Bedtime Prayers

Most nights, Brian and I put Brody to bed together and then Brian will spend a little extra time in the room with Brody rubbing his back and talking to him..and most recently saying bedtime prayers together. well brian had to go outside and get the horses ready for the snow last night, so i put brody to bed. I sat down next to his bed and he said "Mama Brody Pray".....MELT MY HEART!! So we thanked Jesus for all of our family, Riley, the horses, his stuffed animals, his pacis....at least 3 times each! LOL he kept naming people that we had already thanked Jesus for, but wouldnt go to sleep until we thanked Jesus for them AGAIN:) i went downstairs for a few minutes and when i came back upstairs, i heard him saying "Nonna and PopPop too, Lindsay and KaKa(Parker) too, Meme and Poppy too...." he was in there thanking Jesus all by himself. i cannot think of anything else i would rather hear!

Big Boy Bed

Brody finally made the transition to a big boy bed last night. It went way better than i thought it was going to! He was very excited when we were converting his crib to the toddler bed. He kept climbing in and out while brian was putting it together. He thought it was so neat that he could climb in all by himself! He went right to bed and didnt try to get out! I did wake up around 1 a.m. to check on him and found him asleep on the floor with his blanket. I picked him up and put him back in bed and i dont think he ever woke up.

When he woke up this morning we left him up there and watched him on the video monitor to see what he would do....and who would have thought, the child stayed in his bed for 30 minutes and didnt even try to get out until we came up there to get him!

I just laid him down for his nap and he didnt try to get out of his bed for naptime either! Sometime i think i dont give him enough credit:) i thought this was going to be a tough transition....well i guess i shouldnt speak to soon....i will let you know after a week:)

Kohout Family Chistmas

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

First Santa Experience

Last Tuesday we learned a very important lesson.....dont wait until the week before christmas to take your kid to see santa. We stood in line for an hour at the mall! Thankfully Brian was with us so we took turns walking around the mall with Brody and keeping him entertained while the other stood in line. I was crossing my fingers that after an hour wait in line, Brody would not be crying when he saw Santa. Believe it or not, Brody ran up to him, jumped in his lap and proceeded to tell him that he wanted a train or "choo-choo" for christmas. He wouldnt smile for any pictures though...he was all business! So serious! We had been telling him for weeks that he would be going to see santa and would have to tell him what he wanted. BUT we didnt warn him that he wouldnt be getting the gifts THAT DAY. When Brody got down from his lap he looking up at me and brian and said "choo-choo?????" with the saddest little look, like "i asked him for a train, why havent i gotten it yet". it was so pitiful:( we told him Santa would be bringing it to his house in a few days. Thankfully no fits were pitched!

Brody was so excited this morning when he woke up and we told him Santa had been to see him ( and had of course eaten the cookies and milk he had left for him:)). Brody came downstairs to see his train table and trains, and then we had to practically beg him to open anymore presents. While brody was playing with his train, he kept saying over and over again " thank you , santa clause" "thank you, santa clause". SO CUTE!!

a GREAT birthday

My birthday was spent at work this year....no biggie...just a 12 hour shift on my birthday:) My family went out of their way to make sure my birthday was not forgotten though. It ended up being a great birthday! my mom showed up first thing in the morning at work with a cake for me and a platter of fruit:) such a sweet mommy! Then around lunch time one of my co-workers came to my door and told me i had a visitor. i told her to tell them i would be out in a few minutes, since i was still with a patient. She said " no, you better come now". Im thinking what in the world cannot wait a few minutes. i go out in the reception area to the sweetest sight i have EVER seen....it brought tears to my eyes! There stands the cutest little boy in the world holding a dozen roses for his mommy:) Seriously, the best birthday present ever. Then he took me out on a lunch date....accompanied by my amazing husband of course!

Road Trip

Brian, his brother Adam, and nephews Jordan and Josh went on a road trip this weekend to see the Colts/ Brocos game in Indianapolis. Brian is a huge Colts fan and Adam and the boys are big Brocos fans, so i was fun for them to watch their teams play against each other. It was a long drive for such a short trip, but it sounds like they had a blast! Adam got the tickets totally last minute and they hopped in the car saturday, got to Indy around 1 a.m., saw the game at 1 p.m. on sunday and got right back in the car to head back home. Brian literally walked in the door on monday morning at 6 a.m. took a shower and headed back out the door for work!

Brody's 2nd Birthday

Im pretty sure November 21, 2009 was the best day of brody's life so far.....im sure he thought so at least:) He was surrounded by the people he loves and our house now looks like christmas already hit, due to the amount of new toys EVERYWHERE! We had the grandparents, Parker and Linds, and Brody's "adopted grandparents", Brooks and Alice, over for lunch and cake and icecream.

Brian and Brooks have been working for weeks to build Brody a playset. I was so impressed the first time i saw it....they did an AMAZING job! We got it all set up in the yard the morning of his birthday and brought him out to see it for the first time with everyone there. He played on it for quite awhile, with the only thing able to get him back inside was the promise of more presents/surprises or "prizes" as he calls them:)

Later in the evening we had his little friends from small group/ church over for cake and icecream. He of course loved having them all over to play! oh, and he got embarrassed and shy each time we sung happy birthday to him....lol...how do kids learn to be embarrassed at such an early age?!

After a full day of celebrating my baby's 2nd birthday, i was feeling so incredibly thankful for all of the amazing people in his life (and ours) that love him so much and treat him like he is their own! We have such a close group of friends at church that i feel so blessed to have them around as brody is growing up, knowing that they will lead and direct him and help him grow into an amazing man of God! WE ARE SO BLESSED!