Ryan's Therapies

I have been thinking about Ryan's therapies a lot lately. Do we do too many therapies? Is it even worth it? For those of you who do not know, Ryan has been developmentally delayed in a lot of areas and has sensory issues. Developmentally he is catching up with children his age. He is finally walking and eating well (for the most part). His major delay is speech at this point. His speech therapist is amazing and she has been coming to our home for about 6 weeks now and he is showing amazing improvement. His other therapy is occupational therapy. She works on fine motor skills and sensory integration. For lack of better words, he just doesn't like to touch things! Food, sand, dirt, certain fabrics are all impacted by this. He is just a particular little boy... I wonder where he gets it from? :) Anyways, as I have been thinking about these therapies and him I came across some pictures of him doing "therapy". Take a look!

Here is he playing with water. This is to help with sensory
intergration as well the fine motor skill of rotating his wrist.

This is to help with him getting vestibular imput. He loves it so much!

This last one is working on sensory integration as well.
He is playing with vanilla pudding. We work on him
playing with it and licking it off his fingers. It is
amazing how hard this is for him and how most kids just do it!

After looking at these pictures I have realized that every one of these pictures was taken because he was having fun! Maybe not at first but after he realized that it could be fun he had a blast and I took a picture to remember that! So, even though our schedule is jam packed, and even though sometimes I would rather have a day off of therapy, ultimately he is having fun and it IS helping him! So, I guess I will sacrifice my time and energy for him.... he is worth it! :)