Halle's First Weekend at the Lake

Halle really enjoyed herself at the Lake this past weekend. She only stopped to eat and sleep. She learned lots of new things, went interesting places and Mommy learned that Vaseline will remove pinecone sap from a baby's hand.








Charlie! Look at this!

After I'm finished rock climbing, I think I will go for a canoe ride...

This pinecone is really, really sticky!!

Peek-a-boo Mommy!

This is how to relax at the cottage. A good nap or as Mommy says- 'reading'.

It's a battle of the wills with these two all the time. That ball was the last bit of dignity Charlie had left and he wasn't about to hand it over to the little theif herself!! ha ha

Wrestling with Dad

Okay, Grandma, this time, let's go around the cottage counter clockwise and watch the bumps.

When you're this 'cool' you don't really need a drink....

Please don't alert the humane society or PETA when you see what is happening in the following pictures. It wouldn't be a weekend at the cottage if there wasn't a Charlie incident to report. Besides the indeterminable number of dead/slightly dead mice that Charlie consumed and an undisclosed amount of other vermon he injested on one of his forays into the woods, Charlie found part(s) of a Jack fish (Northern Pike). Before anyone gets upset, fishing season had opened already. Alan noticed that Chuck had something in his mouth and when he realized what it was he got a little nervous about taking it out of The Beast's jaws. Dogpa aka Grandpa had an idea. He went (this is the part that shouldn't be repeated) in the house and got a plastic bag and put it over Charlie's snout which basically meant he was suffocating the dog. Well, it worked. Lack of oxygen will cause a carrion loving canine to drop it's treasure. The best part was, no one needed to touch the rotting fish.