Brodg

Scott took this cute picture, don't zoom in cause there's green everywhere, candy leftovers. He's just being silly here, but the missing teeth are great!

Oh, It's about time I told you a few awesome things about this kid! He is truly the best! Just when I think he can't get any cuter he goes and does something that just cracks us up, or makes us swell with pride!

No, Brodge isn't the real name, but it came about when his cousin Chloe started calling him that one day! Melanie loved it and it stuck. When you say his name fast it sounds like "Bro-jr-ik" (that's kind of how it is phonetically, as if I even knew how to spell anything phonetically...) So from that I guess in her little mind she just shortened the Broj sound. I think it's super cute.

So, great story #1: Tonight Scott and the kids and I were watching the Olympics. Brodg can't stay still when exciting things are happening around him. He has to dance or do cartwheels or hand stands, or throw himself on the couch or something else just exploding with energy! And when we first started watching tonight he wanted to move more so he said, "mom, can't we just watch So You Think You Can Dance?" I guess he wanted to dance, dang it! I had to tell him it just couldn't be done. So he started getting into the Olympics. He loved it of course. Every time they mentioned that one of the athletes had a background in gymnastics he would make sure we heard it, "Hey mom! He did gymnastics!"

Well, everyone loved the mogul skiing. It was pretty cool and hey, they do flips! I guess the Americans were doing well at first and Brodric was all about being An American! Soon the top Americans lost some... something, and they both made pretty huge mistakes to throw them pretty much out of the running for any big medals. Bricky said, "I don't think I want to be on the America team anymore. I think I want to be on the Canada team!"

I laughed and laughed, those dang Americans just weren't cutting it any more! Brodric has a standard you know! If you're going to be on his team, you can only be the best! What a cool example of him.

This week Brodric was asked to give the scripture and prayer in Primary. I had to coax him a little bit because he is pretty reserved when it comes to that kinda think. He will only rarely give prayers in our family prayers. He does great when he's in his own bed, but ask him to say it in front of everyone else and it's a different story! So anyway, he said he would!

Today during Sacrament Meeting I gave him the scripture, John 3:16, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. That awesome boy spent the entire meeting memorizing that scripture! He read it over and over again. When he went to give the scripture, he looked as if he was reading it off the paper, but he shot it out like it was his own name! It was great. He had the whole thing down pat! Then in a loud, clear voice, he gave s really good prayer, with a couple of different things added just so we could tell it came from his heart. I was so proud of him!

Right now he has 4 missing teeth. Three on top and one on the bottom. It is SO cute to see him smile! I keep trying to get him to loosen the fourth top one so he can have them all out out at once, but it isn't happening. I think he would look so funny with an even larger gaping hole in his mouth! Very cute!!!

I really want to tell you all the cool things about him like, he is a really good sweeper, he is SOO smart and reads wonderfully like his siblings all did, he is so good at video games that it's tough for the 14 year olds to keep up with him. He loves music and is SO excited to be in piano again. He picks up a violin that we have pretty often and likes messing around with that too. He loves, loves, loves sugar. He gets it as often and as much as he can! Cookies, cupcakes, candy, candy, candy... He's not a good eater, very picky with his food. Nearly every night we have a fight about every meal and we still negotiate the amount of bites he has to finish. I had him in gymnastics a couple of times in his little life, but only for short times, but he continues to love it and begs me for the next time he can sigh up for gymnastics!!! Maybe someday, we'll see...

It makes me pretty sad that he is growing up so fast. He used to NEEED to hug me several times a day, and those have slowed WAY down. He used to love on me so much and now that he's 6 and a half it's fading fast. It always does with kids this age, and that's the worst part of them growing up! I wish they stayed Young forever!!

Until I think of more things or he does something funny again, that's about it. But I'm telling you I feel so proud to be Brodrics mom! How lucky am I?

Last week at Disneyland, right before he lost that last tooth.


This was me and Bricky on California Screamin. He loved it! I was video taping the ride.