Sensory: Pillow Pal fun

My SIL gave the Dews Pillow Pals for Dew1's birthday.  A Puppy for Dew1 and a Tiger for Dew2.  They love them, needless to say, and they are in bed every night.  Dew1 sleeps on top of it, like an actual pillow, and Dew2 rolls around with it.

Disclaimer:  I sneak in every night after they fall asleep and take them away as they are super soft and have rather deepish plush.  I don't want either of them to end up face down in one, or have it entirely cover their heads / faces.  I know that they are old enough to turn away from it to breathe, but why tempt fate?

But here's the interesting thing.  I never considered the Pillow Pal to be a great Sensory tool.  But Dew1 loves his Pillow Pal, and last night I realized what the deal was.  He's soft.  He's squishy,  and He's very sensory.  I never expected this!  He is a wonderfully soft and furry that he's a sensory activity on the go - and not terribly expensive, either.

Organizing ...

I am a victim of my own brain.

I see tons of great ideas online.  I clip them to Evernote or bookmark them in ReadItLater ... I print them out ... I even start to make some of them ...

and yet I feel like nothing gets done.  I see these great blogs that have new and exciting activities out every week, and I feel like a failure.

My biggest problem is that I think too much.  Possibly, to take some of the blame off of me, it's the Dew's faults that I do this.  They are not your usual kids, and as a result I can not approach some activities the way most parents can.

For example, they do not like matching activities that are just cards in a box.  The dis-organization of it is too much for them to handle.  As a result, they become file folder games.  Which pose their own problems ... the biggest one is what to do with the pieces?  I know that if I tape an envelope or zip loc to the back, it will get torn off first go-round.  so they end up stuck inside, and then within a few minutes they are all over the entire house, never to be seen again.  sigh.

I have many many ideas and activities that I have printed out and started to organize, but just never finished.

I can't just put out workboxes - they'll pop off the lids and we'll have stuff everywhere.

And then there is LapBooking vs NoteBooking.  I have spent countless hours, insomnia-filled nights, and travelling time pondering it all.  I love lapbooks, but like the functionality of binders.  So, how to join them up?  and then when I finally do get one together, they destroy another.  The Cars totbook from Carisa at 1+1+1=1 lasted a little while, but the books are torn out, and the cards are missing (because let's face it, paperclips are just not enough for that job).

So I need to subscribe to my scrapbooking mantra...

Done is Better than Perfect.  Just do it.  By the time I get it all figured out, the Dews will be 15.