Kendall and Sharon Batson: Uncle Rex House!

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Uncle Rex House!

We took a recent short trip over to the "West Side". That's what people in Eastern Washington call Western Washington.

We spent a couple of nights at Kendall's brother's house. The whole thing was pretty spontaneous and it turned out so well! We had a BBQ on the Monday night. It was pretty amazing that on that short notice, 2 of Kendall's other siblings were able to attend with their significant others. We had 4 of the 8 brothers and sisters as well as 9 out of the 21 grandchildren in one spot at one time. Pretty good for no advance planning!

6 Little boys! They were in heaven having each other to play with! Well, I guess Lucas didn't have a clue, but if he knew any better he would have been super excited!
Matthew, Noah, Paul, Andrew, Eli and Lucas.

Rex and Angie...Thanks for hosting guys! It was so much fun!

Ben and Lacey....awe too cute!

The girls: Beauties having a ball togther!

Eli and Matthew in their favorite place...dirt! I joke now that they were twins separated before birth. They got along so well and neither one of them wanted the other to go away, EVER!

Noah enjoyed some personal time on the trampoline.

Lucas was just happy to watch everyone doing their different things. What a happy kid!

Cousins...

Eli and Payge making French Toast.

It was so much fun and I'm glad that we grownups had time to talk and hang out as well as giving the cousins lots of needed play time.
Thanks Rex and Angie for having us. We love you!

1 comment:

Carolee Jones said...: awe... how nice of you all to be able to get together and HANG OUT! My kids never had the 'cousin' experience since I was almost finished by the time you guys all got started PLUS the fact we live so far away. NICE to see & hear that everyone got along so well! THANKS Sharon for posting pictures at least we can SEE you all in this way. HUGS from the frozen chosen Jones clan up in Homer, Alaska; June 4, 2010 at 1:36 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?