hide-n-(sensory)-seeking

Well, maybe not as exciting as the title led you to believe, but we kept busy yesterday anyway. Here is the surprise I walked in on. Kit was sitting right in the middle of it when I found her. Feeding herself fistfuls of course. Half of a giant bag of Rice Krispies dumped out on the bench. Miraculously, there was relatively little on the floor. Grace's animals seem happy to have a snack! To put in perspective how much cereal this is, here it is in my 13x9 inch baking dish. This was what we were able to salvage for future consumption. Hope your Sunday afternoon was far more relaxing!  Here's what else she's been up to. She has a new sleep oddity to add to her ever growing list. In the past we've occasionally laid a pillow over her legs and hips to provide pressure when she sleeps. Sometimes it works and others not so much. Lately though, as in for the last five days, she has been wanting a pillow on her. She has actually pulled one on to...

We received our weighted blankets a little over a week ago. Kits weighs 4 pounds. Zak's weighs 11. Wow! This thing is heavy. Resting Easier! Kit still won't sleep at night with it covering her, but sometimes she'll nap with it, so progress! What she will let me do at night is roll it up and squish it up next to her. She then has pressure from both sides, one side from the couch cushion, the other from the blanket. Also she has a cushion up top, so she can push against it if she wants. We have seen much improvement at night. She let's me put her down easily into her little cubbyhole after she's asleep. That alone is huge! A few times she has even stopped nursing and gone to curl up there and go to sleep on her own!!! Beyond HUGE!! Not enough exclamation points ever to convey my excitement! Next, all week long she has woken up just once, a few nights twice! AND...She's not crying when she wakes up! YAY! YAY! And double YAY!! I'm not eve...