Ask as you shall receive..............encouragement!!!

Sounds like things are moving along great actually. Your husband seems to be really reaching out, at his own pace, which is huge from just a month or two ago. Where it was completely stagnant.

I don't see anything negative from him, only small positive steps, you just need to curb those expectations.

All you can do is put one foot in front of the other, right?

What is his LL? are you working that angle a bit?

The hockey game invite is HUGE!!!! HAVE SOME DAMN FUN!!!!
as long as your not playing my Pens that night anyways.

Just let him lead for a while, your doing it!! I'm so proud how far you've come, isn't it much easier than limbo? You have direction finally, you have some goals, you have some success. Don't let your mind take you backwards, you've worked so hard to get where you are.

As far as date night, I highly recommend completely new places for now, change of scenes, no old stomping grounds yet as you don't want him having some kind of trigger to memories past.
Discover some new places together, build some new bonds. You cant keep living off old memories, so make some new ones.

A cooking class together?, a dance class? It must really be starting to get cold up there, so limits a lot of what you can do outside. Is here any hobbies he's enjoyed in he past that you can get involved with?

Anyways, stay the course

Here's to continued success.