Cute Pictures and A Best Friend

 I had to add this one even though the focus is on the horse.  That face is just too funny!

Sterling loves this horse.  He also has a stick horse that he loves and totes around the house everywhere.  He and this rocking horse have had a rough time becoming friends though.  Sterling went through a long period of time where he was scared of horses.  I think I have documented him being scared of a certain book with a horse.  Then he got this rocking horse for his birthday and was terrified.  We had various "therapy" sessions in which we would take him close to the horse and let him pet it (or make him pet it). 

After almost a whole year, Sterling has gone from being terrified of this horse to all of a sudden being best friends with it.  He will talk to it and feed it.  I have to pretend to pour juice, water, milk, apples, you name it for the horse.  He will lay down in the floor and have conversations with the horse - who is sometimes named Ann Elizabeth and most of the time named Jamis.  He loves to ride him and give him hugs and kisses.  Just do not squeeze the horse's ear.  He makes real horse sounds and Sterling reverts back to being petrified of him.  He can even be found at times dragging the horse by the handle around the house saying, "Common horse, let's go horse, common horse."