Deep Thoughts by Doran Engman

Doran has gotten so funny lately. He is so happy all the time and says the cutest things. I forget stuff so fast so I am trying to write them down so I can blog them. I still probably only get 1/4 of the things he says. Last week on Sunday all day all he wanted to do was go to Target. I thought it would be a good time to teach him to keep the sabbath day holy. So I was explaining that Sunday is a day just for church and to learn about Heavenly Father and Jesus and that they don't want us to go to the store on Sunday. This morning while I was getting him dressed in his church clothes he said, "Heavenly Jesus and Heavenly Father don't want me to go to the store today. They want me to go to the store tomorrow though." I thought it was so cute and sweet! It was also nice to see that he remembered. Today was the primary program and the whole time he was either biting his nails or smiling at me and Brock. The best part of the day though was when we were walking to our car after church got out Doran said, "Now we get to go home and put on our football jerseys!" He also calls 'church day' 'football day'! When we got home we built our first ever fort! Doran and Brock are calling it their blanky house and are planning an awesome sleep over in it for tonight! Should be interesting!

Here is a picture of Brocky with his cute new haircut... It wasn't the greatest haircut but it was his first one he has got from his mom! I think I did pretty good for a rookie!

Mommy and Brocky time!

Now that Doran is in school again Brocky and I have a little one on one time. It is kind of funny how different they act when they are not together. Brocky isn't as big of an explorer when Doran isn't around. He likes to be by me every second. I am sure once Seth actually gets a day off that will change, but for now I am enjoying a little time with Brock by myself! In this picture he is showing me how to put on umi-goggles like they do on Team Umizoomi... I think it is funny that he covers and closes his eyes!
He likes to walk Doran to and from school. When we walk Doran to school it takes about 6 minutes to get there and it takes us about 15 minutes to get home without him. Brock has made up a game that Doran calls 'balance'. He just walks on the curb and it takes him forever! He never does it on the way there in the morning, but all the other trips he does. It is cute because he talks to himself the whole time he does it and encourages himself. He will say, 'I almost there. I almost done!' I love the little guy!

Allergies and Asthma

On Tuesday we finally got Doran in to the allergy doctor. I went over his allergies from the last two years, sicknesses, how he wakes up coughing in the night, and will wake up with puffy eyes. He took Doran's oxygen, which just then when he was fine and not sick it was only 93. Then they did the back test. As shown in the picture he reacted to almost everything. Some of them even got big welts too. It was sad. After they did all that he said he definately has asthma and very bad allergies. He can't go to houses with cats because that one swelled up so bad! Pretty much all but 3 or 4 of them he was allergic to. It nice to finally have answers to the non stop sickness with him and have some preventive medicine. Now I just wonder about Brock...

First day of preschool!

This morning was Doran's first day of preschool! (Everybody else in his class was on their second day.) He was so excited. He couldn't eat his cereal because he was so excited and then he cried when I told him he couldn't go without eating. He finally did later. He didn't like the outfit that I made him wear. He wanted to wear a shark shirt and shorts, but today was red day so I had him wear a red shirt. I finally talked him in to wearing the whole outfit I had already put him in :) !

He normally isn't the biggest fan of getting his hair done but he let me do it without any fuss. He kept telling me to hurry because he was going to be late for preschool. Good thing we walked there and were still 6 minutes early!

Here he is in the classroom. It was cute how excited he was to go! Poor Brocky wanted to go too, but he still has another year to wait!

Croquet

Every time we have gone to Granny's lately Doran has gone in the garage to look at the croquet set and then begs to play! He has been wanting to play so bad. So Granny arranged an icecream party for Sunday night that we would play croquet at... Well Sunday night Doran was in the hospital and obviously couldn't go. So on Tuesday afternoon we decided to let him get out of the house because he was going stir crazy. So we went down to Granny's and Doran, Poppy, Seth, Brock, and I played croquet. It was really fun. Afterwards Granny told Doran and Brock that they could have the croquet set! Doran was so excited. Now I just need to work on my croquet skills so I don't lose every time I play any more...

