Brody Update

I figured I need to get some kind of update up, and since I'm too lazy to get the camera and upload a million pictures I figured I can start with what we have learned about Brody. At his 18 months appt everything was great. He weighs 30lbs, so I officially should not be holding him! He is only 5lbs lighter then Neacel, and people wonder why I call him chunk sometimes :-) We were still concerned about his speech, it hadn't improved much and he had lost some words since his last appointment. So she highly recommended getting a speech and language evaluation.
Fast forward to now, we have gotten the evaluation done.He has gained new words and gotten rid of others. Just as I thought, his hearing is PERFECT! But he does have a moderate expressive speech disorder, which can be fixed with speech therapy once a week, which will start as soon as I remember to call places and get him in. Basically in a nut shell, he screams a lot, and really loud. He doesn't watch people when they talk, if I say "Brody go get mommy your truck" by the time I say go, he is already looking for whatever I might be telling him to get. So because he doesn't watch people talk, and hates playing hand games, which according to the speech pathologist is one way to get them to watch you because they are usually in your lap and can't look away, he doesn't know exactly how to move his mouth. He says Hi and Bye, but they have quite the southern draw, its adorable though, he has other words but those 2 are my favorite. So once therapy starts, we will get him re evaluated 6 months later, and they want him to pass with a 80%. By then they want 15-20 basic words (ball, toy, truck etc) 10-15 action words, 3-5 family names other then dada and momma (even though he still doesn't say momma, I will cry the day he does and it stays) and 10-15 animal names and sounds.....we aren't even close to any of those right now! I'm glad we just have an answer and can get speech therapy started.
In other news, we are finally getting him off the bottle. He only gets them at bedtime and nap time, and even then its only water. He hates this decision we made without him. He is such a happy boy though, growing up so fast though. We know that once Macey is here that he will be a tough one though!