Matt was going to the Lake cabin this past weekend. HE was going. No fair, I want to go too. So I did. I have a car. I can pack and drive and take care of the kids. I don't want to be stuck at home alone with them after a long winter. I vacuumed the house, packed, and was on the road at 11:15am. Where there is a will there is a way.
The cabin has this iron spiral stair case. Cool, right!? Sure, it takes up very little space and who doesn't want one of those? Yikes. Not the greatest. The older kids use them as a jungle gym and us adults just hit our heads on them on the way to the bathroom. Now, try carrying the luggage up...
So Lillian tried to climb them of course. This is what you get when you tell her no:
it's so hard not to laugh, or smile, or just let her do it. How can you resist?
Telling her she can't have something Maren or I are having doesn't go quite as well. It's a whine with a point and a yell and a scream and a cry if she doesn't get what she just pointed at. It is so much easier to just give it to her. Hence, her first piece of licorice:
We all managed to get some time on the lake. It's a big lake. It has its own weather systems. Opener proved to be very cold, very windy, and thankfully- partly sunny. With the weather back home I had long since put everyone's winter clothes away. Lesson learned, don't do that until after you've gone to the lake in May. Yes, I am wearing gloves. Good thing my hubby had some in his vehicle. I NEVER would have made it without them.
Almost a 20 incher.
We are just happy to be catching walleye. (We usually pull up sheep head)
To Maren the lake cabin means swimming. She asked me to pack her suit. I told the water would be real cold but she insisted. I did and then of course she insisted on wearing it and swimming in the lake. The best way for her to learn what I mean when I say the water is cold? Let her go in. There is always a hot shower waiting for her. She was so excited she ran all the way to the beach.
That is as far in as she went but she ran on the beach and played in the sand and would have continued to do so if I wasn't shivering in my sweatshirt (hood up) and tennies. I made her go in after we'd been out there for almost 15 minutes. Then, the hot shower. I can't believe she was out there so long!
Sunday was just that, sunny. It was a little less windy and a little warmer. The kids got to go on the boat to fish. Maren was pumped!
She was excited to catch a fish right away.
No one had the heart to tell her that it was her minnow.
He pole did catch two walleye. I wasn't on the boat so I don't know for sure who was at the other end and how much catching should actually be credited to her, but as her mom, I am sure she wrangled those fish like a champ.
Driving the boat:
She laid down in the front of the boat and fell asleep! She won't nap in her bed but she'll nap on a boat??!! Are you kidding me?
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