Jonah's 1st Birthday!!!

I can hardly believe that my BABY is a year old. Still not walking but crawling everywhere and he can pull up and walk around the coffee table or couch, he just doesn't have any interest in standing or walking alone or even holding onto someone for that matter.

He wasn't so sure about his cake he grabbed it and then looked at us like what is on my hand? So then I took a swipe of the frosting and gave him a taste and he thought I needed to feed it to him, He never quite figured it out, eventually I just gave him a fork and he got it covered in cake then would lick it off, silly baby.  He is still super tiny, he only weighs 16lbs and wears mostly 6-9 month clothing. But he's happy and healthy and that's all we care about, plus it just means I get to old onto my baby just a little longer :)

What the boys are up to

Micah  Loves preschool and put his dishes in the sink and be very helpful, he’s recently learned to put his shoulder straps on in the carseat and buckled the top and one of the bottom pieces .

Azariah loves to catch and throw balls all day long and to cuddle up whenever possible. He’s also decided that he’s done with pull ups, hopefully that means he will be potty training for good SOON.

Jonah is the fastest crawling baby I have seen and he loves to pull up to anything including people just standing around and he enjoys walking around the coffee table or navigating the couch. He’s also recently learned how turn himself around and slide off of the couch safely. But is NOT interested in standing up or walking on his own.

Next year we hope to have Micah and Azariah in preschool. Riah is signed up for Family Christian Preschool where Micah went this year and I am in the process of getting Micah signed up for Head Start next year so this fall I will have 2 preschoolers. 

I have taken on the Coordinator position for MOPS this year and also the Coordinator Position for Sharefest for our church . So It looks like a busy year ahead for all of us. It's nice to be involved with things again tho, I have truly missed it. 

April 2011 Pics

Riah in the ER finally waking up a bit


Crashed in the ER

During his CT scan




me and Jonah

Jonah



Mallory with Jonah and Mallory and Haddie with Jonah


Jen with Jonah


Daddy and his boys on Easter in the Hospital


Going home from Memorial Hospital with Riah


Riah and his balloon from the Vanderveers


Starting to feel better


hanging out with daddy


Brotherly Love





Micah napping in brothers crib

Back to April 2011

I havn't blogged for almost a whole year, life has been CRAZY busy but I'd like to catch everyone up on the happenings of the Kugler household. We'll start back in April cause that was VERY memorable for us.



On April 12th Tom and I headed to CO Springs after he got off work to check in and see how his mom was doing since she just had surgery that day to remove one of her none working kidneys. She seemed to be doing well and was somewhat able to communicate with us which was a good sign. We headed home that night probably around 11pm was when we picked up our kiddos from Jen's house and went to bed. The next day I had a docs appt so I had another friend Mallory keep the boys so I could go for that because I thought I would be checked being a few days shy of 38 weeks in my pregnancy. I wasn't checked but it was still nice to go alone. I went back to pick up the boys and I was visiting with Mallory when Azariah started acting really strange and Mal said I think he just has a mini seizure. I was concerned but not OVERLY concerned and just thought he was over tired and that we should head home for nap time. I got him in his seat and he was OUT, since the drive home would only be about 5 mins I decided we'd take a drive and bring daddy drink on the hot day. We barely left the drive thru and not only is Riah awake he thrashing and screaming in his seat now, we are about 10 mins from daddy and I already have his drink so I head to him and he immediately takes Riah out of his seat and holds him and Riah is as stiff as a board then he goes limp. I say ok were headed home now I'll put him down for a nap and see how he is later. We get home and I put both boys down for nap time.

