I took my two Valentines to Chuck E Cheese!!! Brody got pushed around by a little girl half his size. He took it like a gentleman and just ignored her. The highlight of the evening was playing skeeball! Brody loved it. Dada was going to let him cheat and crawl up the path to the bucket. 
I started the month out with an email to Nana to not be alarmed if she found Brody on her doorstep. Brody has devised clever ways to distract me to get something he wants. A prime example would be when he went into the kitchen and opened the dishwasher and started playing with the silverware (knives to be exact). I quickly rushed him out and closed the dishwasher. In the seconds it took to do so, Brody had ran back in the living room and grabbed my fruit punch. In attempting to drink it, he spilled it everywhere! Later that evening he did the same thing again. I guess I need to start drinking out of sippy cups.
Brody is a walking, talking goofball. He runs around the house with a bucket on his head wanting someone to kiss him through it. Remind anyone of the movie, Parenthood? Ha. It seems strange to not have a growth update, but between 18 months and 2 years, there are no appts to the doctor except sick visits. I can say that Brody will articulate and can recognize all the letters of the alphabet expect V, W, G, & J. He doesn't sing the alphabet song, but loves when you sing it to him. Brody also enjoys doing the hand motions to Itsy Bitsy Spider...so cute.
Brody has added quite a few new words and phrases to his vocabulary. A quick sampling would be.... "I see you"... my favorite... "PLEEEASSE" He is so cute. It is very hard to deny him anything these days when he says "PLEEASSE". Brody even said "Gerald" when we were visiting Grandma, Dinah and Uncle Gerald. 
Brody's number one wish every day is to go outside. So, today we bundled him up and went to play in the snow. Brody loved the snow and thought it was funny until the cold hit him. We had quite the battle when it was time to come inside. Brody was not happy at all.
Brody must have been on Santa's favorite list. He received very nice gifts for staying off the naughty list. We had a lot of fun playing with all the new toys. He wasn't quite into opening his gifts yet, but he sure was impatient about trying to get the toys out of the boxes. I can't believe that manufacturers actually screw toys into the box? What's that all about?
