Fishing with Grandpa

Grandpa aka Papa took the kids fishing.   They have been asking when they get to go fishing for a while now.   Which was ironic because about the same time papa had considered taking them.  It took a while to finally get a date pinned down but we did it.
Telling the kids that they were going to go fishing and that we actually had a date only inflated their asking.  all of the time.  every day.  until we were at the pond.
Papa took us all to lunch and then to a local pond about 15 minutes away.
He started by showing them how to cast.

Once they got the hang of casting...which didn't take them very long. It was time to bait up and fish.

Cam was the first to catch a fish. He had the hotspot. Everyone rushed over to catch one and sure enough....Nathan and then Sydney (twice) The fish were little bitty 5 inchers...the hook was almost bigger than the fish, but that didn't take any of the excitement out of it.

They haven't stopped asking to go fishing since. We better hurry before Papa has to take them ice fishing.

A preview of Grandma's 90th birthday Celebration

 

                             

A lot of thoughtful planning went into making Grandma Argyle's 90th birthday a special one, and it showed. People traveled from across the state to see her.   It was too cold to have it in Grandma's beautiful yard but with a little extra effort, her kids managed to pull it off at her church without a hitch.  
She's an amazing person my grandma.  I guess that's why it doesn't surprise anyone that over 100 people came to wish her a Happy Birthday.  
I hope the weather is better on her 100th.  :)

It's good dead bugs don't move

Nateman came in with some dead bugs.....which is great because they won't move so we can really examine them.  We have a Kerr jar that the kids take out and catch stuff in.  We always check them out and then set them free.  Nate was cute and had the lid on the bottle...even though the spider and worm were dead :)  

I told Nate that we needed to REALLY look at those bad boys.  and out came the microscope.

dead worm

dead woodlouse spider

It's a little freaky, I won't lie.  Especially for a recovering arachnophobe.  but super cool to be able to see all of the details and little hairs.

Cameron came home (he's my microscope/telescope/all things science kid) and was begging me to, "come and see it's extractor mom"  the extractor is apparently the mouth part. :)   He looked at that thing on and off until dinner...which he ate while looking at it some more.   Surgeon.  Yip.  He'd make a great surgeon. Or maybe a forensic guy.