The Crazy Days of the Thompson Trio

Christmas 2011

2012-01-12T11:39:00.000-08:00

Sooooooooooooooooo much fun! It truly was a great holiday and the Thompson Trio enjoyed every minute of it! Here's a lil snap shot of Christmas this year...starting with Mia's letter to Santa. She worked very hard on making her list by cutting out information from the Toys R Us catalog...she even added 2 things for her sisters....geez, a whole 2 things ;)

Brunch with Santa was a big hit...and it kept them in line for a good few days. :)

Aren't these lights GORGEOUS! River Oaks knows how to do it up! Dad did a great job of getting this pic!

This is the best we could get with the Mir grandparents...at the Second Baptist Christmas program - which really was spectacular.

Sam taking her cousin Liv on a ride in her Morgan's new jeep...interestingly no one was driving - just pushing the go pedal and they bumped into everything around them. Praying that's not a sign of what's to come.

Post Christmas - we spent some time at the zoo on an absolutely beautiful day

On a not so beautiful day - we went to the movies and caught Alvin and The Chipmunks...cute.

And Miss Mia finally got her ears pierced. They're still in and she's doing so great with cleaning them every day! Proud of her for this one.

We are truly blessed.

It's pumpkin time!

2011-10-27T07:36:00.000-07:00

We just LOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVEEE pumpkin time and think St. Luke's pumpkin patch is THE BEST! The girls each chose their own pumpkin and this weekend we'll finally carve them....I've learned my lesson that if you carve them too soon they'll turn black - ewww! Happy Halloween all! Here are the lil Thompson pumpkins:

Ladies and gents we have a new 2yr old in the house!

2011-10-04T11:43:00.001-07:00

The littlest Thompson gal just turned 2! She had a zoorific birthday at the Houston Zoo and had such much fun with her friends, family and of course all the zoo animals. Really though, her favorite part was the cupcakes. She is such a lil cupcake monster. From the moment she walked in the room, she went past the decorations, didn't notice the gifts and headed straight to the cupcakes...who could blame the girl!

After she finally got her cupcake...actually she ate 2 in honor of her 2nd birthday, we headed to the carousel. She LOVED in and we loved watching her take it all in.

Thanks to all for the amazing birthday gifts. Little Sam no longer has to borrow her big sisters' dress up clothes, baby items and barbies - she now has her very own!

And she even has her own KITCHEN! Can you tell she loves it?! Sweet little muffin - she's amazing, is talking a TON now and keeps everyone on their toes. Happy Birthday Samantha!!!!!

What a wonderful world...

2011-05-31T14:22:00.000-07:00

Louis' Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" closed out our little kindergartener's end of year school program. Isn't that cute? Little Miss Mia did awesome! A big smile has replaced the tears that we saw for 2 years in a row at school programs. I think the phrase "practice makes perfect" truly helped her this time around. For days now she's been singing all the songs in preparation for today....some friends even got a special preview as she sereneded us after dinner on Saturday. Here are just a few pics from the performance. Enjoy! I can't believe she's going to 1st grade next year - CRAZY!

Happy Birthday Mia!

2011-04-21T13:19:00.000-07:00

We now have a big 6 year old in our household...Mia entered into another new year last week and we pray it will bring more fun and joy with each day. Now these are not the best pics b/c I took them on my phone - but you get the gist. We started off the day opening gifts and you might be able to tell she was just a little excited ;)

At school her class made her a birthday crown and she got to wear a special birthday ribbon. She loved that too!

She was spoiled with lots of hugs, calls and well wishes from family and friends...and finally got to top festivities off with a bowling birthday extravaganza...pics coming tonight!

Happy Birthday to our sweet girl!

Happy Birthday Morgan!

2011-04-08T12:18:00.000-07:00

Morgan is 3! She is definitely all things that goes with three - silly, independent, curious, funny, loving...just so many things wrapped into one pistol of a little girl. She started her day off with a special breakfast with just her and daddy...shipley's of course! The celebration continued at school where she was very happy to share homemade sugar-free cupcakes (per school's request) with her friends...We wrapped up the day with dinner at chuck-e-cheese - whew was she pooped! She was smiling the whole day long...with minimal fussing only due to tiredness. Tomorrow is her party with friends at Build-a-bear - should be more fun! Happy Birthday to our sweet bundle of energy and love Morgan!

Sam is a ROCK STAR!

2011-04-04T12:04:00.000-07:00

Sweet Sam had an awful accident last Thursday night. While playing outside with her sisters in our backyard the next door neighbor's dog was barking away, little Sam bent down to see what all the noise was and stuck her finger in the fence. Unfortunately, the dog bit off the tip of her finger. Thankfully my dear friend Rachel was there and took care of calling 911, calming down the girls and telling me how to wrap Sam's finger/keep it up while I was tending to Sam. She was truly a God-sent in the most traumatic situation! After hours at the ER, Sam was all stitched up and we came home. Since then, she's back to running around with her brightly pink bandaged hand as if nothing happened. I'm amazed at her resilience. Just look at her little smiling face...absolutely astonishing. Lord knows, I would not be so happy if put in the same situation. Sweet girl!

WHAT?!

2011-03-29T14:30:00.000-07:00

Here's a conversation we had yesterday....

