Gone Fishin'

Yesterday afternoon we took advantage of the cooler weather (it was only in the low 90's) and took Reed over to Nonna and Pepe's house to go fishing in their pond. Tio and Pepe have been talking about this for months, but we've all been so busy we haven't been able to make it work. After getting off to a bit of a rough start - tangled lines, a swarm of bees, lost bait etc. everyone started to catch fish. We weren't sure how Reed would react to it all, but we explained ahead of time about the equipment and then that we were trying to catch a fish to say hi and then we would say goodbye and let him go back in the pond so he could swim again. Once the fish started coming in Reed thought it was a lot of fun, would run over and say "hi" and then "goodbyes sish" (he can't quite make the "f" sound), and seemed to really like the whole thing. I do think his favorite part was having Nonna give him water out of a water bottle, but we'll still count fishing as a definite win!!!

Dad had to step in when it
looked like Reed was going to take
Pepe's suggestion to kiss a fish