Southern View: December 11, 2018
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Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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SOUTHERN VIEW<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Tireless triplets still an online sensation<br />
• By Sophie Cornish<br />
THE THREE bouncing babies<br />
who won hearts in a viral online<br />
video have now grown into<br />
tireless toddlers.<br />
The triplets, Macy, Sadie<br />
and Toby O’Leary will be<br />
17-months-old on Monday<br />
and their mother Sarah says<br />
they are adjusting to life as a big<br />
family.<br />
They are fraternal and<br />
were born less than a minute<br />
apart.<br />
Not long after their birth,<br />
a video of the red-headed<br />
trio taken by Hazel&Cass<br />
photographer Cassandra English<br />
went viral online.<br />
It has reached more than nine<br />
million views.<br />
Now, Mrs O’Leary says the<br />
triplets have all gained their<br />
individual personalities and<br />
quirks.<br />
“They are three very different<br />
toddlers.”<br />
Toby now has beach<br />
blonde hair, growing out of his<br />
ginger locks, unlike his two<br />
sisters.<br />
“He is very boisterous and<br />
loud. He’s more advanced than<br />
the other two in that he can<br />
walk. Now he can run around,<br />
he wants to play with the big<br />
boys. He’s definitely his father’s<br />
son,” said Mrs O’Leary.<br />
“Sadie is always wanting to<br />
dress up and wear goofy things<br />
on her head, she doesn’t mind<br />
putting on a show in front of<br />
everybody. But out of all three,<br />
she is the more clingy one, that<br />
needs the most attention. She’s<br />
the little one, but if she wants<br />
something, she will fight you for<br />
it.”<br />
“And Macy is the sweet,<br />
patient one. She will wait<br />
patiently for things and is<br />
cuddly, quiet and enjoys playing<br />
by herself.”<br />
Along with the triplets, Sarah<br />
and her husband Fionn are kept<br />
busy with two other boys, Olly,<br />
6, and Archy, who is almost<br />
three-years-old.<br />
The Hoon Hay family<br />
often get stopped in public by<br />
people asking questions about<br />
the large family, or just to admire<br />
then.<br />
“I get a lot of comments from<br />
people saying about how busy I<br />
must be. A lot of older ladies are<br />
amazed by the girls with their<br />
bright red hair and blue eyes.<br />
Even older men stop me to tell<br />
me stories about their family<br />
trees or a friend of a friend who<br />
had triplets.”<br />
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