Your story is wonderful, so far, Granite!! I am very glad you are writing it.

I am also so happy your T seemed less scary.

I wonder why she never played games with you in the past! Maybe she got my telepathic messages to her to behave differently with you!
I feel comfortable with my T when we walk together or the time I fingerpainted. We haven't played a game but that's the same idea. It gets us to realize that our Ts are just people, like us, except they have experience so they can help us too! Also, you get involved in the activity and forget it's hard to talk, right? That's always how it was for me.