Blake Shelton’s – Blake Shelton says his time with Gwen Stefani’s kids—especially Kingston and Zuma’s first taste of Tishomingo, Oklahoma—has become a kind of family ritual. In video and interviews, he looks back on the “past 10 years,” while also admitting the coming milestone
When Blake Shelton takes Kingston and Zuma out into Tishomingo, Okla., he doesn’t describe it like a vacation. He remembers it like a switch—kids stepping through a door and suddenly realizing they could keep going until they were too tired to quit.
He told how Kingston and Zuma’s first time on his and Gwen Stefani’s Oklahoma farm came with an awkward question that sounded familiar to any parent. “The two of them were like. ‘Well. what do we do now?’” Shelton said of Kingston and Zuma’s first taste of Tishomingo. Okla. He answered with a simple plan: “I go. ‘Go out that door and don’t come back till you’re too tired to go any further.’”.
What he loved most was how much imagination it required. “Well. they can’t even imagine just going down to the creek with a net or turning over rocks or getting on a buggy and driving around.” For him. it wasn’t just about keeping them busy. It was about watching the kids turn the outdoors into something they could make their own.
Shelton’s affection for those earlier days is still fresh. even as he and his wife look toward this year’s routines on the farm. In a March video. he said they’re planning “actual. real professional gardening. ” showing the season has already shifted from discovery to something more steady and grown-up.
Still, nostalgia finds its way into his voice. In an April 2024 conversation with Entertainment Tonight—just a month before Kingston’s 18th birthday—Shelton said he’d give anything for the pace to slow down. “If I could have a repeat of these past 10 years, [that] would be perfect.”
He then counted the calendar out loud, and the emotion sat right inside the math. “Next month, we’ve got an 18-year-old, which it blows my mind that already happened.” He added that another milestone is on the horizon: “And in a couple of years, we’ll have another 18-year-old.”
That future, he admitted, comes with an uncomfortable kind of silence. “And that’s…it’s gonna be a lot more alone time, which I’m not mad about that either.”
But it’s not a goodbye story. Shelton still has Apollo, giving the family a cushion of time before the house feels different. “But,” he continued, “we still have Apollo, so we have another almost 10 years before we can kick him out, so it should be a lot of fun.”
The thread through everything is clear: Shelton has found a way to make ordinary farm life feel like a family language—one that changes as the kids grow, the seasons turn, and the doorways get emptier.
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Wait so they just… let them leave and not come back? That seems kinda wild lol.
This is actually sweet but I don’t get the “professional gardening” thing like is he running a farm business now??
Kingston is 18 already?! I swear these celebs’ kids are always like 5. Also “don’t come back till you’re too tired” sounds like why I’m tired now as an adult.
lol the part where he says “keep going until they were too tired to quit” sounds like some hunting dad advice but with a creek and rocks. Not sure why ppl are acting like it’s deep? I mean it’s a farm, kids go out and they explore, right? I guess the whole Apollo thing makes it sound like they’re literally counting years like a lease or something. Anyway, congrats on the 18th bday coming up.