![]() You just get five of everything, five sand buckets, five shovels." The Broskoffs also have a daughter, Presley, who's 5. That's what we do here They're as much work as one kid. "You take it for what it is," she continued. "And then they'll get older and they'll have to know how to get on in the world. "For your kids not to learn how to behave in a store or in a restaurant, you're just making more work for yourself," she said. Their mother, Ashley Broskoff, 26, whose photo should be next to any dictionary's definition of "unflappable," waves away the suggestion that she and her husband, Travis, are doing more than any parents would reasonably expect. You might see them lunching at Trumble's in Albert Lea with their great-great-grandma, shopping for groceries at Sam's Club, or toddling around their camper at a local campground. In some ways, the Broskoff quartet hides in plain sight. The Broskoff siblings are spontaneous quadruplets, meaning that they occurred naturally, something that happens only once in 729,000 conceptions. In 1980, 24 sets of triplets, quadruplets and quints were born in Minnesota, according to state records. Multiple births, while still unusual, are more common. The world has changed over the past six decades, what with fertility drugs, shifting ideas about celebrity, and spectacles such as the California woman known as Octomom, who had octuplets using in vitro fertilization. 28, 2010, another set of quadruplets was born in Minnesota - the Broskoff kids of Geneva, a small town just south of Owatonna. "They would just show up at the farm place and peek in the windows," she said. She has no memories of living at the fair, but remembers her mother telling how people would come to their Sleepy Eye farm from across the country. "When we were born, there were only 10 other sets in the U.S.," said Marti (Seifert) Andersen, now 62, who lives in Albert Lea, Minn. Newspapers marked their progress through birthdays, baptisms, first communions, graduations and marriages. ![]() The four were so much of a sensation they returned for the next two fairs. The kids balked, however, at eating under such scrutiny, moving into a back room for meals. They were the Seifert quadruplets, the first quads known to have survived in Minnesota, who lived on the grounds for the run of the fair.įor 25 cents, fairgoers looked upon these biological marvels as they played, cried, napped and laughed. ![]() Sixty-one years ago, amid the Pronto Pups and Machinery Hill at the Minnesota State Fair, people lined up to peer into a glass-walled room filled with toys, a swing set, cribs - and four toddlers.
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