Car vent

So originally I was told that I would have my car back by last Friday. Apparently, while they were putting the parts back together, everything wasn’t aligning as it should so they told me that I would have to wait until Monday.

Fine, no big deal. I would rather them take their time and fix it right.

Monday comes….they got the parts put on but they are painting it so it will be ready on Tuesday.

Tuesday comes….the painter notices a spot that he missed. I will surely have my car back on Thursday.

Thursday comes…the painter notices another spot. He will touch it up and I WILL have my car back by Friday.

Friday comes….(notice the pattern?)…I drive by the body shop (as I do every day) and my pretty Expedition is happily sitting up front all clean and waiting on me! I call them to see when I could pick it up. Wellll……they just noticed a part missing off the bumper. They are going to order the part and ‘hopefully’ I’ll get my car back on Monday.

Seriously? Will someone PLEASE find that STUPID skanky girl that thought it was a good idea to make a U-turn going down the highway so that I can SLAP the STUPID out of her?!?!?!? The wreck happened a month ago today and I STILL am without my BRAND NEW CAR.

I AM SO PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Toothies!

At the end of last week, I started to see a tooth riiiight under the skin in Noah’s little mouth. Saturday it finally popped through! And then Sunday, a SECOND tooth popped through, too! Needless to say, we had a tear-filled weekend at our house! But look what we have to show for it…

Yay Noah!

I feel pretty, oh so pretty!

If you know me, you know that I reallllly wanted a girl when I was pregnant. When we found out Noah was a boy, I said, “Seriously? Is that a PENIS right there?!?” So naturally, I’m jealous at all the cute bows little girls get to wear that my poor baby (with his beautiful hair) will never get to wear. Well….except just this once!!

 

He would’ve made such a pretty girl!

Brad almost killed me when I put one of those pictures on Facebook and will really want to kill me when he sees that I put them on here!

A quick car update: I talked to the guy at the Ford place and he said that I ‘might’ have my car back this week! Cross your fingers because I am SICK of driving the vroom vroom car!

Car update

How is my car, you ask?

As of today, this is what it looks like.

I almost threw up.

 

As it’s going, I should get it back within 2-3 weeks. Hopefully.

BUT so I don’t leave on a sour note, here is the most recent picture of my little monkey!

We are going to a relative’s birthday party in Montgomery tomorrow so look for those pictures soon!

5 months old!

My sweet baby boy is FIVE months old!!

Here is what he has been up to the past month:

• In size 2 diapers-Still loving Pampers Swaddlers and HATING Huggies
• Wears a few 3-6 month outfits, mostly 6 months and a few 6-9 months
• Weighs 19 lb even!

Eats 3-5 scoops (the little scoop that comes with formula) of cereal around 6:30am for breakfast. He really really doesn’t like cereal, even the kind with fruit mixed in. Any ideas of something else he can eat for breakfast? Eats two jars of baby food for lunch and two for dinner…..and several bottles in between all that!

We have tried every number 1 baby food except prunes. He doesn’t like peas or bananas, but pretty much likes everything else. He LOVES applesauce and green beans the best.

• Still waking up 1-2 times per night…going to bed at 7pm and waking at 6am
• No teeth yet but still teething
• LOVES his butterfly toy
• Rolls every way possible! He will roll over within 2.5 seconds of putting him down!

• Loves to watch cartoons in Mommy and Daddy’s bed in the mornings
• He was in his first car accident this month
• Will extend his arms and reach for you if he wants you; will try to give you a kiss and hug without being prompted!
• Will also pull your hair, lips, nose, whatever he can grab on to!
• Still has cradle cap and eczema
• Will ALWAYS stop crying and smile when you sing “Dig A Tunnel” from Lion King 1 1/2

Mommy and Daddy love you baby boy!

My new car…for now

Six days after my wreck, I FINALLY have a rental car. Poor Brad has been having to drive his old truck with NO air conditioning. :( I hate having to keep bugging the insurance agent but if I don’t bug him to death, nothing gets done! It’s SO aggravating.

