Fishing trip/debacle

 Peacefully fishing on the point at butterfly lake in the uintah mountains.

This spot is legendary for rob and i. 

 Caleb has his own spiderman fishing pole and colton took apart Rob's fishing pole so he could splash the water in the name of fishing. He managed to fall in the lake (no surprise here) and get his brand new chair all muddy (no surprise there either).

 But man oh man were all three of my men happy! I overpacked as usual so i designated myself the pack mule. Totally worth the preparedness though!

 Spyin' on my man

 Tryin' to smile staring into the sun. He has his jacked because his shirt got soaked when he fell into the lake face first. 

 Mighty fisherman. He did all of his own casting and we were impressed with him. He enjoys doing things himself so much! 

 Overprepared momma

 The debacle: fishing hook in the back of caleb's head. 

He was casting so so good! Rob and i had finally settled down to enjoy the deafening silence and stillness when caleb started to scream. The hook was imbedded all the way to where it bends. I trimmed the hair and was going to try to jerk it out but couldn't get it. Poor Caleb! He was overreacting from fear (wonder where he gets that from??) and rob took him for a meander to help settle him down. They said a prayer and when they came back Caleb was calm. At that moment, there was a fish on the line so Rob had Caleb reel in the fish which promptly came off the line once we all got a good look (but not a picture). 

We felt like this was a tender mercy for Caleb from Heavenly Father. 

 Then we packed up. hauled all the crap i brought back to the car (i had brought it over seriously less than 1 hour before the incident)

 Rob put the bandaid over the hook in an effort to prevent it from getting caught on the seat and hurting caleb terribly. 

 He tried to sleep on the way home but even then he was so worried about the hook he couldn't sleep. We had taken the back of his carseat off and he couldn't get comfortable. Rob and i giggled for a while watching him startle and jerk in his sleep (remember when you 'fell' off your desk in school while you were sleeping? imagine that only sitting up.)

So three hours after the event we make it to an instacare here at home and Caleb manages to charm the lady at the desk, he learns the nurses name (lindsay) and charms her and charms the doctor too. 

The doctor and i decide to have him just rip out the hook (as opposed to numbing with a shot, and cutting it out with a  small incision). I tell caleb what is going to happen, ask him if he wants me to hold him down. He didn't want me to, he wanted to hold nurse lindsay's hands. He squinted his eyes closed, gritted his teeth and BAM!! the doctor ripped out the hook.

 Caleb started crying of course but then nurse lindsay asked what color of popsicle he wanted--"pink" and just like that, he stopped crying. 

I was so proud of my little man. 

The look on his face as the doctor got ready to pull out the hook has stuck with me. 

Scared but brave. His body was so small looking on that bed with the doctor and nurse around him. 

We haven't heard a peep about the incident except when he proudly told our neighbor's what happened to him.