Morgan (in bathroom, she's doing GREAT with potty training) - mommy, i need toilet paper

Mia (in kitchen close to bathroom and yells) - just use the towel

Mom (in kitchen) - WHAT!?! as i'm walking to the bathroom with new roll. What do you mean use the towel Mia? as i'm walking into bathroom i see lovely hand towel sitting on toilet - not on rack as its supposed to be. Mia, did you use this towel to clean your bootie?!

Mia - well ya

Mom - NO MORGAN (as she's reaching for it) DO NOT USE THAT TOWEL. Mia we do not use hand towels to wipe our booties - let me know if you need more toilet paper.

So a) i have no idea how long paper has been out in that bathroom and b)if you've been to our house in the past 2 days - i really hope you didn't use the towel on the toilet to wipe your hands :)

Below is a pic of Mia pulling Sam around the house....just another insight into our daily madness and fun!

Rodeo days!

2011-03-07T11:08:00.001-08:00

Yee-haw! We spent a gorgeous Sunday at the rodeo yesterday! We all loaded up and hit the rodeo first thing. All had a great time! I think the big girls enjoyed the rides the most while lil Sam loved her time with the animals at the petting zoo. So cute!

Let's try this

2011-03-03T09:04:00.000-08:00

Sooo, clearly I'm behind on my blogging. Here's what I'm going to try to do instead - post random little pics/happenings rather than a whole bunch of pics at once. I got this shot last night:

They huddled up to take a pic for Mat who is out of town on business. All I said was let's send Daddy a pic and they grabbed each other so they could send him hugs. How cute is that?! They really can be sweet and there are small glimpses of them playing together - which is SO nice. Of course there are the daily fights too but hey - i'll take what i can get!

Good Lord what were we thinking?!

2011-01-06T12:57:00.000-08:00

So once again, we headed out of town after Christmas...gluttons for punishment ;) We (my whole immediate family, plus parents, sis/niece and aunt) headed to the beautiful, very snowy and cold Steamboat Springs, CO. The big girls were great on the flight, sweet Sam threw a massive tantrum and almost put her mom into a major anxiety attack. But once we landed all was well and the real fun began...she even liked getting bundled up!

Morgan was super happy to see the snow too...she didn't mind the hats, gloves, boots etc...and really was smiles for most of the time unless she had to share toys with her cousin and nemesis Olivia :) Both Morgan and Sam were in child care for 2 days, which they really seemed to like.

Mia did hit ski school and did AWESOME. She sure hated layering on the clothes but was so super excited after her first day (pic below) and loved the second day too. If we would have stayed one more day, I would have taken her down easy slope with me. I so very much look forward to ski with her and all the girls!

After coming off the mountain and its zero degree weather, we felt like we deserved a hot toddie...Mia had hot chocolate, Marcie and I something a bit stronger. Cheers to us and a great trip despite lots of whining and NOISE. Ski clothes, can't wait to use you again!

I'll add more pics later especially of sledding - which was fun for all! Thanks mom/dad for another amazing family trip! Oh, I promise Christmas pics will be coming soon...such a fun time with little ones!

Tis the Season

2010-12-21T10:17:00.000-08:00

Wow, only 4 days left until Christmas - the Thompson girls are BEYOND excited! We've been celebrating the holiday season for weeks now and I'm just now getting around to putting up some pics of our fun. Thought I'd start with pictures from our annual holiday brunch - enjoy!

Yea for fall and pumpkins!

2010-10-18T12:56:00.000-07:00

We headed out for our annual pumpkin patch trip this weekend. What a fun way to spend my birthday afternoon! The Ellises were in town (DOUBLE YEA!) and Tripp joined us to pick out some special pumpkins to take back to San Antonio. This was the first time all three girls were able to walk around and enjoy the pumpkins...last year Sam just a month old and the year before Morgan was only 6 months...isn't that CRAZY!!!!!!! You can tell by the girls smiles that they had loads of fun and let me tell you they are VERY proud of the pumpkins they picked out all by themselves. Now all we have to do is carve them....whew, that sounds like a lot of work! Happy Fall all!

Happy Birthday Sam!

2010-09-20T09:52:00.001-07:00

Here's our sweet one year old!!!!!!!!!! On Friday, her actual birthday we did a small little family night...which started with some gifts. So what do you get a 3rd daughter who has more toys than she'll ever need?!?!? SHOES of course!

She seemed to like them and we did get her some bath toys because even though our house rivals Toys R Us - it is nice for her to get something new all her own....side note, Morgan and Mia have totally been hogging them in the bath! Poor girl!

And big drum roll.....................................she's walking! That's right - lil Sam started cruising around all by herself earlier in the week. And just like her big sisters - on her birthday she was walking all over. Mostly just a few steps at a time but we still consider her a walker now!

The celebrations continued through the weekend! Here are some shots of her with her cupcake. Now, Morgan didn't really do the make -mess-with-the-cupcake thing b/c she didn't seem to like it. But WHOA - Sam was not the same....she LOVED it.

You can't tell it from this pic - but by the time she was done she had it all up her arms, in her hair and none was left! She did a good job finishing it ALL BY HERSELF!

She is the truest blessing...as are all our girls! Thank you all for your birthday wishes for our dear baby girl!

And now it's Morgan's turn!

2010-09-07T13:05:00.001-07:00

Today Morgan went to her first day of school! She's in a 2-day a week program at a school near our house from 8:30 to 2:30. SUCH A BIG GIRL! Last week we did open house and she was none to happy about being dropped off at play area while the parent's had an info meeting. Tears GALORE! So you could imagine the anxiety I was feeling as we headed to her school this morning - fortunately she was all smiles!

