We spent this past weekend up north to celebrate Mom's 60th Birthday and to visit with the Ruble's and their friends Derek, Nicole and Benny. Derek and Nicole live in Germany but are in the states visiting family and friends for 8 weeks as part of Nicole's maternity leave (they get up to 1 year off for the mom or 14 months to split between the parents - crazy awesome!)
Here are the boys playing together on the back of the pontoon boat.
Benny is just a few months younger than Jojo
and then Derek and Nicole relaxing on the boat!
Mom and Dad got Thomas a fishing pole for this weekend and it was a HUGE hit! He stood at the end of the pier for long stretches of time just casting away. You can see his "hook" on the end, still just a rubber weight to practice - but he didn't mind, or didn't realize he couldn't catch anything!
Maybe next time he will graduate to a hook - he definitely got the hang of it by the end of the weekend - no hooks in the back of the head for this kid!
Dad was fishing next to him some of the time and when he would hook something, he would pass it off to Thomas to reel it in. This was the first one. Thomas thought it was pretty cool, but also did his little kid "nervous giggle" which just cracks me up!
Ninja tubes! A few years ago one of the other families on the lake tied some tubes together and attempted to run across them --- the guys decided it was time to try it again. It was fun to watch (and I am guessing even more fun to do!). I got some great action shots!
While we made dinner, the boys introduced Derek to their brova brova club. They happily sit down at the lake and enjoy the free feeling of wearing a "traditional hawaiian wrap" :) Good thing Ed made Patrick a Wisconsin version for Christmas this past year - now they have an extra for buddies!
Lisa wanted to take Thomas tubing and at first he was all for it --- then, not so much. This picture cracks me up - you can see Lisa and Niki showing Thomas how much" fun" tubing is and then you can see Thomas running down the beach back to the safety of the pontoon boat!
Since I do not get to tube this summer - I am often on baby duty during ski hours - I do not mind!
Thomas did eventually go tubing and had a good time!
Each year when all of us our together we take a family photo on the back step of the cottage!
We had a great weekend :)
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