Eyeglasses Games

 (This is real life people.  An undershirt, sweatpants, and that hair..it's how we roll around here.)

This little treasure is very in to playing with, examining, and putting on eye glasses right now. 

She loves to spend hours on my lap moving my glasses around and taking them on and off.

This is an incredible game because it involves SO MUCH eye contact.

Eye contact is not easy to come by with our little one.

Trouble is she can be a bit rough on the real thing 

and I don't really want to encourage her to play with them

BUT

the eye contact is so good and she was so interested

that I decided to purchase several pairs of $1 reading glasses.

I popped out the lenses and keep these frames in several of her play areas.

SHE LOVES THEM!

She loves to put feathers in them, drop beans through them, and wiggle them up and down

all while I have them on of course.

It is great fun and she is SO cute in those little frames.

(Having her wear them works on her tactile defensiveness issues too!)

All of this therapy is taking place with this new eyeglasses game 

and there are so many benefits for her within the context of play.

I love to play

and

I am so thankful to have such a fun little one to play with me!

She Cried Today..

We Jillian had play therapy today. 

I LOVE play therapy. 

I LOVE our play therapist-Miss A.

And before Miss A left today, she cried a bit.

She has been seeing our treasure for about nine months now..

and well, Jillian's progress in those nine months is something that just has a way of taking your breathe away.
Here is a little girl who has had such a rough start and who today was signing for her daddy to sit in the hallway while she was on the swing during her therapy session.  (Her daddy did just that of course.  He sat next to his daughter on the floor, in the hallway to watch her swinging.) 

This may be the last time that we get to see our Miss A which caused a few tears.  We hope not!  We are praying that the new grant will come through for our program and next month we'll back on the schedule.  If it doesn't, this has absolutely been one of the BEST things for my treasure.  It has helped her so much and been so much fun.  I am grateful today for Miss A and all the people that God has put in our lives to help us-help our baby. It is amazing to watch God use this little girl to touch the lives of so many people.  She is a world changer my girl and I know that God has a HUGE plan for her life.  She just has such an effect on those who love her.

Thank you Miss A for loving my girl so well for the last nine months.
AND..
Here's to hoping that grant comes through so you can love her for twelve more.