Fishing

For as long as I can remember, Nate has talked about how much he loved fishing and getting to go with his grandpa.  His friend Mike has his own pole and has been taking Nate with him the last few weeks.  I finally broke down and let Nate buy his own pole and some gear.  We also found some cute little character fishing poles for the boys too.  I want them to be able to have memories of fishing with Nate and enjoy it like he does.  The first time they went fishing, they put their plastic fish on and just practiced casting and reeling in.  

 One of the next times they went, Nate took them to a little shallow creek and put hooks on their pole this time with some bits of corn.  They didn't catch any fish, but 2 different times, Merrick caught a pretty big crawdad.  Its a funny story though, because once Merrick realized he caught something, he was so excited, but when he reeled it in and realized it was a crawdad, he screamed so hard and put down his fishing pole because he was so scared of it.  He wasn't expecting this lobster looking thing, he wanted a fish.  I felt so bad for him and I held him and tried to convince him that it wasn't scary.  Poor kid.  They do love fishing with their Daddy though.