Pneumonia

Sunday morning started off normal. I woke up and started getting ready for church and was trying to get as much done as possible before the boys woke up. They normally are up around 7:30 so I was suprised that Doran was still asleep at 8:30. At 8:45 he woke up and coughed for about 5 minutes straight. He had a cough on Friday and Saturday but he really hadn't coughed at all during the night so I thought he was over it. Then he went and sat in on the couch. I went in and noticed that he was starting to get really pale. I listened to him and could hear that he was wheezing and rattling in his chest and I could even feel it. I got really nervous so I called Lyndsy to borrow her nebulizer since I still haven't got his. Then I went in the room to get him dressed and I went out for a second and then I came back in and he was asleep on the floor and his lips were a light blue! That is when I really started freaking out! I knew something was really wrong! Seth and my brother in law is a respiratory therapist so I decided to see if he could listen to Doran and tell me what to do. So we went and got the nebulizer and then went over to see him.
On the way over the Doran kept slumping over and falling asleep and I felt like I was going to cry and throw up because I was so nervous and scared. When we got there Scott listened to him and said it sounded like he had pneumonia in the lower half of his right lung. He let me listen and I could hear the wheezing and all the crackling sounds in it. He gave him a breathing treatment right then and told me to get him in asap, so I did! We left there and went straight to the after hours clinic. On the way down he started throwing up too. The doctor listened to him and said he did have pneumonia and he thinks he has asthma from reviewing his file. (three weeks ago he was in getting breathing treaments and steroids) His oxygen was at 91. He prescribed an antibiotic and a steroid and said if there was not significant improvement he would have to admit him to the hospital. So I left to go fill the medicine and he kept throwing up just on the drive up there. I called the Doctor back and asked how he was going to keep down the medicine when he couldn't keep water down. He decided it would be best just to admit him right then. So we stopped at the house and had Seth's Dad give him a blessing since Seth was still at work and then headed down to Provo.

When we got to the hospital my Mom was there waiting to help me and Brock had a melt down! He was freaked out and wanted me to hold him but I couldn't because I was holding Doran. Once we got in Doran's room Brock finally calmed down! It was really stressful. The nurses came in and were so nice to both of them. They gave Brock bubbles, which he loves! Then Seth showed up because work had let him go since his son was so sick. I was so glad he was there. He was just in time for Doran's IV. He didn't even cry when they gave it to him. I don't know whether that means he is really brave or feeling so awful... Either way he was awesome.

Then we put him in his hospital pj's and he loved them. He loved the adjustable bed. He couldn't eat until 5:00 and he had a really hard time with that. He kept telling us how hungry and thirsty he was. They took chest x-rays which confirmed the pneumonia and started giving him medicine through the IV. Once they did that his oxygen started going up and he got a lot more color. It was relieving to see he was finally starting to feel better!

Brock loves his brother and was very worried about him. They only let one of us stay last night and of course Doran wanted Seth to stay. It was really hard for me not to stay with him, but I kept reminding myself it was what he wanted and even though Brock wasn't sick he needed me too. Sometimes it is really hard having 2 Daddy's boys. I love them so much!

Here he is getting one of his breathing treatments. He did so good. The nurses kept saying he was the best 4 year old they had ever had! I believe them. He kept wanting to get down on the floor. Sometimes he would sit on his tubing and he would get up and push the button to silence the alarm! I lauhed the first time I saw him do it!

Doran loved the hospital food! As soon as he was allowed to eat again they brought him and Brocky in popsicles. They asked him what he wanted to eat and he said mac n' cheese. So they brought him in a bowl a few minutes later. Then about a half hour later his dinner tray came in and both he and Brock were so excited. He ate almost all of that too! He kept pointing at the different things and saying, 'I love this, and I love this, and I love this...' It was funny. He has got to be the only person who does!

Brock really wanted Doran's jello, but so did Doran. So I called Granny and asked her if she had any jello... she had green, Brocky's favorite color! So she made it for him. So when Brock and I had to leave for the night we stopped at Granny's and she gave him his green jello.

He got released this morning at around 11 a.m. We were all ready to get out of there! I guess now we need to find out more about asthma and get him in to the allergenist asap. We don't want him to have any more issues!

Handsome men!

I love Kid to Kid! We went there looking to see if they had anything cute for the fall and winter for the boys and we ended up getting both of them new church outfits! They look so handsome I could hardly stand it!

They knew they looked good! I couldn't even get them to hold still for a picture they were so excited! I just love these little guys so much!