lucy goes fishing

saturday morning started with excitement and anticipation... the tackle box was organized, the brand new spiderman fishing pole was ready, and lucy and my husband were all set to go on their very first fishing adventure! 

we'd been talking about it all week - and when lucy woke up that morning, she announced in her full volume voice (the only volume she has) "MOMMY, I'M GOING TO GO FISHING FOR FISH TODAY!!!"

they left while corbin was still eating breakfast, so we met them at the park, after they were all ready set up and fishing... this is what i saw when we walked up on them - my first thought was, wow, how adorable is that??! immediately followed by, i wonder if i could convince them to get up and move a couple of feet over into the shade so the lighting won't be as harsh in the pictures...? after which i quickly realized it didn't matter to her, it didn't matter to him, and that it really shouldn't matter to me. 

but for the record, that bright sunny spot was a pain to work with. 

they apparently caught a fish right away, so by the time we had arrived, nothing was biting and she was getting a little tired of watching the bobber.
i'd already given up on the lighting situation, but there was no way i was going home without images of her catching a fish - so we came up with a plan... while i was distracting lucy, my husband took the caught fish out of the bucket, re-hooked it, put it back in the water, then called her over to say he needed her help reeling in another fish. 

she was so excited, and the look on her face was absolutely priceless... 

afterwards, she immediately looked into the bucket and wanted to know where the other fish was... we told her we could only have 1 fish in the bucket at a time.

little stinker.