T-Bird Anni Rides Again

I tend to forget that Aprilia *needs* quite a bit of sensory input to function happily but today I think I may have got it right!  she spent the vast majority of the day up to the eyeballs in paint and then, in a moment of shere devilment whilst we were painting paper balls I suggested she dispensed with the brush (which wasn’t working particularly well) and just dip them in the paint pot and smear it about…. suddenly she came alive!  Two hours later she was completely blissed out

Then she sat in a warm bath and used about half a bottle of shampoo on her hair in order for there to be enough foam to squidge about round her head.  

She’s also recently been enjoying a weighted lap blanket which she puts over her legs at night and on her lap sometimes in the day.  She is asking for a full sized weighted blanket to spread the sensation further round so I need to deal with that.  Gonna take a lot of rice….. 

 She’s also sleeping in her pop up tent just now.  Bit of a nuicance really as it takes up all her floor but she likes being enclosed.

I think she is being tripped out by quite a few things at the moment and she’s needing all the sensory input she can get.  Duke being away for a week wasn’t good.  Me being on the wind up to an exam really didn’t help, and I am aware that I did not deal with that at all well and really, really need to get a grip on that before next time (which is a whole seperate post)  The whole Home Ed review thing is not worrying her for her own sake (not being autonomous it’s going to affect us less than others…. doesn’t make it any more acceptable but it shouldn’t impact us to quite such a high degree) but she is worried for her friends (how typically Aprilia!) and this is really not helping.  And, naturally, it’s at this point that I forget that what she needs or worse deny it because gloopy paint and rice/sand/mud etc are not things I want all over my house when it’s already a tip (you wouldn’t beleive that actually I get stressed by untidiness would you???)

Weird really how a child who pales and shrinks from noise stimulus in the form of noisy places can crave other sense input so much right up to not being able to sleep without her precious story CDs.

times like this make me so much more sure that home is the best place for her.  I really do not want to think how she would be if she had to deal with the stresses of school.