A proud mom and dad got the best birthday surprise ever: the arrival of their newborn twins. All four members of this family share the same birthday: August 18.
Mom Scierra Blair and dad Jose Ervin, Jr. were thrilled to be expecting their twins at the end of August, only for things to take an unexpected turn: Scierra went into labor early.
“We all got the same birthday,” Ervin told WOIO. “They were going to bring them in on Aug. 17, so we said, ‘Let’s just wait until midnight.'”
Ervin received a phone call on August 17th that Blair was in labor, and the twins made their grand entrance just after midnight on August 18th… the same as both mom and dad. Baby A-ria was born at 12:35am, with her brother José following just one minute later.
Sharing birthdays was something that brought the couple together right from the beginning. “She showed me her ID and I was like, what’s, that’s crazy and I never met somebody with the same birthday as me,” Ervin told News5Cleveland. Still, they didn’t expect that this would ever happen.
“I was making plans like I was going to go to the hospital and then planning out my week; that didn’t happen,” Blair joked.
Yet Ervin was still thrilled, and said he had secretly been hoping for this to happen. “I have José the third and that’s A-ria in the bassinet and I’m their father, and that’s Scierra, and it’s all of our birthdays today,” he said. “It was special, I really wanted them to be born on our birthday.”
Both babies weighed in at just over five pounds, and are healthy and doing well.
“A-ria was five pounds and I believe two ounces, he was I believe five pounds and five ounces,” Ervin said. “I never met a family with kids that all have the same birthday, that’s just crazy to me. It’s a blessing, it’s a gift from God.”
