My Dad has this knack for getting what he wants. It's like he does that "The Secret" vision thing Oprah talked about (and Carol Tuttle) where you think of something you want and then you get it. I know part of my Dad's ability to get what he wants is that he is married to my Mom. There is not a more supportive, and self sacrificing person on this planet. If he were married to someone else I don't know if all the positive thought process in the world would allow him to get some of the things he thinks of or dreams up. Even so, it's kind of amazing. Here is the latest example: last summer my Dad says to me "It would sure be nice if we could get a horse for the grandkids to ride". Here we are in May, and my dad knows someone who has a kid friendly ponny, doesn't want to keep it but wants to give it to a good home. He GIVES the horse to my dad for FREE. Introducing BLUE BOY! Of course, now they have to figure out how to feed it, have to train it, keep it healthy and all that. I guess with every dream that comes true there is a cost involved.
Madison LOVES horses and she is the only one old enough to ride it at this point. She is going to take horse ridding lessons and hopefully will have the pony ready for the other kids to ride sometime this year or next. I think eventually she would like to ride him in parades and to do 4-H stuff with. Madison looks good so far! Miriam really wanted to ride this weekend but none of us were confident that Blue Boy was ready for a toddler.
Miriam and Marcus watching Madison ride. Why does Marcus have swim goggles on?? He is a super hero of course!! These two were so funny, Miriam pretended that her limbs kept getting glued together and Marcus would come to the rescue. Another time I heard Miriam calling Marcus her "poor sick China boy"(China, because we had been looking at the globe earlier and found China) and Marcus was hamming it up with sneezing and coughing.
A baby goat was born the night before we were at the farm and it was SO cute watching the little guy learn to walk. It was like Bambi (how city am I to compare real farm life to a Disney movie), Miriam named the baby goat "Carla".
Just had to put this picture in. Miriam LOVES to have Madison dress her up. This was the costume last weekend and it cracked me up!!
