Sunday, July 02, 2006

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Well, today was Travis's 28th birthday. Being that he was the birthday boy and all, he got to choose what he wanted to do for the day. So, he decided to take us all fishing at Parker Lake. In the past, we haven't had much success trying to take Bree fishing, she gets tired and bored and we usually leave 10 minutes after we get our lines in the water. But, we had a great time today...

As soon as we got there Bree spotted some "chick-a-mucks" that she tried to chase down. Unsuccessful at that she started commenting about how it was "pretty dark out here, Mom." (We were walking along a shadowy path to the lake.) I tried to explain to her how it was actually just shadows from the trees but that's actually kind of hard to explain I found. (What? Well you try explaining the concept of shadows to a 2 year old!) Along the path there were patches of sun and shade and every time we stepped into a shady spot Bree would pipe in with a "pretty dark right here" and then after a moment she'd add "...shadows."

Finally we reached a good spot to fish from the bank. We all peeled off our shoes and waded in a bit. Bree helped out by doing the fish call "here fishy fishy" and it worked! I actually caught a little sunfish in the first 5 minutes. Brianna was really excited. I let her touch it and was trying to let her hold it to throw it back into the water when it extended out its little fins and poked her hand. She was quite traumatized by this and cried for quite a while..."I'm sad. I'm crying. Fish poke-a me! Pokey fish!" We finally managed to calm her down but by then she'd noticed she didn't have a fishing pole of her own. (Actually, she does have one, but we hadn't brought it since she's really shown no interest in using it in the past.) So, she was looking around going "Is that MY fishing pole? Where my fishing pole is?" Her daddy finally had to let her borrow his for awhile but in between all that he still managed to catch a decent sized bass.

We got home and had a quiet rest of the day. After dinner we had Travis's birthday cake and ice cream. At the sight of the cake Bree said "Yay! Party!"...but before that Brianna joined in singing "Happy Birthday" to her daddy like a pro. Then she wished him a happy birthday about 20 times...

It was a nice day. Hope it was a happy birthday Trav!

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