Gone Fishing

The last few weeks have been busy for our little family. Besides normal everyday life and getting ready for the baby, Owen had Art Camp, we visited the Milwaukee County Zoo, had play dates with friends and we took Owen on his first fishing adventure.

Art Camp was a lot of fun this session. Owen was very excited that it was all about fish.  Besides the normal painting projects we made fishing lures and rods and a fish out of clay. One of Owen's favorite activities is when they have the trucks and cars out to paint with. He is able to drive the trucks through the paint then leave tracks on the paper. It is amazing that we get anything else done when the trucks are available. We get to take all of the art he created home, so over the course of the last year we have lots of Owen's art hanging up in the house. This time they created a book full of all of the artwork. It really turned out neat and was a great way to display/save his art without having it all over the house. Owen really enjoys looking at it.

Making his clay fish.

Creating the book cover for his art.

Loves driving those trucks and cars!

Finger painting is fun and messy....

"Flowers" by Owen. He is starting to tell me what he is painting.

Painting his fish on the last day.

We are trying to take Owen on some fun family adventures before the baby comes. Last weekend we gave him the option of either going to the State Fair or the Zoo. Currently, the Milwaukee Zoo has a great dinosaur exhibit so the zoo won out. We saw the dinosaurs three different times that day. I think that dinosaurs have surpassed tractors in the favorite toy department, but it is good that he is branching out some. Owen was also excited to see the hippo's, giraffe's, monkeys and seals. A highlight was when we were looking at the seals underwater and Owen spotted some "zoo poo" at the bottom of the pool. The things that humor a toddler....  We also rode on the zoo train which was a lot of fun.

Love those dinosaurs!

Riding the train.

Roar!!!

This weekend we decided to take Owen fishing. He had a great time picking out his fishing rod at the store and proceeded to try and go fishing in the house when we got home. An almost three year old with a fishing rod is a little dangerous to say the least! After dinner we took him to Woodlake and try our hand at fishing. Woodlake is a man-made lake that is about 1/2 mile from our house. It is located behind the Shops at Woodlake and they keep it stocked with fish. We have ventured there many times to eat ice cream and watch the ducks and geese but never have fished. Our adventure consisted of a few nibbles from fish, catching lots of lake weed and Owen throwing rocks and gravel into the lake. Even though we were not successful at catching any fish we had a great time and are looking forward to going again. Owen did a great job reeling in his line. Casting is another story....

First cast of the day!

I am sure that throwing rocks in the water didn't help... but Owen had fun!

We have been very lucky and the heat and humidity have all but disappeared. The highs have been in the 70's and we have been able to have the windows open again. It feels more like September than August. That does make us a little nervous, hope that doesn't mean that winter will come early this year! One of the many nice things about the cooler weather is that Owen and I have been able to go to the park more and spend a lot more time outside again.  I keep reminding myself that we are in the home stretch now.... three weeks from tomorrow and we get to meet the little one!