Cowgirl Up

Ila turned five months old yesterday.  To celebrate, Dustin and I took Eden and Ila to the rodeo.  Or I'm just telling myself that because Ila turned five months old yesterday, and let's face it - the day was mainly about Eden.

Ila, Mommy and Daddy love you lots and lots, and I promise I'm going to take your five month photo and write about how much I love you really soon!  #secondchildprobs

All Ila really did at the rodeo was LOOK AMAZING!  Are you ready, are you ready?

Oh my goodness, cutest thing ever!  The girl's rodeo fashion is on point!

So, I originally had Eden's hair all fixed with a bow, but when we got to the rodeo, she asked for a cowgirl hat.

Why sure thing, my little cowgirl!

We went to the petting zoo, and Eden fed and brushed all the animals.

She wanted to brush the chicken too, but I told her that she couldn't use the brush and needed to be verrrryyyy gentle with the chicken.  This apparently meant to walk up to the chicken in slow motion, poke it, and then jump back as fast as possible.  She did it over and over.

Then a little deer came up to us and started nibbling on Eden's hat.  And I was all, oh, hahaha, how cute, let me take a picture of this sweet little deer trying to eat Eden's hat.

Then I was all, okay deer, that's enough now, and I nudged him away.  So then he started eating my boot.  Like kinda viciously.  And I was like, "DEER!  STOP IT!"  And he didn't take too kindly to that and he went after my camera!  And I was literally sitting there playing tug-of-war with this deer over my camera strap.  I finally won, but then I was like, "We have to leave, this deer is being mean to me."  So we went and rode a pony.

Eden didn't just wave to us.  She waved to everyone all the way around the circle.

She was big enough to ride some rides this year!

And then some rides she was only big enough to ride if I rode too.

And that's cool, I was having fun riding rides with her.  Except for this one water ride.  Where you got splashed at the bottom.  And I wasn't really thrilled about that because I thought it was too cold to get wet.  But she, of course, LOVED that ride and had to ride it multiple times.  And Dustin was a slacker dad and refused to take his turn.

It looks like SHE'S there to support ME.

And then she played some games...

...and we piled all the stuffed animals she won around sleeping Ila.

It was a good day.  Because Eden was so happy.  And also because I ate corn dogs and curly fries and ice cream.

Then this morning, Eden got to dress crazy to go to story time at the library because they had a birthday celebration for Dr. Suess.  And that has nothing to do with this rodeo post, but I thought she looked super cute.

Now I have to go paint a number 5 on a onesie.

The End