Growing Up

Happy New Year!  Filly's New Year came in with a bang, errrrr, saddle.  That's right, filly had her first ride on New Year's Day.  And what a wonderful girl was she.  She went right up to the mounting block & didn't mind weight in the stirrup at all.  She didn't mind the saddle rocking back & forth.  She didn't mind her soon-to-be rider laying across the saddle, patting under her belly.  In fact, she seemed to like the attention.  Of course eating cookies out of the patting hand was pretty good & made everything alright.  Then carefully she had a rider on her back.  An ear twitched.  A lip wrinkled. An eye rolled.  Filly reached around to smell the foot hanging by her side.  Hmmmmm, no big deal.  It was just another adventure to have fun with CMK.  After being led around for a few minutes, Filly was turned loose to carry her rider with ease around the round pen.  CMK sure had a big smile on her face.  There was Filly acting like a grown up, looking wonderful under saddle.  From a "touch & go" foal to a saddle horse.  Oh what adventures the future could hold.