News : Leaplings will be Celebrating their Quadrennial Birthdays Today!

Michelle Erickson officially turned 11 this year!

Gia, 3 and Owen, 2 Birker are celebrating their Leap Year birthdays

For some of us, we WISH we didn't have a birthday every year which reminds us of how old we are. But for those having a Leap Year Birthday is a big deal to get to celebrate ON your birthday.

She was only four years old when she graduated from Washington High School in 1998. She also learned to drive and wanted a car for her birthday. 

On her seventh birthday, she celebrated with a Spongebob Squarepants theme. 

When she celebrated her 10th birthday, she was part of the Mary Kay company and was working toward her third pink Cadillac. 

At 11 years old, Michelle Erickson. has accomplished a lot. Since her last birthday, she's become a realtor and works for the McAbee Real Estate Team for Century 21 Signature Real Estate. Not bad for an 11-year-old "kid!" "I absolutely love my career change! Helping people navigate possibly the largest asset they will ever purchase is exciting and very rewarding, Getting to know each client and building relationships with them is truly amazing," she said.

For Michelle, she said that her birthdays have always been special and "celebrated above and beyond the ones in between!"

The word for something that happens every four years is "quadrennial," and that is just how Michelle has been celebrating her birthday. Born on February 29, the big day has always been a great celebration for Michelle. 

Tomorrow, to mark her big day, she will be at the office training with some of her favorite people she said. The rest of the day will be spent with her family and there will be more celebrating on Sunday, she said. 

In the Birker house, Jeff and Leah, get to celebrate their two quadrennial birthday babies who turn two and three today. Their official two year old, Owen, was very specific in his wishes. He got to go to the Fun Station and wanted a chicken leg from Walmart and he wanted to go where every kid his age wants to go, McDonalds.

Gia turns three officially this year, and her choices are to eat at Granite City and then go to the Trampoline Park. 

"Happy Birthday" to all of our Leap Year babies!