Jazz Hands

Saturday, November 5th, 2011
Chuckee Cheese {Enough Said}

Today was Cayleigh's very first visit to Chuckee Cheese and she made out like a bandit thanks to her parents who {wanted to relive their childhood} got her tickets. She "won" a red squishy ball thing that will be fun to use during her therapy time. It is squishy and soft so it'll be just perfect.

Far too much money & time {nearly 5 hours} later we were headed out the door. We actually went for an entire family playdate of sorts. I made friends with a woman named Juliette who has 4 children, ages 11, 9, 2 and 1 who brings her special little girl to the same place we take Cayleigh for her physical therapy. We hit it off pretty well and have so much in common {including our faith} that we set up a playdate for our husbands and kids. It was fabulous and they were the only reason we stayed longer than our normal 2 hour adventure admist the crowd of half size, sugarspastic mini humans.

Earlier in the dsy Cayleigh and I were doing her physical therapy on her playmat and I decided to take video. You'll see how wonderfully she was doing! She needed to pull on the string attached to a lion to make music. and...boy did she! Over and over for about a half an hour. You'll also see something else that's really rad but I'll leave that for a suprise during that video.

I am also including a super fantastic video of her doing one of her FAVORITE things - playing her keyboard! That hobby started during her last UCSF Children's Hospital stay where the OT {Occupational Therapist...they're the ones who work with the hands mostly} suggested giving her toys to play with that didn't require too much of a push/tug/pull/etc and gave an instant gratification for her so she'd be motivated. The piano is the bees knees and she loves it!

Finally, I'm including some pictures of Miss Cayleighdoodle with daddy {and mommy}to commemurate her first trip to the big palace of kids AKA Chuckee Cheese. Oh, and one super cute picture of Ms Serious herself!

I hope you all get as much pleasure from all of these as I do. I can't tell you how much I look forward to each day to see what new gift God has given my child. She is truly the most amazing person in the entire world and has taught me so much about life, about unconditional love and about God. For that, I am forever grateful my sweet girl...mommy loves you <3