Fire house

About a month ago we went to Seth's fire house at his work. The boys really like seeing the fire engines.

I loved seeing Seth's name on the coat! I had to take a picture of our brave Daddy!

Christmas!

I am so mad at myself! I forgot to take pictures at Granny's Christmas party, at the Engman party, and at my Mom and Kevin's! I almost forgot to take pictures Christmas morning but at the last minute I remembered. I missed them opening all of the presents though. We woke them up at 4 am Christmas morning because Seth had to be to work at 6. They woke right up when we told them Santa came and they were so excited!

They opened all the presents and then we went downstairs and found the new spiderman bikes Santa left for them. They were very happy. Doran has worn his JR costume Santa brought everyday and it has been a pain to get it off to clean it! He look really cool in it though. By 10:30 Christmas morning Brock was out! He fell asleep in the car on the way home from my Mom's and stayed asleep for a couple of hours. Doran had fallen asleep too but when I brought him in he was awake and playing like he was not even tired! We had a very Merry Christmas this year!

So two posts back I said how we were growing the boys hair out... Well I guess that didn't go as well as I thought! It was getting really hard to comb their hair because they were so tangly and snarly so we finally decided we would just cut them. I almost cried when Seth started cutting Brock's. It was so sad!

I think they both still look very handsome! I am excited for Brock to get some curls again though!

Winter wonder land!

We finally got some snow! I can't say I am very happy about it, but the boys sure are! Yesterday morning Brock kept running to the window and telling us to look at the snow. So we went to kid to kid and got them snow pants, coats, boots, and gloves so we could play outside in the snow.

Brock liked his snow pants but that is about it! He hates putting on his coat and his gloves were a nightmare to get on! Seth finally got them on, but within five minutes he had thrown them in the road!

They loved playing in the snow! It was so cute! Doran has been asking all day when he gets to go play outside again! The snow sure makes it seem like Christmas is even closer...

Shaggy haired boys!

The 3 Engman boys, yes, Seth included, are growing out their hair! Today I realized that they are actually getting pretty long. I don't have a picture of Seth yet, but his isn't as long as the boys yet anyways. I love Doran's wings!

Brock's hair is actually quite a bit longer than Doran's, but since it is pretty curly it just springs up! The bottom in the back actually hits his shoulder blades on his back when it is wet! I think we will need to trim the ends on the bottom. I think they are going to look like studs when it is all grown out!

"Doran's party"

Today the boys and I went over to my aunt Lisa's to visit and boy were we in for a suprise! She had gone and got them a dozen donuts, tied a balloon to every chair, got them each their own special cup, car, and gun, and a 2 liter of rootbeer! Doran called it his party! It was so cute I had to take pictures! They both loved it! Thanks auntie momma!

Check out that serious face!

This is what was left of the donuts! I guess it is kind of like how dogs pee everywhere to mark their territory, Doran takes a bite of everything to make sure it is his!

Bedtime

Ever since August Doran has been sleeping in our bed. It is all my fault because I was scared when Seth was working nights and would bring him in with me and then I couldn't get him out. Then 2 weeks ago Brock started jumping out of his crib so we switched him to a toddler bed. So by 1 a.m. he was always in our bed too! It was horrible!

So we have a solution! This bunk bed has been in the Engman family for several years, Seth even used to sleep on it! So we put this in Brock's room and moved Doran in there too! Now they sleep together on the bottom bunk and we have the bed to ourselves again! It is cute to see them asleep together. Doran says they are having sleepovers!

For the last month or so Doran has been obsessed with Astroboy! He has been begging Seth to take him to it! He finally saw it last Friday and boy was he happy! He pretended he was Astroboy the rest of the day!

I had to include this picture! Every day when I do my makeup a little boy will climb up next to me and say, 'I wanna play!' This is what happens!

