She's a risk taker

Today my baby Sydney was goofing off in Akiva's room and fell. She fell hard, Matt said he just saw her fall backwards off the bed and land flat on her back. I heard the thud, a very loud thud but I did not hear much else, it was eerily quiet upstairs and after the thud I heard, I expected a lot of noise. I heard Matt say "breathe Sydney, breathe!" and I heard nothing from Sydney. By the time I got upstairs Matt was blowing in her face and shaking her and still nothing. She was good and winded. I was about to run next door to get our neighbor when Matt layed her down on the floor and she started passing some air. She never cried, we did.
She ate some breakfast and went and layed in my bed. I just thought she wanted to stay home from school so we made her get dressed and go. We warned her teacher, who must have thought we were being a little over protective, to look for any weird behavior or vomiting. I was working at the school so I was going to check on her every once and awhile so we felt comfortable leaving her. I was just finishing up with my first client when her teacher came in to tell me that Sydney threw-up. I called Matt, who was on his way to work and he turned around and came home. We changed her clothes and Matt threw her into the car; straight to urgent care. I went back to work.
Matt said she was very brave at the doctors office because lets face it who likes to go there? She threw-up a few more times at the office which got them seen right away. They diagnosed her with a mild concussion at that point and sent her to an imaging center for a CAT scan. It was a good thing they sent her with a container to throw up into because she needed it. She threw up again at the imaging center, which once again got them pushed to the head of the line. The CAT scan was clear and by the time the process was over Sydney felt better.
When I got to the imaging center Sydney was excited to tell me all about her trip through the big camera so that the doctor could look at her head. Matt said she was excellent and he was able to stay in the room with her and hold her hand. He even sang her a song (the poor technician!). When I asked her what song he sang, expecting a song she sings all the time she said he sang her "I Want to Hold Your Hand". Isn't that cute?
Needless to say Sydney is fine. She had to remain calm for the rest of the day, which was not easy for me. I had her lay down and let Jordan examine her, which worked for a little bit. Our Sydney is certainly a spit fire. A risk taker. I do not think she will be jumping on Akiva's bed for some time. She told me that she does not want to go for a ride in that camera again.

We are in costumes now!!

I do not know how it happened but our peaceful afternoon of painting turned into body painting. They are polka dotted monsters, covered from head to toe. Good times!!

Yummm

Look at my big boy!! He's already holding his own ice cream cone in
addition to a fork and a spoon. He gets everything into his mouth!
I don't know what's better ice cream or Akiva eating it.

Space shuttle

We watched the space shuttle take off tonight from the comfort of our front yard. Living in Florida has it's perks. The girls really saw it tonight, which made the experience more exciting.

Parade

We met Matt's brother and sister-in-law yesterday afternoon at the St. Patties day parade. I think the kids had fun meeting their new cousin Ireland.
She is really cute, Sydney was enthralled with her. She is so good with babies, she just stood there and talked to her. Of course, we tried to get a picture of all the girls together but Lior would not stand still to get her picture taken.
Ireland was kind enough to share her shamrock headband with Jordan.

Sydney loved the headband and hamming it up for the camera.
Akiva got to show off his new trick.
And Matt got to show off his ability to hold four squirming children at the same time.

Spider girls

Lior has a mind of her own. On a good day she will let me brush her hair. On a really good day whe will allow me to put a pony tail in her hair. Yesterday she decided that she wanted to be "spider girl" and she has five ponies in her hair.
Today Spider girl turned into a girl with Princess ponies and fairy dust after a trip to the new princess store. I think she looks a lot older than three and a half in this picture.

Once Sydney saw Lior's spider "do" yesterday she decided that she needed one also.
She had a ton of fun playing in the mirror and modeling with her spider girl hair. Today after a trip to the new princess store, she was miraculously transformed into a princess covered in fairy dust!She was so excited about the haircut she insisted on going first. She is becoming so grown up!
Jordan needs to be different and only wanted three ponies in her hair. Because I am no hairdresser her ponies were crooked and standing up straight. She looked adorable. When it was her turn for the princess haircut, she raced up to the chair and climbed up like it was an everyday event.
She loved her new look and the fairy dust was simply icing on the cake.

Akiva month ten in review

I seem to start all of my posts about Akiva the same way, "It is hard to believe..." but Akiva is growing and changing so quickly it seems like he is taking huge leaps everyday. In this past month he has sprouted another tooth bringing his grand total up to six. His teeth are still sharp as ever and he bites everything and everyone in his path. I think he is working on a few more because his finger is in his mouth constantly. When his fingers are not in his mouth we have to give him food quickly or he screams. He is still screaming those high pitched shrieks when he needs food. We are trying to teach him the sign for "more" but he has created his own sign which looks like he is revving a motorcycle when he wants more. Jordan is really trying to teach him to sign, which is funny because she is the only child who did not sign. She will stop eating when he starts screaming and show him the sign and say "more" very slowly and clearly to him.


Akiva started to walk last Saturday and he has not looked back. I think he prefers to be up on his feet rather than down on all fours. He stands up in the middle of the room and takes three to five steps without falling. He is so proud of himself, his face is beaming! The girls cheer and scream (think high pitched) "Akiva is walking, look at him!!" I think the screaming actually makes him realize he is walking and he falls down. Right now he will see one of the dogs and start babbling, stand up and charge toward it. I know that it will be a matter of minutes before his careful steps are replaced by running and bruised knees. My baby did not stay a baby long enough!


I wonder what steps he will be taking in the next month.