Sunday 2 weeks now

It's been 2 weeks now since our boys arrived and finally Zoe has come and chosen which horse we are to bring on..."Arobridge Oscar" is his name...he's the littiler of the 2....Lynn's grandaughter Nikita is to have the Big Boy so we'll wait to see what his name is too...they are doing a lot better now...I have taken the flax flower poles and placed them all over the place so that they have to brush past them when they move around ,,,I've put a small road cone with hay sticking out the top..put hay into the tie up so that they are familiar with that as well...they wasted no time at all in getting the hays out of these items.
 I have also been doing a lot of rhythmic circles etc with the carrot stick and the flax poles- moving them back and forth into separate pens and when they stand nicely have moved back as their reward....I have managed to lay the flax pole on Oscar twice now and he stood still, but moved off when I stroked him with it...so I had to get him to stand still again while I laid the pole across his wither...he really doesn't seem to mind....hopefully this will all help when David comes....Big Boy has been quite a star today he will turn and face quite relaxed which is exciting...Nikita was moving him and Oscar around yesterday and found that he improved quite a bit...I think he will be great for her as she is a lot taller than me and I think he would better suit her for riding and it won't take quite so long for her to be able to ride him as he would be at the very least 2 to 2 1/2 years old whereas Oscar is only about 18months so will need to do a lot more growing before he can be ridden.....Del is coming tomorrow morning to do a bit more training on the "steady stand"..think it will be of great benefit before David gets here.