OurLANDingCrew, formerly ThatAutismMom and TubalReversalMom, Is a family vlog channel run by the family matriarch Stephanie. Stephanie started the YouTube channel to raise awareness about Autism, which her son Noah was diagnosed with. The family is quite open about their lives, however, their family surname is unknown to the public. LAND stands for the first initials of the children's names.
Family[]
If you know the family's surnames you are asked NOT to post it for privacy and safety reasons. Stephanie regularly ommits their surname(s) for the privacy and security of the children, and herself.
Lonnie William Sr. : Stephanie's husband and the father of their children. He served in the military at some point, though it is not clear what he did. He and Stephanie started their relationship before Stephanie learned she was pregnant with Danielle, though he is not her biological father. They got married when Stephanie was 18, in 2004.
Danielle calls him her "bonus dad", and they have a close relationship. Lonnie and Stephanie had two more children before Stephanie got sterilised. His first son is Lonnie Jr., as the name implies, he's named after him. He was a stay-at-home dad for a while before going back to school. While he is no longer a stay-at-home dad, he has always been involved in his children's lives and especially Noah's special needs. Unlike with some family vlogs where only one parent is the sole vlogger of the household, Lonnie picks up the camera frequently and vlogs parts of the family's life, just like Stephanie. In many of the shopping "montage" videos Lonnie goes with Stephanie to shop.
He has ADHD. As a "Throwback Thursday" video in June 2018, Stephanie posted a vlog that was recorded back when Lex was a baby. In it Lonnie went to the Emergency Room because of severe back pain, and he was "diagnosed" with a 4mm kidney stone, which later in the vlog Stephanie reported he was able to pass it "naturally". After Penelope's conception but prior to her birth, Lonnie got a vasectomy. Although Lonnie Sr. was never diagnosed with autism, Stephanie and he feel there's a very good chance he could have autism as he has several "symptoms" of autism.
Stephanie and Lonnie spent their 16th wedding anniversary evening in the Children's hospital emergency room because they were concerned with Liam having Pink Eye as well as other concerning symptoms. Luckily Liam was just sent home with a prescription for eye cream.
After Stephanie had her autism evaluation done, Lonnie underwent one as well and received different results. He did not receive an autism diagnosis but rather other diagnoses. They made a video about his diagnoses and afterwards a livestream. Both were later removed by Stephanie from public access as Lonnie was going to go back to work and did not want it public anymore, Stepanie agreed. Those diagnoses will NOT be shared here out of respect for the family's wishes.
Stephanie Jo, frequently known as Steph: Matriarch of the family. Lonnie Sr. and Stephanie have six children, three were born before Stephanie had her sterilisation surgery and three were born following Stephanie's tubal reversal surgery. She was born and raised in Texas, after marrying Lonnie Sr, the couple moved to Florida. After living in several different areas around Florida in March 2020, following a trip to Colorado, they announced the family was moving to Colorado very soon. In April 2020, the family moved from Florida to Colorado. She revealed through a vlog that as a child she struggled with stuttering, and continues to struggle speaking correctly. She has ADHD, which she confirmed this in a video where she explained that it made sense that Lonnie Jr. had ADHD since both she and Lonnie Sr. have it. In early November, 2020, Stephanie announced that she was getting a full evaluation for herself to see if she had Autism, as well as any other conditions that can be diagnosed through that evaluation. Also that month Stephanie began the family TikTok account, where she made small updates about the progress of her evaluation, as well as mentioning the process and progress in her Youtube videos. Following an extensive evaluation process, on 23 December, 2020, Stephanie announced via Instagram that she had been "formally" diagnosed with Anxiety, PTSD and Autism. She has not revealed where "on the Spectrum" she falls (or what level of functioning) yet.
She was diagnosed at age six with ADHD, and Bipolar disorder at age 25. Because Autism in adults is commonly misdiagnosed as Bipolar Disorder, this was an additional reason why Stephanie sought a full evaluation. Since revealing she had autism, she has not yet revealed if her Bipolar disorder has been dropped or not.
