Kendall and Sharon Batson: Christmas with the Batsons 2008

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Christmas with the Batsons 2008

On Sunday, the 21st, we opened a few presents since Eric was going to be leaving us for Christmas. The boys were thrilled with presents from the Grandmas! Star Wars Action Figures, Duplo Blocks and planes are just what our kids love!

Christmas Morning 2008!

Christmas is so fun and chaotic with tiny kids! The "babies" were up several times through the night so by 6 something they were ready to go! Unfortunately, Kendall and I were ready to GO back to bed! My mistake for leaving the christmas tree lights on through the night and putting all the presents out....Yeah, even half asleep Eli notices stuff like that!

Well, we got ourselves semi-concious and let the ripping begin! They tore those packages open with wreckless abandon and didn't care one bit what the tags said! Somehow we got it through, at least to Eli, which toys belonged to which kid. Ah, who am I kidding? They all go in the same toy box and Eli steals everything from Noah no matter what we say!

12-26-08

This one's for Megan! Noah was "reading" the newspaper while I was talking to you!

5 comments:

Wade said...: Looks like you had a wonderful Christmas!! Hope your New Years is full of excitement as well :); December 28, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Anne said...: LOVE all the new pics!; December 28, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Campbells said...: The boys look so cute opening their presents! I can not beleive that the car in the ditch!!!! crazy! He must of been going fast! Bet he learned a valuable lesson. Love the picture of Eric making the snow angel, and the one of you was pretty cute too! Glad you had a great christmas! I will call you next week when we get back from my brothers! miss you
love nik; December 28, 2008 at 7:10 PM
Holly said...: Sharon - Hey we just received your Christmas card and letter. I'm so glad you included your blog address. Send me an email and I'll send you an invite! hollywestonatgmaildotcom
Love all the pictures of the snow! Your brag book for Noah is darling. Such a cute idea - it looks like it was a ton of work. Glad Christmas was so wonderful for you!; January 8, 2009 at 7:22 AM
chuck and april said...: your kids are so cute. looks like you had a good christmas too. i couldn't believe all the snow in washington this year. we were in yakima and basiclly snowed in! we didn't leave yakima until it was time to go to seattle to fly out. can you believe that? if the weather was clearing up in yakima, it was pouring snow on you guys. i so wish we could have made it up there to see you guys. i miss you!; February 1, 2009 at 12:53 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?