Kendall and Sharon Batson: Snow Week

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Snow Week

So we got a little snow...what's the big deal? I couldn't believe when church was cancelled. I thought for sure there would be school on Monday, but no, not today either, and also not tomorrow! We had some clear skies yesterday then we got several more inches last night. That was on top of the foot + from Saturday into Sunday. Sheesh. I did venture out to the grocery store by myself this morning. It was pretty trecherous, but I had a glorious hour and a half or so to myself. Nevermind that I had no idea where the lines were on the road and that I couldn't stop at the stop signs. I was alone! I bought milk and eggs, so thrilling.
I guess Spokane area schools haven't closed for snow in over 10 years and certainly not for 3 days! I guess we have a days reprieve, then another storm is expected tomorrow night with 4-6 more inches! Will the kids go to school at all this week? We've been watching lots of movies, doing lots of coloring (Eli screams Draw! Draw!), and just goofing off. Tomorrow I think I'll grind some wheat and have the kids help me make cookies and banana bread. Yum! We could make such a wonderful mess!

Here's the entrance to our apartment building.

Kendall spent a while uncovering the van.. This was Monday morning...we have more snow now.

Doesn't he just look like he's about to do something terrible?

Eli loved the snow. When it was time to go in I had to take him kicking and screaming!

The slides were particularly fun with the slick snow at the bottom!

Church was cancelled...what else were we to do?

Here's the view from our back patio. This is looking kind of south-ish towards the main street, Division.

3 comments:

chuck and april said...: i can't believe this. i read an article about how much snow you guys are getting. chuck said he misses it. hmmm hard to guess, but i don't miss that. i mean it looks beautiful. and one thing i love about that much snow, is at night, the stillness and calmness can be heard. i love that. i love it when it's so quiet, you can hear the snow falling. but other than that, i'm fine without it!! love you guys!! april; January 31, 2008 at 6:23 AM
Mandy said...: Are you sure you guys moved? The picture of the entrance to your apartment sure looks just like your old apartment! Looks like you guys had fun in the snow! Hope you are liking the new place, we miss you guys - Georgey still talks about Eric all the time!; February 5, 2008 at 7:05 PM
Kersten said...: Hey, I just found your blog!! I love it!!; February 27, 2008 at 11:01 AM

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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?