Rachel Henderson Photography Blog » Wedding Photography in Holland Michigan MI, plus lots of Winfield and Harriet

We’re spending an awesome week at the cabin. Weather has been perfect, we spent two hours tonight swimming in the lake an celebrated Hatties birthday with a puppy-dog ice cream cake from a DQ. More pictures when we’re back in civilization.

Yesterday, we paraded over to the mall and pierced Harriet’s ears.  I’d been looking forward to this ever since we found out that we were having a girl.  She looks so cute with her sparkly little fake diamond studs!  In Elle Woods fashion I want my daughter to grow up knowing that being a girl and being intelligent are in no way mutually exclusive.  I want her to know that enjoying pretty things is no more shallow that scorning them.  She did such a good job!  She cried, but only for a couple of minutes.  We had a bottle ready for her right away.  She sat and cuddled with Jared while drinking her bottle and calming down.

Here she getting prepped.  She held her tongue out the whole time.

It took her a long time to pick out which earrings she wanted.

The betrayal .

So pretty!

Win loves to do everything that we do.  He especially likes to clean.  The other day he pulled his stool up to the sink while I was cleaning the kitchen.

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…I hand the camera to Jared and tell him to take a couple pictures of me. I want my kids to know that they had a mother. We were hanging out in the backyard last night when the moment struck. I got the camera, handed it to Jared and told him to grab some shots of me with the kids. Here are some of my favorites.

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On Saturday my brother, Jed, was able to squeeze in a short visit while traveling through West Michigan.  Jed lives in California with his wife, Sara, and their 2 daughters, Esther and Bea.  It was a special treat as we don’t get to visit very often.  Win had a blast jumping, wiggling and otherwise showing off for his uncle.  As a father of a 2 year old, he knew just how to push Win’s wiggle buttons.  He had Win laughing and running all over the place.  Win’s been talking about yesterday’s visit from Jed all day today.

This visit was Harriet and Jed’s first meeting.  She approved of him and has decided to accept him as her uncle.

Win’s been playing with my hairbrush a lot lately. We keep telling him that he’s still a little young for a combover. He doesn’t listen.