Raising Triplets (40 images)

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Katelyn, Nathan, and Marianne were born on May 6, 2010 to the parents of Matthew and Sarah Hutchison in Akron, Ohio. Already having a five-year-old son, Benjamin, Sarah quit her job to raise the children. Matthew supports the family working as a Content Portfolio Manager for Ernst & Young. At the time of the triplets' birth, the Hutchisons were in the process of moving into their new home and Matthew was finishing his master's degree in business.

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  • Marianne was born cross-eyed, but will have corrective surgery. Although the youngest of her triplet siblings, she was the first to crawl and speak.

  • Sarah feeds Nathan, left, and Katelyn, right, while keeping Marianne entertained. Sarah claims keeping all three happy at once tends to be a challenge.

  • Benjamin, 5, feeds his little brother Nathan to help out his parents. Their father Matthew said, "Benjamin has become so helpful we sometimes ask him not to help. We want to make sure he gets to play like a kid should."

  • At the dinner table Sarah tries to calm down Nathan while Matthew entertains Marianne. This is a typical evening dinner for the family.

  • Matthew holds Marianne out away from him while they travel to the living room for a diaper change. With most of his day spent away from the house at work, he helps as much as he can once he's home.

  • Matthew carries Marianne and Katelyn in their church parking lot as Sarah follows behind with Benjamin and Nathan. Devoted Catholics, they attend church every Sunday and Matthew also teaches Sunday school.

  • Connie Bowen, left, smiles as Kimberly Davis, right, waves to Nathan and Katelyn at the local Acme grocery store. Sarah says it is difficult to go anywhere without someone stopping to ask about her triplets.

  • Sarah and Marianne make each other smile during bath time while Benjamin finds his own entertainment.

  • Sarah wakes up Nathan, left, and Marianne, right, at 6:30 in the morning to begin their day. Benjamin watches from the hallway before getting ready for school.

  • After putting the triplets down for a nap, Sarah and Matthew find time to rest. Benjamin uses this quiet time to play his Wii without any distractions.

  • Marianne slurps up a pasta noddle before going to the emergency room to have five stitches placed above her eye. While playing, Nathan pushed Marianne off the back of the couch, where she landed head first on the hardwood floor. With dinner ready and knowing they'd have to wait several hours at the hospital, Sarah decided to have Marianne eat before leaving.

  • While Sarah is at the hospital with Marianne, Matthew bathes Katelyn and Nathan before putting them to bed.

  • Marianne plays on a swing in her backyard. She keeps a tight grip on a collection of dandelions, which she picks every day.

  • Benjamin plays on the monkey bars in his backyard during a party for him. Earlier that day he had his First Communion at St. Francis de Sales, the same church where Matthew had his First Communion.

  • Nathan comes out of the triplets' toy house in the back yard.

  • Marianne holds an earthworm she found in the flowerbed on the side of the house. The triplets love finding and holding various types of animals, including earthworms, pill bugs, and ants.

  • Jim Gay, a student teacher, explains polymers to Benjamin during his school's science day. Benjamin attends St. Francis de Sales Catholic School.

  • Despite his busy life, Matthew makes time to volunteer as head coach for Benjamin's soccer team. Here he leads the team in a set of push-ups as part of their physical conditioning.

  • After coaching Benjamin's soccer practice, Matthew mows the lawn in the late evening because it's the only chance he'll have before Benjamin's First Communion party on Saturday.

  • Mathew speaks with Jimena Romera from Buenos Aires during a monthly team conference call. Working for Ernst & Young, Mathew is able to work from home giving him more time to spend with this family and to help out around the house.

  • While Matthew works full time to bring in an income, Sarah's full time job is to take care of and raise the triplets, including making them eat when they're being stubborn.

  • Sarah helps Katelyn blow her nose early in the morning. Sarah is usually awake before 6:30 with the triplets and doesn't typically make it to bed until after 10:30.

  • Katelyn dives off of the ottoman onto a beanbag chair in the living room. Even though Benjamin claims he sprained his ankle, he follows Katelyn's lead.

  • Nathan and Marianne stare out the front window of their home while watching workers cut down tree branches hanging over power lines.

  • Benjamin, a defender, prepares to stop his opponent's attack.

  • Matthew celebrates with his team after their victorious soccer game.

  • Matthew and Benjamin playfully wrestle on the living room floor. As a former Marine, Matthew wants his son to grow up to be tough.

  • During a party for her third birthday, Marianne places black olives on her fingers while her great-grandfather, James Case, watches from a distance.

  • On her third birthday, Katelyn tears open a present while her mom, center, and grandmother, left, try to keep everything organized.

  • Sarah's mom, Debbie Hyatt, holds Katelyn at the Cleveland Zoo as they watch giraffes grazing in a field.

  • Benjamin rereads the instruction manual to his Pokémon game while his pet rat, Trixie, hangs out on his shoulder. Part of his parents' agreement to him having a pet is taking care of it, including letting her out of her cage daily.

  • Sarah reads to Benjamin before bedtime, something she has been doing ever since he was an infant.

  • Nathan looks through the book There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly before going to bed. Every night Sarah lets the triplets choose three books each to flip through.

  • Katelyn blows bubbles in the backyard. The bubbles were a present for her third birthday.

  • Marianne peeks into her toy house in the back yard. Quieter than her triplet siblings, she mostly keeps to herself.

  • Sarah blows bubbles with Nathan and Katelyn in the back yard while their dog, Max, waits to catch the bubbles in his mouth. Sarah takes the triplets outside to play almost every day.

  • Nathan shows his disappointment of not being able to play on the swings occupied by his triplet siblings. Regardless to the large amount of toys the children have, as with many siblings, they tend to want what someone else is playing with.

  • Matthew, Sarah, and Nathan take a short afternoon nap while the triplets sleep.

  • Katelyn looks at shapes in a book before going to bed. For having just turned three, she knows many shapes for her age, including an octagon.

  • As a strong Catholic, Sarah prays with Nathan before bed, as she does with all of her children.