one of my favorite things is listening to the conversations kids have with each other. sometimes i give riding lessons, and occasionally i do classes at the equestrian center. currently, i am teaching a juvenile horsemanship now and we met last night for our second class. this is the youngest class i've ever taught, like 7-9 year olds, mostly girls, and for the most part i'm loving it. anyway, there is this adorable girl (missing most of her front teeth) and has a cute lisp. she kept referring to posting as "posing", due to her lisp. but her mom clearly didn't understand when she picked her up last night.
for you who don't horse, posting is a technique of rising in the saddle with the rhythm of the horses gait. it is a much more comfortable way to ride a trotting gait.
anyway, at the end of the night, the youngest of the girls was talking to her mom.
mom: so what you learn tonight?
girl: i learned to pose
mom: you learned how to pose?
girl: yeah, posed, miss monica posed, everybody posed!
mom: what did you pose for? a picture?
girl: nooooo. we posed because it hurts not to! you can't learn to ride horses if you can't pose!
mom: <confused look> ok, we'll go home and work on our posing...
girl: YAY! oh wait... i can't pose without a horse
mom: no, you can pose with your sister, instead.
girl: confused face
so funny... sometimes i love little kids. like any little girl needs help working on their "pose"