Fishing with Grandpa...Again

Since Ethan has the day off of school he wanted to go fishing with Grandpa Oman. When the kids woke up, we had breakfast and then ran some errands on our way to Washington. Grandpa was ready for us when we got there and Grandma loaded up a bunch of snacks for the kids.

Courtney has been wearing Ethan's shoes lately and today was no exception. She was coordinated with the skirt and shirt, but lacked something with the shoes. I told her before we left that she was going to freeze, but she would not put on pants.



As we were driving to the little fishing pond by my parents house I noticed a really bad smell. When we got to the fishing spot the smell was really bad and it was awful. The wind was blowing and so each time we got a big gust we would almost fall over from the smell.



Grandpa got the fishing poles ready and the kids cast out. Courtney quickly bored of throwing it out and waiting for a fish to bite, so she sat by Grandma and ate snacks. But Ethan was determined to catch his limit of 2 fish. He is really good at casting and was getting bite after bite, but no fish would get hooked. After about 10 minutes of fishing in the cold wind, Grandpa cast the line for Ethan and that's when Ethan caught a fish! He doesn't count it because Grandpa did part of the process, but I think he should still get the credit.



By this time, Courtney was in the van trying to keep warm and out of the wind. Once in a while she would open the door to ask me to bring her another snack, but mostly she was content to sit in the van.



After another 10 minutes, Ethan hooked another fish and this one he counts as his because he did it all himself. I was happy and ready to go but Grandpa wanted to try for a few more and Ethan wasn't counting the first fish so he didn't have his limit yet. But I was cold!!



It only took a few more minutes and some strong gusts of awful smelling wind before Ethan decided that he was done. It was right then that Grandpa caught a fish. We tried to get Courtney to help him reel it in so she could say she caught a fish but she wouldn't do it. She told me that since she had touched that fishing pole previously that the fish Grandpa caught was really HER fish and that she just caught her first fish. (I think she is missing something in that logic.) So we were ready to go home and have Grandpa clean the fish for us. It was a fun outing!