What is that you may ask -as we did - some kind of therapy employing hippogriffs? It's actually therapy on a horse. Cicily does her hippotherapy with an experienced, caring physical therapist named Rachel and a patient pony named Ruby. I could explain hippotherapy, but this is a short, great explanation already written, (plus I'm really not a hippotherapy expert yet). http://www.americanequestrian.com/hippotherapy.htm It basically just makes sense in an intrinsic sort of way - you sit on a horse that moves and your brain figures out better how to move. It is more expensive than other therapies, because we have to pay the stable costs. We sort of count it as Cicily's "extra-curricular" activity for now, since we can't exactly pay for dance or singing lessons for her, so she gets horse time (which she probably loves better anyway).
Cicily LOVES seeing all the horses and petting Ruby! Enjoy some pictures of Cicily enjoying her Ruby time.
Signing "walk" to let Ruby know to get the fun started.
After each lap around the arena, Cicily gets to climb off Ruby and tickle her nose. It's definitely Cis' favorite part of the whole deal.
Telling Ruby thank you.
Mommy's favorite part of hippotherapy.
6 comments:
so sweet. That is great that she gets to do that!
I LOVE this!! So fun for her and she looks pretty comfortable on Ruby. She also looks really happy. What a great opportunity!
This is priceless! As a long term horse lover myself, I can attest to the value of "horse time" - or hippotherapy - call it what you will. It works! Cis looks so good and so happy - how we admire her sweet, sturdy little personality, and the family who gives her 100% plus. You are heroes to us all!!
The best part is Cicly looke happy everywhere .It's nice to see her pictures.Janalyn i had a miscarriage and it's more hard then i ever thought it would be.
She is an awesome girl. She is growing up so fast. I was just noticing a couple of Sunday's ago that she is getting so tall.
Thank you so much .
Love Bharti
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