Danielle Grace "Dani" or "Elle" born: August 1, 2004): is the eldest child in the family. She is from a previous relationship Stephanie was in before she met Lonnie Sr. Despite this, Lonnie Sr. has been there for Danielle's entire life and she considers him a "bonus dad". Stephanie gave birth to Danielle when she herself was 18 years old, she later revealed that Danielle's birth was traumatic for her. Ironically Danielle's biological father's name is Daniel, Stephanie named their daughter "Danielle" just because it was a name she has always loved. Being open about life but still maintaining people's privacy, Stephanie has said that Danielle's father and she have joint custody of Danielle, and she spends certain Holidays and Summers with him at his home in Texas. Along with her siblings, Danielle was homeschooled for several years. She began attended public high school in her freshman year. She has been diagnosed with ADHD, Asthma, and Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE). Many of the family vlogs follow Danielle's journey through testing and being diagnosed with EoE. She is openly bisexual. In a video after she turned 16, she got her belly button pierced.
Lonnie William Jr. "Bubby" (born: December 2005, [age 18]): is the second eldest child. Danielle and Lonnie Jr. are 16 months apart. He is seen the least on the family vlogs, as he prefers to not be filmed, and Stephanie and Lonnie Sr. try to respect their children's' privacy. His nickname "Bubby" was given to him by his little brother Noah, because when they were little he couldn't say Lonnie's name. He loves anime. He was homeschooled along with his siblings until 8th grade when he and his older sister Danielle started public school. Although he was never formally diagnosed, he has ADHD. In December 2022 he was diagnosed with Wegener's Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation of blood vessels, in the group of diseases called "Vasculitis". The disease damaged many of his organs including his lungs, kidneys and spleen (etc). All the organs healed with time, except the lungs. For months afterwards he struggled with lung function. The affected his lungs so much so that he was soon diagnosed with end stage lung disease (meaning his lung function was severely compromised and the damage done to his lungs was irreversible). On 18 May, 2023 Lonnie Jr. underwent transplant surgery and received a new pair of lungs from a donor.
Noah Elijah (born: August 25, 2007): is the third child in the family. He loves anime, including Pokemon. Stephanie has also shared that he has a big interest in Marvel superheroes, like Spiderman. He likes photography and in April 2020, his own photography instagram account was created under the username "@noaholc". In a video posted in 2020, Noah cooked by himself for the first time and made pancakes for the family on his own.
Noah was diagnosed at around 5 years old with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), mild to moderate functioning. He was also diagnosed with Intellectual Disability and Hypotonia (low muscle tone). His mom Stephanie began the family youtube channel around him, helping to bring awareness about autism and to advocate for Autism. With his permission, Stephanie has shared a lot about Noah's life living with autism and what it is like having a child with autism. Noah's autism has been linked to a couple of chromosomal abnormalities on some of his chromosomes, meaning Noah's autism was "caused" by genetics. It has also been mentioned that Noah may have ADHD, although his parents haven't officially confirmed this.
He was pulled out of public school after being relentlessly bullied by other school children and was homeschooled for many years. After moving to Colorado, his parents had considered sending him back to public school. It was decided that he would not attend public school and continue to be "homeschooled", but go frequently to center where he has therapies, to do his school work.
Alexander Frederick "Lex" (born: November 24, 2015): is the fourth child in the family and their tubal reversal baby. Soon after Noah was born, Stephanie had her tubes tied. When Noah was 7 years old she had a tubal reversal surgery as she and Lonnie Sr. decided they wanted to have another child. Lex's birth is the first birth vlog posted on the channel. He has a close relationship with his older siblings, Danielle and Lonnie, as they play with him and take care of him a lot (not to say that he doesn't have a good relationship with his other siblings). When Lex was 3.5 years old, he was formally diagnosed with borderline-to-high functioning Autism. Since then he has been re-evaluated on the diagnosis, and ultimately kept the diagnosis of "borderline-to-high functioning" Autism. He also is considered to have ADHD. While he went to public school for a little bit after the family moved to Colorado, in autumn of 2022 Stephanie announced that he was being homeschooled.
