Anyway, when a mother at story time at the library happened to talk about her baby and sensory play I was confused. What was this business of sensory play? Was there something I didn't know? Would my child be behind in life because I hadn't kept up on the terminology?
OK I totally did not ask those questions, that is not me. I was vaguely interested and googled the term and realized that it was exactly as it sounded, play that engages the senses. Something every parent does without trying. Just hand your kid keys while you are in line at the grocery store and boom, sensory play.
Anyway I don't mean to sound snarky about it, because we love us some sensory play and the whole point of this post is to show you some totally adorable (totz adorbs?) photos of my girls engaging in some sensory play. We enjoy our scarf box around here. It is a box of my scarves, not something I specially made for the girls. They just haul out my vintage scarves and twirl and play dress up and peek-a-boo, it's awesome and they can go at it for a long time.
Here we have Elise discovering the box.
She examines a scarf tentatively
She realizes that there are more, many more
She digs in, adorable.
Cordelia gets in on the action, adorable
I answer the call of the scarves and put one on myself
Elise is not happy when I put a scarf on, not at all
Then we put all of the scarves onto Cordelia
She looks like a post-apocalyptic gypsy from Beyond the Thunderdome
A really charming post apocalyptic gypsy
Elise was not impressed and she was all, "wwwwaaaaahhh." and I was like, "quit being a baby." Not really, I just pulled her into my lap for snuggles and this....
Now I must bid you adieu and engage in some follicular massage.