Micah goes to sleep NO problem, Riah on the other hand is still crying so after a few minutes I go and pick him up and rock him, he's still not happy so I decide I'll lay down with him in my bed since I needed a nap too. He sleeps for about 5 mins then starts crawling towards me but can't find me, I pick him up and he's STILL looking for me and he starts doing this weird shaking thing like before at Mal's house. I IMMEDIATELY call Tom and say GET HOME NOW I think RIAH just had a seizure. Tom's home in about 15 mins mean while I call his pediatrician and get the nurse and she says take him to Parkview in Pueblo. I call Mallory again and BEG her to keep Micah and she more than willingly says bring him right over. SO we get packed up and drop Micah off and head to CO Springs. We figured since Gloria was already there and they have a better children's wing we'll just go there. Riah Sleeps the ENTIRE way there. We get there and there are about 30 people in front of us GREAT so we are finally checked out by a nurse and she says he has a temp I'm giving him motrin and tylenol and sends us back to the waiting room. Riah wants to get down at this point and play but can't even walk so he just snuggles into daddy. What seemed like an eternity( and this preggo lady is ready to kill the next nurse who takes a kid back that is running around the waiting room when my baby can't even walk) we FINALLY get into a room. Doc comes in and gives us worst case scenario of course FIRST and freaks us out talking about spinal meningitis and things of that nature. Then they call for a bajillion tests and put him on oxygen right away because he was saturating at 70% when he shouldn't be under 90%. The nurse didn't think he needed it and she kept taking it off and he'd drop down again so we just put it back on him and he did fine, he was just laying on the bed lifeless not moving not talking no crying just sucking his fingers and holding his blankey. They took him for numerous tests and then decided to start an IV. The stupid nurse went right for the hand that he was sucking his fingers and tied him down and then tied that arm down he couldn't move it ( I was TICKED to say the least) He gave up pretty much immediately and went back to sleep so I decided I'd step out and find something to eat or drink since it was about midnight by now. I come back and instantly I hear HI MAMA with a HUGE smile on my precious boys face ( I was relieved and shocked) Then the doc comes in and says he'll be staying the night because they don't know what happened and they want to watch him for 24 hours ( that should've been times about 4) So we go upstairs and get into a Room around 3am and meet WONDERFUL and helpful nurses. We got him all settled and he went back to sleep so we decided we'd update the worried family and return about 20 text messages and figure out the next step. We also went away from the hospital and picked up some snacks and medicine since it was FULL swing allergy season and we were miserable. I think we finally got to bed around 5am, I say bed loosely because it was pretty much an extended toddler bed that folded out of a chair. So needless to say we got 0 sleep. The next day we got up and were hopeful that we'd be leaving a few hours later once we saw the doc. NOPE now we are here for a another 2 days minimum, they wanted to do a CT scan and he was still on oxygen so they didn't want to send us home. We were freaking out because Tom was VERY short on PTO and we had an Induction for baby # 3 in less than 2 weeks and wanted to save as much time for that as possible. We went up to see Tom's mom and have lunch with his dad and figure out yet again our next step. It was thursday so we figured if Tom went home that night and worked fri we'd be ok because then he would have the weekend and hopefully by then we'd home... We actually hoping to go home Fri so he was going to leave the van for Riah and I to go home. We call Mal and check in on Micah and he's made himself at home and is loving every minute of hanging out with his friend Haddie and Mal is gracious enough to keep him for us another day and Tom plans to go get him that night and spend some time with him then return him the next day. We also at that time found out that someone from our church was also in the hospital and on the same floor as Gloria so we went to say hi and low and behold Tom finds a ride home with her husband.

The next day they FINALLY come to do the CT scan which consists of Riah needing to hold completely still while they attach about 100 wires to his little head and then continue to NOT touch them for 30 mins while they run the test. He was a trooper and just watched Mickey Mouse and sucked his fingers the whole time. I then think ok we should be headed home now right? WRONG now we have to wait for THOSE test results. So I called Tom and he was already done in for the day so I told him to call Paul and Mal and see if he could catch a ride back with them since they were headed up to bring Micah for a visit and to see another friend. So he got off work and packed me a bag since I was still in the SAME clothes I arrived in and they headed to us. We hoped to get out the next day so we asked a VERY good family friend Darla to keep Micah for one night and figured by the time he came back the next day we'd be headed home this time for SURE. SO she came and got him and kept him for the night and then we went to get him the next day and come back to find a another NEW doc in Riah's room that says we have to stay ANOTHER night. At this time someone also decides to put a HAZARD sign on the outside of the door and make it mandatory that EVERYONE wear masks and gowns and gloves to see Riah. Again they ticked off the preggo lady that with all the stress of being there could give birth at any moment. We freak out because I had been going up and visiting with our friends and with Gloria EVERY day thus far and now they say he's HIGHLY contagious I DON'T THINK SO.

