Christmas 2011

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!

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!

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...

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!

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!

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!

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?!

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!

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

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?!

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

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!

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!

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!

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!