Our Latest Outside Session

We got a taste of summer yesterday. Therapists were over scheduled for Eric yesterday so we had 3 at the house to work with him. One stayed home with his brothers so I could join with him and the 2 other therapists this time! It's too bad we could not spend the whole time out there. We went to the park across the street. I found out that we had to have a community outing form filled out and approved to go on the playground equipment, so we hung out by the trees and the lagoon, on the other side. There was plenty of sensory activities we could do there.

Eric standing on a log. It took some convincing to get him to do this.


Throwing sticks into the lagoon, or at least trying to. His throw got better after a few tries. The therapists worked on taking turns while each one threw a stick and he had to wait for his turn, and actually do it when the time came.

We were finally able to get him to sit on the grass. Before he would only sit on the therapist's lap. She is still right behind him. He would not let her move too far.

This is what ended this outing. For starters, I have no idea how he can sit like that. It looks painful to me. He kept picking at some dry skin on his lip. He was told to stop, but he wouldn't. That must have really bothered him. Once I got a good look he had a bloody lip. Ewww...how he could do this to himself. It didn't seem to hurt him. He was sucking the blood too-yuck!!! Eric has a very high pain tolerance. This is very common for kids on the spectrum. He came back into the house with no fuss or tantrums. That is so awesome for him. Before he would go into full blown meltdown when he had to come in from having fun outside. More progress, we'll take it!