Raining Cats and Dogs

OK so one of the benefits of having a child with a disability is that you can brag on your child all you want and no one seems to care. Here's my brag for the day: One of our fabulous therapists took some Kleenex boxes and covered them with paper (leaving the opening at the top) and taped a picture of a cat to one box and a picture of a dog to the other. She photocopied about 5 more pictures of the dog and 5 of the cat on cardstock to make flash cards. We have been working with these boxes for a while (but not every single week) showing AVH how to take a flash card and put it in the matching box. He has never seemed very interested in the game or even close to capable of sorting them. For the longest time we have been working on just getting him to let go of the picture as we've helped him place it near the box. But today he sorted through the stack of cards twice and only made ONE mistake - like he had played this game a thousand times! He took a card and not only put it in the box all on his own, but he put it in the RIGHT box!!! We were astounded. The therapist and I were both on the verge of tears - it was SO exciting.