Fishing

We went fishing today at Lake Shannon (below Baker Lake, and less crowded). The girls had fun, and we actually traded out their large plastic weights for some lures. We thought we saw a couple of fish following them in, but no bites. We took sandwiches and had dinner in the boat. That's Mount Baker in the background.

Yesterday we went to a kid's art day at a park. The girls did hand prints, fish prints (with real dead fish!), spin art, paper flowers and rock critters. Of course, they liked playing on the jungle gym too!

Wednesday was a planned travel day for us. We and Sue and Carson (5) and Kendra and Evan (5) and Jesse(10) went to Anacortes. We played at Storvik park for a while - they've recently added this fantastic play structure. It has a stage, musical components, towers and bridges galore, monkey bars, a mock ferry - Sue said when she wins the lottery she'll build one for us to play on all the time. I got treated to a "I'm a little teapot" dance by Meghan on the stage. Then we went to Washington Park, which is on the point of the island, past where the ferries land. We had lunch there and the kids explored the beach, and the playground, and before we left we went to Sunset Beach (same park) to explore the beach and tide pools a little more. Meghan got so tired, she came to me and said "It's time to go home."

So it's been a busy week for us, but this week will be much quieter - no planned outings until speech therapy on Friday. Wed this week is craft day - we're making kites using bamboo skewers and table covers! I'm hoping at least the boys from last week come up. Meghan misses school so much! I'm almost done getting her school supplies for Sept, all I need is a box of tissues and a laminated family picture. I had to get 24 glue sticks! I'll be hitting thrift stores for school clothes - we don't have any more hand-me-downs for Meghan. She grows so fast!