From the Mouths of Babes.....

Today i helped teach lessons at the ranch i volunteer at. i love it! well today we had three classes, easy no big deal right? WRONG! i swear theses monday classes have the most attitude and can be so hard to work with! well after one fit had been thrown because a little girl couldnt ride the horse she wanted and making it through two of the three classes it was time for our last and biggest class. In this big class there is a little girl who is five, we'll call her macy. well macy, because she is so small rides our smallest horse josey. josey is about 28 years old and wouldnt hurt a fly. We let macy ride bareback today (without a saddle) and she loved it, she thought it was great to trot around and see that she could hang on. we almost lost her a couple of times but she hung on. Oh, i should mention, right before she got on she looked at me and goes "hey, hey, hey you in the pink, i know your name, its katie" and i was like yep. well that was the begining of macy and her attitude...anyway we she got off she goes watch i can do and sure enough drops herself to the ground puts the lead rope on the horse and heads to the barn. once in the barn she proceeds to show me how she can take of the reins and bridle and insturcted me to watch her horse. her exact words would be "katie put my helmet up and watch josey, ill put the halter on when i get back" and with that she marched off to put the bridle up. well not thinking it would be a big deal i set her helmet down and put the halter on josey and tied her up...WRONG MOVE!!!! next thing i knew macy was standing next to me saying "did i tell you to do that? NO! i told you to watch her...watch me do it" then she took the halter off and did it herself. then i watched as little ity bitty macy kept little ity bitty josey in line as she brushed and fed her treats. then after completing all her "horse chores" she came up to the instructor and i told us her sister was not here and she needed somthing to do. well the instructor looked over at her stall and noticed the helmet (yes the same one i set down earlier) sitting on the floor and asked macy to go put it up. macy put her hands on her hips, stuck her hip out and goes "katie i told you to put that up and you threw it on the floor" i laughed and said well too bad it doesnt fit my head because then i would have to put it up, but since you used it you need to put it up. macy was determined she was not going to it so the instructor turned her around and took her to the stall, put the helmet in her hand and took her to the tack room to put it up. by this time all the other kids were gone and we were still waiting on macy's sister to pick her up. finally we see the little blue car with "only one handle" as macy said pull up. we took macy and her car seat to the car. What a night? Where do these kids come up with this? well i guess when your the youngest of six, you have to have some attitude, right?