And when we left her in her class room with her nice teachers - she immediately grabbed some toys....and her blankie too and went to work. Now, we DO NOT typically allow our sweet girl to drag her blankie around with her in public but since she'll be taking naps at school it goes with her. I seriously hope she didn't have it with her all day long...but at this point, if it makes her happy and feel comfortable then to heck with our normal rules.

Mia said this morning as I dropped her off at school, I bet Morgan's going to fight a lot. I said, yes honey...that's ALL of our fear. But YEA FOR MORGAN - she's finally in school!!! Now hopefully, she'll learn to fight less and share more!

Kindergarten here she comes!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-08-25T13:21:00.000-07:00

Here's our sweet kindergartener on her first day of school!!!!!!! Complete with her new digs/backpack (thanks Buela!) and new lunchbox/water bottle (thanks Grandmom!), she was set for the day.

Being the proud new kindergarten parents, Mat and I both escorted her to her brand new school. She was super excited and honestly I think I was the most nervous. She was super shy at the school's welcome party last week so I was nervous there would be tears.

Thankfully she was all smiles, even as goodbyes were said, and she had an EXCELLENT first day. In fact she's had a pretty great first week and seems to really like her new school. She didn't like a girl who wanted to use her blanket during nap time yesterday but fortunately the teacher settled that one and Mia survived her first little "bully" moment. Whew! So much fun ahead!

moving and cruisin

2010-07-06T18:54:00.000-07:00

Well - we now have THREE mobile little ones at the house. Mia is of course full speed ahead, with Morgan following her every move...and now we have Sam hot on their tails. She started crawling a few weeks ago and now is FAST on the go!

In fact, she's recently mastered standing and just yesterday took a few VERY little steps while

Mia is SUCH the great big sis watching over her along the way - Sam's so lucky to have her!

Yea Summer!

2010-05-17T09:11:00.000-07:00

We took our first splash in the pool yesterday. It was a bit cold but we all got use to it pretty quickly and the girls had a blast. This was Sam's first time in a swimsuit and first time to take a dip. She LOVED it!

Also....today she turned 8 months! Sweet girl...she's getting up on all fours and I'm sure will be crawling within the month. She also has a tooth now (bottom) and the other one should be breaking through soon.

More fun times ahead!

Bounce!

2010-05-10T08:32:00.000-07:00

Our girl Sammie LOVES to bounce....even Mia likes to join in on the fun!

Happy 2nd Birthday Morgan!

2010-04-07T06:38:00.001-07:00

Today, our sweet girl is 2 years old! Almost daily she makes us roll with laughter and frustrated with tantrums as only toddlers can. She loves Dora and Yo Gabba Gabba, dressing up, sliding down slides that are far too high for her and is overall quite the dare devil much to her poor mom's dislike.

She doesn't seemed phased by her baby sister Sam...and I can often find her hugging the baby and giving her kisses. Now she just needs to learn to hug gently...I'm constantly saying "awwwwwww, that's sweet but let go!" She loves her big sister and equally loves picking on her. Mia is far better in dealing with her lil sister's antics than I could ever ask for. In fact, I'm trying to teach her to say "NO - MORGAN!" and she's getting good at it but Morgan thinks its soooooo funny when Mia says stop!

We're happy to finally communicate with her through words....we can understand most everything she says and if we can't we ask her to say it again and point to whatever she wants. We really need to video tape our little conversations because they're a hoot. One of her favorite things to say is "that's funny!" Which is cute but not so much so when we're getting after her.

She's just our rough and tough little girl who fills our hearts with so much joy. We're amazingly blessed to have such a healthy and happy little toddler. Here are some pics from her little party at the park and other recent fun times.

Yea I'm 2!

Sam's 6 Months!

2010-03-20T15:18:00.000-07:00

Whew - that went by crazy fast. Our sweet Sam is now 6 months old! She can sit up all by herself, giggles and babbles lots, and is even showing signs of teething. She's eating solids now and continues to capture all of our hearts with her sweet disposition! We are so very blessed to have 3 healthy and happy little girls!

Spring Break!!

2010-03-19T11:29:00.000-07:00

Wow! It's been an exciting Spring Break! We headed to San Antonio last Saturday to spend time with our dear friends the Ellises and Runges. We lucked out with great weather and had the best time! We hit the Botanical Gardens where the kids got to play with the fountains, ducks and even were able to fly kites! If you haven't been before, you need to try and make it over there - it's just beautiful!

The Ellises welcomed our whole troop into their house and it was spending time together while the kids played and played in their beautiful back yard. Even Sammie loved being out there!

We got to see Dana, Eric and Lawson and had the best barbecue, thanks Will for the AWESOME food! Dana gets the golden star for keeping up with the kiddos. She had them playing ring around the rosies, duck-duck-goose and chase. Her energy amazes me - its gotta be the pilates!

All was going great until Mia took fell and landed on her arm wrong. After a quick trip to the ER, seriously under 2 hours!, we found out she fractured her right upper arm and then she got to pick out her lovely PINK cast. She's such a trooper and really is doing great. Even though we ended our trip on a low note - we had so much fun for the majority of time that we were there!

The Crew at the Zoo

2010-03-01T13:23:00.001-08:00

We just had the most GORGEOUS weekend! The girls are finally healthy and we set up for the Zoo on Saturday morning and then went to a great event at Discovery Green Park. Just the best time!

Yee-haw!

