Accident Prone!

I have never met a more accident prone child then my Liam. He gets hurt like every child but everything that could potentially be very serious happens to this sweet little boy. All within the last month he has....
- Fallen down our stairs and if you haven't seen our stairs they are insanely steep, long, and end with tile at the bottom. He has been climbing the stairs for months. You see my kids are climbers which means they climb over our baby gates so we have to teach our kids pretty young how to go down stairs. So thinking he was fine I took my safety precautions down (blankets and pillows) because he had been going up and down for months!
Well of course one day we were all upstairs and Liam decided he wanted to go down so I followed him to make sure he was going down okay and he got excited to see me and then the tumbling began. It was one of those bad moments you hope never to see with him flipping over his head at least 3 times and me chasing hoping I can catch my sweet baby boy I twisted my ankle trying to catch him then sure enough he lands head first on the tile. I thought for sure I was going to have to call 911 it was that bad. Sure enough he was being watched over because he just got a little goose egg cried for a bit and was totally fine.
-Climbed out of his crib. Yes he is only 15 months old and his crib is on the lowest setting and he can still accomplish getting out of his crib. I am just lucky he fell out of the side that had stuffed animals on it. We now always try to have footy jammies or socks on.
-He was hit in the head with a train track. Typical right when you have more then one kid this happens all of the time. Especially when two of them are the same age! Barrick was building a train track and he threw one over his shoulder, and sure enough Liam was their and it hit him just right. I came in the room and Liam has blood pouring out of his forehead. Fun right? He didn't end up needing stitches but he will have a fun little scar for the memory.
- Just lots of little things that happen on a daily basis, falling off anything he climbs on. YES I know i have said it many times before but my kids are climbers I spend 90% of my day pulling them off of tables, night stands, beds, book shelves, desks, anything and everything high! Liam is a smart one and knows how to pull the chairs out at the table. Not only that but he will pull them around the house on carpet might I add to climb it so he can reach something. To get to the point he has fallen off all of these things.
-Our latest adventure was the other day when I had the kids outside blowing bubbles. Barrick was happy running around popping them Lilly was glued to my side because she hates cement and Liam was raking with his little rake. Well of course he trips over my leg and goes face first into the cement I thought he hit his forehead but sure enough he stands up and blood is pouring out of his nose. I thought for sure he broke it. It started swelling and I couldn't get it to stop bleeding. Well yet again crisis averted!
Here is a picture of it later that night when the swelling had gone down, it actually looked worse the next day because it scabbed over. It looked like he rubbed his face over gravel.

As much as this sweet little boy gets hurt he is one tough little guy. He cries for a minute then is off and playing.

If I am having a rough day all I have to do is look at those big blue eyes and that sweet little smile and my day gets better! (yes this was Saint Patrick's day)

Just one of the many times I find Liam on the table!!
We LOVE you sweet boy!

Our new (rental) house!

We went down to Dayton a few weeks ago and looked at a bunch of houses and found one that fit our needs and our price. We love it and can't wait to have more space!!! We decided to rent again given the fact that we will be there only 3 years. Also most people in the Dayton area are having a hard time selling their homes which made us nervous. So here is where we will be living for the next three years! (Just a few pictures)

Picture of the front of the house.

Kitchen

Master bath.

My favorite the back yard with a fence and NO back neighbors!

It is has four bedrooms, 2.5 baths, fenced in back yard, finished basement (perfect for a play room) and we love the neighborhood! There is a community pool and playground down the road and it is 10 minutes from WPAFB, and 13 from Dayton Childrens Medical Center!
DC traffic is HORRIBLE it is a good day if Scotty makes it home in 40 minutes and most days it takes an hour plus, we can't imagine less then fifteen minutes it will be so nice!

We are now on the count down which is exciting to be graduating but so hard because we are moving away from friends who have become our family. I don't even like writing about it:( The nice thing is we are only 7 hours from Maryland and we have a spare bedroom for visitors:)!! (So you better all come and visit)!

Letter boy!

Like I have said many times before when Barrick gets his mind set on accomplishing something nothing will stop this little guy.
Yesterday he came to me and said, "Mom I want to draw all my letters but lets just do the big ones." Like I said in the last post he writes letters on his Leapster 2, but this was his first attempt on paper.
My letters are the brown and his are the green.

I thought he did an amazing job! Today he told me "Lets work on the little ones tomorrow." I love my little letter boy!

Word World!

