Horses!

Emma has never ridden a horse before (unless you count the huge hobby horse Oscar or the dog Bella) For Elle's fourth birthday we went to Tanglewood for a picnic and pony rides. She has ridden the carousel at the mall and loves it! So much, in fact, that she cries to ride it every time we go to the mall-meaning I better always have $2 if I take her to the mall with me.
We got up Sunday morning and started talking up the horse rides-not really sure how she would handle getting on a real pony. When we asked her if she wanted to ride a horse, she immediately got very excited and started saying "Ride horsey, up and down, its a white one" Uh oh! This little girl thinks we are riding a pretend horse that goes round and round and up and down! We tried explaining to her it was a REAL horse-fat chance she'd understand that.
Matt stayed home from the party with Luke, because we didn't want to expose him to all the people and all the "stuff" in stables and with horses. So Emma and I headed off to the party and on the way, we had to stop by Target and the grocery store and Emma proceeded to tell anyone who would listen "Ride horsey, go up and down, white horsey"
When we got to Tanglewood, we had about 45 minutes until it was time to ride the pony. Well, Emma could hardly stand it. There were horses all around us (we were at the stables) and she was able to pet a few of them. When it was finally time to go for a ride; I was a little uneasy still that she would have a melt down-but I thought it might be ok because it was just a little pony. And ponies are little and cute, right?
Little pony?? HA! This was a huge horse they were supposed to get on! Great!! But that did not phase her one bit-let's just say Emma loves real horses as much as fake horses!! She was SO excited to see the horse AND it was white! She had a blast!!