J-Casso!

After a busy morning of waking up before 5am (by courtesy of Miss J of course), watching cartoons, eating breakfast, hand painting, a good hosing down in the bath, and bike riding at the lake...

THIS MOMMY IS TIRED!!!

I just laid Jocie down for a nap as she's been up for 6 hours already (I should take a nap too), but I've got to get some cleaning done, maybe knock out a few CEU's and wanted to share our painting project that we did this morning while I had a chance

We decided to do some finger/hand painting to make some wall art for Jocie's soon-to-be therapy room (squuuuueal!).

We started out with a plain foam board (found it at Dillions no less), and used masking tape to spell out Boogie's name. We settled on Jocie as that was easier to fit and well, we call her that a lot anyways.

Here's what we started with:

I got all the supplies we needed out and ready for Jocie to have fun:

Unfortunately, for some reason, Jocie was having a really difficult time trying to floor-sit as she seemed to be having pain, muscle spasms in her back &/or legs, or it could've been her hips as they continue to try and dislocate (that's a whole other story). However, mommy wasn't going to quit because I knew she'd have fun, so I changed it up and we used her Kaye therapy bench with an attached posture system to help her so she didn't have to do quite as much work on her own.

Ok, so now that we had everything we needed and Jocie was more comfortable, it was time to get the party started!!! Enjoy the photos below! ;)

{Sequence? Hand in paint, touch board, touch face & wait "what is this crap??"}

{She started getting into it faster than I thought she would --- its a sensory thing}

{Following directions when mommy said "let's get some more yellow paint." What a big girl!}

{Busy doing her thang!}

 {The aftermath --- Oh Mylanta!!! Come help me!}

 {Our little proud peach!}

 {It really turned out beautiful! She did the WHOLE thing HERSELF!}

{Once it was dry, I removed the tape --- Taaaa Daaaaaaah!!!}

I'm thinking we have a future Picasso...I mean J-CASSO...on our hands! ;)