2010-02-26T07:26:00.000-08:00

Rodeo time is finally here and the girls couldn't be more excited! Mia finally got to wear her new pink boots to school today and Morgan wanted to be just like her sister and dress up too!

Cruisin through February

2010-02-20T17:56:00.000-08:00

Sam is 5 months old and her big sisters are closing in on turning 5 and 2 respectively. WHERE DOES THE TIME GO?! In the immediate pic above, Mia's all dressed up to celebrate the Chinese New Year at school.

The past weekend was a doosey for us - all three girls were sick, BLAH!!!!!!! Mia started with a stomach bug and strep on Friday and Morgan/Sam started with their stomach bugs on Saturday. Seriously a nasty weekend but again - we're just crusin through and praying it's all past us soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arts n Crafts

2010-02-20T17:49:00.001-08:00

What a fun Valentines! Daddy helped with arts and crafts, the girls got lots of fun goodies and we spent the day with Grandmom Paula - how lucky we are!

Routine

2010-01-22T07:38:00.000-08:00

The Thompson 5 revolves around routine. I know - it can be so boring but we know that this is our best defense at avoiding tantrums, meltdowns and such...it doesn't always work but we try! So, when your clock strikes 6:30 during the week - here's what the Thompsons are doing.

Bath time for the girls...first Mia & Morgan

Sam hangs out until its her turn...

Then after a bit of t.v. - its book time before all the girls hit the sack and mom/dad finally get a rest.

Tic toc, tic toc

2010-01-20T07:33:00.000-08:00

My how time flies by (as we all know)...Sam is now 4 months old. She can roll over like a champ, smiles tons and giggles lots at her big sisters. Here are the stats from her 4-month check up - 13.4 lbs (45 percentile) and 24 1/2 inches (60 percentile). Three shots and little lady did not like that but who would! Enjoy the pics.

Timbergrove Snow Days

2009-12-17T08:10:00.001-08:00

Our neighborhood had a "Snow Days" event last weekend and the gray, cold weather was the perfect backdraft for a great kids event complete with snow, bouncy, train and face painting.

Mia's 1st School Project

2009-12-10T06:36:00.000-08:00

We've wrapped up Mia's first school project. That's right, SCHOOL PROJECT. Mind you, she's only in pre-k and we had a week long project to do. Yep, mommy was definitely annoyed with it but we had a good time. The directions were to pick a country or culture and do a project on how they celebrate holidays in December. At first Mia chose Sweden - WHAT?! WHAT IN THE HECK DO I KNOW ABOUT SWEDEN?! Which I know is the point but seriously, with Mat out of town and the other two little ones under my care, doing research on a country we know nothing about was not too appealing. So I pitched her Spain or Mexico and she jumped on Mexico because of the pinatas and chocolate caliente (hot chocolate).

Below is a shot of Mia making the hot chocolate, real Mexican hot chocolate which is slightly different and BETTER than American hot chocolate because it has a hint of cinammon. NOTE: 4-year-olds do not know how to drink hot chocolate despite being told - blow on it and drink it slowly. just wait until it cools completely. Also pictured is Mia with pan dulce (sweet bread/pastries) that we got from a great Mexican bakery close to our house.

Special thanks to Rachel for bringing over the great Poinsettia book that we've read for the past two nights, and other fun Mexican Christmas info. It was a huge help and we both learned a lot about Christmas in Mexico....maybe we can do Sweden next year!

Let it Snow!

2009-12-04T18:39:00.001-08:00

We couldn't believe the snow today!!!!!!!! What a great surprise and such fun for the girls!

Tis the Season!

2009-12-03T07:52:00.000-08:00

We kicked the Christmas season off just 3 days after Thanksgiving this year at a brunch with Santa at our friend's house (see pics below). Santa, aka Mat!, made an appearance and the kiddos got a little gift from him plus an opportunity to tell him what they want. It was so fun and Mia had a great time running around the big kids. Morgan stayed right by our side the whole time which was very difficult particularly since we were trying to get Mat into costume. Sweet Sam just chilled and was passed from friend to friend - she's so easy! We have lots of fun things coming up and the girls love the house being decorated! More to come....

TX/OU Weekend

2009-10-27T18:08:00.001-07:00

What a great TX/OU Weekend! Not only did we get to spend it with great friends but Texas won!!!!! We spent the weekend in Austin at the Tuckers house and it was filled with good times, lots of laughing and more so much fun for both the parents and kiddos. Below are just a few shots of the weekend - what a great way to spend Sam's first trip away from home!

A fall full of firsts

2009-10-13T06:36:00.001-07:00

Now that Sam's here we're going through all sorts of great firsts all over again....and her sisters even have some firsts too!

First bath

First real hair cut - she's had a trim before but I took off almost two inches!

First time to take the whole family to the pumpkin patch - so fun!

We look forward to a busy but great fall season!

Mia's big first day

2009-08-24T11:30:00.001-07:00

Mia is officially in elementary school. She started pre-kindergarten at a little school close to our house. Her good pal Quinn is in the same class and she couldn't be more excited - hence the big smiles above. The actual drop-off was absolutely chaotic with all the parents and kiddos trying to figure out where to go but Mia did awesome and jumped right in like it she had been going there for years. Some kids cry, some kids go sit nicely at their tables - Miss Mia ran straight to the play area and started cooking in the play kitchen and was playing dress up by the time I left.

Oh my goodness!