Halloween was great this year! It would have been even better if I remembered to charge my camera battery so I could take pictures of all my cute nieces and nephews! All these pictures are from my cell phone... Granny gave both the boys plastic vampire teeth and they loved them! They would walk around saying roar while they wore them! I loved it!

Doran was a racecar driver, shocking! He looked really cute in it, but of course, no picture of his whole costume to show. I only have this one of him holding Claire. He is such a handsome boy!

Brock was a firefighter, when he would wear his costume that is. It was a really cute costume and was warm, but he hated it!

I thought I would tack on a few other cute pictures I have taken. This one is Brock 'drinking' a chocolate pudding!

This is my 3 handsome boys! I wish it was a better picture, but atleast you can see Brock's curls!

I thought this picture of Brock eating spaghetti was really cute! He loved it! Poor little guy got H1N1 last month too. It was pretty rough on him. His fever got all the way to 104.5! Hopefully we stay healthy the rest of the winter now....

Seth the firefighter

Seth is on the Tesoro refinery's fire brigade. I never thought he would really have to do anything with what he had learned... I was wrong! The other week he got a call to come up for a fire! I about died I was so scared! Luckily our personal hero was ok as was everyone else and now we have some more exciting memories!

Claire Lyndsy

This morning Jen and Blake had their little girl. They named her Claire Lyndsy! She weighs 7lbs 14 oz and is 19 inches long. I don't think she looks anything like Jayce did when she was born except her nose. Jayce had olive skin and Claire is pretty light. Jayce had black eyes and Claire's are dark blue! Poor little Jayce! She was so excited to see her sister, but the hospital won't let anyone below 15 years old in the newborn wings as a precaution due to the swine flu. I told her and she started sobbing! We will have her with us until her new sister and mom get to go home!

Itty bitty football!

Doran started itty bitty football on Friday and he loved it! I was worried he wouldn't since he is so shy, but my worrying was for nothing! He was laughing and smiling the whole time!

His favorite two stations were where they practiced kicking field goals and where they practiced throwing.

Stitches (Warning! Kind of gross picture!)

So yesterday was a very exciting day for us! Doran cried and cried before we dropped him off at preschool. His teacher said she would call us if he didn't stop crying in 5 minutes. Luckily she didn't call! She did call at 10:50 but for a completely different reason! She said they were having music time and Doran fell and hit his head. She told me it was bleeding and she wasn't sure whether it needed stitches or not! I rushed over and got him and it was the yuckiest cut! I guess he tripped and hit on the corner of the coffee table! It was so wide and so deep I decided I wasn't going to take any chances, so I just took him straight to the ER. (The pictures don't show how deep it was. It was crazy, I have never seen a smaller cut be so deep!)

So we took him to the ER and he was so grumpy! He just wanted to go home! They put some stuff on it while we waited to try to numb it so the numbing shots didn't hurt as bad. It is hard to say whether it worked or not, but when he got those shots he was screaming bloody murder! Then the doctor came in and decided he needed one of those full body restraint things so he could do the stitches. He got three in the inner layer and five on the outside! He was crying and yelling the whole time. It is a good thing they restrained him too because he was fighting! He kept yelling, 'I am done now! I am done now! No fingers on me! No fingers on me!' And then finally he just got so sad and started saying, 'Mommy! I am wanna be done!' It was heart breaking. They kept chuckling at the things he would scream through his crying and all you could see was a little bit of his eye through all the sterile cloths and that made it even sadder. When they finally were done and let him out he was damp from sweating! Poor little guy!
I am just hoping it doesn't scar to bad! A lot of it is in his eyebrow so I hope that helps. But through all this Brock was an angel! Hopefully it is along time before we have to do this again!

Cute pictures!

This is my new favorite picture! Needless to say Brock loves suckers!

Doran after his second day of preschool! They made this cool apple thing since they are learning about the letter A and he had eaten most of his before they got out the door! It was funny because all the other kids came out theirs were still perfect and he had his face in his! Seth and I could not stop laughing!