HE's doing AMAZING!!!

Today Matt blew us all away! He is doing so much. We have been working so hard to get Matt to listen to commands and follow them. And he does. His mom started asking him to do things like open your hand, close your hand, take this from me, give it back, touch this, touch that. It was amazing! He did all those things. Once I got there I started asking him to do things, like touch my hand, face, nose. He did, it was almost breath taking. I just couldn't believe he was doing all these things. He's only had 7 sessions with his physical therapist and he's doing all these things!! I never thought he would be doing all this so fast and so soon. It's amazing. When I ask Matt to open his hand and he does it, or when I ask him to touch his nose and he his lifts his hand up to his nose. Or when I ask him to take something out of my hand and he does, then I ask him to give it back to me and he does. Awww!!! I'm speechless! I can't even begin to explain how good this feels. He looks so different, he looks like he knows hes doing good things.
Another thing he was doing tonight was swallowing water from his mouth. His mom was giving him a spoon that was dipped in a cup of water and putting the spoon in his mouth. Matt opened his mouth for the spoon and swallowed the water. He did this a lot. For one this is a good thing because he's swallowing and pushing his tongue back to push down the water. He wasn't biting the spoon when we put it in his mouth, and he drank quite a bit of water. This is a really good thing that he's swallowing on command, and listening to commands. Matt's coming along. He's doing it! He's really doing it. I'm seriously the proudest girlfriend right now. My biggest goal right now is to get him to be able to speak and move around on his own by Christmas. I know that is all everyone in this house wants. We just want Matt. It would be the greatest gift of all.