So now completely tapped out on all resources Grandpa Paul steps up and agrees to take a turn with Micah . Tom then convinces me that I too should go to Paul's house and get a shower and sleep in a REAL bed for the night so I reluctantly agree and we head off in that direction as well for a good nights sleep. Sun comes and we were back by about 9am to the hospital and FINALLY we receive the good news that we get to go HOME!!!! YAY Good news ... but the bad news is they STILL don't have his CT scan results and he has to go home on 24/7 oxygen BOOOO. So that was the 17th of April. I also got home that night to find out that MY Doc is DONE working and will NOT be delivering my baby and that I have to pick a new doc.

The week followed with every other day visits to the doc office to check in on Riah because they hospital gave him the WRONG meds and to check on his breathing. On fri I meet my NEW doc and she does a Ultrasound and sees that Jonah is head down and I was at 2 cm and 75% effaced so I should be good to be induced the following Wed.

I went home and just felt WIPED out Tom came home and took the boys to the park across the street and played and then we decided we'd take them to Mcdonalds to play more and eat dinner. I was feeling some contractions off and on but thought nothing of it. We went to bed that night and I fell right to sleep only to be awoken by HORRIBLE contractions at 2am and so I timed them and sure enough every 5-6 minutes so I woke up Tom and said call Jen we need to go to the Hospital NOW. He timed them and said I don't know they are kind of jumping around just go take a bath and relax and try to go to sleep I have to work tomorrow. SO I got up and took and bath and felt a TON better and then got out of the tub. YEP didn't make it back to bed I just layed on the floor and called for Tom and I told him I needed to push he came back in and said your water hasn't even broken yet come back to bed and sleep. He went and layed back down and GUSH ( my water broke) I said TOM??? and he said YEP I heard that I'm calling 911. So he called and said you need to get to my house my wife's water just broke and she has babies fast, he then called our friend Jen to have her come stay with the boys and while he's ON the phone with her Out comes Jonah. He frantically explains to her what just happened and then throws the phone across the room and catches Jonah just as he's coming out. ( 3:23am) He came out and Tom handed him to me and whole ALL I was thinking is was he too early? did we get the date wrong? He's SO tiny and his cord is TINY. The phone is still on speaker and I hear Jen say Chris they just had the baby I heard him crying and that was NOT the other boys, Quick find their address I don't know where they live ( click) Then I hear Tom yet again on the phone with 911 yelling this time get here he's here you've run out of time and I dont' know what to do and I'm not going to listen to you so I'm just going to hang up now just GET here. Meanwhile Tom had already wrapped up the baby in a towel and handed him to me and then proceeded to call my mom at my request who I found out heard the phone ring and wasn't going to answer but my dad told her it was ME and that I just had Jonah so she was SHOCKED to hear the 1 min story and quickly said MAKE HIM CRY I want to hear it. SO we unwrapped him and sure enough he started wailing for Bonnie and then she said you called 911 first right? and we said yes they are on their way and so is the sitter, at that time I hear Tom say Thank God they are HERE so i got off the phone and frantically tried to grab whatever I could since I was COMPLETELY naked on my bathroom floor. 5 guys walk in GREAT ( I was hoping for our Paramedic friend was going to) I hand them the baby and they cut his cord and check him out, I then ask if I'm supposed to push out the placenta and they say if you want to if not you can do it at the hospital and they pull me up so I can walk to the gurney in the living room since it wouldn't fit in the doorway and out comes the placenta then I get on the gurney and see Jen and say thank you and head off to the hospital. During all of that Tom grabbed my hospital bag thank goodness and got in the ambulance and called his parents to tell THEM the crazy story. We get to the Hospital and we are greeted by a nurse that we know from before because she'd witnessed the other 2 boys births so I say Hi and we head up stairs to find our friend Krystal is working and is shocked to see us come through the door.

We were wide awake yet exhausted and poor baby Jonah just hung out in his little warmer for a good 2 hours I think actually until Grandma and Grandpa came to the rescue with food and to hold the baby.

We stayed for 2 more nights I say that because we arrived around 4am in the first place. Jen had our sweet boys All weekend and brought them to meet their new brother a few times.

I'll post pics in another post since I forgot to get them in first.

