• If you do backbends over a stability ball, you can pick up puzzle pieces AND get great tummy work!
• Forward somersault over the stability ball
• 3 foot horizontal figure 8 on a big piece of craft paper - drive a car over it with left hand 3 times, with right hand 3 times, then two cars to use both hands 3 times
• Criss-cross knee tap sitting on the stability ball - crossing hands diagonally over the body to connect the two sides of the brain. Sitting on adult lap (brought book to borrow "Brain Gym" by Dennison)
• Long strokes on arms & legs, U-shape on back - tactile defensiveness & deep pressure with this amazing plastic brush
• Lots of swinging & crashing into Jane, or stability ball, or fly onto chair
• Party favors - blow outs - sustained or fast breathes
• z-vibe - looks like a hard rubber toothbrush with a high frequency vibration - push on tounge or bite on it - he REALLY likes this - Jane says to get a vibrating toothbrush
• Crayola Sudsy-Mudsy - foaming mud soap, plus shaving cream, plus paint brush
• Ate with Jane (missed morning snack - very hungry!) mac & cheese, watermelon, & apple sauce - trying to convince him to try to switch hand position on the silverware. She noted that he's craving lots of sucking on z-vibe and on spoon with applesauce. Recommended lots of straw drinks that are thicker like smoothies. Freezer stick popsicles. She also brought silverware with a molded handles and a shape at top to help transition to a more mature hand position. She also recommended begining to more heavily spicing food for him (like adding cinnamon to applesauce, try dipping in ranch dressing, salsa, hummus, drizzle vinager or pickle juice on meats, dried fruits and chewy breads for resistance in chewing)