Liam Joseph (born: January 8-9, 2018 [age 5]): is the fifth child and rainbow baby. Prior to Liam's birth, Stephanie and Lonnie endured two miscarriages and thought they would never be able to have another baby. Liam is considered a miracle, as Stephanie was told that in order for her to carry another baby she would have had to undergo surgery, and yet Liam was conceived without the need for surgery. He is the only child of Lonnie Sr. and Stephanie to have red/ginger hair. He is the older half of Stephanie and Lonnie's pair of "Irish twins".
When Liam as about a month old he got a kidney infection, at the same time an ultrasound was done and it was discovered that he had fluid around his kidney. At 6 weeks old, he had a genetics test done to see if he had, any chromosomal abnormalities. When he was 6 months old he had another ultrasound on his kidney to check on the fluid, at the same time he got another kidney infection. When he was 7 months old underwent surgery for a circumcision and a cystoscopy, in attempt to stop the kidney infections from happening.
When he was 18 months old he was formally diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Moderate to Severe functioning. He is nonverbal as most of the words he says are not functional.
Both he and his older brother Lex have issues with elopement (running away or escaping), which in their cases is associated with their diagnoses of autism. Stephanie also revealed that Lex had issues with taking off his diaper and playing in his feces when he was younger, and that Liam currently still has this issue, also "poop-smearing".
Early in 2020, Stephanie revealed that with the concern of Liam's safety during the night time (elopement, etc) they were looking into buying a Safety Bed or Special Needs Bed "customised" to Liam's needs. On 29 October, 2020, through a video, Stephanie announced that Liam's Special Needs bed had arrived and also addressed viewers' questions and concerns regarding the special needs bed. In 2022 Stephanie made a video announcing that Liam was diagnosed with apraxia of speech, this being one of the reasons why he was struggling to retain functional words and language.
Penelope Jo "Nellie" (born: January 28, 2019 [age 4]): is the youngest child and second daughter in the family. She is considered also a rainbow baby by the family, as Stephanie had two miscarriages before giving birth to Liam and then her. She is the younger half of the couple's pair of "Irish Twins", as she and Liam are just 12 months apart from each other.
Her middle name, "Jo", is a family name on her mother's side. It was important to Stephanie to pass down her middle name of "Jo" to her daughter. Prior to Penelope's birth Stephanie and Lonnie had settled on the nickname "Nellie", there was also a suggestion by one of the kids that she might go by "PJ" eventually, but Stephanie vetoed that idea. "Nellie" was also the name Penelope went by when she was newborn because Lex couldn't pronounce "Penelope" at the time.
Stephanie's pregnancy with Penelope was unplanned, and she discovered she was pregnant when Liam was only 4 months old. Penelope is the only child of the family that was born via cesarean section. Following her birth, Stephanie had postpartum pre-eclampsia and was treated for it.
At 17 months old she was diagnosed with severe autism. However, it was discovered that she had a severe vision issue. When she was 20 months old she was diagnosed with Strabismus. Later that month she underwent surgery to treat her Strabismus and correct her vision. Penelope's initial diagnosis of Autism was based on the evaluation done before they learned she had Strabismus when she couldn't see well. There is a possibility that because of Penelope's vision at the time, her level of autism was misdiagnosed. She is considered nonverbal as she has no receptive language, only babbles.
Kathleen: Stephanie's nanny for the children. She helps out with the children. SHe makes a few appearences in the vlogs but mostly is just talked about by Stephanie. She likely is not shown on the vlog a lot out of respect for her privacy.
OurLANDingCrew[]
OurLANDingCrew is a family vlog channel that centers around family life and autism. The family lived in Florida until 2020. In April 2020 the family moved to Colorado.
On April 2, 2019, the channel reached 100,000 subscribers. In September 2020, Stephanie announced that the channel was going to focus more solely on Autism awareness and information and that "lifestyle" and haul videos would henceforth be uploaded onto their second channel "LANDing Lifestyle". The family's second Youtube channel previous was used as "the kids channel" as well as the family's "gaming channel". The first video on that channel, since the rebranding of "LANDing Lifestyle", was uploaded on 24 August, 2020.
On 11 July, 2019 through a video, Stephanie announced that Noah, Liam and Lex were all diagnosed with Autism on the same day. While Noah was initially diagnosed with Autism back when he was about 4-5 years of age, he was re-evaluated and kept the diagnosis of Autism.
