moving along

Thomas has a new brother so wemade a new site on Blogger, check it out

Fw: Be prepared for a NEW looking THOMAS

After two years it was finally time for a haircut,,my little man now looks indeed like a little man, or as TC would say, ready for Kindergarten!

Nancy's visit

We had a wonderful visit with Nancy last week - She stopped by on her way to ALBQ and we enjoyed each minute of her brief stay. Dave was able to take Monday off from work, so we took Aunt Nancy to our favorite park, The Train Park in Old Katy. We walked around the lake and had time to catch up on each other's lives and watch the ducks, Thomas liked that :) Then it was off to the playground, where Thomas showed Godmother the ropes of how to play. She even did the slides, rang the bells and climbed the rope web. Thomas was in awe!!   We had family dinner that night at my folks place, and Nancy was subjected to my loud and overpopulated family :) Dave and I asked both Nancy and my brother Tim to be Godparents, again!!! They agreed. She even sat in on a interview my parents were part of - Timmy's high school newspaper came to do a story on Timmy and the upcoming bowling tournament. My niece Taylor (who is now a Senior at the same school) set up the interview. Dave still needs to scan it and send it out, but Nancy is mentioned in the article.....   I was able to take Tuesday off and after a L O N G breakfast and sister talk, we took Thomas to the mall to walk and play in the kids area. It was AWESOME to have a Barnett in our home and hanging out! Thanks Nancy. We spent the afternoon at my folks place talking and then went out for "grown ups only" dinner @ Red Lobster!!     It was tough to say goodbye, but we know Nancy was thrilled to be on her way and start a new chapter in her life :)   Enjoy the pictures. Love you all. xoxoxo Dave, Thomas & Traci

Last weekend, we took Chris and Thomas to the "Katy Folk Festival" at the Outdoor Learning Center,  in "old" Katy. The day started off with major lightning, thunder and rain - but we waited it out and finally headed to the festival. Glad we did - it was FUN!!! Thomas enjoyed chasing the turkeys and chickens,  Two Toms strutted and fronted across in ront of Thomas oblivious to the three adults present, but essentially left him alone.  He was more interested in chasing the hens, which actually did run from him. TC made a rag doll, we watched a blacksmith bend iron, Thomas danced and made bubbles and Chris was a proud Uncle pushing Thomas around in "BOB"    Dave, Thomas & Traci

Happy New Year

Chefs choice is not always Thomas'

Thomas has a great New Years-in bed by 7 and for the 2nd year in a row-no amount of very abundant neighborhood fireworks could roust him...yet his parents checking in on him at 2 a.m. does!

Feed me Arrrgh!

In addition to the grieving and family visits we also had a cold snap, several days of below freezing weather that promptly eradicated any progress the Dad had made with the plants/gardening.

Thomas was not able to help in the yard since he was busy with toys and all his new chores. According to the books we read to assure us we are good parents, he is at the age where chores are appropriate, so let's see....the official ones are: pushing the buttons for the garage door opener and overhead lights, closing some of the doors in the house, turning lights and fans on/off as we enter/egress our domicile, and as luck would have it, one of his unoffical ones is flushing any toilet he can get to before we can stop him. Thomas is also good at testing out toilet paper rolls for speed of release(for the record it is from underneath/behind the roll).

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We are finding it hard to believe he is nearing two years of age; I had hoped to have had him potty trained by now, a lapse of reality for me that still confounds the wife who has explained to me more than once that it is not as easy as I anticipated.

Recent checks put him over 27 pounds and 33 inches tall. His latest words are brief yet meaningful, fish, dog, truck, car, Chris(Uncle), and even a half comprehensible "mommy"..."Daddy" he has figured out but he still cheats when prompted to say "mommy" by looking at her when she is in the room or pointing at her picture in her absence. The booger.

Xmas Part II

Christmas helpers get distracted easily

Thomas enjoys a gift from his Godmother


Time to eat, all this play makes me hungry.

Trust me, Santa, I have been real good.

More fun as we get to it from the frosty confines of greater metropolitan u know where....

Merry Ho Ho

One big happy family 2009 Merry Christmas!

Tomorrow's headline-"Gift bag bigger than Thomas sends Santa to the Chiropractor"

Sharing the love with Shelby.

6 more months then I get to use this!
Good thing I have lots of books!

Santa's helper surprises Christopher at work(by not getting the carts out of the parking lot!)

So hopefully everyone had a great holiday and were surrounded by the blessings of family.

Thomas got many neat toys to grow into since he seems to get/and enjoy the ones for ages 3 and up! He also got to eat lots of junk food and someone, a few aunts I think, kept him on the soda train for the last week, yippee for burpy kids and messy diapers! It was good to get another Xmas under our belt, Thomas really enjoyed seeing everyone, playing with the dogs and checking out meticulously each and every gift. Thomas still hasn't gotten the whole part about ripping through the wrapping paper with wild abandon, maybe next year.