The Winner Family: Erin's 1st Birthday

We celebrated Erin's first birthday a few weeks early at our house. We started the day off in the early afternoon with an Easter egg hunt for the Winner/Homan kids. Then had dinner with family for Erin's birthday. I concoured the ladybug cake and we gave Erin the chocolate covered head to eat. Suprisingly, she loved the black licorice, just like her Godmother, Aunt Tanya. Erin is vibrant and passionate. She laughs at the boys and loves to pet Aspen. She doesn't want anyone to help her hold books and she yells when noone is paying attention to her. She makes funny faces and always smiles when she sees her dad. We have been blessed to have her in our lives

We finished off the evening with a 6 hour trip to the ER for Andrew. He got a few staples to his scalp to close up a cut - after falling off the swing set. Susan was our escort and kept Andrew busy with the angry birds and talking hippo apps on her phone.

I was recently reading a book about bringing up boys. It mentioned that boys will try risky activities and even if they get hurt they just consider that just an episode of bad luck. So they will try again to see if their luck is better the next time. So true! Andrew went right back outside on the next nice day - he tied the jumprope to the swingset and climbed up the slide. Better luck this time.