June 28th, 2009

Today Matts family was up from Anaheim. We had a nice bbq and got to see his cousins 8 week old baby Daniel. It was so incredibly hot it Ramona today that we spent most of the time inside but yesterday his dad took Matt out and put his feet in the pool. Matt really liked it. Matt did something cool today. I was finishing up feeding him and he started to get a cranky look on his face. Then he started grinding his teeth. So I asked him what was wrong. He started grumbling so I said van you show me what wrong? He lifted his right arm up and touched his shoulder. So I asked him does it hurt? Do you have an itch? And he started scratching his shoulder. I told him to point where and I would help him out. He pointed and I scratched it for him. You could see when I started scratching he just relaxed. I thought that was pretty amazing because I've been telling him he has to start communicating how he feels. So today was a perfect example! I was so proud of him! If he can continue to do those little things and communicate like that, it shows progress. Now we just have to get him to do these things at his therapy sessions.
In the last month I have been super busy with school and work and I haven't been around as much as I used to. Matt has definitely noticed that I haven't been around as much and his attitude has changed. His parents noticed a change in his participation and just his attitude alone. And we connected it to me not being around as much. I'm going to try and go to his speech therapy sessions at SDSU after I get out of class. Hopefully he'll start participating more.
So just pray that he will start giving speech therapy more of a chance and that he won't get bored.