On the farm (what does not kill us makes us stronger)

S-phie went on a field trip recently to Spence's Farm in Chapel Hill. They got to learn all about the animals and got to take eggs from the hen, and S-phie was so excited, telling us that they were still warm and that she didn't break them. But the biggest excitement was that she rode a horse. She was terrified and apparently was not going to do it at first, but then at the last minute she decided to do it. I wasn't there, but got reports from my spies. She was so proud of herself when I picked her up. And I love these pictures - she looks so pensive in the first two and so utterly thrilled and proud in the last one that I can't stop looking at it. Tears.