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