His very own...

When Scott goes to play at Cardio Barre, his very favorite thing (if I've told this story before please bare with me) is to play with the plastic horses. There is a big bucket of plastic animals in the kids room, all types of animals, but Scott goes through the whole bucket and picks out ALL the horses and plays with them the whole hour. He shows each one to Sarah (and other kids who don't really care so much) and plays with them and gives them all kisses (and tries to get the other kids to kiss them too, it is a mystery to Scott why anyone would not love horses as much as he does and why they wouldn't want to kiss the plastic ones!). When we leave he says goodbye to the horses and gives them goodbye kisses. So I figured it was high time I bought him some plastic horses of his own.

Last week Scott came to my office with me and was such a good and patient boy, so afterwards we stopped at the toy store to buy some horses. There was a whole rack of plastic animals....Scott was in seventh heaven. He looked at all the animals, but when he saw the horses it was D-O-N-E! He practically screamed "neigh neigh"! He tried to get 5 or 6 in his hand at once and when he couldn't he would pat each one and kiss some of them and put them down to pick up another. He fell in love with one of the horses pictured below with the blonde cowgirl on it. I think its because she reminds him of Abby. So we got that one, then I picked the others because there is no way Scott could have chosen, plus he was so into his cowgirl one that he stopped caring about the rest.

So now we play with "neigh neighs" every spare minute we have. Its the toy he likes to take with him in the car or to hold when we read books. He even puts one in his crayon tray of easel while we "druh" (draw).
Below: kissing his horses

One excited little cowboy!