Winnie's First(ish) Birthday

So Kevin and I decided to take a quick vacation together in Myrtle Beach together - just us - before he leaves in May, so we went to SC for a short jaunt and had my mom watch our girls. Unfortunately, we were not in town for Winnie's first birthday (I was kind of sad about this) so we've been dragging out the celebration for several days.

Her first experience with cake was a store bought one from Publix, which also makes me sad, but I made her her own chocolate homemade cupcakes once we got back home, so that's a little better. She did not have a discriminating palate, though, and wolfed down the Publix cake.







She especially liked the plate.



After we got home, we've been doing a bunch of house projects (like installing a storm door) and yard work (re-mulching all the beds and planting flowers), again to try to get a bunch done before Kevin leaves, so I finally got around to Winnie's 1-year-old photo today. Only 5 days late. Not too bad.





The weather has been nice, so the girls have really enjoyed playing outside. Eden and Winnie like to ride around in the pink Jeep and today they got stuck so Eden fixed their situation. They didn't know I was watching them and it was so cute to watch.

This is what I imagined Eden was thinking:

"Huh, we're stuck."


"I can fix this. I'll pull it backwards."


"Okay, I fixed the car. Now I must give Winnie some drink."


"Now some for me."


In between these shots, Winnie tried to get out of the car. Eden shoved her back in.


I loved seeing them play together. I could watch them forever. :)

P.S. Don't you love that Eden is wearing an apron? Lately, she's been mispronouncing it as "rape-on." Toddler-ease strikes again.