2009-08-04T14:21:00.001-07:00

This is a funny little thing that Morgan does - if you say Morgan - oh my goodness! She'll immediately throw her hands to either side of her head. I believe Yurika taught her this one - it's pretty cute!

Pretty Princesses

2009-07-29T14:35:00.001-07:00

Mia has roped Morgan into playing dress up with her. The other day I came home to find both girls dolled up in their princess best.

Our little terror

2009-07-13T19:17:00.000-07:00

Morgan is giving us all a run for our money these days. If she's not trying to push around her big sister, she's trying to bite her cousin....that's right, biting! We've never experienced this before and its really interesting to see how she tries to take a chomp out of someone when she's not getting her way - so she's totally using it as a defense mechanism...scary! Here's our sweet little biter in her blocks box. Even though she has a huge smile on her face - not even two minutes before this shot was taken she was screaming because Mia was trying to play with the blocks that are in the box. Why she wanted to get in the teeny box is beyond us!

Morgan has also started learning some funny things like learning where your belly button it. So if you ask her where's her belly button she'll immediately lift up your shirt and also expect you to show her yours...which is what Mia is doing in the below photo. BTW - did you notice Morgan's little piggy tails below? We're so excited she finally has enough hair to actually put a little up!

Happy summer all - hope you're keeping cool. Much love to you!

Beatin the heat

2009-07-09T19:34:00.001-07:00

Here's how a typical weekend day starts off at the Thompsons house

girls wake us up by 7 - 7:30 if we're REALLY lucky
first thing mia says, can i watch tv?
second thing she says, can we go swimming?

Obviously its hot as all get out - so we are in the pool almost every day when we don't go to work...if it were up to Mia she would go in no less than two times each day. Here are latest pool shots - the girls just love having friends over for pool time!

Hot times at the Zoo

2009-06-16T09:15:00.001-07:00

Here's our zoo troop. We joined the Ellis boys and Lawson at the San Antonio zoo over the weekend. Whew was it HOT! The kiddos were troopers and us girls couldn't keep up with the crazy boys!

Mia certainly tried but was dragged down a bit by some Benedryl I gave her in morning because of some kind of lil rash she had on her legs. What was I thinking?! We'd never used Benedryl before because a. we never had to and b. when people said we should use it on planes rides to help her sleep they also said it sometimes makes kids wired and there was no way I was going to try something that could possible make Mia even MORE active! So, now we know - Benedryl makes Mia sleepy.....niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicce to know!

We had a great time in San Antonio with our dear friends and loved the zoo!!!

Gymnastics girl

2009-06-12T08:37:00.000-07:00

Here's Mia on her way to gymnastics. She LOVES it! We're off to San Antonio this weekend to visit friends so hopefully will have more posts after this weekend.

Let's try this again

2009-06-08T07:30:00.000-07:00

So yes, it's been a while since I've last updated this but now that I can log on from work - there's a good probability that I'll start updating our blog more often. Lord knows we have had so much going on since that last time I added an update that I'll just start with where we are now. First here's a recent picture of the girls hanging out after bath time...they're suppose to be winding down...fat chance!

It's summer which means lots of pool time! Just in the last two weeks a switch turned on with Mia and she's a swimming machine! She now jumps in the pool from anywhere possible, including the diving board, and then will swim to you. Very impressive considering she was literally kicking and screaming when we were off to swim class just 4 months ago. We're continuing on with swim class through the summer to help her with the actual mechanics of swimming. Mia's also now doing gymnastics while dance class is on summer break. Whew - she's always such the busy girl. Plus, she turned 4 in April so thinks she's quite the big girl now. Here's a shot of her/her friends at her Quinn's (girl to the left) birthday party.

Sweet Morgan is now 14 months and is trying her best to keep up with her big sister. It's funny how fast she can walk now - almost as if she's running from us many times. She, too, enjoys pool time and actually prefers that you hold her in a horitzontal position almost as if she's swimming. She just loves to be taken around the pool like that and keeps her mouth open most the time - we think she's looks like a little whale like that and we totally need to get a picture of her like that because it's pretty comical. She's most happy getting in to everything and is starting become quite the little bully. The other day Mia was standing on a step stool brushing her teeth and Morgan wanted on it to so she started pushing Mia and wouldn’t stop until Mia got off. Apparently, she’s also pushing her at other times during the day according to Yurika and is starting to walk up to her and grab whatever Mia or Olivia has/then will cry until she gets it. So basically - Morgan's hearing the word "NO!" a lot these days! Here's a shot of her at her little first birthday celebration - which we had at Lupe Tortilla's with just family...simple and nice!

Thompsons hit the slopes

2009-03-30T19:07:00.000-07:00

We went on our first family ski trip since Morgan's arrival. We headed to Steamboat, Colorado with my family and had a blast! Mia even took her first ski lesson and had soooooooo much fun. Morgan was great on the plane and Mia absolutely loves going on an airplane! When we took Mia skiing at Morgan's age she hated the snow. Morgan thought it was pretty neat and even tried walking in it.

Mia preferred sledding with daddy - even it was just for a bit on his snow board!

Good times in 2009

2009-02-17T09:15:00.000-08:00

The girls are doing great and Morgan is doing her best to keep up with Mia. We're fortunate that Mia and her friends think Morgan is the coolest and take full advantage of treating Morgan like their own little doll. The Baden girls came over one day and had to get Morgan into the full fun of playing princess. Look closely and you'll see a tutu around Morgan's waste. Such fun girl time!