The weekend we will NEVER forget.

So we are trying to get our house ready so we can sell it this spring, one of the main things we decided to do was update the bathroom. Keep in mind that this is our ONLY bathroom in the house.

The weekend started it's downhill decent Thursday morning when Tom went to get Micah and found out that he had puked all over. I was then of course quickly awaken to take care of it because he had to go to work, yay me :(. So while cleaning up Micah enough to get him in the tub Azariah decided to join in on the fun and started puking as well. Luckily Azariah did not puke nearly as much as his brother so no bath was needed for him, ( I was happy because I didn't really want them sharing pukey bath water) so I gave Micah a bath and both boys were given some Pedia Light and to the couch we went to watch Handy Manny that Tom had conveniently just recorded about 20 times. Both boys were done puking by noon and took nice long afternoon naps for me which was nice. Then Tom calls around 3 and says that Matt is on his way to our house to help with the bathroom remodel. GREAT he wasn't supposed to come til THE NEXT DAY. So now I have a pukey house and I'm frantically trying to get it cleaned and sanitized since Matt's bed happened to be the target zone. I'm counting down the minutes til Tom comes home to help me in my mad dash to clean the house, he walks in and immediately says I don't feel well and off to the bathroom he goes. REALLY? What else can happen? So Tom is horribly sick and the house didn't get done because I was still dealing with worn out little boys. I tell Tom to call Matt and suggest he go stay in Pueblo with Tom's parents since obviously our house is a MAJOR health hazard at this point and why would he want to come when I myself want to run away screaming. He decided to come anyway and started demoing the bathroom and my once messy house turned into a down right DISASTER. Oh and to top it all off since Tom came home sick my in laws couldn't take the boys the next day as planned previously.

Tom went to work the next day just for his meeting and then came home to take his turn at watching Handy Manny, While Matt and I went for supplies, while we were there I begin to feel HORRIBLY sick and had to run out to the car, thank goodness once I hit the cold air I was feeling ok and was able to make it to the next store and survive the day. So they took everything out of the bathroom and I was thinking we have a horrible sickness in our house right now what will I do if I get it tonight and there is NO TOILET. So the guys decided to come up with a way to put it back. Well I wasn't the one that needed it the next morning it was Matt. So now the one that KNOWS what he's doing is sick and takes his turn watching Handy Manny with the boys since yet again the boys were stuck at home with us. Tom tried his hardest and got one of the walls in the shower tiled. I thought that was a good sign and was VERY hopeful that the project would still end ON TIME. The next day no one woke up sick so my in laws came down Paul stayed to help with the plumbing because of course we have to be complicated and change it all around, and Gloria drove me and boys to their house, on the way I PUKE in the car because we couldn't pull over fast enough. YAY ... Please GOD I can't be getting sick too. Yet once again I escape the horrible sickness. Later that day I call to find out the progress hoping to hear the tile is done and we can grout tomorrow and come back home the next day. NOPE only the shower is done and the plumbing isn't working right. OK I guess I should expect that since my workers were sick. We put the boys to bed and about an hour later hear Micah crying so we go get him and he's blown out HORRIBLY so we toss him in the shower with daddy and put new jammies on get him a drink hoping to send him back to bed, when he pukes and becomes a limp noodle. It's 10:00pm we call the ER in Pueblo and find out there's a long wait so off to Springs we go, we get there and see the ER get to the security guard and Micah PROJECTILE's EVERYWHERE including on his blankey. We get him in and he is just distraught because won't give him blankey and the nurses frantically try to find a replacement and all it did was make it worse. When they said he was going to get fluid we decided we needed to get the blankey back to him so Tom washed out the puke in the sink and gave him a wet blanket but it's ALL he wanted and he was an angel the rest of time and slept through the whole IV process. We got back at around 3 am and Tom had to get up by 6:30.

SO here I sit Wed almost a week after the 3 day project began and we MIGHT get to go home tomorrow but won't have the floor done. Oh and to top it off my father in law got sick last night and my mother in law got sick this morning.

Well that's our LOVELY weekend and we've only gotten half way I am SCARED to see what will happen next.

Really there's 2 of them?????

