There's a First for everything

Laina has been a very busy girl. She had her first dentist visit and actually behaved. She usually freaks out and has a tantrum whenever she is at the doctor's so we were thrilled. She also had her first pony ride. She was so excited about it that she woke up before 5 a.m. and asked me "did the pony rides start yet? Will they have a big one? I want a big horse! I had to calm her down and tell her that it didn't start for hours and that we'd get there as soon as it opened. That same day, after the "real" pony ride, she also wanted to ride a mechanical horse outside a local market and then her wooden Rocking Horse, named Grandma when she got home. She informed me that Grandma now needs a saddle too. We've had at least one early beach day when some good weather snuck through, and some good clean fun at the playgrounds around here. She is at a "look at me!" stage, doing lots of jumping and twirling and climbing tricks.She adds after we watch each of her extraordinary feats, "babies can't do that!". Today we were mowing our lawn and she wanted her toy mower, so the 3 of us were all mowing it was very cute. She's growing out of all her clothes suddenly, jumping from 18-24 mos. to 3T. She wants a ponytail very badly so we are letting her hair grow, it's all over her face because she's too active to ever keep a barrette in. We lose one just about everyday. I'll throw in a couple extra photos to make up for the long time between posts.