A Dream

Laina just made my day. No, my month. Well, more like she just said the words I've been waiting for her to say since she was born (and the same ones Jay has been dreading to hear since she's been born) - "Mommy, I want a pony". Okay, it wasn't that exact phrasing. We were watching horse videos on Youtube (yes, I've been influencing her), and she was excited to see a horse galloping. I asked if she wanted to learn to ride a galloping horse some day. She said yes, and that she wanted her own pony. When I asked what color pony she wanted, she replied "pink". So maybe she doesn't quite get it yet. When I listed off some more readily available colors, she decided on "palomino". I looked up some google images of palomino ponies, and this is the one she wants:

I must say, she has marvelous taste in horses (or ponies)! I hate to break it to you, Laina, but it might be many years before you're ready for as fancy a pony as this. Not to mention, Daddy might have a heart attack at the price. (As I sit here typing this, she said "I want that one to ride" pointing at the above pic!) Um, I think we're in trouble.

But in reality, I was picturing something more along the lines of this:

Who happens to be for sale at the reasonable price of $1,900. In Tennessee. Oh well. A mother can dream, right?

(This is getting bad. She is "on the phone" calling her uncle Jesse to tell him she is "getting a new pony".)

A Snowy Halloween

We got a pretty impressive snowstorm on Wednesday this week, about 2 feet! Laina had a new snowsuit thanks to her Great Grandma, so she got to go outside and play during a lull in the storm.


By Saturday, the storm was long gone, and the sun came out and started melting things quick, but in the meantime it was the perfect weather to enjoy the snow without all the coldness... Laina helped me build a huge snowman.




and since I hogged all the fun building the giant snowman, she built a Laina-sized snowman with Jenna.


Then we went for a ride in the pull-sled over to the park, where Laina had her first snowball fight.

By the time we came back to the house, our snowman's head had already melted off. Since it was halloween, and there was a headless snowman in front of us, we did the obvious

After Laina's nap, we got her in her Poodle costume and taught her how to hit up the neighbors for candy. Last minute we thought up matching costumes for Jenna and I; Jenna was the over-the-top poodle owner, and I was Cesar Millan (The Dog Whisperer) helping her out with her misbehaving poodle.



consider this poodle trained.