Here she is…

I must say that I was pleasantly surprised at the car I got. It was one of the better cars on the lot, a 2010 Kia. I was so scared I would get an old minivan or a rinky-dink little vroom vroom car. I just hate going from a big SUV to a little car….NO room and I feel like I’m literally sitting on the ground and all the other cars are going to squish me!

But back to hassling insurance people….when I dropped my Expedition key off at the body shop that it was towed to, I asked them to go ahead and give me an estimate to repair it. The girl said that they were short-handed and she couldn’t tell me how long it would take to get an estimate right then. I said ok and asked her to just call me when she found out something.

Then today, I go by to get some things out of the car and realize it hasn’t been moved at all. I go in the office and ask why they haven’t started working on my estimate and they tell me that they can’t do anything until the insurance agent calls them. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Excuse me!??! What the crap does that have to do with the price of cotton in China? What if I was paying for it myself? I seriously do not understand. And then when I told the dude that I sent the police report to the insurance agent that morning, he said that since I just sent it in, it will take at least 3-4 more days for the adjuster to come look at my car and THEN they can start working on an estimate! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO….I’m sure you will be hearing a LOT more ranting from me for the next little while. I apologize in advance. :)

Whew, what a day

Yesterday, my beautiful new car went from this:

To this:

Let me explain.

April, Noah and I were heading to Wing’s to get some lunch. We weren’t two miles from the office. We were in the left lane and a Grand Cherokee was up ahead of us. As we were approaching the stop light (that was green), the GC got in the right lane (not using a blinker) like she was going to turn right at the light. Then all of a sudden, from the RIGHT LANE, she turns LEFT. Since I was behind her, as soon as she turned LEFT I T-boned her into her driver’s side door. Her window immediately smashed and when I hit her, it threw her vehicle into the stop light pole. She wasn’t wearing her seatbelt, so when she hit the pole, she also hit her head on her steering wheel REALLY hard. And that knocked her unconscious.

After it all happened, Noah started screaming so I jumped into the back of the Expedition to get to him. He was fine, just scared. I looked over at the other vehicle and the girl was passed out. Scary! April, who was in the passenger seat of our car, had to basically kick her door open. She got out and went to check on the girl. She called 911 and NOBODY answered!! But they were eventually reached. The paramedics/firemen/policemen had to use the Jaws of Life to get the girl out of her car. She had to have a neck brace put on and had to be tied down to a gurney.

THANK YOU JESUS we were all ok. I have a bad mark from my seatbelt and we are all very sore but thankfully that’s the extent of our injuries. We took Noah to his pediatrician just to get him checked out and the doctor said that he was fine.

I’m just so very thankful that Jesus was watching over my family AND that we were in the Expedition instead of my old Murano.

And before I forget, my little monkey got weighed at the doctor too!

That little chunk weighs 18 lb 3 oz! Can you believe that?!?

And then we had to go buy Noah a new carseat….not because his was damaged but because if you are in a collision of any kind, it voids the warranty on the seat AND it can affect it’s safety. Did you know that? I didn’t until about a year ago! This is what we got:

I wanted to get him another pumpkin seat because they are just so convenient when taking Noah into a restaurant, or when he falls asleep in the car you can just pick the seat up and take him inside, etc. BUT I knew it wouldn’t be long before he outgrew a pumpkin seat too. SO we opted for a convertible seat that he could grow into. The only problem is that it is SO difficult to move! It’s big and bulky and you have to take the cover off the bottom to buckle the seatbelt through it. My friend Brooke watches Noah three days a week for me now and I had to move the seat into her car for the first time today…..IT SUCKS!!!!! And since Noah is not quite ready to sit in a highchair at a restaurant, we have to take his Bumbo in with us so he has a place to sit.

SO that was my day yesterday. At this point, I am just waiting for the police report to get ready (which can take up to 7 days) and THEN I can START getting estimates on my car and try to get a rental car lined up.

The moral of the story?

PAY. A. TTENTION!!!!!