It's important to expose your children to nature. It's easy to do that in The Natural State. Arkansas boasts a roaring outdoor life (this article is in no way affiliated with the Arkansas Parks Department.) and a plethora of activities for the avid outdoorsman or even an over excited toddler spending time with his grandfather.
Today was the perfect day for fishing, if you're an adult. It was a little brisk for babies. However, the plan was to go fishing for the first time today, and we must not deviate from the plan. After loading up the car with provisions for every natural disaster ever known to take place and getting bait out of a vending machine, we set out for the lake.
I, myself did not have high expectations for this particular outing. In my mind, my son was grossed out by the worms, antsy and clumsy and fell in the water, while my daughter (who is a human garbage disposal) snacked on a few nice earthworms (they did come out of a vending machine) . So, getting a worm on a hook and the line in the water was already more than I had hoped for.
After about five minutes, he got his first bite. I know, five minutes! It takes me an hour to get anything! No luck, but the second bite was different.
I squealed and reached for the camera, taking many photos of exactly the same thing and of nothing of any consequence in my desire to document the entire occasion should anyone wish to relive it, the whole time, my son and my father were getting a fish out of the water and my daughter was thoroughly unamused. My son was beaming! Positively enraptured! Maybe the best moment of his whole life (all three years of it)!
"Caleb do you want to touch the fish?" we asked.
"Sure!" he said.
He put his hand on his wormy, squirmy rainbow trout and
"Eww!!! That's so gross! I gotta get out of here!" he said, and he ran away.
Someday when I touch my wormy, squirmy kids, I'm going to yell, "Eww!!! That's gross!! I gotta get out of here!" and run away...
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