This week as I've been thinking about Brody turning 2, I thought I should write down some of the funny things that he says and does. This is probably mostly for me since I use this as my scrapbook, but hopefully you'll get a laugh or two out of them also.
1. One of my favorite things Brody has been doing lately is saying his own prayers. I love to hear what he comes up with at night to thank Heavenly Father for. Obviously he can't do the whole prayer by himself but he does a pretty good job! He usually says, "Heavenly Father, thank you for this day, thank you for......" Then he goes into the things he's thankful for. Most the time it's Mom, Dad, members of our extended family (we're still working on getting the baby brother thing!), and then whichever toys he wants to say thank you for. Most the time it's cars or his puppies he sleeps with. Tonight, however, he made Jared and I both laugh out loud during his prayer. He said thank you for mom, dad, and then noticed some Coco Puffs (which we don't usually have, but since we've had company we let Brody stir in 10 or so into his bowl of kix). He pulled the little bowl over in front of him and thanked Heavenly Father for his "Coco Cuffs". Can you tell the poor kid doesn't get much sugar?
2. Brody says 3 or 4 words sentences pretty regularly. He loves to look outside when we're driving in the car and he doesn't stop talking much when we're driving around. He'll say things like, "Mommy, I see balloons" or "Mommy, a tractor right there..see!" We love seeing what he picks out. He has an eagle eye lately for things like helicoptors, motorcycles, American flags, fields, the ocean, school and city busses, Papi's truck (any white truck), and Mickey's car (any white van).
3. Brody loves to wrestle and be tickled. He also likes to hit us with pillows. However, recently he's become very polite and tells us "glasses off" before he proceeds to hit us with pillows!
4. Brody loves to sing. He sings songs to himself all the time. He loves the Hot diggety dog song off of Mickey Mouse Playhouse. The only song he'll let us sing to him at night when in his bed is "I love to see the temple". If you sing another one, he still makes you sing the "temple song". I've also been teaching him how to spell B-R-O-D-Y by plugging it into the B-I-N-G-O song. He walks around singing that one quite a bit! His other favorites we hear from time to time are the missionary song (see video below) and happy birthday.
5. Brody has become very polite by saying "excuse me". He uses this in the right form when he has a bodily function, when he wants you to move, or when he's trying to interrupt (we're still working on this one, but he's getting much better at it!)
6. Brody has a bizarre obsession with "The Bee Movie". I don't know what it is about that movie, but he loves it! (that and Cars are his two favorites) He often tells us "Thinking Bee, Thinking bee" and "Black and Yellow, Hello!"
7. He comes out with words often that we had no idea he knew. One of my favorites (that I probably shouldn't promote, but it's too stinking funny!) is "Oh Gosh..." Apparently I say this a lot and he now repeats this in appropriate situations. This last week when we were at Jared's Grandparents house he went in their bathroom and looked at the wall. They have a very nice marble looking shower area with brown swirls in the design. He points at it and says, "Ew, disgusting". I had no clue he knew disgusting and I just about died laughing!
8. Another of my favorite words Brody says is snuggle. Except it's "nuggle, nuggle, nuggle". I want to put it in a tape recorder and keep it forever! He usually does this while giving us hugs and patting us on the back.
9. Brody also likes to pretend he's talking on the phone. He picks up our phones, says, "Hellooo" (with the lls as a y) and jabbers away like he has something very important to say. Most recently he answers every question we ask with a very deep "yeah" and so he says this a lot on the phone like someone is asking him very important questions!
10. Something else we find rather funny is what Brody asks for first thing when he wakes up in the morning. Most the time it's mommy or daddy, but sometimes he comes out with an "applesauce" or most recently "play cars". I'm beginning to think he must dream about his cars!
Well, I hope you enjoyed getting to know my Brody boy a little better. He really is hilarious and has such a funny little personality. I know this post will be enjoyed mostly by our family members, so I added a video. It's pretty long, but the second half is pretty cute. This is Brody singing the missionary song. You have to listen carefully as I tend to forget I need to be quieter when trying to record Brody. Enjoy!
