Kendall and Sharon Batson: January 2010

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Catching up with the Batsons!

Happy Birthday Eric!

Near the beginning of November we unexpectedly took a trip to Idaho for Kendall's grandather's funeral. It just so happens that the perfect stopping point is the Nampa/Caldwell neighborhood. My parents live there as well as Kendall's sister and her family.

Since it was just a couple of days before Eric's 12th birthday, we took the opportunity to celebrate with lots of family that we don't get to see very often. I baked a cake at my folks' house, then we took it over to Kendall's sister's home and shared it with her family, Kendall's parents and his older sister as well. Eric was in disbelief that I could have made a cake without his knowing about it. He even asked me just a couple of days ago how I did it. :) Giggle! We sang and ate chocolate cake. And had cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents there to celebrate with him. Fun times!

We had a nice quiet Thanksgiving here at home. We did a semi-real Thanksgiving dinner. The main things that Kendall wanted were a pumpkin pie, and a berry pie. I knew 2 pies would be a bit much for our little family, but I went with it. We found some gorgeous blackberries at Costco and I did my best. I think out of all we ate that day the blackberry pie was my favorite! Kendall loved it too! I had to take a picture to prove I did it and, of course, Eli insisted on being in the picture! The pie was a nice accomplishment, but not nearly as wonderful as having Eli in my life!

Speaking of Eli, he is really developing his creative side. He is extrememly interested in things from my bathroom and for some reason they're even more exciting when mixed with his toys. This is one of his "sculptures" that I found one day. Bummer that I didn't have a good setting on the camera, it's kind of dark, but I had to include it anyway. He was really proud of it.

Just cute Noah. He was a little tired, obviously, but still so cute and sweet!

Just a fun day in the tub...Doesn't it look like Eli is about to do something devious? And somehow, Noah is the one laughing his head off!

A couple of goofy Noah pics...

Finally Christmas time! We set up our tree which, thankfully, is prelit. We didn't even put any ornaments on it because the little guys wouldn't leave it alone. It was so abused throughout the season, I can hardly believe it was still standing through Christmas!

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?