So until recently I guess it didn't really feel like I had 2 kids more like 1 at a time daily but now that Azariah is completely mobile and can get ANYWHERE Micah can my life just got about 10 times harder. Micah just figured out how to open the front screen door and the other day I was "trying" to cook dinner and came back out to find my Toddler outside on the front porch with his sippy cup and blankey and right after him was baby Azariah crawling right after him. Our house we have claimed all along as being Micah proof not necessarily baby proof but Micah proof because he didn't really get into a whole lot well now we get to baby proof or Azariah proof our house because he LOVES all cords and thinks they ALL need to be chewed on. His other favorite spot is the trash can in the kitchen while Micah's new fasination is either trying to figure out how to get outside or crash the computer.

So now all cleaning has to either be done with the boys or while they are sleeping and making dinner is next to impossible unless it takes under 5 mins so they can be contained with a snack in their high chairs or Daddy's home and can rangle them.

On a better note tho it's still the best thing ever to see Azariah test his boundaries every day and go a little further each time, he crawled into our room the other day and he was SO PROUD of himself it was really cute. Micah now says love you daddy and mommy and that just melts our hearts every day... He tells Tom bye daddy love you everyday before he goes to work and says love you before he goes down for nap. So no matter HOW hard life has gotten just this week I wouldn't trade it for the world I LOVE raising my boys and watching them experience new things.

I have recently also joined the couponing world which has been pretty fun, Tom joins in with me and trys to help me find more coupons online, then we go as a family to the store to see what great deals we got. Last night I bought 10 bags of Quaker Rice snacks and only paid $1.10 for all of them. I don't know what I've done all this time without coupons but I am def glad I've started using them and I KNOW I will be saving a lot of money.

With cooking I have found a wonderful new way to make my favorite foods without taking a ton of time over the stove making it a lot safer with my two travelers. I've started making oven fried foods and Tom likes it and I'm able to prepare dinner in my under 5 min time frame before Tom gets home then i can finish later once he is home. I also made a really yummy potato soup last night I can't wait til is COOLS off outside so I can make it more often.

July 2010

For the fourth of July we woke up went to church then headed over to Pueblo for lunch. While we were there I made a dessert for the dinner we were going to later that night. it seemed simple enough but what was supposed to be about 2 inches wide turned into about less than an inch wide when were finished. ( note to self and husband) DO NOT RE ROLL OUT PUFF PASTRY!!!! They still tasted good tho so I guess that's all the matters. Later in the day once the boys were up and my dessert was made we headed up to the Springs to our friends house for dinner. Micah and Azariah played the whole way there which was really cute, Micah played peek a boo with Riah and they were both laughing hysterically. We had a GREAT night I got to see a friend from GJ that moved to Springs that I hadn't seen in a LONG time all our kids got to play together 5 babies under 2 and YES were successful in getting them ALL to SLEEP at the same time GO US. Tom had a blast to because the "men" of the group were acting like teenagers and lit themselves on fire with rubbing alcohol and a lighter.


Later that week Azariah started with one day sitting up on his own no help he'd get there himself to the next day crawling to the next day pulling himself up to standing and now with your help will even take a few steps. He's become mobile OVER NIGHT it seems but it's fun to see him explore and learn new things. He's also picked up the mimicking thing. If you make a face at him serious or happy he'll do the same it's ADORABLE... he'll be screaming for some reason or anther and you say Azariah and look at him serious he'll stop and return the look.

Micah now sits with us at the table in his chair like a big boy and feeds himself most things with a spoon or fork he's getting quite good at it and LOVES to be a part of the table while brother is stuck in the high chair. I even caught him sitting in my chair the other day and bowed his head and closed his eyes and was praying for his snack SO CUTE. I was shocked he did that because when we pray he just sits there he wants to hold your hand but he just sits there and when you say Amen he bangs your hand against the table. He is talking more and more and we are actually starting to understand him A LOT more. Unfortunately he fell in the shower the other day tho and split the skin under his eye we just about took him for stitches but our good friend the EMT said she wouldn't take her son in so we decided against it and it's healing up quite well, we still however pulled him for swimming lessons this week so ensure it doesn't get infected.

I'd post pics but unfortunately Micah has busted our camera so we can only take videos now but I will try to post some of those some day soon. We have Azariah learning to crawl and such.