April 3rd, 2009

I'm really happy to report that Matt has really started to communicate with us by using the yes/no buttons. He was first introduced to these buttons back in February at the SDSU evaluation. The yes button is green and the no button is red. His dad and mom were asking him questions such as "do you like standing, does standing make you clear headed, do you like being able to communicate, are you hungry, do you want a grape sucker, do you want a watermelon sucker?" Matt was able to clearly use the buttons to answer them. He also just seems so much more alert and clear headed. He looks happy. The other night we were watching TV and he moved a little and a huge smile came across his face. He was just lit up with this smile. I was so happy to see that. I asked him if he could give me a smile showing teeth and I was laughing with him and smiling showing my teeth. He then smile again but this time with his two front teeth showing. It was really neat. I swear it was like he was trying to laugh at me. Seeing these new things that he's figuring out is just really exciting.
This weekend we are all going to go to the del mar fair grounds to the hot road show. I think this will be really good stimulation. For him. He'll be out side around a ton of people and he'll have plenty to look at. Ill blog about our adventure later. And for Easter my family is having his family over. This will be good too. Its a change of scenery and he'll be able to see Riley! I'm excited to see what both of their reactions will be. And it'll be the first time that my grandparents will have seen him since before the accident.
I'm very hopeful for a promising month. He goes back to SDSU next friday for the next 3 Fridays. They will continue working on his speech progress.
Ill keep everyone updated on that progress as well.