Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher have one main goal for their children, 5-year-old Isaiah and 1-year-old Jacob: that they know that they are loved. The couple, who experienced three heartbreaking miscarriages between the birth of Isaiah and Jacob, center their lives around making sure their sons know that not only their parents love them, but that God loves them as well.
“You have this tiny person you’re just trying to keep alive in the beginning,” Carrie reflected, in the third part of their four-part I Am Second video series, God & Country. “Just to look at both of our boys, and fall more and more in love, every day. I still say to Mike all the time, ‘We have two kids.’ It’s mind-boggling. I feel very connected when we do have cuddles in the morning; when we’re all just waking up and have some morning cuddles before the chaos.”
Isaiah and Jacob might be young, but the parents are already instilling in them the importance of prayer throughout the day.
“Dinner table for us, a lot of times we try to be all together, and say your highs and lows with our son, Isaiah, and getting him talking,” Mike said.
“We always pray before meals and stuff like that. Isaiah will remind us, even if one of us is in the other room, hasn’t made our breakfast yet, he’s like, ‘Where’s mom? Where’s mom? I gotta have mom!’ so we can all be there together to pray,” Carrie continued. “A lot of times, I feel like because we have an open dialogue about God, he just says things. ‘Did you know? I have to love God, even more than you Mommy. I love God so much.’ I feel like he means it.
“I feel things are just rattling around in there, and you’re like, ‘What do you sit around thinking about all day?’ she added. “I feel like it’s such a normal part of our life, and that’s what I love, that he can just blurt out whatever.”
Mike realized last year that their hard work was at least starting to pay off, when they were on the road for Carrie’s headlining Cry Pretty Tour 360.
“One of my favorite moments as a dad is, [Isaiah] got a boo-boo, so I put my hand on him and prayed for him one day. ‘In Jesus’ name, please heal Isaiah and make him feel better,'” Mike recounted. “And sure enough, he wakes up the next day and he was feeling better. ‘Jesus healed me.’ It was kind of cool. Not two weeks later, we were on tour, and we were in Ottawa, and I was doing something with the bus, and I cut my finger. I was bleeding.
“Isaiah was there; he watched it all happen,” he observed. “He comes over, and he’s like, ‘Daddy, we need to pray.’ He’s just four, not even four and a half, and he comes over. His prayer was almost identical to my prayer. It was the coolest thing ever. For him to initiate it, to do it, it was the coolest moment.”