Mat was busy in early January preparing for his first go at the full Houston Marathon. The girls and I headed out to wait for him at Memorial Park and were so proud to cheer him on as his reached mile 20! We were lucky to catch him as he crossed the finish line at 26.2 as well! Mia loved her daddy's metal and had a great time telling everyone my daddy won the race....Mat got a kick out of that as well!

We had a nice day recently so we opened up the back door and let the girls play on the jungle gym. Of course Morgan can't climb up it yet and play pirate with Mia so we put Mia's easel at a level where Mia could play and Morgan could have fun watching her sister. It's going to be so great when they're both old enough to climb around on it and have hours of fun...i.e. hours of quiet time for mom and dad!

Also these days the girls have taken to playing "let's jump on daddy!" Mat's a good sport and the girls just giggle away!

Dancing through December

2008-12-10T17:58:00.001-08:00

Here we are on a very cold day in Houston and sweet Mia had her first dance recital...really a dance "demo" to show the parents where their hard earned money is going to....Our little ballerina was so cute! First they did a ballet portion....

Then after a quick costume change it was onto tap...

Overall it went great. Not surprisingly Mia was talking through the whole thing - following directions here and there but really just laughing through the entire recital and so excited to have family there watching her moves.

And speaking of moves - our little Morgan is now officially crawling. She can most certainly get where she wants but hasn't yet started moving at a speed where we can't catch her - THANK GOD! I know that day will come soon!

On the road again

2008-11-11T18:47:00.001-08:00

We (Mat, the girls, Grandmom Paula and Ben) hit Dallas last weekend to visit Mat's cousins, Drew/Christy, their darling new baby Velvie, and of course Aunt Terri/Uncle Bill. It was so funny to see Morgan and Velvie together. Morgan's 2 months older and when you put them together they just kind of stare at each other. Morgan also kept wanting to grab Velive and I think if I could have heard her thoughts Morgan would have been saying, "I want to put your hand in my mouth, ok maybe just a finger, anything?!" EVERYTHING goes into her mouth these days...she's even gotten a little munch out of mom's arm and that isn't so much fun for me!

Here's just a really cute shot of the girls. Mia sure loves her little sister and Morgan is just fine as long as Mia's around....and not messing with her too much :)

Halloween high

2008-11-02T18:16:00.000-08:00

We're still recovering from our Halloween high! Since Halloween here's what our day has been like...mommy, can i have some candy? no, not until later. few minutes pass. mommy, now can i have some candy? no! not until after we eat...breakfast, du-oh! should have said lunch...heck, really should have said dinner then we wouldn't have to go through that little scenario every 10 minutes! mia had a blast! this year she rocked the "trick-o-treating" thing. we went with some neighbors and she was the first one to the door each time. sweet morgan just chilled in the stroller and enjoyed the nice evening air. now on to thanksgiving and christmas...so much fun to come!

daddy and his girls.

mia taking a break.

mia enjoying her first piece of her loot. funny enough - a tootsie pop was also the first/only candy she had on her first trick or treating trip when she was 18 months.

Good times in Oct.

2008-10-13T19:08:00.000-07:00

Last weekend was just about perfect. We watched UT take a win over OU - hook em!!!!! Mat was a good sport, as always and of course we continued our tradition of having the girls where the colors of whichever team won the previous year. So although they were dressed in OU - Mia was still chanting Go Horns Go...along with boomer sooner which she just learned this year.

Then we were off to a halloween festival for some games and pumpkin picking. Mia had a blast with the games and of course she worked very hard at finding the perfect pumpkin. Morgan was a sport and happily went along for the ride...even having her own turn looking at the sea of orange pumpkins.

Sweet sisters

2008-09-08T18:32:00.001-07:00

How great to have a sister! Morgan has started watching Mia wherever she goes and no one can make Morgan laugh more than her big sister....very cute! Fortunately, Mia tries to be the big helper more often than not. She's a great big sis...i'm sure the days of bickering and fighting will come but for now they're just the cutest together!

Oh and we've been having such fun watching Morgan get more curious about the world around her. She tried out her excer-saucer the other day and LOVED it...for about 15 minutes that is and then she was ready to get out! And after that she just decided to show off her best toothless grin with daddy.

Lots of family fun and great memories

2008-09-04T19:57:00.000-07:00

We just got back from the Thompson family reunion in the Hill Country and we had so much fun we were all completely worn out when we got home. Mia had soooo many cousins to run around with and she's finally old enough to be able to go off and play with the big kids without having us to be right there with her. I remember doing that with my cousins and man oh man the fun we had. It was a great way to spend the labor day weekend and Mat's 33rd birthday.

And of course Morgan was passed from cousin to cousin, aunts to uncles and she was just happy as could be...her usual smiley self.

Preschool here I come

2008-08-21T18:39:00.000-07:00

Mia started her first day of preschool on Wednesday, Aug. 20. She's going to First Baptist Academy and she'll go on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8 to 3, which is the longest she's ever been in school. Last year, she went to a cute little Montessori school in the heights two days a week from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. She seemed to enjoy her first day of her new school, particularly her new uniform. Oddly, she was excited at the thought of having a "nap" time at school. She actually kept giggling about it and saying, "why will i sleep there - how silly." Her good pal Quinn is in her same class. Quinn is the little girl who shared a nanny with Mia for her first two years...then they went to the Montessori school together and now they're at First Baptist. What a trip they are together! Those poor teachers have no idea how much chaos our sweet girls can cause :)

Just L-I-V-I-N'

2008-08-10T19:56:00.000-07:00

That's what the girls have been doing this summer - just livin'. Here are some recent favorite shots. I mean seriously, can I go back to being a kid b/c they know how to have some serious fun....like spending a good hour building a castle out of cups.

or getting SO excited to be in the tub....

or monkeying around at the zoo...

or hanging out with your sister!

