Therapy-Free Days

Therapy-free days are pretty few and far between around here these days. Kaia has a jam-packed schedule with speech therapy on Mondays, developmental and occupational back to back on Tuesdays, physical on Wednesday, and occupational again on Friday. On Monday we also try to get out to a toddler group and I try to keep Thursday open for storytime at the library. But the last month or so Kaia's PT has only seen her every other week due to vacation, so we've had every other Wednesday free for other activities. Today we went to a nearby church to check out their indoor play area. We had been to one other one recently that is further away, and they are such a great resource. Both are open all day every weekday and are free. That's right - you read that correctly, they're absolutely free. In the winter it's nice to have somewhere like that available when cabin fever sets in and weather prohibits going to an outdoor playground. We met a couple other moms and their kids there and it was nice to get out of the house and do something different. I wonder sometimes what it must be like to have a typically-developing kid and thus no therapies and to have all that "free" time. I can't imagine. I'm sure we would get out even more. I am so thankful to have all the therapies that Kaia receives, though. Her therapists overall are amazing and as a first time mom, it's nice to have all those sounding boards and sources for advice.