These two are the cutest. While they are most definitely best friends, and the best sisters they often times could not be more opposite. As soon as the car stopped Ave grabbed her hat and pole and was headed out into the grass to find her spot, which of course was so close to the edge she about went into the water. Deke showed her once how to cast her line and of course that was all it took and she had it down. She settled into her red chair grinning, and started to wait for a bite.
Emma however was a different story. She had no interest in fishing. None. She didn't want to wear the hat, it "looked like a boy and it made her sweaty." We found a shady spot under a tree to sit and she noticed a whole bunch of flowers. "Hey mom, I know! Let's make flower crowns!!" she said suddenly excited about this new prospect.
So off we went picking flowers, twisting and knotting them together to make a flower crown. I used a couple bobby pins to secure it in her hair and she was giggling. A few minutes later Deke and the kids came by asking her to join them. "No, I don't want to fish, I am just going to make flower crowns with mom" she said. All afternoon I watched as Avery moved her red chair up and down the bank trying out different fishing spots. She was loving it. Meanwhile all afternoon everyone continued to attempt to convince Em to try it out and she just wasn't having it. She was however loving her crown.
Soon it had turned into a full imaginative play scenario. She was the queen of the land of flowers were fairies lived. Hudson was her son, I was her sister and we lived in a giant tree that was actually a magical castle. She gathered leaves and grass and made us dinner, used piles of grass to make us beds...
She found a long stick and told us it was her magic stick that made any kind of flowers grow in her kingdom. I'm not going to lie she had me definitely not worrying about fishing anymore and instead deep in pretend play with her and Hudson. I couldn't help but smile as I watched her, she is such a girly girl. Stepping into the role of royalty definitely comes far too natural for this girl :) :) I love the way she plays pretend she has such a big imagination.
Soon the fishing was winding down and Emma still had not yet tried at all. Leave it to Avery to finally convince her to try if Ave would help her. I looked over to see Avery lugging the pole, the chair and supplies over to a spot as Emma wrinkled up her nose and commented about her shoes getting muddy. Oh my. I sat and watched as Avery got her all situated in a chair, then cast the line for her and showed her how to hold it. Her braid hanging down the side looking ridiculously cute in her camo hat, with the maturity of a ten year old teaching her sister what to do.
She talked with Emma about feeling for a tug on the pole, how to reel it in and told her that she could do it when Emma said the pole was too heavy.
I sat back and just watched them sitting in the grass together. My daughters. Within five minutes Emma turned around and said, "Mom I don't want to fish anymore. I have tried and tried and I just can't catch anything" to which Avery started laughing. "Emma you just started it" she said then smiled, "okay Em give me the pole then" she told her and then took over. Emma grinned at her and Avery smiled back, they sat there, camo hat and flower crown, chatting away together.
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