Wedding Photography in Holland Michigan MI, plus lots of Winfield and Harriet
My mother asked me for a family photo. The last shot that we’ve taken together as a whole unit was the day that Dale was born. Yeah, it’s been a while. So we quickly brushed our hair after dinner, called the neighbor over for a 10 second photo shoot. We got one with everyone looking AND smiling!! Our family of 6 :-)
Harriet was in her room quietly working on something. She burst out, very excited to share what she had made. This is her report. Really I have no words for how amazing (and wealthy) Harriet is.
12 Dollars
7 Two dollar bills
17 Jewels
1 four dollar bill
2 M (million)
1 h (hundred)
3 th (thousand)
25 coins
And her thoughts on her wealth.
WOW! I’m impressed! That’s a great feeling!
Many of you know that we’ve been trying for a 4th little Henderson for a while now. We are excited to announce that we have another little bumpkin on the way in November. We found out last week, so we are really early in the pregnancy.
Here’s a video of us telling the kids. After you watch it you might question our judgement to add more craziness to our table.
that’s awesome news! so happy for you guys!
Yay! Happy for you all!!
Haha… Yep, loved the video. Laughed out loud at the “when mommy pees in the little paper..” part :)
Dale is killing me with her earnest little face! Goodness.
Oh yay! So so so excited for Henderson baby number four!!!!
Congrats to all
Yay for you all! Congratulations!
Yay! Congratulations! Win is so patient with the girls! Darling video!
seriously…just watched this again. Dale at 2:19….slays me.
Precious! Congrats guys :)
this is the sweetest thing ever. your babies are precious, and a new addition will be so welcomed (and I’m sure, hugged much! haha).
Winfield is SEVEN! Our little baby is seven years old. I still remember how small he was. We called him “The Chomp.” He didn’t like to sleep as an infant and still doesn’t. When he learned how to talk one of his first phrases was “wass dah?” (what’s that). He’d just point at things and say, “wass dah?” Non-stop. On Saturday he and Jared were at a Chess tournament and win was really excited to se them draw the names for the raffle. They announced that they would be drawing the names in 60 seconds. Win turned to Jared and said, “Dad, while we wait can you tell all about World War I and how it started and then all about World War II and how it started?” I think that that is just the 7-year-old version of “wass dah?
So the kids usually plan their birthday cakes several years in advance. They often tell me what the next 3 or 4 cakes they want are. I can’t even tell you how much this intimidates me. birthday cakes are not my thang. If I could skip them I would. But really, I can’t have my kids going around school telling their friends and teachers that their mom won’t bake a cake for them. I do very little out of fear of what others might think, it’s just not my personality. But birthday cake making is purely to prevent the public humiliation that it would be to fail in this department.
This year’s selection was Ninjago. He requested blue, but since I didn’t want to use food coloring because I’m a Enneagram 1 I asked him if he wanted light baby blue, or a better green that I could make from spinach. Green was his choice.
My best effort, the frosting was a bit runny and looked like a skirt. But oh well.
The neighbors came over bearing gifts.Of course Josh presented an amazing Lego creating the surpasses anything I could design given a year to concentrate on it.Harriet mixed some grapes, walnuts, and almonds in a bowl and wrapped it in a piece of construction paper.Win started eating it immediately.And from us, EPIC DRAGON BATTLE!!!!!!!! He’s been drooling over this for nearly a year. It’s atop shelf Lego set. Since he only gets one thing, and since it was on clearance, Win scored big, like 954 pieces big.CAKE!!!!!!
ridiculous. no front teeth, hattie’s expressions, dales giant smile. ridiculous. I can’t wait till summer when I can hang with these goobers. They are lucky to have a mom who can make such a rad cake that isn’t full of junk!
Last month Jared turned 34. Last year, on his 33rd birthday, he said that he was “officially in his mid-thirties.” I argued with him. But 34 is officially mid. For Jared’s birthday I tried to make him a cake. I used to be really good at cake making, well decent at least. Then someone took my gluten away and I it’s never really been the same. This attempt might go down as my biggest cake failure ever. It, as you can see, had the consistency of firm tar. Now, I do like fudgey things, but this was nasty oily fudge goo with the name cake attached to it but not resembling cake at all.
On Jared’s birthday evening the kids were playing outside, building snow forts and sledding until blood was shed. We always have a hard time calling them in when they are playing hard and giggling. So we didn’t. Then the babysitter showed up and the cake had not been presented to Jared yet. We told her to go ahead and serve it when the kids came in, we were going out to eat.
Step 1–serve half the “cake”
The next morning we decided that birthday cakes just need candles and a song.
Step 2–Stab the remaining “cake” with candles as if it were a voodoo doll.
Step 3–FIRE!LOTS OF FIRE!!!Step 4–everybody blow it out.A birthday cake for the ages.
This is how we roll.
Dale has a habit that is too cute to resist. Several times a day she climbs into our bed, wiggles under the covers and waits like a skilled predator. Then when someone passes by our bedroom door she strikes, with 100% accuracy. Her prey always falls. She does it by yelling, “DO YOU WANT TO SNUGGLE WITH ME?!?!” She has yet to be denied. ”Snuggling” means to lay in bed with her, under the covers (that is very important) and to read books to her. Her stamina for books in incredible. To be honest I can’t remember a time that she ended our book reading session, and Jared and I have tested her limits. I’m talking reading to her for nearly 2 hours and she still asks for more. Naturally this isn’t too common that she gets to read and read and read. But this morning she celebrated Jared’s birthday by asking first thing in the morning “Do you want to snuggle with me?” in her amazingly cute 2-year-old voice. Happy Birthday! Really can it get better?
That’s too cute!! Love it!!
adorbs
Anonymous - Awww..that is such a cute family! God bless you all!
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