Laravel 5 Nested models with parent relationship - laravel

Question

I am struggling with Laravel 5 nested models with a parent-child relationship. I manage to get the information i need but it takes 8 - 9 queries, and i believe that it should be doable with only 4.
The 3 tables look similar to this:
Article table
id | title | description | parent_id | user_id
-----------------------------------------------
1 | Some title | Awes. text | null | 1
2 | Child title | Super text | 1 | 2
3 | Child2title | Super text | 1 | 1
Comments table
id | article_id | user_id | comment
1 | 1 | 2 | Funny commment
And the Users table
id | name | ... | ...
And i have the following models defined:
Article model
class Article extends Model {
public function user()
{
return $this->hasOne('App\User', 'id', 'user_id')->select(array('id', 'name', 'points'));
}
public function comments()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Comment')->with('user');
}
public function children()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Article', 'parent_id', 'id')->with('user', 'comments')->select(array('id', 'parent_id', 'description', 'votes', 'updated_at', 'user_id'));
}
}
Comment model
class Comment extends Model {
public function user()
{
return $this->hasOne('App\User', 'id', 'user_id')->select(array('id', 'name', 'points'));
}
public function article()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Article');
}
}
User model
class User extends Model {
protected $table = 'users';
protected $fillable = ['name', 'email', 'password', 'points'];
protected $hidden = ['email', 'role', 'password', 'remember_token'];
}
Now I can get the parent article with user and comments (and users from comments) together with all the child articles with again the user that posted the article + all comments with users that posted the comments with the following query:
$article = Article::with('user', 'comments', 'children')->findOrFail(1);
But it results in 8 queries
select * from `articles` where `articles`.`id` = ? limit 1
select `id`, `name`, `points` from `users` where `users`.`id` in (?)
select * from `comments` where `comments`.`article_id` in (?)
select `id`, `name`, `points` from `users` where `users`.`id` in (?, ?, ?)
select `id`, `parent_id`, `description`, `votes`, `updated_at`, `user_id` from `articles` where `articles`.`parent_id` in (?)
select `id`, `name`, `points` from `users` where `users`.`id` in (?, ?, ?, ?)
select * from `comments` where `comments`.`article_id` in (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
select `id`, `name`, `points` from `users` where `users`.`id` in (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
I have tried many things but i keep getting 8 - 9 queries.
I feel like this should be doable with only 4 queries:
Get parent article
Get childs articles
Get comments
Get users
Am I missing something ?