Sunday, September 25, 2011

Horse Girl

Anyone who spends a minute in my daughter's company these days will quickly discern her love for horses. It's her favorite subject to talk about, riding horses her dream, and what she most often will pretend to be, whinying, pawing, snorting, galloping...

In fact, her frequent response to our question about what she wants to do when she grows up is to live at our Amish neighbor's farm and be a "horse girl".

Last week I saw an ad in the local merchandizer announcing a free family event at a nearby church on Saturday: dinner, face painting, games, wagon rides, a juggling act/entertainment and (drumroll, please) PONY RIDES!!! I knew Natalia would be thrilled, but also that I'd be cooking up alot of applesauce that day and would want a break from the kitchen come dinnertime. So, we put it on the calendar.

Natalia was beyond excited to finally ride a horse, but it was forecasted to be a rainy day. I was so hoping that it wouldn't get cancelled. Thankfully, aside from the humidity and fog in the morning it turned out to be a great day weather-wise for the event!



Giddy with anticipation. (She insisted on wearing her "horsey" shirt in honor of the occasion.)


I think it's safe to say that she's even more infatuated with horses now that she's ridden one!

1 comment:

Danielle said...

Aw, that's so cute. I went through a horse drawing stage, where all I drew was horses. What is it with girls and horses? I think a lot of girls go through the "in love with horses" stage.