Kendall and Sharon Batson: August 2007

Friday, August 17, 2007

Today is Noah's 3 day in this big bad world and he's just living it up. He is sleeping most of the time and eating really well. He doesn't fit into any of his clothes yet, so he mostly wears little gowns that don't have to fit perfectly.

Noah arrived about 3 weeks early, but is doing perfectly well. We left the hospital at about 11am yesterday (Thursday) morning. I think the hospital staff thought I was nuts that I wouldn't max out my stay there. I knew the rest of the family needed us home and I missed Kendall and the other boys so much. It is so nice to have a healthy and strong baby and to bring him home so shortly after his birth. This is such a drasticly different experience than what we had with Eli. So peaceful, so easy, so perfect. We are profoundly grateful.

His big brothers have mixed feelings about his arrival. Eric is so proud and comes to check on Noah in regular intervals. Eli is insanely jealous and it takes all the big people in the room to protect Noah from Eli's attemts at attacks. Eli is also so curious and facinated by this baby and wants to love him in his own special way too.

Snug as a bug.

I'm thinking about opening my eyes!

Okay, I'm really here!

What is this silly outfit?

I must protest!

Nap time once again.

Dazed big brother

Proud big brother

Official weigh in: 6 lbs. 15 oz. and 19.4 inches.

Yes, I've had lovlier moments, but none so precious.

Announcing the arrival of....

Noah Kimball Batson!
Noah was born on Tuesday, August 14th at 9:33 pm in Pullman Regional Hospital.
He weighed 6 lbs. and 15 oz. and was 19.4 inches long.
He has light brown (almost blonde) hair.

Thoughts and photos to come very shortly!

Friday, August 10, 2007

dad and E2

Here's our family, as goofy as we are.

The Final Countdown

I'm trying to catch up with everyone else by setting up this blog. The urgancy lies in the fact that any day/week now we will have a new baby boy in our home. This should be the easiest way to share the info with everyone, right? Or so it seems. More to come.....

Sharon

Who's saying what?

September 12, 2009
Oh to be in so much wonder of the world as a two year old! Noah looks at new things every day and loves to say, "Wow! Amazing!" Oh yeah and he calls everything wonderful too!

July 23, 2009
Since about May or so Eli has been very interested in how old he is. When we ask him, he says, "I freezer old!"
I made the mistake once of giving him 3 of some sort of treat, saying that he got 3 because he's 3 years old. Now, anytime I give him anything he says, "But I freezer old!" Meaning, I MUST give him 3!

A couple of weeks ago we were going to play with the Huismans. Eli knew he would see Greg and he started asking, "Mommy Greggars freezer old too?" "Yes, Eli, Greggars is 3 years old just like you." He thought for a moment and then figured out, "Oh! He same big are me!" I love 3 year old grammer.

Eli has also memorized when his birthday is. When we ask him he says, "My burfday is Febrary!" Since his birthday is on the 5th, I showed him that he could hold up all 5 fingers. Now when we ask him he says, really loudly, "My burfday Febrary fift!" with whole lot of spit and a very proud extended high five-style hand.

Today at the park Noah was having a blast climbing UP the slide. IT was a fairly tall slide and he felt very accomplished. When he would get to the top, he'd hang his head over and look for either me or Eli then say, "What doing?" Then he'd laugh and slide on down. This was repeated a bunch of times.

Some of Noah's phrases lately, "Where are you?" "Oh, there I are!" "I wanna hide" (usually under a blanket or a table, etc.) He'll tell us a whole lot of gibberish that we don't understand, while holding his hands out, palms up, like he's explaining something. Then he says, "K?", very know-it-all like we should know exactly what he's talking about.

11-09-08
"Don't mess with me!"
This is said as he waves his finger at me and gives me a squinted-eye look.

September 2008
"I wanna like pirate!" As he climbs up and sits on top of the toilet tank. Anyone seen that commercial?

"I wanna like friends!" This means that he wants to hold hands and walk toward whereever it is HE wants to go.

"I wanna sleep mommy." This means that I have to lay down and fall asleep with him.

"I wanna need it." He wants to need just about anything that anyone else has.

July 2008
This is what I heard from the back of the van tonight. "bacons? (translation: spankins? as in do you need spankins?). Time out! bacons! time out!" Wow, is this how I sound to him?

"Later! Catch the bus!" As he puts on his really cool free IKEA backpack (upside down, mind you) and is heading toward the door. But before getting to the door he had to come back and get his good bye kiss. He just wants to be like daddy and big brother!

"Out!", he screams to me, pointing his finger to get me out of HIS kitchen (which, by the way, he pronounces chichen). Hmmm...where would he get this kind of bossiness?