Addie Odegaard’s llama, named Riot, towers over her as she stretches the leg hole of a homemade body suit over his foot.

It’s just days before the Lyon County Fair, her and her sister, Lucy’s, first llama and alpaca costume contest of the year, and they are doing a final fitting.

“We bought all of the material, and then we cut it in different sizes, and then you just, like, scrunched up the material, and then we zip-tied it and then fluffed them up,” Addie says as she adds the final layer of the costume, spreading it across the bodysuit.

Addie and Lucy Odegaard have been costuming llamas since age 5. This year, Addie is going into 7th grade, old enough to compete in costumes at the State Fair.

She has decided to do something she has never done before. Her llama will be costumed as a ba

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