In the chaos that comes with watching four young children, Reece Scheer didn't hear the phone ring. A stay-at-home dad, his days are spent in a tangle of knobby limbs in a house where the television is more likely to be tuned to cartoons than the news. So he had no idea on Wednesday that, with a single decision, his world had just changed until he read a text message sent at 10:47 a.m.