Lately at our house all we hear about is letters, letters letters. My sweet little Barrick boy is in love with them and the reason for this sudden love is Word World. About a month ago I had never heard of this show and now like many others I know all of the characters all of the songs and Barrick couldn't be happier with this show.
Our day always starts out with a tv show in the morning because all of my kids wake up in a cloudy haze just like their daddy, if forced to eat, play, or do anything other then sit on the couch and watch a show they are NOT happy. Lately Barrick comes down and says "I want netfik, (netflix) and Word World, the one with the pig" So precise right? Here began this obsession with letters.
Whenever he is mad at me he will tell me "Mom I am gettin da keys and drivin to world world where their are real letters!!!" On the show they take letters and build them into objects and Barrick is convinced that I can do that. Their were days and days where he cried because I couldn't build an object that he wanted out of letters. I would explain and explain that it is just pretend and then one day he came running into my room said "I got it mommy you just need to use magic to build my letters" Of course another long talk on how the show is pretend, and yet he is still not convinced. His latest reasoning is that I bought him the wrong letters and tells me "Mom I need some money so I can go to the store and buy REAL letters"
Don't get me wrong I LOVE that he loves letters his favorite game on his leapster is the letter game where they trace all of the letters in the alphabet and he has mastered every letter. He is such a smart boy and finds letters in places that I don't even notice. For example....

Cheerios he wants to eat cheerios because they are the letter O.

If I were to pick a favorite letter it would for sure be an X He finds them everywhere! Even his favorite part of the alphabet is the second half of the alphabet, yes I know what 3 year old chooses his favorite parts and only likes to sing those certain parts? Barrick is that kid he has a mind and an opinion all of his own. Here are just a few places that he has found X's that last couple of days. The bakers rack is his favorite because it has big and little ones.

The quilting on any coat, blanket if their is an X he will find it.

The tile floor.

His basketball net.

Last the baby gate.

I love this sweet boy of mine! He is so much fun and makes me laugh and smile everyday!

It came and went.

Well it came and went, our health that is!
We were lucky enough to have a fun couple of days before another dreaded sickness decided to take up residence in our house.
First, Scotty and I were able to go to Ohio and look at homes kid free. Yes you heard me kid free! We left late Friday night and came home Saturday afternoon but we were able to see a lot of homes and meet some very nice people who made us feel so welcome! Our friends were kind enough to take on our kids and it was so nice to leave knowing that they would be taken care of and loved! Thanks again guys!

We met up with Scotty at his school for their yearly snake show. We lasted all of two snakes before our kids were so loud we had to leave but it was still fun to get out of our house and see Scotty. We didn't get any pictures but it was still very fun!
Like I said we had a couple of healthy days so here are some pictures of some fun we had.

Here is one of Barrick and Liam playing together and smiling for the camera.

Liam really wanted Lilly our of her high chair. He thought this was pretty funny!

During this time we also had some visitors! Gpa came to visit and the kids LOVED it, they were fighting for his attention all night long! We had a fun night playing outside and just enjoying having him over for the night.

Here is one of Gpa and the babies. It was pretty funny this was a rare moment where they were both content and not fighting over his attention.

We had so much fun playing outside. It was such a nice evening it was 67 degrees and perfect!! Here is Liam shooting some hoops!

Barrick showing Liam how it is done.
Lilly just trying to have a turn in the car by herself. Barrick kept saying Lilly told me she wanted to share with me.

Finally Lilly getting a turn all to herself and as you can see she was pretty happy about it!

Also the babies turned 15 months and had their last Dr. appt. at USUHS which was very sad! I don't know if I have written about their clinic before but it is amazing. The clinic is just for staff and students families at the school. I love that I can get in on a moments notice and that they know and care about my family. I walk in and everyone knows each one of my kids names and comes and talks and plays with them. It is sad to see this time ending it has been my life for the last four years and change is upon us.

On a brighter note the babies are growing like crazy and so much fun! Lilly is taller then Liam and will probably be that way until they are adults. Lilly was in the 92% in height and 20% for weight. She is built just like her daddy and I have to say I am a little jealous tall and skinny is a great thing! Liam is just average, he is about the 30% in both and is as handsome and cute as ever!

Our little Lilly milly:
She is FINALLY walking. She could climb anything in our house but when it came to walking she did not want to do it! Finally at 15 months she is a walker!
She is so feisty! Lilly and Barrick are two peas in a pod their moods go from one extreme to the next in a 5 second time frame.
She LOVES bracelets anything that is a circle shape becomes a pretty bracelet for her.
She loves talking on the phone, she will carry my phone around and talk on it all day.

Our Liam boy:

He is such a mamas boy and I love it!

He is very smart! When he gets his mind set on something he will find a way to figure it out.

He has to eat with a fork and would rather not eat then eat with his hands. (even with crackers, he will sit and try to pick up a cracker with his fork for a very long time) Silly boy!

He loves to torment his brother and sister! If they have a toy Liam is bound and determined to get it from them.

He loves to give kisses!

Well back to the crappy part of this post. Yes those were a great couple of days and I miss them terribly because this last week all of my kids have looked like this. Yes pink eye! It has been awful! Poor little kids I knew something was coming because the doctor said during their visit that they babies ears looked a little "angry" which you know is not good! These pictures were not even the worst of it! Yes it has been a rather long week but hopefully it will end soon! We are for sure on the upside of this yucky stuff so here is to healthy days in the future!