changed my perspective.
02:54I didn't think that people in wheelchairs could have kids but like this
02:59has completely changed my perspective and if we can change people's minds so
03:08that another wheelchair user doesn't have to deal with it like good our world
03:13should be getting better and anything that we can do to contribute to that is
03:17amazing.
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