Stock Show Here I Come!!!!

Thunder got his first real pair of cowboy boots for Christmas and loves them. He'd wear them every day if I let him. Of course he can't wear his boots with any 'ol pair of jeans so we went and bought him a pair of Wranglers and real cowboy belt. Now he's ready to go to the Stock Show!!!!

Christmas 2009

Christmas this year was a more low key than last year. Jesse had to work this year, which was hard because we had gotten used to having him the entire day. Thunder of course was more into Christmas this year because he knew he was getting presents. Santa brought him a VTech gaming system and a Police Helmet so he could be like Daddy. Momma and Daddy also brought him his first pair of cowboy boots and he loves those things. He'd wear them everyday if we let him!

Late November - Early December

Ok, it has been an extremely long time since my last post (Thanks Leah for "forcing" me to update ;0)). The end of November and beginning of December was a busy time for us. We had Thanksgiving, I had to travel to Puerto Rico for work and Carlos (Jesse's little brother) graduated from college. I will have to say that the trip to Puerto Rico was harder than any of the previous trips because Thunder actually knew I was away from home. Luckily I won't have any trips for a while. We've adjusted to Jesse being back on patrol - but miss seeing him every night.

On November 29th, Jesse and I celebrated our 5th Anniversary and had a date night. We went to dinner and then out Tejano dancing in Dallas. We had a great time but missed Thunder and wondered if he missed us!

We also took family pictures - it's been 2 years since the last set. I think they came out great and our hope is to have another family member (maybe a girl) by the next time we take pictures - one can only hope!

Madagascar 2

This Sunday we took Thunder to the movies for the second time to see Madagascar 2. He did really good this time and only fell asleep for the last ten minutes, vs. the 1st time when we went to see Kung Fu Panda and he feel asleep within the 1st ten minutes. After the movie we walked around the mall and stopped into Build a Bear, I've felt bad since June when Thunder had to miss Makayla's birthday party because I had to travel for work. There we built him a Spiderman Doggie! Thunder had a slight meltdown once he realized that the Spiderman outfit wasn't for him to wear, but for the doggie, but it ended once he realized that the doggie was for him so he felt better!

To Infinity and Beyond

This Halloween was a fun one because Thunder "somewhat" understood what Halloween was and that you would get to dress up and get candy. In early October he caught me on the computer ordering his costume, Buzz Lightyear, so for the entire month of October all I heard was "I be Buzz for Halloween". Of course he'd change his mind throughout the month and go from Buzz, to Batman, Spiderman, Optimus, Ben 10 and so on, but since Momma had already ordered his costume, he didn't have any choice. As luck would have it and the fact that we live in Texas the weather for Halloween was 80 degrees. Thunder's costume was all vinyl and very thick. On top of that he started getting a cold on Wednesday night and had a slight fever on Thursday we thought out plans were ruined!!! He perked up on Friday so our only hope was for a cold front to come in. Of course that didn't happen. We thought of going with an option B, getting a "cooler costume" but I felt too guilty to change plans at the 11th hour, and the fact that the Buzz costume was awesome that we went ahead and let Thunder sweat it out. He was a real trooper and everyone thought he had a great costume!!!

Jesse's Birthday

Ok, so I'm still perfecting my cake decorating, but for Jesse's birthday I decided to make him a football cake. Of course I copied the idea from a Walmart commercial, but I think it came out pretty good. It was very delicious because half of the football field was red velvet and the other half was vanilla. The football itself was carrot cake!

Batman and Spideman

Thunder still has his obsession with Spiderman, but now he has somewhat crossed over to include all the Marvel Comic heroes. For his birthday his Tia Letty, bought him "Batman" pajamas and he loves wearing them. Of course I made the mistake of taking his picture in them so now everytime he wears them he makes me take a picture of him.

And my good friend Leah Shepard gave Thunder his new best friend. A life sized blow up Spiderman!!!! Of course after the first night of "fun/fighting" with Spiderman, his life span is about 20 minutes, Momma and/or Daddy have to continually blow him up. He showers with Thunder and Momma has to kiss him every night before they go to bed together!!!