Horse Races

Just when people were starting to compliment me on being impressed with how I was keeping up with Addie's blog, (apparently no one thought I had it in me) I go and ruin my good standing by letting almost two weeks go by without a post! However, I can't take all the blame for the delay, it is Mike's job to upload the photos to the computer, and he was getting a little behind on that project.

Well here it is, and not only is it late, but it is also a little old. In August we met Sarah, Jeff, Emilia and Susan and Andy at Canterbury Horse Races, they were having a family event sponsored by the Carlson School for alumni.So while the rest of us were enjoying our buffet dinner of sloppy joes and hot dogs, Addie was showing off a bit by running over to the bench next to our picnic table climbing up and jumping up and down with her tongue sticking out. The kid is not a good eater to start with and then add horses, tons of people, and kids running rampant and playing in the jungle gym, it is almost impossible to get her to focus on eating.

We took a quick pic of the family in front of the track, it was so entertaining to watch Addie see the horses race. You could just see her face light up with excitement when the horse rounded the bend and were close in view. Lots of finger pointing, squeals of delight, and "OOHS" and "WOWS." It is so fun to see how excited she gets about the simple things in life.

The girls were lucky enough to find a spot where the horses were standing around waiting to race. They spent quite a bit of time at the fence just observing, Addie is even on her tippy toes trying to get a closer look! They would turn around every once in awhile to make sure Sarah and I were still there and to say, "Horses Mommy." So cute.

On our way out of the stadium, we had Addie stop to put her face in the cute little Jockey cutout. I tried to get her to look at the camera, but by that point, she had about all the excitment she could take for one night, and was no longer interested in entertaining us!