I caught one!!!

Elijah fishing on our dock.

Micah and Elijah both love fishing, but Elijah is the boy who often begs to go fishing.  Tonight Elijah wanted to go fishing extremely bad, but Jason and I were both cleaning up from dinner.  He kept asking, if he could go fishing, but neither of us was available to watch him.  He has fished a few times with us and also with his Grandfathers. The last time Grandpa Lewis came to fish with the boys he encouraged Micah and Elijah to put their own worm on the hook and to remove the fish they caught from the hook.  They succeeded most of the time.  So, Jason and I decided to allow Elijah to fish off the dock while we finished cleaning up from dinner.(Just a side note: it is not over is head at the end of our dock, we could see him at all times, and he knows how to swim.)  Elijah was thrilled!  He took is pole down to the dock, put the worm on his hook, and in less than ten minutes we heard him yell "Mama, I caught one!"  Jason brought him a pair of needle nose pliers and Elijah successfully removed the fish and continued fishing.  I can hardly believe that my little boy is old enough to fish on his own.  He does such a good job.  He has his own methods to be sure that he does not get poked by the hook.  He usually sets the worm on the dock and then sticks the hook in it while it is laying on the dock.  That way the dock gets poked instead of Elijah.  How creative.

 

     Micah had a fun night as well, he discovered that one of his friends from school was putting their boat in at the boat launch and spent some time hanging around in our tree where he could say hello while they put their boat in.

Micah in the tree by the boat launch.

Meanwhile Madeline assisted with dinner clean up by "Mowing the deck."