spring pictures

I did my annual spring photo shoot a week or two ago, when everything seemed to be in bloom at once.  Good thing, too, since everything also stopped blooming about the same time!  Esther at first was adamant that she was not going to wear a dress, but I bribed her with the prospect of putting on my makeup after we were done (I don't even wear makeup these days, but Esther found some old stuff in a drawer and has been bugging me to let her wear it).  Once the photo shoot started she was pretty good-natured, even when it dragged on and on due to me having forgotten to charge up the camera the day before, and to Daniel developing his own ideas about what we should photograph!

The weeping cherry:

Goofy Esther:

The daffodils:

Esther putting flowers in Mommy's hair:

The Bradford (I think) pear:

The forsythia:

The promised reward: