Kendall and Sharon Batson: July 2008

Friday, July 11, 2008

What was I doing 10 years ago?
Uh, was that pre-marriage? Oh well, then, I don't remember. Ha! Seriously, it was a totally different life! Hmmm...1998-recovering from a traumatic relationship (yes, I was doing that often for a few years), working for NuSkin in Provo and playing a lot, yup, that about sums it up.

What's on my to-do list for today?
Well today is over in about 20 minutes. But the major to-do was to go to Post Falls for a Birthday. Check. Oh yeah, and go on the walk. Check. Laundry was done yesterday...Yee haw!

3 Things you might not know about me:
1. I met my husband on eharmony.com. Yes, we really did and we should probably request a lot of money for them to use us on their commercials.
2. I love Swedish Fish. The gummy kind.
3. I'm a tool girl: power, kitchen, whatever...It's common to hear me say, "You must use the right tool for the right job!"

3 Bad Habits of mine:
1. I am the queen of procrastination. I've had an entire life of getting things done at the last minute and not really having things turn out badly. That's not really good reinforcement for changing my ways, now is it?
2. Watching brainless t.v. when I could be doing something WAY more productive.
3. Staying awake because I'm afraid of getting woken up by a baby. Sounds weird, but it never fails...if I try to nap or go to bed early, I'm very rudely woken up by some kid jumping on me or screaming. It's just better to stay awake and go to bed late.

4 tv shows/movies I love:
-Lost
-Greys Anatomy
-America's Got Talent (not for the judges, but some of the people are just so interesting!)
-Get Smart (I laughed harder than I had in a long time)

4 books I love:
-The Palace of Illusions
-Twilight series (yeah, I got sucked in too)
Um...That's about all I've read recently. Do toddler books count?

4 jobs I've had:
-age 16 - Arbys, by far the worst job ever!
-Assistant Event Coordinater, by far my favorite job that paid me money.
-telemarketer, 2nd worst
-Mommy, the hardest, but my favorite.

4 places I've lived:
-Laguna Niguel, California
-Fairbanks, Alaska
-St. Paul, Minnesota
-Pullman, Washington

5 of my favorite foods:
-Ice Cream (usually vanilla with soft fudgy swirls)
-Thai food
-Pasta
-Cheese
-Bread

People I'm tagging:
-Liz
-April
-Carolee
-Whitney Wright

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?