Rocking Horse

We were lent this rocking horse by a local pastor's wife. At first I wasn't sure how interested Sophia would be, if it were still beyond her stage of development. But I showed her how to use it, and we've brushed the horse's mane and tail, and we try to pat her and tell her "good girl" after Sophia rides. Sophia struggles with mounting--swinging her leg up and over, and she hasn't worked out how to make it rock herself, but she dismounts pretty well, and she seems to like the horse more and more as time goes by. Every so often I'll hear her all purpose sound for wanting something emanating from her room, and there she'll be pointing at the horse.