On 29 June, 2020 through an Instagram post, Stephanie revealed that Penelope was diagnosed with Level 3 Autism (aka "Severe" Autism) at 17 months old. Later that same day in a vlog, Stephanie revealed this to their Youtube viewers, as well as told Penelope's story up to that point. A few days later, Stephanie uploaded a video talking about the signs of Autism seen in Penelope, and also revealed that she had been showing "symptoms" of having Autism as young as 10 months of age.
In April 2021 Stephanie announced that she was not going to be posting videos on any schedule, as she felt like she was cracking under the pressure, as well as she wasn't enjoying being a YouTuber anymore because of the stress It brought. Her last "regular" livestream occurred t the beginning of July at the same time she announced she was going cold turkey off of social media, in particular Instagram, in order to explore what works for her, her personal identity (as she does not want "Youtuber" to be her main occupation nor her family's brand), and spend much needed time focusing on her family.
In May 2021, LANDingLifeStyle was deleted and Stephanie reuploaded the most relevant videos of that channel to the OurLANDingcrew. Stephanie also filmed a video in August to discuss her decision on what to do with the main channel. She revealed that while in July she felt completely done with Youtube altogether, she decided that she was still open to keeping the channel open however she was done with filming Autism informational videos as she felt that she had exhausted most of the topics that needed covering. She also revealed that the children will not be making regular appearances on the family channel anymore.
In another video posted in August 2021, Stephanie revealed that the family was moving forward with plans to buy land and build their own house.
OurLandingCrew "officially" returned to a somewhat regular but relaxed uploading schedule around October 2021. One video was uploaded during their abscence "The Toddler Nightmare EEG", as Stephanie had said she wouldn't officially quit youtube as she wanted to continue to educate people on autism. The video was about Liam going to the hospital for an EEG, but it failed as he ripped all the equipment off himself. In October 2021, Stephanie did a video revealing all why she left Youtube for while., titled "This Year BROKE Me (explaining it all)".
Stephanie also announced her new business "The Celtic's Brew". A business that sells crystals, and other products related to the modern witchcraft movement.
11, July 2022, Stephanie announced the family was no longer going to be building a house on their plot of land and in fact saying goodbye to it.
6 September, 2022, Stephanie announced Lonnie and she were legally separating after 18 years of marriage. She has vlogged her move out of the family home and into a new home with five out of six of the children. Lonnie Jr. had decided to remain with Lonnie Sr., and finish his schooling, with frequent visits to Stephanie's house. WIth moving out of the family home, Danielle has taken up helping Stephanie with the business.
On 15 November 2022, Stephanie informed fans that Lonnie Jr. had been hospitalised with bacterial pneumonia in both lungs. For the next few weeks she kept viewers up to date with his conditon, including when his condition worsened and he was put on a ventilator. Later on, as Lonnie began to get better, Stephanie revealed that the whole situation, while caused by complications of wisdom tooth extraction surgery, had occured due to an autoimmune disease that Lonnie unknowingly had and was triggered by the complications following the wisdom tooth extraction. Stephanie did reveal afterwards that this situation did prompt Lonnie Jr. to move in with her as he recovered, indefinitely.
On 10 December, 2022, Stephanie announced that she and Lonnie Sr. have decided to move forward with divorcing, however the two remain on good terms and plan on celebrating Christmas together with the children, as well as Lonnie Sr. planned to move out of the family home as well.
On livestream 11 December (the next day), Stephanie revealed that Lonnie Sr. was actually going to be temporarily moving in to Stephanie's new house, in order to work and save up some money, and planned on then moving into a new place with the intention of having a roommate.
December 2023 Lonnie Jr. underwent wisdom tooth extraction surgery, complications of which led him being diagnosed with Wegener's Granulomatosis with polyangiitis vasculitis. Stephanie made it clear to any viewer that was scared of wisdom tooth surgery by her son's story that the wisdom tooth surgery did NOT cause the disease. Complications from the surgery led to the "activation" of the disease, which he had always had, it had just gone undetected until then. What Lonnie experienced here is known as a "flare up" for this disease. From this flare up the disease damaged many of his organs including his lungs, kidneys and spleen (etc). All the organs healed with time, except the lungs. For months afterwards he struggled with lung function. He was soon diagnosed with end stage lung disease (meaning his lung function was severely compromised and the damage done to his lungs was irriversable). During the month of April he was evaluated for a lung transplant. He was put on the lung transplant list in May, and less than three days later a donor was found. On 18 May, 2023 Lonnie Jr. underwent transplant surgery and received a new pair of lungs from a donor.