Fun on the Frio

2008-08-10T19:41:00.001-07:00

A couple of weeks ago we headed to the Texas Hill Country for the Mir family's annual vacation on the Frio River in Concan, TX. We had a beautiful house this year which had an amazing deck that looked over the river and the hill country.

Since I had my hands full I didn't take many pix when we were actually on the river, my mom took care of those, so all the pics here are from the deck. Here's Mat and Mia enjoying smores! YUMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!

And of course since we were out of the city - there were trillions of stars out each night and Mia loved star gazing with Popo and Buela. It's so relaxing out there - such a great time, as usual!

Look what I can do!

2008-07-14T19:38:00.000-07:00

When Morgan was 3 months she started being able to roll over to her side - I knew then that it was only a matter of time before she made it all the way over.

And right before she turned 4 months, - she did it! Lord help us, it won't be long before she's crawling after her big sister.

Learning to love the mall

2008-07-14T19:31:00.000-07:00

We hit the Woodlands mall last weekend and the girls are starting to appreciate how much fun shopping can be even at such an early age. Mia was thrilled to go shoe shopping, which is really no big surprise since one of her first words was shoes. She was in heaven picking out some cute pink shoes, riding on the carousel and spending time with grandmom Paula. As for Morgan - she seems just thrilled to be hanging with the girls for the day!

Tribute to Sam

2008-07-14T19:26:00.001-07:00

On our way up to Oklahoma we were able to go by Sampa's grave in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. We hadn't been there since last October and of course it was really hard going - but we were able to see his beautiful headstone with shots of him doing one of the things he loved best - tennis! Paula did an amazing job designing it and we all know Sampa would have loved it. Lord we miss him dearly.

Fireworks, family and many firsts

2008-07-14T19:08:00.000-07:00

Talk about a fun fourth of July! We packed up the Thompson family roadster and hit the road to head north to Oklahoma. No one was looking forward to the 10 hour or so drive but once we got there it was well worth it! We went to spend time with great granddad and grandmom Wagner (Mat's grandparents) and other family.

We stayed with Mat's cousins on their beautiful 40 acres near a town called Grove. Man did Mia have a blast! She rode on a tractor for the first time and thought it was the coolest! And of course since we were in the country we were able to shoot off as many fireworks as we liked! Mia also got to set up fireworks with her daddy's help for the first time. She thought they were pretty but wanted to stay far away from them - particularly the ones that made a lot of noise! Surprisingly Morgan slept through the whole thing! Man - what fun we had!!!!

Oh Lord!

2008-06-29T19:18:00.000-07:00

We told Mia to go get ready to go swim and here's what she came out wearing. Needless to say Mat and I took one look at her and thought, Oh Lord please let this not be foreshadowing for a future career!!!!!!!!!!!!

Morgan had her first dip in the pool today and she looked oh-so-chic in her swimsuit Kristin/David got her....a girl's gotta look good no matter what age!

Look! Morgan loves dress up!

2008-06-26T07:16:00.001-07:00

We're always asked, "So, how's Mia liking Morgan?" Well, Mia LOVES her! So much so that she has started including Morgan in her dress up fun - poor girl!

We celebrated Tia Marcie's birthday last weekend...I won't say which one ;) Of course Mia HAD to sit right on Marcie's lap as she opened all the presents. Mia is quite the good present opener (or so she believes) so these days if it's someone's birthday and Mia's there...the birthday person will get LOTS of help.

We're back!

2008-06-18T18:42:00.000-07:00

Ok! I know it's been FOREVER but come on! things have been a little hectic. As we're settling into our new routine of juggling the needs of our two little crazies, I promise to try and keep this thing somewhat up to date mostly b/c it may be the only chance for me to come up for air and let you know how we're all doing. The summer got off to a great start with a weekend at the lake with so many great friends (thx again Kim!) and already lots of time poolside working on our tans...really we're mostly answering Mia's demands to play with her and watch her kick-kick-kick but hey at least we're in the pool! So here are some pics. Hope you enjoy!

Rodeo Days

2008-03-25T09:00:00.000-07:00

A couple of weekends ago we hit Houston's Livestock Show and Rodeo. Mia had a blast on the kiddie rides with her daddy and of course the petting zoo area. Honestly, I think her favorite part was wearing her blue-jean dress, pink Dora boots and Cowgirl hat. Just a great day overall!

Mia and her friend Barney

2008-03-06T07:41:00.001-08:00

Much to my and Mat's annoyance, Mia LOVES Barney. So when I saw that he was going to be in town last weekend, I knew we just had to go see him at Toys R Us. Mia was SO EXCITED! She's seen him before in concert with her Grandmom but has never had the opportunity to actually get up close to him. Needless to say after waiting in a 25 minute line, she ran straight to him and gave him the biggest hug. He was so sweet to her and when we left he was blowing her kisses - she was in heaven!

