Four babies in two years — including identical triplets — makes for a very special Father’s Day

On Father’s Day of 2022, I didn’t have any children. On Father’s Day 2024, I have four little boys. 

We had been expecting the first boy in 2022 — the identical triplets, born earlier this year, were a surprise. 

When you tell people you have triplets, the first thing they ask is whether you underwent IVF.

For the record, you can engineer fraternal twins or triplets via IVF — you just insert two or three embryos at once.

Identical triplets just happen.

Identicals are what happen when you and your wife talk about how you wish you’d met earlier in life so you could have had a bigger family, and God, who listens and has a sense of humor, says: “All right, big shot — let’s see how you do.”