My Fishing Buddies

May 18th: The week before Mike had gone fishing with a friend.  Then the next week he took a different friend fishing.  Quinn had asked where his dad was and I explained to him he had gone fishing.  His response was, "Why didn't he take me?"  He kept asking that all day long.  Quinn had learned about fishing from books and television and decided that is something that he wants to try.  He was asking his dad to take him earlier in the week.

Right when Mike walked into the door he wanted to see the fish.  The friend that he went with actually had never gone fishing before she he wanted to measure the fish he had caught.  I handed the tape measure to Quinn.  He was so excited to see those fish.  He watched Mike gut the fish.  Paxton was quite intrigued too.  They were lucky pups to get to stay up so late!

The next day, Mike had asked Quinn if he wanted to go fishing.  He was so excited.  We had planned to go the kid's fishing pond but it wasn't opened for the season yet.  We had to find another spot.  We didn't plan to be gone for that long so we didn't pack a lunch.  We ended up being gone until past nap time.  Surprisingly the boys didn't complain about food.

Paxton liked having his own fishing pole.  Mike would cast it and Paxton loved to reel it in.  Paxton didn't understand why Mike was taking the pole away and so each time he would whine until he got it back.  He finally got he hang of it and understood the process.

Quinn tried to cast his pole himself but it wouldn't go very far.  I was worried about getting a hook in my eyebrow from him.  Mike taught him "safety first" and that helped.  We didn't catch anything and thought Quinn would be disappointed.  He wasn't.  He just liked being there.

I asked Quinn if he liked fishing and he said he wanted to do that again!  I asked Mike if he liked taking them and she responded that it was a little stressful.  He was worried about one of them falling into the water, hooking one another, or them getting hurt somehow.  He loved the time he spent with them.

I spent most of the time in the car feeding Kayzley and texting my friend.  By the time we had found our spot it was time for her to eat.  At the kid's fishing pond we got out and walked around. 

Since this experience, Mike has taken Quinn fishing a handful of times.  He enjoys it but I think the newness is starting to wear off.