One funny story from tonight and then some catching up. We walked up to one our local parks tonight that has a climbing wall. It is probably about 9 feet tall and Madeleine has learned how to climb up it (which is great until she has to come back down!). She wanted to do it tonight and another girl who was probably about 7 started telling Madeleine and Jim that she didn't think Madeleine would be able to do it. Well, Madeleine showed her. The girl was impressed and asked Jim if Madeleine had taken lessons :) Jim's all ready to take her to a climbing gym now. It is something I have always wanted to do myself so I'm ready to go too!
Now for the catching up... In July, we headed to the lake with Jim's family. It was a fun week and we all enjoyed seeing Uncle Dave. Madeleine caught her first fish on the barbie rod! Both girls enjoyed swimming in an inflatable pool on the dock. At the end of the week Ann, Bart, Tanya and kids joined us. On Saturday, we started off for what we thought was going to be a short boat ride... we ended up spending most of the day on the water. It was definitely the most unprepared long boat ride with 5 kids but we had a fun a time. The ride back though was really rough in a ski boat with ocean size waves! Wish we would have had more time down there this summer.
Swimming off the back of the boat
Fishing on the dock
Madeleine reeling in her first fish... she knows you have to wait for the bobber to go under
This used to be a tree in our backyard
Hadley and Uncle Dave on the long boat ride... the camera was one of the few things we did have with us.
Swimming on the long boat ride... next time I will remember to wear my swimsuit when we set off for a "short" boat ride... it was really hot watching everybody else swim.
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