Fishy Fishy in the Brook

We finally decided that Lola is old enough to experience that time honored tradition - fishing. She had received a fishing pole when she was only a few weeks old, and it has been sitting in the attic, patiently awaiting the day that she would be old enough to use it. The day was cool, and it looked like rain, but we had already told her the night before that we might go fishing, so there was no backing out. We went outside to dig up some worms, having to assure Lola that these worms were not her pet worms, but were special fishing worms.

We drove to the local kids fishing pond to find it completely silent. There were no other brave souls there that day, so we had it all to ourselves. We found a good spot and cast her line to the middle of the pond. After only a few minutes of patiently watching the bobber, she had a bite! Lola actually reeled the fish in pretty much by herself, and then decided that she wanted to net it at the shore. Between her and Daddy, they were able to get a very nice fish into our bucket! It only took an hour to get six fat fish for dinner. Lola did a great job reeling them in. Meanwhile, Rowan slept in the van awhile, and then tried multiple times to fall in the pond.

We took the fish to Gramma and Grampa's house to have for dinner later, and they were very yummy!

The rest of the weekend was great too. We took a quick trip to the "big city" to get some formula for our baby goats. The sun peeked out around noon, so we took the kids to the local park, where we met up with their uncle.


Lola gave her uncle a run for his money, running up and down the riverside.....



Rowan enjoyed climbing up and down the stairs, while Mommy tried to ignore the goose poop that he was inevitabley sitting in.

We then took the kids on the carousel for the first time. I don't remember the carousel being so fast! It had been years since I had ridden it, and it is the real deal, not like the hokey carousel at the local fair. Lola chose a horse on the outside, which meant that Mommy had to try to get the ring every time around. We never did get a gold one, but Lola loved it anyway! Wil stood next to Rowan on his horse, and reported later that Rowan absolutely loved the carousel.



What a big weekend! We all slept wonderfully into Monday morning, when it was back to the same old same old. With our busy lives, even the same old same old is an adventure!