Trivia[]
- Stephanie is a fan of another redhead YouTuber who has a family vlogging channel, Jess of JesssFam.
- She has been associated with other Youtubers who work to spread autism awareness, including FatheringAutism.
- Stephanie frequently mentions her best friend Ashley, who makes occasional appearances in videos and lives in Oklahoma.
- The youtube channel's name is technically OurL²AN²DingCrew, with a exponent of two above the "L" and above the "N", as "L" is for Lonnie (Jr) and Liam, "N" is for Noah and Nellie (Penelope). The family considered changing their logo to accommodate "P" for Penelope, but ultimately she was added to the logo using her nickname "Nellie", "N".
- Stephanie discusses the family's weekly schedule of therapies in a video where she reveals they have about 75 hours of therapies a week. A few weeks later she revealed in a video that they actually had over 100 hours of therapies a week.
- Most of the therapies that the children are in, are in "in-home therapies", meaning the therapists come to the house to work with the children.
- While on a tele-health call with a therapist for one of the other children, the therapist brought up with Stephanie that she noticed Nellie was "acting weird" leading her to be concerned about Nellie's vision.
- Noah and Lex are left-handed along with their father Lonnie Sr.
- Lonnie Sr. was in the military
- Stephanie filmed Danielle's reaction in a video where she surprised her daughter with a new IPhone 7 for her birthday.
- Stephanie and Danielle surprised Lonnie Jr. with a new IPhone Xr in a family vlog where they secretly went out and bought him and Stephanie new IPhone Xr's (due to a T-Mobile Special).
- Danielle is biracial, and the only one if the family who is.
- Many viewers assumed she was adopted before Stephanie made a video about it
- Stephanie has said she and her husband are completely fine if any of their children "came out" to them as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, and Danielle has already come out as bisexual.
- Danielle's Instagram use to be openly linked under the family vlog videos, in the description, as well Lonnie Jr.'s instagram account for viewers to follow. Lonnie has since deleted his account (or changed the username to an "unmarked" account), Danielle has changed her username and neither's username is linked in the descriptions of the family youtube videos anymore.
- On 16 April, 2020 OurLandingCrew announced the creation of Noah's Instagram account where he posts his photography. His username is @noaholc, and hs name on Instagram is "Noah Elijah".
- On 29 October, 2020, it was announced through a video that Liam's Special Needs bed had arrived after a long time of Stephanie and Lonnie wanting to get one for him.
- Before Penelope was born, during one of Stephanie's pregnancies that would end in miscarriage, Stephanie and Lonnie had settled on the girl's name "Eliana Jo" if the baby was a girl (but again this pregnancy ended in miscarriage). Penelope's name was inspired by a person Stephanie knew who's daughter was named Penelope and nicknamed "Penny", Stephanie ultimately settled on "Nellie" instead of "Penny" as a nickname though.
- The family has at least two Nintendo Switches. One of them is for the children, the other one Lonnie Sr. bought for Stephanie when she was recovering from post-partum pre-eclampsia.
- Almost all of the children have a TV in their bedroom, including the bedroom Liam and Nellie share.
- Stephanie has revealed that the family plans to buy land and build their own house
- off of that, she has revealed that she really wants to have several animals at their future house as it would be of great benefit to her children to have animals to be around
- In July 2021, it was revealed that Danielle got a new kitten named "Winter" (her old one was given to loving neighbors back in Florida before they moved to Colorado, as the neighbors' children had expressed burning desire to have a cat, and Stephanie did not want to stress the cat out with moving 'cross country)
- In earlier vlogs and videos, Stephanie mentions her good friend Ashley, who came to Penelope's sex reveal ultra sound. The two had a falling out in early 2021.
Subscriber Milestones[]
- 100,000 subscribers: April 2, 2019
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