A pokey Easter

Happy Easter!  The kids actually did have really cute easter outfits, but I never got a picture with them in....but here is the MAJOR hunt with the cousins.  Jason, Melissa and I (Kendra) hid around 130 eggs.

  

And then of course we had to dye 3 dozen more for sunday mornings' Easter bunny egg hunt (We go a tad overboard :)  Alex didn't understand why we put eggs into the dye and not our hands, so he didn't last long.

   And last, we are dog sitting this week and Alex is so in love with the dog that he tells perfect strangers at the store how we just bought a dog this week that will stay with us forever.  As you can see, this dog happily takes any form of torture Alex can dream up.  And Lydia is the perfect size for some serious face licks...lovely.

Backache

  We had a crazy Thursday here.  Early in the morning Lydia woke up and Dave went to get her.  At the top of the stairs Dave's feet slipped, he landed on the top stair and dropped Lydia, and they both went tumbling.   The whole fall I hear "bump, bump, bump" and  "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!  I'm sorry!"   At the bottom of the steps I found Lydia laying on her belly and Dave trying to pick her up.  I grabbed Lydia and Dave rolled onto his back asking about Lydia but barely able to breath because he was in pain.

    I took Lydia to the couch and checked for broken bones or bruises or blood and she was already smiling at me.  She was perfectly fine except for a tiny bump on her lower eyelid...you can kind of see the carpet burns here (our stairs are carpet)

   So, I go over to Dave, who is still on the floor and tell her she is alright and he is rolling on the floor in pain.  I ask him if he's OK and he all of a sudden stiffens and starts trembling and gets red in the face.  I start yelling his name and there's no response.  I'm crying and yelling and decide to call 911 and finally he looks up at me and asks me why I'm so sad.  He also says his back hurts.  Although Dave is still insisting he's fine I call 911 anyway and they take Lydia and Dave away in an ambulance, Dave on a huge backboard with neck braces and all.  Alex and I follow in the car.

   The whole time Alex was having a blast.  He drew pictures for Dave while he was on the floor, he kept telling me it would be OK, and he kept shouting "follow that ambulance!"

   So, after hours and many tests, we find that Dave has a compression fracture on his vertebrae (T12 for all you anatomy folks).  Lydia's perfectly fine, just a shiner on her left eye.  Dave is OK and would rather have pain than feel loopy on the drugs.  So, a day later we're all good and can even joke a little bit about how pathetic we are...now everyone in our family has had a hospital visit due to falling down those stairs.  Not a good record :) 

Happy daylight savings!!!

 Sorry about the title, I couldn't think of anything clever, and I am a little happy about the time change, it means my kiddos will now sleep in an hour later!  Until the sun comes up earlier again.

   I'm a target junkie, I'll admit it.  This chair was a pick-me-up present to myself after a hard day of potty training.   The kids love 'em.
    Who has the best snow hat????? LYDIA!  The best part is that she truly knows how awesome it looks!  What kid does this when you put an itchy hat on their head and it's 60 degrees outside??

  Al and Lydia with their beards.  We staged Alex's, because we had to get one picture of him in here right?  But Lydia did that on her own.  
  This one will make the grandparent's smile.  I'm going to have to buy a lock for the bathroom door or something, because as soon as she's a few inches taller, she'll be starting up the bath and climbing in all on her own!

pictures pictures pictures!!!!

Here we are!!!  This'll be a quick attempt at catching up.  We have two cameras and I forget which pictures I post, and which I don't...so this is a few months time in the Mauger household.

First, sweet Lydia swimming, she's a daredevil and I have to be on my toes because she doesn't mind going under.

 So we put Lydia on the toilet because we're gonna start her early :)  I did read a book that suggested 6 months (ugh!) was a great time to start.  She loved sitting on it, and we got some cute, not too revealing shots. 
Here's crazy Al and his permanent chapped cheeks, Colorado winters.
We flew to St. Louis and Al got a seat all to himself because Lydia was throwing up and the flight assistant wouldn't let us sit with Lydia on the single seat row.  So Dave decided to sacrifice for Al :0   He enjoyed himself fully!
And here's cousin Madeline singing to High School Musical songs (I'm told that's cool)  and Alex is rockin' out!  We'll work on the dance moves when he's older :)
That's it!  Hope you enjoyed them.

Tagged

I'll make this quick....I've been tagged, apparently I have to say 7 things about myself, and they should probably be interesting too :)  So, here we go!

1.  I have had 2 surgeries on my right little toe because it kept trying to grow bigger

2.  I am extremely attractive to mosquitos and spiders and have had more than 50 mosquito bites on my face at one time.

3.  I play the piano everyday, and I have played it since I was 8 years old...but I still get extremely nervous to play hymns for church.

4.  I wrote to Dave every week on his mission and he wrote me every week.  We have all the letters saved in order and I still read through them occasionally.

