Erin and Ben Napier's Kids: Meet the HGTV Couple's Children

Erin Napier and Ben Napier are over the moon about their family of four! The HGTV couple expanded their brood when they welcomed their second daughter, Mae, in May 2021. The Home Town stars are also the proud parents of their first child, Helen.

“Mae,” Erin captioned the announcement post via Instagram, which included polaroid photos of the little bundle of joy. The couple also opened up to People about the newborn’s arrival, gushing, “While we are excited to have another daughter to love, we are more excited to see the bond she and Helen will have. They’re already so in love with each other!”

The Home Town stars announced their second pregnancy less than two months earlier in April. “We’re having another baby!” Erin and Ben told People. According to the duo, the longtime lovebirds — who married in 2008 — learned about their pregnancy while filming their HGTV series Home Town in Laurel, Mississippi, in September 2020. At the time, the two were also juggling their new show, Home Town Takeover, which they shot in Wetumpka, Alabama.

Considering Erin and Ben, as well as Helen, were traveling the country and filming while preparing for baby No. 2, their pregnancy with Mae was “all a blur,” Ben joked. “The last six months of 2020 really, you know, it was rough.”

Erin added, “We were like, ‘Ooh, this is going to be tough, but we can do it.’ We don’t remember anything, but I’m glad somebody was filming all of it.”

Following the announcement, Erin took to Instagram to marvel over the baby news. Though she said she was thrilled to be “adding another little face to [their] home videos and photo albums,” she was even happier to have kept her pregnancy out of the public.

“Just like Helen did, her little sister has made it easy to keep her secret by being tiny even now, and I’m deeply thankful that we’ve had almost eight months of keeping this our news just for our family and close friends,” she wrote earlier in April.

In her lengthy post, Erin recalled how she “put away the changing table supplies” after Helen — who arrived in 2018 — didn’t need them anymore. “I put it away in the guest room closet and then I cried because I thought how lonesome Helen must feel up there in her crib beside an empty room every night.”

The home renovation guru said she so badly “wanted” to give Helen a little sibling. “Someone to stand with her when we can’t someday,” she penned. “We are so thankful.” In December 2022, Erin took to Instagram to address speculation that she was pregnant with her third child after refusing to drink a cup of coffee during an episode of Home Town.

“Re: last night’s episode, I am not expecting, I just don’t drink coffee,” she wrote. “I will not be expecting. Y’all don’t have to Google thinking we are dropping cryptic hints. There are no hints. Our family is complete. It is weird and a bit rude to constantly speculate if a woman is pregnant.”

Scroll to meet Erin and Ben’s two adorable kids!

Helen Napier

Erin and Ben’s first daughter, Helen, was born on January 3, 2018. The couple announced the news the next day with a collage of pics of the family of three. “Helen,” Erin simply captioned the post with a red heart.

According to Erin, little Helen “showed up two weeks early,” she told HGTV at the time. “But I think it’s better that way because I got a great night’s sleep before rushing to the hospital. I know as we got closer to the big day, I would’ve been too anxious to sleep.”

The blonde beauty dished Helen also had “dark blonde hair,” which “surprised everyone” who was “betting on” Helen having “Ben’s red beard.”

Since welcoming Helen into their lives, she’s been featured on their HGTV series, as well as her mom and dad’s Instagrams. In February, Erin uploaded the cutest clip of Helen painting a green dinosaur. “When a Lyle coloring book doesn’t exist, we make one!” she captioned the post.

It seems Helen is a little artist as the soon-to-be mom of two also shared a snap of her daughter holding up another piece of art in December 2020. “Her latest work, commissioned by uncle Jesse and aunt Lauren,” Erin penned.

In addition to painting like a total pro at such a young age, Helen loves having dance parties with her family. Erin posted a video of Helen showing off her dancing skills as the pair baked cupcakes in July 2021. Fans of the HGTV couple were happy to see that Helen made a full recovery after breaking her tibia and fibula at the playground in January 2021.

Since becoming parents to two little girls, Erin and Ben have been marking their children’s major milestones with sweet Instagram photos. In August 2022, the pair shared that Helen had started school, something that made them equally emotional and proud to see her grow up right before their eyes.

“Helen requested bacon, bagels and croissants for the first day of school. So, I got her bagels and croissants from NYC and bacon from Keens,” the woodworker captioned a series of photos from the big day. “Then I cried more than anyone taking her to school.”

Mae Napier

Erin gave birth to her little girl on May 28, 2021. The Home Town Takeover stars told People their daughter was born weighing 7 pounds, 1 ounce, and was 19.5 inches long. Erin and Ben also dished her sweet moniker was inspired by the blonde beauty’s Aunt Mae.

Following Mae’s arrival, Erin revealed how thrilled Helen was to have a little sibling. Alongside a photo of the toddler holding Mae’s leg via her Instagram Stories, the TV personality wrote, “Helen got her nails done for the occasion of becoming a big sis.” There’s no doubt Helen is going to show Mae the ropes!
Erin shared a sweet Instagram update in August 2021 about how Mae was “cooing” and making “puppy sounds.” Just a few weeks prior, Erin shared some updates about Mae’s feeding and sleeping schedule. The mom of two offered some advice for other moms about feeding their newborns.

“Just a little encouragement for you mamas who weren’t able to breast-feed, like me,” she wrote alongside a photo holding Mae. “Don’t let anyone make you feel less than or belittled because of it.”