Gone Casting

Children have such a funny way of being honest ;)

Yesterday we went over to my Mom's to celebrate her birthday.  While we were there, Dad decided it would be fun to take Mom fishing.  So he got online and bought her a fishing license for her birthday present. 

Not long after, we were all on our way up the mountain to Bench's pond.  Jake and I didn't have licenses, but that was okay because Baby Girl kept us pretty occupied walking all over the dock.....she is super fast for a 9 month old.

Aunt Holly was chosen to share her pole with Little Man.  So the two of them would cast and reel, cast and reel.  Turns out Little Man is almost as good at casting as Aunt Holly ;).

Every time they would reel in the line, Little Man would get very excited to see what they caught.  If there was anything on the line, it was moss......which meant there were a lot of empty lines being pulled back in.

In reality, this was rather entertaining because Little Man would regularly declare, "You caught....Nothing."

Little Man would go down planks a bit to visit Grandma and Grandpa while they were fishing.  At one point, he noticed a dead fish and proceeded to tell Holly, "Don't catch the dead fish, Holly!"

Then he went back to watch her reel in another empty line, and repeated, "You caught... NOTHING."

After while, she got tired of catching "nothing" and walked down the dock and hooked the dead fish.  Before she could get it lowered back into the water, it fell off her hook and splashed her....guess that's what you get for not listening to a 3 year old about the finesse of fishing ;)

Baby Girl was getting cold, so Jake and I headed home before everyone else....but as of the time we left, everyone had "caught nothing."  So unfortunately, it looks like we won't be having fish for dinner this week.

But that's okay because at one point, I had teased Holly about not catching anything and she told me she was "casting" instead of fishing......it's like the difference between hunting and killing.   All in all, we had a good "Casting" trip and a nice drive up the mountain.