5.  When I was in 5th grade I said I wanted to be an auto mechanic when I grew up.  I don't know why but I still have the paper to prove it :)

6.  When my sister  and I were little we hated cleaning our room (we shared a room) and so to make it more fun we would pick up every single toy with our feet...it took ALL DAY!

7.  I am very clumsy, I always have a fresh wound from something and bruises all over my body from tripping and bumping into things.  I once spilled every single thing I ate for lunch...chips, drinks, soup, applesauce...everything.  But, my father and brother are clumsier than me :), interesting that they both chose life saving jobs eh?

TV

  I was looking through my pictures and realized that I didn't record a BUNDLE of events..so here we go!  This first one is Alex's 3rd birthday.  He got this lovely rocket launcher from Aunt Nichole...and I have already been hit with these stinkin' rockets too many times to count :)  But we can thank Uncle Jason for teaching Alex how to aim them.  Aren't older siblings supposed to get over torturing their younger one when we all get older?

     This is just a sweet shot of Sonya and Al holding hands...so cute!
   Finally, our new television box.  Why a new television you ask?  Well, our old one broke so we sent it in to the shop.  He looked at it, said it would be too expensive to fix, and we could buy a new one for the same price.  It was only 5 years old so we asked him what was wrong.  He said there was a souvenir penny from The air force academy (one of those flattened ones) stuck inside......ALEX!!!!!  We went about a year ago to the academy, so I guess we should be happy it lasted as long as it did.

And here's sweet lydia, who will eventually also be shooting rockets and sticking pennies into our electronics, but right now she's just learning to eat with her hands and trying to cruise on the furniture :)

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more holiday fun

     The Rozeski family...hard to get us all looking at the camera at the same time, this was the last of about 80 pictures.  You can tell by the look on Elijah's & Alex's face.  We finally got it and it's good enough.  Because this blog is my family history I'm going to name everyone in order from left to right, top to bottom (you can skip this is you're not interested :0)

  Alex M., Kendra M., Marty R., Ed R., Jason R., Jaxen R., Melissa R., Madeline R., Dave M., Lydia M., Sonya A., Nathan A., Nichole A., Simone A., Elijah R.

  Even though the holidays are over we're still trying to keep our lives busy so we don't get bored being stuck inside during the cold weather.  Alex is finally invited Lydia to play with him...this is their boat.
  And we have Alex in swimming lessons now...sooooo funny!  He listens to the teacher, but doesn't exactly do what she says.  I'll get pictures of that eventually too.

Christmas time

Merry Christmas!!! Papa Gary got to dress up as Santa for a ward Christmas party....Alex still was scared, he didn't recognize him at all. But I think you can see Gary's proud smile even underneath all the itchy polyester!


My mom is famous for her gingerbread houses. They're homemade gingerbread, sticky frosting and tons of candy. Alex looks like he's concentrating, but this is his new "I don't care if you think I'm cute" look :)



The adults usually do most of the work on these things, but kids love them because of the CANDY!!! This was always the picture with the Arp family...Nathan working, Nikki probably talking to me :), and Sonya eating candy.

They turned out great in the end, if you notice we even have Neecos as the shingles for the roof....I was fairly intense during this, it has to be exactly like I remembered. But we ended smiling, so that's good!

Cousin Sonya!

Sonya's here! The whole Arp family came for Christmas break...but because of the snow and crazy season times, I've only managed to get pictures of Sonya :) Simone is also here and as cute as can be, and of course Nichole and Nathan (they're cute too). But Alex and Sonya really hit it off this time, they're right at the perfect age to really play together. Nathan is an AMAZING uncle, and he played in the snow with them and Jodi's little boy Owen...they're favorite activity was being pulled on the sled!

Sonya's on the front, Al in the middle, and Owen hanging on for dear life on the back :)

Alex Picks Up and Lydia on the Move

Here is Lydia on the move! She is quite the scooter now and is very happy about it. But being on the move, Alex's toys are now within her reach. Today, Alex got upset that Lydia had scooted over and was gumming his play tools. When he was informed that he should pick up his toys if he didn't want Lydia to play with them, he promptly picked up everything in the family room!
The other night, Alex had a late bedtime, so dad cut the Christmas story a little short. Alex went to sleep but was up a few minutes later. When dad went to get him, he said, "Hey! You didn't finish the Christmas story!" Nothing gets by Alex!
Alex also thinks that Santa makes the best angel in the nativity scene and that the 3 wisemen brought gold and Frankenstein for the baby Jesus.

quilt

Lydia is officially crawling now! I was going to get a picture of her actually crawling, but she's asleep right now and you never never never wake a sleeping baby! And when she's up, because she's crawling, I don't get the chance to write on the blog!
And the next part is for Jenn, but the rest of you can read it too! the pictures below are of the quilt I finished (finally!) ACtually, it's not totally finished...but it will work until I get the chance. It's on our fireplace, which doesn't work anymore. We decided to make it a sitting area, it's right next to the kids play area and if we didn't put something soft on it it would be just a matter of time before the sharp brick edge causes stitches. Dave said I could just whip up a quilt :) I like his confidence in me. And I'm glad it looks christmasy, but it will be up all year long.

Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! Dave's little sister Michelle and her husband Daniel came to visit from Texas, so we spent a lot of good quality Mauger-time. Of course we ate a ton of food, and we even had a beautifully delicious breakfast with mom and dad Rozeski that morning, just to fit a few more things into our growing bellies.
Just our little family took an amazing trip to Casa Bonita. They had all the lights up for Christmas, it was amazing!


This is the usualy picture of me acting like everything is happy while the kids are barely hanging in there...they're not very good with pictures :)
We also took Daniel, Michelle, Jaynie & Gary to see Dad's firetrucks. Alex tried to show them the ropes, but no one can beat Papa Ed talking about his firetrucks. We were there for a couple hours and they were giving the GRAND tour!
Daniel was the only one brave enough to try on the bunker gear, with oxygen mask and he even tried to fireman carry Michelle. She was trying to be dead weight here :)
That's about it! Pretty slow but peaceful thanksgiving. I didn't do any cooking, so I'm pretty grateful for that! Oh, and we caught the mouse (before the company came) and Alex is even starting to feel better (he's been really sick for about a month). So we are very grateful for MANY things :) Happy thanksgiving everyone!

Mice

I want to tell you a quick story about Al. WARNING!!!!! This might give you the willies or just gross you out...read at your own risk! We just recently watched Ratatouille, about a mouse in a kitchen, and Alex likes mice now. Well, I found out we have a little visitor in our home! Yup, a mouse. He's really small and very smart. We put traps around and caught him that day, but just on the back leg. He wasn't dead so Dave decided to take him out and "finish the job". I don't think he really thought it through because as soon as he let him loose the mouse of course scurried away into the wood pile. Dave came in saying he was really fast and went to the wood pile to die. Guess what? I found him in our house the very next day!!! He was peaking over the couch.
So, last night we decided we'd find out where his home was and put poison in there...we're getting desperate. We found his home but couldn't find the mouse. It's an old outlet box that the old owners had all of their cable TV cables coming out of. We don't have cable so we just taped it up and put a couch over it....I guess that was wrong. Anyway, Alex helped us look all night for the mouse, and then he even helped us close the box up properly. We thought he understood that we didn't want the mouse here in the home. But, for prayers last night Alex prayed (the usual thanks for home, grandparents, etc.) and then he thought for a little while and said "please bless the mouse". I guess he thought we just wanted to find it and help it, not kill it.
Poor kid. And since we're pretty sure that Heavenly Father listens to his prayers we're guessing the mouse will now be our permanent pet. rats!

Trivia

Question of the day... What is on Alex?

Here are some clues that he gave me

1. My legs hurt

2. I need to fix my tummy

3. I look like daddy

Here are some clues that I knew

1. He was supposed to be taking a nap

2. He was very quiet for about 10 minutes

3. He played the piano after I heard him get up for a few seconds.

These were my guesses...shaving cream, mayonnaise, the white cream makeup from halloween, Desitin, marshmallow cream, lotion...maybe face lotion, and of course anything that I didn't realize that we had in the house until he actually put it all over his body.

Luckily, he's almost three so he gladly retraced all of his steps for me...it was only on the couch and piano. I'll give you another clue, his carpet in his bedroom won't be getting diaper rash for a very long time. I guess he started with the "rash" on his leg and then decided he could look like Dave when he shaves. He did a good job, nap time was over quickly today :)

Halloween!!!!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Pretty scary huh? Lydia actually loved her costume, it was totally wet with drool by the end of the night and Alex, as you can see, got into character really well. I'm pretty sure it's the thesbian in Dave that Al has, but he was really good at acting like a scary ghost. He even made Great grandma run in fear (which if you've seen great grandma walk, that's a really large feat!) We carved some pumpkins, and neither Alex or Dave would actually put their hands in the pumpkin guts...where's their spirit? But they turned out well. I hope everyone else had a great halloween and I'm looking forward to all the ghoulish pictures!

quickshots

Alex decided that he needed some "scripture power" this morning. He just kept turning the pages and saying "word of God". It's so weird to me that he knows so much about church things, but I like that it seems so natural to him. Thank goodness for Dave's example!

I also got to see my old roomate Anne!!!! It was so fun to see her again, she was visiting a friend here in Colorado and I picked her up from the airport and had a really late breakfast...maybe more like lunch :) We had fun talking about the past and all of our fun roomies, and what life will be like in the future. She's living my dream of getting her graduate degree in Speech Path...maybe one day!