mail!!!

I remember when I was little how excited I would be when I would get mail. The boys got some today and were so excited! The doorbell rang and Seth answered it and brought in a package. He told the boys it was for them and they both jumped up and started yelling to open it! When we opened it they were so excited they were laughing! It was a Halloween package from Grandma and Grandpa Cloward! I had a cute typed note in it for them, a Halloween book, a box of Count Chocula cereal, a shirt for each of them, and a ton of Reese's peanut butter cups! Brock had already eaten three before I even tried to put them away! They both demanded a bowl of cereal pretty much right away! It made their day!

smash

Saturday night while I was getting the boys ready for bed I noticed Doran had a little rash on his back and belly. It wasn't too bad so I wasn't very worried about it. Sunday after church when I changed him into his football shirt I was shocked to see it was way worse! Pretty much his whole back and stomach were bright red and it was going up his neck and onto his face. Within a few hours his face was awful and it is going down his leg and he had a fever and had gotten pale and lethargic. I decided to take him into an urgent care because I know that strep can cause a rash. The doctor gave him a strep test and it came back negative. He said it could either be he had strep and it is just working its way out of his system and causing the rash or he just had a form of viral exanthem.

Once we got home he said to me in a mad little voice, 'The doctor didn't help! He didn't make my smash gone!' It was so funny!

The rash has still gotten even worse today. Now it is all the way down his legs and arms. He even has bumps on his feet and hands. He keeps itching and still has a slight fever. I hope it goes away fast! I can't imagine being covered in such a bad rash (or smash)!

The Pass of all Passes!

In early September Seth, the boys, and I got a pass at trafalga, they call it the pass of all passes! It is good for both trafalgas, 7 peaks, Owlz games, and Flash games. They were pretty cheap too! We have been going mini-golfing a lot! At the Orem trafalga the indoor gold course is now decorated as under the sea and in the center of the room, hanging from the ceiling is a great white shark! Perfect for Doran!

We went to the batting cages the other day and the boys were pretty excited. Doran hit a couple with Daddy's help and I don't think Brock hit any. I hit a couple and then couldn't anymore! The balls were like shot-put balls wrapped in rubber! It felt like my bones in my hands were going to shatter everytime I hit a ball! But atleast it was fun!

Mowing the lawn

The other day I was at Granny and Poppy's to visit Katie while she was in town for the weekend. While we were there Poppy went in his room and changed his clothes. When he came out he asked if anyone knew what his 'costume' meant. Finally someone guessed that he was going to mow his lawn. He said that this outfit is his lawn mowing costume and has been for a long time!

Granny and Poppy's yard has more grass than anyones yard I know of! So of course they have a riding lawn mower. Poppy let Doran help him drive the 'tractor' and Doran loved it. Brock stood at the window thinking maybe he wanted a turn but once he walked outside he turned around and went right back in!

Pumpkin Land!

On Tuesday Doran's preschool went on a fieldtrip to Pumpkin Land in Orem. It was so fun! Last year I had pushed the stroller and it was so hard, but no stroller this year!

There is a little corn maze there... It made me realize I hate corn mazes! We were lost in it and it was tiny, I can not imagine one of the huge ones! I was so happy when we got out that I took a picture!

After the corn maze there is a little area with fun things to play on and in. I thought the pumpkin was the cutest!

Then there was a fun playground and a light house. The boys loved the playground. The slides were all really steep and all the kids would just fall off at the bottom. They didn't seem to mind though!

I love Halloween and fall. It is fun for me to get out decorations and then keep different ones up for the rest of the year! I usually end up taking down my Thanksgiving ones early and putting up Christmas mid November! I am going to try really hard this year to not put Christmas decorations up until the day after Thanksgiving... It will be a first!

Nitro Circus

Last week our neighbor gave Seth tickets to an exclusive Nitro Circus show. Seth was so excited to take the boys because he knew they would love it! I guess it was pretty awesome! They got some free shirts that are way to big for them but to small for Seth. They love to sleep in them!

I love this picture! I can just tell they were having so much fun!

Bountiful Basket!

I will probably look back in a week and think it is silly that I posted about this, but I am obsessed with it right now! Every Monday night at 8:00 sharp I get online and order my basket and then every Saturday morning I go and volunteer (so I can get a little extra in my basket!) and get my basket! I love the baskets and so do Seth and the boys! I have been cooking so much healthier since we have been getting them and we really haven't gone out to eat at all! Doran will just go to the fridge and pull out a fruit and eat it and I have had plenty to send with Seth for lunch too. I never know what is going to be in the basket when I order it so it is fun to see what we get. A couple weeks ago we got acorn squash, which I would never buy normally, and we love it! This last basket we got artichokes. I have never had them either, but Seth has and he was really excited for me to make them. I love getting a basket and I hope it never ends!

Arthritis

Brock is such a funny little guy. He loves to be independent and do things on his own. He will put up a big fight to be allowed to do things. At the same time though he can be very clingy and loving. Yesterday morning he started sobbing because Seth was at work. He said, "My Daddy left me! I want my Daddy to come back and get me!" It was so sad because I could just tell his little heart was broken. The other day at Granny's he did the most tender thing I have ever seen a little kid do....
Granny has really bad arthritis. Her hands are possibly where it is the worst. We had gone over there to visit for a little bit before Claire's birthday party. When we left Brock gave Poppy a hug and kiss and then went over and gave Granny some too. After she hugged him she put her hand down on her leg and he stopped and looked at it. He started talking to her in a sweet little voice that was full of concern. I couldn't catch most of what he was saying because I was across the room, but I could tell he was concerned about her hand being hurt. After he had talked to her sweetly for a minute about her hand being hurt he said, "Here Granny, I will kiss it better." Then he leaned over and kissed her hand. Granny got tears in her eyes instantly while he took off running to the bathroom. (Whenever Brock gets hurt he gets a napkin to help him feel better.) He came running back in the room with toilet paper and wrapped her hand in it and said, "There, it's better." It was just so sweet. It was all him, no one was even talking about her hands or arthritis or anything and he noticed that and tried to help her on his own. I was happy to see him be so sweet and loving. I sure do love him, even if he does favor his Dad!

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!