February 16th, 2009

For the past few weeks Matt has worked really really hard at accomplishing mew things. Showing us some pretty amazing things he has learned to do. First he still continues to write names with a pen. Hopefully we can soon get him to communicate by writing. He also has been playing cards with Spencer and his speech therapists. They will ask him to pick out the red jack, and he'll do it. They'll tell him to pick out the ace of spades and he'll find that one and pull that one out of the pack. They also had him count change. For example they would ask him if 2 quarters add up to 50 cents, or if 4 quarters is a dollar. Matt would respond by using the one finger is yes and two fingers is no. He still is giving amazing hugs!! Everytime I ask for a hug he reaches out and gives me one. The other day he did something crazy too...he was sitting in his wheel chair and he totally lunged forward toward me with notha arms open wide. He was making a noise and had this look on his face that he was trying to say something. I just reached toward him and asked him "what are you trying to say?" it was pretty cool!! His speech therapists says that matt is definately in there and he understands what's going on. To me that's extremely exciting news!
Just yesterday Matt was sitting at the keyboard and started playing cords on the keyboard. His dad recorded it and I was able to watch it when I got over there. It was amazing, gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes!!! He remembers! He remembers from before, it was so amazing seeing his fingers move across that key board, it reminded me of all the times he would play for me, and all the times I'd sit there and listen to him record. :) I'm so excited!