The Sheepy Sheep for Sleep Giveaway
Say that 5 times fast! I can’t. But I always did slur my S.
Back in September, a week or two before my daughter Quinnlin had her kidney transplant we received an anonymous package at my office. It was from the Therapy Shoppe and inside I found a sound machine sheep and various little games and finger toys. I remembered about a blogger friend (love our Internets People) who’d once referenced the finger toys and I guessed correctly the package was from her.
The best thing about the Sleep Sheep, who Quinn named Sophia but mostly calls Sheepy, is that is has calming sounds. Quinn’s favorite? The ocean, which has a whale sound. There are 4 sounds and to Quinn the mother’s heartbeat is “weird,” even though I explained before she was born that she loved the sound of my heartbeat! The rain and white noise sounds are pretty real, too.
Quinn’s story was told by a local reporter and in the final editing you can hear her say on tape, “Where’s my sheep!” Sheepy went into surgery with Quinn (mask and cap, of course) and was there at her head when she was in recovery. I tweeted a picture of her, just an hour after surgery. Sheepy has been a part of our lives since, sleeping with Quinn every night, makes all overnight road trips and has been to a number of clinic visits where she has her labs drawn. It’s extremely soft and has a little texture. I don’t think we’ve changed the batteries that came with it, I guess in part to the automatic shut off timer.
The Therapy Shoppe loved that Quinnlin loves Sophia/Sheepy and wanted to share one with our community. We bet your child (or secretly, you) would love to snuggle up your own Sleep Sheep. To thank them we gave them a blog ad.
To have a chance to win your own Sheepy, you need to be a member (so register if you haven’t) and then leave a comment here about a dream, good or bad, from you or your child. It doesn’t have to be long, either. We’ll do a randomizer drawing again. If I were going to enter, I’d just say, “When Quinn was four she had a dream about scary flying monkeys and still remembers it.” But for you folks and the purpose of finishing a funny story, I’ll add that two weeks later her aunt gave her a book about monkeys and Quinn thought that was very mean. Said aunt did NOT know about the scary monkeys dream and we still laugh about it today. And we still have the book, titled Naughty Monkeys!
You have until Friday, May 14, 2010 at 5:00CST to register for our site and then comment for a chance to win.
If you don’t win, don’t worry, you can own your own Sheepy for what I think is worth way more than $25.99 plus shipping. But spend some time on their site…they have some cool stuff. Especially for my anxiety-ridden boy the fidgets (calming toys) came in handy for school.
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About The Author
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is founder of Support for Special Needs and has been a regular contributor since its inception in May 2010. A mom to two kids with special needs, she didn't want other parents to feel what is the often isolating world of raising a child (or two!) with disabilities. Her kids had kidney transplants at the age of eight and will need liver transplants in the future as a result of ARPKD/CHF. They both have vision disorders and learning disabilities.
I can’t win (whole owner/family rule) but wanted to tell everyone to leave a comment!
Lil bit (3) dreams about going to grandma’s house a lot. I can tell when she does, because she comes running into my bedroom in her little footed jammies, asking if we can go to grandma’s and make the special treat they made in her dream. Sadly, grandma lives 4 states away.
Can’t believe I’m finding time to comment, but Julia told me too and these days as sleep eludes me I pretty much do as I am told. From an OT standpoint, these sheep are wonderful for soothing sensroy input. MAny people are aware of sensory processing difficulties with older children, however it is also present in newborns and infants. I remember way back when I worked for a private provider and was seeing a three month old who screamed at the top of her lungs during the nightime hours anytime Mom picked her up. After many weeks of problem soving we finally figured out that the texture of Mom’s nightgown was adversive to her setting off tactile sensitivities. I am excited about the sheep and love the Therapy Shoppe. Their customer service is wonderful and they always have what I am looking for.
Now if only I could get some sleep with my newborn;)
Both my little ones have speech delays, so I will have to wait awhile to hear their dreams. I hope they are mostly happy and filled with images of the things they seem to love-blocks, numbers, animals, books-and the sound of music that helps lull them to sleep(for at least an hour at a time!).
I actually dream quite often about doing therapies or checking on little ones!
Julia, (who wakes up every night, though not usually because of dreams), woke one night last year after a seriously scary dream about a giant squirrel. She was four and sleepy so I didn’t get all the details, but from what I could make out, he was trying to chew his way into the house.
My little one dreams all the time – they are always convoluted and scary to him, but he can’t explain them.
I had a dream the other night that my kids were all getting ready to perform the Hula, but were wearing socks instead of bare feet! I wanted to tell them to take off their socks, but could not for some weird dream reason!
We always always have had trouble with nighttime with our son. Mostly he’s okay now but he had a crib vibrator until not that long ago. And he’s almost 2.5. Still has to have the radio and a sound machine!
Ava always says she dreams about princesses or grammy or whatever….Ethan never tells us about any dreams so I don’t know about him. I’m too tired to dream nowadays!
I often dream about being in a very old big house with many rooms. Sometimes the rooms look like rooms of houses I have lived in. I admit to being the Aunt who gave Quinnie the book about the monkeys…
My daughter Hannah told me the other morning that she had a dream about me giving her kisses… how sweet is that?? I’m not sure if it was true or not – she really hasn’t described many dreams and I’m not sure she knows what they are – but she was sweet enough to tell me she dreamed about my kisses. She had a smile on her face, and it certainly put a smile on mine. Smiles are sometimes hard to come by these days so I treasure each one!!
My 4 y/o son had a dream last week that we lived in a house with a few giant ants. All he really remembered was their choice of breakfast: toast with grape jelly.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Courtney 🙂
I have always ha dreams that are so lucid that they are more real than reality at times. They are mostly about things that could really happen, so I’ve got to be careful assuming that something happened that I may have actually dreamed. One recently was about my dad and my son Oliver, and I ended up looking for my dad later(after I woke)… I didn’t realize right away that he really has been dead for almost 3 years now and never met Oliver.
I wish I had a more exciting comment to leave but I rarely remember my dreams and my daughter Payton who is 7 yrs old is cognitively delayed so she can’t really tell me about her own dreams! 🙁 But love this little sheep and think she would too!
Christine 🙂
Love it! My 3 year old has sensory integration issues and getting his sleep on track has been probably the biggest use of our parenting energy. Anything that might help…
i need the sleepy sheep! my five (almost 6) year old was bit by a dog in March and has been having horrible nightmares ever since (plus, she is already traumatized by having two older siblings with some pretty severe special needs – her big sister just got back from RTC)