Fishing Derby

Last Friday night was the town's Fishing Derby. Chris was thrilled that he was around to go. Charlotte was excited too although she wasn't really showing it at first. 

We went and signed Charlotte up and Caroline booked it towards the swings, except there weren't any toddler swings, just big kid swings, so Chris improvised. Charlotte was thrilled when she saw her best buddy Teddy and his family there too!

We made our way to the pond. Caroline thought it looked like fun to go swimming.

 Charlotte got her worm out and ready to go. We had to tell her that fishing worms, and worms we have at home are two different things so she wouldn't feel bad feeding him to the fish!

 Caroline wouldn't stay out of trouble so I tried to entice her with some snacks in the stroller. That only lasted about 2 minutes before out of desperation I took her over to Colette and Jerry's for a bit where she proceeded to scream for them. Sorry Colette and Jerry....

 Charlotte enjoyed fishing with Chris for a while, then she decided that she needed to find Teddy.

 Since there weren't any fish biting, they sent off to find Teddy's family.

Charlotte was much happier, even though they were on the complete wrong side of the pond for catching fish.

 After about 15 minutes of fishing, Charlotte and Teddy gave up and decided running in the grass was much more fun.

 Then Teddy's mom caught a fish. Charlotte and Teddy were very excited.

 Charlotte didn't even hesitate to touch it at first.

 Once it started flopping around she started acting a bit girly...

But she still touched it, very carefully with one finger!

 They threw the fish back since it was the wrong kind for the derby and then they set off playing Lions, blowing dandelion flowers and running all over the place!

Is it any wonder they both had ticks on them at the end of the night? Charlotte was a little grumpy at the fact that she didn't catch a fish, but was pleased with her fishing goody bag. We went to pick up Caroline and then headed home after a fun evening!