Brody's latest

Brody is growing up so fast these days. We feel like there isn't a baby that resides at the Kohout house anymore...just a little boy. He is into everything. If Brian does something, Brody automatically assumes that he can do it too. He loves life on the farm, and being around the horses. Here's a few pictures of Brody playing with buck in the pasture, "helping" work on the car with Brian and trying to sneak a kiss from one of his girlfriends- Savanna.

Communication

Over the past 2 weeks Brody has been talking more and more. Its like a switch went off, and he is putting words together! Today (after some prompting from me, of course) he said "thank you, meme" to brian's mom for dinner! So cute! We started teaching brody some sign language when he really little. And he has been so great about using it to communicate. Its really taught him some manners before he was able to talk. He says "thank you" in sign language all the time to us.....without prompting from us...which is amazing! and makes me feel like im doing something right ....lol! He uses "please" quite often too...mostly after was say "what do you say if you want that, brody". BUT, it really has taught him how to be polite before he knew how to use the actual words. I love that he is starting to communicate more with words! I dont know if other parents do this, but whenever brody says or does something new, i think we make him sick of it because we get him to do it over and over again. When he knows we think something is cute, he does it repeatedly because of the reaction we give. He started saying "oh-no" a couple of weeks ago. So we get him to say it all of the time:) We were on the way to take him to Brian's parents house for the weekend, he started PRACTICING saying "oh-no, meme" and "oh-no Poppy". He said it over and over again to himself, like he was trying to get it just right so he could show them his new words....lol.

Hacker!!!

Apparently somebody hacked into my blog.....*cough, cough* MELISSA:) Although ....EVERYTHING in that blog post was very true. We have been blessed to have Jonas and Melissa live with us for a few days before they move. Its been wonderful to get to spend some extra time with them...although it will probably make me miss them more. We've had alot of late nights just talking and hanging out after we put the boys to bed. We love them dearly and will miss them so much! I feel so blessed to have them in our lives and i am so excited for what the Lord is going to do through them when they go overseas!

Jonas and Melissa are so awesome. There little boy Luke is so much fun too! I love having them in our home. Melissa is making a yummy chicken parm meal for us all tonight. I am going to cry for a long time when they leave. 

Putting it together...

i know its been awhile since ive posted. weve been enjoying our summer! between lots of trips to the beach and doing alot of work around our property, weve been staying extremely busy! Brody is learning new words all the time and this week ive really been able to tell hes starting to put more words together. Ive been hearing lots of "bye-bye, Mama" and  "Hi, Dada" and "uh-oh Mama". This week he did pull out a new one...he spilled a drink while we were eating dinner out and kept saying "oh no, oh no, oh no". it was really hard to be upset about the spilled drink when you are hearing words come out of your sons mouth that you have never heard him say before. We could stop laughing. Then later, i was having trouble changing his diaper because he was being so squirmy and he said "oh no, Mama"...so cute:) i love seeing his mind work....its like he has to put alot of thought into how to get his mouth to say more than one word. im enjoying this age so much....i love to his mind working. 

July 4th

We spent our 4th of July at the beach house of course:) we did get to stay for almost a week which was wonderful! brian had the week off of work and i took some time off as well. The 4th is my favorite holiday to spend at the beach house. you can literally see 20 different sets of fireworks going off at one time from our house. It sticks really far out on a point in the sound...so you can sit on the porch and see topsail, surf city, wrightsville beach, holly point (the list goes on and on) 's fireworks....not to mention all of the other random people shooting them off, up and down the beach! its so amazing! we tried to keep Brody up to watch them, but he was exhausted from a day on the boat. however...our crazy dog (who is all of a sudden terrified of fireworks) runs down the hall to find a place to hide, busts into brody's room, knocks over something onto the pack and play, and of course wakes him up. So, since he was awake at this point we brought him outside to see them. he wasnt too sure at first but ended up loving them. he called them "booms":) the next morning he looked outside and asked if there were going to be more!

Brody also got to ride the tube for the first time. yes, i know he is only 19 months old! he rode it WITH brian. AND you have to understand that i come from a family where my brother and i were water skiing behind the boat, all by ourselves, at the age of 3!!! so hes got to get used to being behind the boat at a young age! He definitely did not LOVE it.....but after he rode it for awhile he started waving and blowing kisses. So its a start:)