Fishing Frenzy

About a month ago our local park & rec threw an end of summer fish frenzy at a local duck park. They put hundreds of magnetic, plastic fish in a very nice, green algae filled stream & everyone had a ton of fun fishing them out.

At first, little Miss Independent wouldn't let us show her how to catch the fish.


Eventually she tolerated sitting in Daddy's lap, but he wasn't allowed to touch the fishing pole.


Elmo fishing.


Finally Daddy was allowed to help catch a couple fish.


After catching about 6 fish, we headed over to the touchable tide-pool. Here you can see Haley & I skeptically checking it out. And yes, I now know where she gets her furrowed eyebrows from.


She really enjoyed touching everything & wasn't grossed out or scared.


She even picked up this star fish.


And phew! She didn't even squish it.