LBE Much?

Woody and I had our first official play session in a long time today. We went out and, after a rather long haltering session, headed for the "play area" outside the pasture. The haltering was actually quite comical because I approached him with the halter and he appeared fine and dandy, but when I moved to put it around his neck, he walked off. I stood there and waited for him to return like he usually does, but instead he did the fat version of a starjump and galloped down the hill. I went down after a couple of minutes, and played with him and the halter, rubbing it all over him and scratching his itchies with it. After that, he was fine.
We went outside the gate and he was being a little RBE and nervous about the scary monster on the other side of the woods, so we did falling leaf until he had calmed down. After grazing a bit, we did Touch It from the barrels to the "bridge" to the log, just with his nose which went well.
Next, I set up the two barrels laying on their sides and decided to practice the Figure 8 pattern, and that's when the punky side of Woody came out. He was walking around the barrels in the Figure 8, and all the sudden he stops at a barrel and flings it a couple feet with his nose towards me. I then returned the favor and kicked it back to him. That obviously wasn't the reaction he expected from me, so he gave up temporarily and continued his figure 8.
Then Mom brought Charlotte out of the gate to graze a bit and he developed the idea of "if she's eating it is totally unfair for me to have to do this rather than eat". So, everytime he went around the barrel facing her, he would push with his nose out toward her and start trotting, through a tree, to get to the grass. I laughed of course at his antics and, after finding the power position against his pulling, I got the idea of "if you wanna run around, let me help you", and asked him to trot the pattern. Bad idea. He just got more resistant at a faster pace and harder to control. I quickly disengaged, brought him in, and gave him a rub to apologize. Then I sent him back out at a slower pace (walk) and exagerated my draw and drive, and went he went around the curve facing Charlotte a couple of times without resistance I brought him in and took him to eat with Charlotte.
He was being a pig about the grass and not focused on me, so once I got his attention I would stop him before he put his head down and he asked me a question and really focused on me. He did really well with it and once he focused on me, I let him eat.
Then we went down the driveway a bit to let them walk on the gravel and I practiced a bit of our Stick to Me, which he is getting really good at. He can stick well at the walk, trot, stop, and back up. Mom and I both decided we both need to work on the horses canters in the round pen more.
Overall, I think it was a good session and I need to work on being more imaginative for LBE mind.
~Eden