Yee-haw - Thompsons Go Texan

2008-02-29T06:57:00.001-08:00

Mat reminded me it was Go Texan day as I was laying Mia's clothes out for school - so I quickly had to switch out the boring pants/shirt I picked out for her favorite blue jean dress and Dora cow-girl boots. Mia was SO PUMPED she could wear her "cowgirl" outfit to school. Unfortunately, the only thing we didn't have was a true cowgirl hat but Mia took care of that by digging out her fun Easter play hat that Buela bought for her. I'm sure when Mia shows up at school her teachers are going to wonder what in the heck is up with the outfit.

Little spring flower

2008-02-26T06:41:00.000-08:00

Mia just loves her new flower crown that Yurika bought for her - that's the surest way to Mia's heart - giving her anything she can dress up in. Here she is with her little friend Kaely - both just ready as ever for the spring season to arrive.

Busy busy days

2008-02-14T06:41:00.000-08:00

Wow - a lot has happened since the new year! Two days ago, Mia's first cousin arrived! Olivia Raye joined us weighing in at 6 pounds 2 oz - 19 1/4 inches...she's so precious and tiny. Mia LOVES her! She got to hold her and give her kisses and also asked if she could "pet" her...obviously she's been around too many dogs!

And last weekend, Mia and her buddies went clubbing for the first time. We all went to Baby Loves Disco a fun dance party for little ones at one of Houston's oldest dance clubs Rich's. Mia was a bit overwhelmed at first and in a very grumpy mood until she got some glittery streaks put in her hair and then received a new tutu as a bribe to get out of her funk. As you can see from the pics below - the bribery worked!

New Years with the Ellis'

2008-01-03T09:05:00.001-08:00

We rang in the New Year early with the kiddos with an impromptu dance party. Fergie Ferg was playing and Tripp, Mia and Beau tore up the dance floor!

The Very Merry Christmas Season

2007-12-29T14:50:00.000-08:00

Family, Friends, Presents, Cookies, Treats and more...all the very many reasons we LOVE the holidays. This was Mia's first Christmas to "totally get" what the holidays are all about. We were so blessed to spend much time with our dear family and friends and as she says so eloquently now that Christmas has passed, "I miss Santa". I mean honestly, the girl cried a little the other night saying this over and over again. Yikes!

We kicked off our holiday season with a fun holiday brunch at our house with Santa for the kiddos. Mia loved it and loved running around the house with her little friends.

Once again, we made a gingerbread house and by we I mean Grandmom Paula with a teeny bit of help from Mia. Actually, it is more accurate to say Grandmom did the decorating and Mia's contribution was adding two gumdrops. The majority of Mia's candy went in her tummy.

We had an early Christmas with the Ellis'. Mia and Tripp are just as crazy together as always and Beau just sits back to watch. I have a feeling it will be like this for years to come!

We spent actual Christmas Eve and Christmas day with the Thompson side. Mia was in awe of all the gifts that Santa brought. Dolls, cameras, books and princess dresses galore!

Christmas didn't end for us on the 25 - we recreated Christmas all over again with my side on the 28th and 29th. She and Buela made sugar cookies for the first time and it was a huge hit and even bigger mess!

November fun

2007-12-17T12:09:00.000-08:00

Ok, ok, I know I'm bad about keeping up with this thing. November flew by and before I knew it we were in December. So here's a quick synopsis of our November fun. Mia's school had a grandparents day right before Thanksgiving. Mia was very excited to show off her classroom and more so her playground to her Buela and Popo. She even made Popo sit with her near the sandbox even though he was in his work wear. He'll do anything for his grand-daughter!

We spent Thanksgiving with my side this year and just relaxed. Football, turkey and such are lost on Mia but she definitely liked the sweets and VERY much liked helping make a gingerbread house...although more candy went in her mouth than on the actual house.

We'll see this is a bit of a routine with Mia as we try the gingerbread thing again in December...details and pictures soon to follow!

Trick or Treat!

2007-11-16T12:20:00.000-08:00

After weeks of counting down for Halloween, little Miss Cinderella was finally able to go trick or treating. She had quite the day with a neighborhood Halloween in the early afternoon followed by going to a few houses on our street for her precious treats! Needless to say she was thrilled she could wear her princess dress all day long! The first few houses she held her princess bucket out nicely and then by the last houses she knew the routine and was bold enough to grab the candy all on our her....too much at some houses and I had to say, "Mia! Only one piece!" It was a day mixed with emtions for the rest of us as we were grieving the loss of Mia's dear Sampa while trying not to distrupt her routine and our promises to her that we were take her out for candy. Mat even found a few minutes to leave the funeral home and come put on his Halloween costume for her as he had been telling for weeks...he's an amazing daddy. We feel so blessed she had the opportunity to know her Sampa and that he got to meet his grand-daughter. We miss him terribly but know he's always with us and know he'll help guide his second grand-daughter safely to us.

At last!

2007-10-22T12:42:00.000-07:00

Well I've finally figured this thing out (Dana and Amie you were right) and now can keep everyone up to date with the crazy days of Mia Grace! Halloween is just around the corner and Mia cannot wait to put on her full cinderella costume and go trick or treating! She's worn her "princess" dress twice now, once to try it on and once at Zoo Boo last weekend. To avoid her wearing it everyday, TRUST me she would if she could, I have to tell her the dress has to go to the cleaners after each wear. That little white lie saves us all from the many tears she would shed if it was hanging in her closest every day and was told she couldn't wear it. Here's a picture of her at the zoo with her friend Miss Leila - who dressed up as tinker bell. They were the cutest little princesses at the zoo!!!