Oink, Oink! Maa, Maa! Moo, Moo!

Tonight we went to our first 4H show because one of our youth kids was showing her pigs. We were actually surprised to find out that pretty much every little kid from our church was there and almost every family had an animal being shown! We're just minding our own business walking in when a ton of "Hey, y'all!" come our way. But it was great coz then we had a place to sit. We had a great time trying to figure out what was going on and eavesdropping on every one's conversations in French. My husband could sort of understand what they were saying... all I made out was "pig." That's appropriate though, considering we were watching the pig show. ;)

Here's little miss sass in her pants ready to go. I ask her to smile and she poses like this...

With her favorite pig raiser. She wasn't looking at the camera because she was too busy trying to get...

The leading stick thingy that they use to make the pigs go.

Honey took a picture of her watching the pigs. She was enthralled. She kept trying to get away to go see them. And then she saw the camera and stole it... here is how the evening looked through Audrey's eyes...

She saw pig bottoms. The brush in the kid's back pocket is actually to scrape poop away because all the pigs poop all over the place as they're getting judged. Thankfully, she didn't get THAT shot.

She also saw some crazy people that she recognized taking pictures of her.

She saw our girl trying to get her pig out of the corner. I may have helped her a little with this by holding the camera at a straight angle, but she took the picture herself. Our girl didn't place tonight, but she's got 11 more pigs to show tomorrow, so hopefully she'll get something.

Showing Auds the pigs. This one started grunting like crazy and scared the mess out of her.

So Mommy had to get in a pig pen holding a nearly two year old while being massively pregnant. This is no easy task. If you've ever been in a pig pen, you'd know.

Trying to get the pig to move. She was so cute. She even shouted out orders, "Move, pig! Go, pig!" When I told her that the pig was going to go to sleep she yelled, "Go to sleep, pig!" Oh, little miss bossy.

Checking out the triplet goats born two days ago. We couldn't get too close to them, because apparently if you touch them, they will die. At least that's what the sign said. They were so tiny and adorable!

And there was another baby goat born today!

It's that little lump of fur there. We also saw two brand new baby calves - one even still had it's cord. But the mama's weren't too keen on us getting close to take pictures.

Overall, it was a great night. Well worth the pain that I'm in now from climbing over railings and into pig pens while dodging animals weighing more than I do holding a toddler. And our girl even hugged my husband. I don't think he's ever had a youth kid hug him before; he was a little caught off guard. It was nice to know that we made her night by going there to support her. It was so sweet, I could have cried. But, I am pregnant and all.

The rest of the evening was spent listening to Audrey making animal noises and telling us how she saw and pet the pigs. Too stinking cute, I tell you.