{"id":14458,"date":"2024-03-05T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/?p=14458"},"modified":"2024-03-04T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:45:59","slug":"12-yo-leap-year-quadruplets-celebrate-third-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/12-yo-leap-year-quadruplets-celebrate-third-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"12-yo Leap Year Quadruplets Celebrate \u2018Third Birthday\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GoodNewsNetwork<\/a> | By Andy Corbley<\/a> | March 1, 2024 | Leap Year | Shield Insurance<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12-yo Leap Year Quadruplets Celebrate \u2018Third Birthday\u2019\u2013Brothers Are All Unique But 3 Are Triplets<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Britain\u2019s only leap year quadruplets are celebrating their \u2018third\u2019 birthday this week\u201412 years after birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuben, Samuel, Zachary, and Joshua Robbins were all born within six minutes of each other on February 29th, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They celebrate their birthdays on March 1 each year, but every four years they get to mark the real day, being that it disappears from the calendar for three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their sire Martin Robbins has a real handful this time around, as each child wants to do something different to celebrate the real day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne wants to go bowling, another go-karting, one wants to do archery, so we\u2019ve got to come to a happy decision!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin has been speaking to the media about their very unusual litter, and if readers were ever curious about what it\u2019s like having quadruplets, the interview is a great opportunity to hear first hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother Emma Robbins gave birth to the boys via emergency Caesarean section, with Reuben being delivered first, followed by the second, Zachary. Zachary\u2019s identical twin Joshua was the heaviest, and Samuel, who doesn\u2019t look the same as the other three, was delivered last; with dark hair no less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quads have an older brother too, 14-year-old Luke, whom the quads \u201clove very much\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They often shadow him around because they look up to him, Martin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three of the quadruplets are genetically identical\u2014Reuben, Zachery, and Joshua, and while Samuel is not identical to his brothers he looks like his older brother Luke, and his mom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSam is like the ring leader, who socially and mentally seems to be the boss of the four,\u201d said their father. \u201cThe other three are all one and the same! Just like me, they are fair-haired and Sam has dark hair.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll the boys are quite different in themselves and as they\u2019ve gotten older, they have become more engaged in other interests. They are all individual in their own rights, sometimes people want to put them in a basket and I\u2019ve never understood that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJosh is very sporty, he loves football and basketball. Zach and Reuben are very musical,  they like to sing and dance and play keyboard. Reuben and Zach are very artsy and creative. Sam is the technical one; he has a curious mind and is always asking questions,\u201d Mr. Robbins elaborates, adding that at their new school in Bristol, the four enjoy the collective nickname \u2018copy-paste\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the most important time for them, and is important for their social development so they can come into their own individuality,\u201d he added. \u201cIt helps them make new and solid friends and have something to talk about when they come home\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leap Year Quadruplets celebrate 3rd Birthday at age 12. Reuben, Samuel, Zachary, and Joshua were born within six minutes of each other on February 29th, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,1,2],"tags":[2827,2828,62],"class_list":["post-14458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-ins-blog","category-insurance","category-shield-blog","tag-leap-year","tag-quadruplets","tag-shield-insurance-agency"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14460,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458\/revisions\/14460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}