Kendall and Sharon Batson: Just the boys...

Friday, June 13, 2008

Just the boys...

It doesn't get more precious than this! I love, love, love, how my sweet husband adores his boys!

I promise, I'm as innocent as they come!

We are beginning to see a new phase emerging...These two little guys will now drag out a toy box and play together (sort of). Eli makes lots of noises and crashes things and throws things. Noah will pick up 2 pieces of whatever and bang them together. It's a miracle to me that they can be entertained by this for even 5 minutes!

These were some glow-in-the-dark Harry Potter glasses that somehow never got thrown away. Good thing because they amused Eli for a couple hours the other day! He didn't care that they were on upside down or not even sitting on his ears.

Toddler-hood...it's so tiring! I was working on something at the computer (probably doing something really exciting like trying to pay bills) and Eli and Eric were playing happily and quietly together. I realized things had gotten really quiet. I got up to see what had happened and I saw that Eric had slipped a note under the door saying, "Be quite. Eli is sleeping" (Yes, he really spelled quite instead of quiet! So sweet....they had been playing kind of a hide and seek game and Eli just couldn't quite stay awake any longer.

Our new nickname for Noah is The Gremlin! This face doesn't quite show it. This is just one of his typical huge laughing smiles. We have yet to get the gremlin face on a photo....you'll see it once we do! He attacks and laughs and scrunches up his nose and squints his eyes and bares all his 7 teeth! We laugh ourselves silly trying to escape him!

Who says that toddler toys can't amuse a 10-year-old?

I love the happy grin here.

5 comments:

chuck and april said...: okay, so first, i'm so glad to see that you updated your blog! i've been wanting to see pics of ya'll for so long now and see how you are doing. all the kids look so cute. i especailly like the one of eli asleep. that was funny.; June 15, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Shaila Lou said...: Love the updates on the boys....just as cute as ever!!; June 17, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Kristine said...: That is hilarious that Eli feel asleep while playing hide-n-seek. What a funny place to fall asleep. Good thing you stayed "quite."

Also, I should have said "thanks" a while ago for the dinner invited. I was so disappointed that I had such a raging sinus infection. We need to get together again and maybe barbeque out back. We have the fence up now and Greg is workig on puttin together the play set.; June 22, 2008 at 11:58 PM
jenica said...: they are so cute. we're just getting to that age with G and H where they are actually playing together. i love it.

xoxo; June 30, 2008 at 9:53 PM
Liz said...: Wow you seriously go a long time between blog posts. I love the picture of Eli with those Harry Potter glasses. Truly hilarious.; July 17, 2008 at 3:26 PM

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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?