All in one day!

A few weeks ago, we drove south and arrived at the Meeksarosa around dinner time. We were super excited to be here and immediately got settled. Thursday night, after a long a difficult bed time with Levi, I headed into town to see my dad play a show with Derek Webb. They have been touring together this spring and Thursday's show was the last in the tour. It was great to see them play and play together. 

On Friday, I checked in on Amos' very very loose tooth. I tried to pull it out and failed, so I told him to pull it. He tried a few times and then was successful! It was an awesome moment! He was so excited and proud and in that instant, made the jump from little boy to bigger (little) boy! I was so proud of him that he tried something difficult and potentially painful but it didn't really hurt and he was just really excited.

Later that day, he got swinging all by himself and was able to go really high. And after dinner, he went up to the pond with GrrDada, Dan and Elijah and they went fishing together. Soon after getting up there, Amos caught a small-mouth bass. Then a few minutes later, he thought he had caught his hook on something in the pond, but it turned out that he had hooked a catfish that was pretty big! Dad measured it and it was nearly 22 inches long! Amos was beside himself with excitement that he had caught such a big fish. We thought he had caught "The General," until Dan reeled in a 24 inch catfish minutes later! Uncle Jesse was very surprised to learn that there were two Generals in the pond! 

It seems that Amos has grown up so much in the past few days. He's definitely almost 7, with less than a month until his birthday!