Horse Lover?

Today Emily and I, with Kate, went to visit a local horse show. It was a small one, full of pleasure classes, what certainly would be a great starter show for any green horse or rider. Seeing one of the classes happening, I felt such longing. I miss the show world, same feeling I felt visiting the Evergreen Classics yesterday. My hope is to be ready to show next year.

With Emily in arms, we went to see the CGS horse that Jennifer loves, Alexa. She is quite the beautiful morgan, no wonder Jen feels the way she does for her! I went over to Emily could touch her - it left me smiling seeing Emily's reaction. Her eyes got big and she leaned forward towards the horse, as she did when she visited the horse that Kate rode a few days ago.

Emily hasn't had too much interaction yet with our four horses, she has seen them twice.... once a few days after she was born (Pheobe loved her) and a few weeks later.

I wonder, will she love horses too? Will she be another one that wants to ride? If so, what type of riding will she want to do? Will she want to show? And most importantly, although I can train her (if she'll listen to me as a teacher), can I give her all she needs to succeed in the area she'd like to compete in? I sure hope so.

Jonah at 3yo showing Sierra. The season he won reserve pony hi-point. This picture was taken 10 years ago. Sierra is still with us, now considered Katie's who is almost 6yo. She'll be ready for Emily to ride in a few years if she would like, and introduce her to the show ring.

This is my girl, Aaleyah, who I plan to be showing next year. This picture was taken "three childrens" ago - lots of work to do to get my riding figure back. I miss riding so much, miss showing, and really miss riding Aaleyah. She is such an incredible horse that tries to hard to learn and please. We should have a lot of fun next year :D

Last year on a rescue horse from a local rescue group. I always use to say that it would be a miserable life to be born in to my family if you didn't like animals... especially horses. Can a 9wk old infant really show such enjoyment at just the sight of a horse, already? It seemed like it today. It'll be interesting to watch her as this next year passes. I've been terrible at making the time so my own children can ride, I really need to work more on that. We have the horses. Katie's been asking to ride, begging to ride, I need to make the time so she can. What a wonderful mother/daughter time too :) With Katie, it's been neat to see her asking to do things that she preferred not to do too much of last year. Riding is one, although she enjoyed it in little bits, but swimming is another.

I wonder if Emily will like swimming? The two older kids are like fishes, and Katie has begun to enjoy water this year too :)