Flashback Friday

Hunter and Grandpa

Labor Day 2008

Hunter and Grandpa

August 2010

Cottage Fun!

We have been lucky enough to enjoy a few nice weekends at my Grandparents cottage so far this summer and we have enjoyed every minute of it! Hunter loves loves loves being with Grandpa and Grandma Holkeboer and to be able to spend the night with them is almost too much excitement for him! When I was around 10 or so my grandpa built a loft bedroom for me at the cottage. Hunter thinks this room is the great thing ever. He loves being able to climb the latter and he must tell everyone that he gets to sleep way up high!

Memorial Day weekend he got to do some blue gill fishing with Grandpa Abby, Uncle Mike, and Daddy. Hunter's spiderman fishing pole proved to catch the most fish time and time again!

And of course my parents and grandparents are Detroit Tigers fans so the weekends would not be complete with out a little baseball.

I think they are discussing who to splash next!

Me and You going Fishing

Hunter is growing up way to fast and we are constantly amazed at the new things he can do and the wacky ideas he comes up with. One of his first this past week was being able to go fishing with Dad all by himself! Chase told him in the morning before we left for the sitters that they were going fishing in the boat. Hunter who doesn't understand time was very very upset when I put him in my car without a fishing pole or a life jacket to go to the sitters. He was sure that he was going fishing now! Of course me being forgetful as always forgot to pack his blanket. So I dropped him off with must protesting and went to retrieve the blanket. When I came back with the blanket you should have seen his face light up! The first words out of his mouth were "OH MOM FISHING TIME NOW!" I hated being the bad guy and telling him no Mom needs to go to work and so does Dad we can go fishing after nap time. Once more I had to leave him in a puddle of tears. But in the end it was worth it because when I finally did pick him up at 5:30 he still remembered that he was going fishing! As soon as I got him out of the car he grabbed his life jacket and pole and waited right next to the boat. Forget eating dinner he was going fishing. He was so excited he refused to take his life jacket off to be put in the car seat.

The boys had a blast together! They had a few moments of panic when Hunter sat on the gas line and disconnected it so the boat wouldn't start. I received a panic call from dad "Were a mile out in Lake Michigan I can't get my boat to start... oh $hit I need to go ,Hunter no, don't throw that" end of call. I should have been worried but I laughed instead they would figure it out. And they did. They didn't catch any fish but the memories are priceless. Clearly someone had a good time.

Now Daddy thinks he needs a bigger boat so its "safer" for the two of them. Hmm....