The family took a trip to the zoo on a cold winter day. Surprisingly, the animals were very animated. It was probably the most active I’ve ever seen them.

Apparently Edie’s Barbie fishing pole is a pretty decent rod. Remember about a month ago when Edie reeled in a three pound catfish with her little pink pole? Well, when we saw this news story this weekend, the coincidence was uncanny. Click here. My favorite part is that the fish was actually LONGER than the fishing pole!

I am thinking we might start entering Edie into some fishing competitions with her little rod and hustling ‘em for all their worth! They’ll never see us coming!

We went to the lake this weekend in celebration of my father-in-law’s birthday. Edie had been before, but it has been a while. So the night before, I thought I would explain to her where we would be going the following day and all the potential for fun that we would have there. In hindsight, I probably should not have built it up that much because she woke me at 4:45 in the morning wanting to know if we could “go to the lake now.” I told Ken I was getting a glimpse of what Christmas morning was going to be like this year.

SEVERAL hours later, we loaded up in the van and headed north. She brought along her little Barbie fishing pole that her “Big Daddy” (aka. Ken’s dad) gave her the day she was born. It has patiently sat in the back of her closet waiting for the day that it would be unwrapped from it’s packaging and put to good use. Well, Sunday was that day.

As soon as we arrived, Edie insisted that we start fishing NOW, and Big Daddy appeased her by putting a hook and bobber on her new fishing pole. Ken, being the hunter of the family, was out in the yard catching crickets to sacrifice for our fishing entertainment.

It was only five minutes after Edie lost interest in fishing that we finally caught something. Ken let her have the honor of reeling in the catch. She was excited about it until she caught a glimpse of the three pound cat fish at the other end of the line. She immediately gave the pole back to her daddy and took off running. I’ve got to admit even I was a little repulsed at the eye budging going on, and then when that fish started groaning and croaking at us, it was time to throw him back. Who would have thought that little rincky-dink fishing pole could bring in a three pound fish? I guess Ken’s father was right when he said that fishing was just “in her blood.”

I am really behind in my posting lately, but as with everything in my life at the moment, I am playing catch up due to fifteen weeks of basically being a slacker. However, I am now happy to announce that I am properly medicated, and for the most part, feeling pretty good. Yea for drugs and a husband that encourages me to take them!

Back to the point-in catching up with my posting, I wanted to share a few pics of Edie playing at the Discovery Zone in Chattanooga. Several weeks ago Ken was out of town. So my friend and I decided to load up our minivan’s worth of kids and head north. Let me just take this moment to tell you how much I love Chattanooga. There are a bazillion different things to do with your kids-fish, trains, Rock City, and what we decided to patron, the Discovery Zone.

Edie had a blast there painting, pretending, and generally acting a fool. Well, except for the first fifteen minutes when we entered the place. As we walked through the door, I told her that if she was somewhere she could not see me, it meant certain doom would follow. Sometimes it is scary how well you know your kid. Depsite my threats, she took advantage of the two seconds I was distracted paying the cashier to take off and run away. Then I had to spend the next ten minutes frantically climbing the three story jungle gym.

In my heart of hearts I knew she was in there somewhere because I had only turned my back for a second, but in my irrational pregnant mommy brain, I just knew someone had seen how adorable she was and decided to keep her for their own. By the time I finally found her, I had worked  myself up into a pretty good frenzy and decided that she was going to pay for scaring her mommy like this and probably wish that somebody had, in fact, abducted her!

Well after that fiasco, Edie decided that it was in her best interest to behave and follow the rules, and a fun time was had by all. Here is another pic of her in the sand pit digging for dinosaur bones, and more importantly, obeying her mommy.