Sensory play is awesome! And Updates :)

Hi everyone :)

Are you familiar with sensory play??

If not, let me enlighten you :) Sensory play isn't just for kids with special needs, it's fun play for kids of all abilities!

"Sensory play includes any activity that stimulates your young child’s senses: touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. Sensory activities and sensory tables facilitate exploration and naturally encourage children to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate and explore. Spending time stimulating their senses helps children develop cognitively, linguistically, socially and emotionally, physically and creatively."

Huxley LOVES sensory play! It encourages him to open his hands more, to reach/grasp objects, and to explore with all his senses! 

Mr. Huxley enjoying water play on the left, exploring how water feels on his hands and finding little objects too!

Playing with yogurt on the right, sensory play for taste, smell, and texture

Sensory bottle that I made, exploring the texture of ribbons and the noise of the crackly bottle, the bottle is filled with little coloured objects for his eyes to explore.

Huxley playing with kinetic sand on the left in his stander, on the right playing with bright colored noisy paper on dad! 

Feathers were a hit, can you tell?


In other news, QA brought us a table that works with Huxleys tomato chair! Now he can play like a big kid! Oh my goodness, it looks like he is at school. Oh my heart!

This lovely rainbow looking display below is my new favourite thing. It's an essential oil kit! A special needs forum i'm a part of has many users of essential oils and they were raving about the results on not only their kiddos but on themselves too. I've made a rub for Huxleys muscles, several different diffuser combos that help for various different reasons, and I plan on making many other treats with it! So fun! 

Finally I will share with you a medical update.. We finally got Huxley in to see the only pediatric ophthalmologist there is on the island! We have been waiting for months. He's worth the wait though, he is amazing. If you haven't noticed this about Huxley, his eyes wander sometimes. Dr. Pegado said that his muscles over time might be able to strengthen enough to resolve the wander but there is a 50/50 chance that he might need a super non-invasive surgery to correct in the future but he does not need glasses and otherwise his eyes look good. The picture below gives a good example of the wander. It's a muscle tone issue which of course is par for the course with cerebral palsy. 

Thanks for reading <3 

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Sensory Play and Early Child Development. (n.d) retrieved August 22 2015, from PBS.org Web Site: http://www.pbs.org/parents/child-development/sensory-play/