GREAT AND WONDERFUL NEWS!!!!

Yesterday Matt took and pen and wrote his name on a piece of paper at therapy. Amazing right?!! So last night we did the same thing and he took the sharpie pen and wrote his name, then his dad asked him to wright my name. He did, and he continued to wright his moms name, his dads name and Brit's name. It was amazing! We all had to keep the tears from flowing. It was such a relief to see him do this and just breath taking. I just kept praising him and telling him to look at what he was doing! I grabbed his face and kissed him then as I went to hug him he lifted his arm up and wrapped his hand around my head and squeezed me. I just buried my face in his neck. I didn't want to let go. I just kept saying how proud I was of him and how excited I am to see his improvements everyday. It doesn't matter how bad of a day your having or what went right or wrong, when I come home and see him and see everything that he is doing new today it washes everything else away.

Matt has such a strong ability to read into what we are all thinking and feeling. If I'm having a bad day he can totally read that and he gets into a frump. If you go and have a talk with him about whatever, he listens and takes it all in. I try and have talks with him about his recovery and how important it is for him to never give up hope of having a full recovery about once a week. Every single day Matt continues to make more and more improvements. So far this first month of the new year has been very exciting and I can't wait to see what the next few months will bring for his recovery.