Car Accident Update

I picked up the police report yesterday and guess who was found at fault?! I WAS! I read the report and in it he said that he was 50% into his lane change when I hit him, so he honked his horn to get me to back away, but I did not. Yeah, well, I cannot see how he honked his horn at time of impact if he did not even know I was there! Hello! Oh, and get this - the officer did not record the statement I gave him accurately. What a moron!

I am so mad and angry and do not know what to do. My insurance said they were going to continue with the investigation and what the offer believes may not be what is determined accurate. I suppose I should have lied knowing he would, but I put more faith in someone who admitted fault to us without the officer there. I am glad I told the truth 100%, but things like this make me feel as though there are times when it is better to not tell the truth.

On top of that, they found more damage to the car and now it is going to take till Thanksgiving for me to get my car back. Yikes.

Kat the Hillarious

Kat is always making me laugh. For instance, the face she makes before she cries gets me laughing every time! Well, this time, she said she wanted to go downstairs to do some artwork. After a while she came up to me and asked if she could fill a cup with water to paint. Yeah, that was not going to happen without me there by her side. I had to tell her no, but she did not seem to mind.

After a few more minutes, Kat made her way upstairs and this is the face I saw (granted, she had also gotten into our pantry and put the top to our popcorn maker on her head as a hat). She said, "What?! Don't laugh at my hat!" The hat was only one small reason as to why I was laughing. I guess she has taken good notes when she sits by my and we do make-up together.

Ryan Update

Ryan has me trained. I know when he is being stubborn, his schedule, his different cries, and so on. For starters, at night we have a good semi-routine. He wakes up and does not cry, but rather is restless which wakes me up. I change him, feed him, burp him, set him back in bed and we both go back to sleep. In about 3-6 hours, he will do it again and again until about 7:30 am. At this time only him and I are awake usually and he and I talk to each other, smile a lot and bond. I love this time we have together.

As for car rides, he is ok getting strapped in and within 15 minutes he is hysterical. I will drive a mile or less, pull over, take Ryan out, hug him to the point of satisfaction, put him in and we are fine the rest of the way.

There are times when he has been awake for several hours and he just will not give in. I know that I cannot feed him to sleep at this point because he will wake up soon expecting food. There is nothing but spit up that results from this. Basically I need to rock or walk him to sleep, knowing he will cry for a while but then he is in a deep sleep and we are all happy!

Ryan loves his sister already. There are times when he hears her voice and he will smile and look for her. Kat loves it and tries to make him happy by putting his blanket on him, giving kisses, singing to him when he is upset, or rocking him. She is a wonderful big sister!

Car Accident

On Monday I was driving Tim to school via 580 due to Vasco's closure when I was creamed by a truck pulling a trailer. Lame! Tim missed his class, Ryan almost missed his appointment and we were an hour late to dinner with my parents.

THE STORY: I was driving down 580 headed east, just past the Hacienda exit when we decided to change lanes to the right because traffic was moving much quicker. I changed one lane successfully and decided to change one more lane. I looked to my right, saw that I had a big opening, turned on my blinker, checked again both in the mirrors and over my shoulder. Tim was sitting next to me and said that I was clear, so I started making the change. Well about 85% into the lane change, we see a truck pulling a trailer very close to the right side of my car. Tim shouted, "Oh, Lora, look out!" I noticed I still had a safe distance between me and the car behind us, so I stepped on the brakes, but the truck was moving fast and pulling hard to his left. I swerved the car to the left as far as possible but there was a semi truck there, so I am not about to hit that! Therefore, I was stuck and struck!

So, I am mad and upset and irritated, but the driver does not seem to notice that he hit me - he is not pulling over or anything. I start honking and flashing my lights to get his attention but still he is not putting on a blinker or slowing down at all. I then pull to his right, roll down my window, he does the passenger side window and I say, "Pull over! You hit my car!" He laughs and says, "No, you hit me!" and yet he continues to drive. Tim and I both shout at him and say, "You need to pull over - Pull over now!" Well, I proceed to pull over and he is in one lane to the right, so I jump back on the freeway because I am thinking that he was going to keep going (after all he did not have his blinker on anymore). He then does pull over and by this time we are almost to the next exit. He gets out of the car and says, "I did not know we hit until I saw the damage on the side of your my car." Ok?! So what I am supposed to think - that you had no clue that we hit and when I yelled at you in the car, you thought I was kidding?! Whatever. Him and I did not say a word to each other. I called the Highway Patrol whose exit was the one were practically at, waited for a half an hour and he took down everyone's statements.

Now, the only thing I can do is get it fixed, wait for the police report and find out what the insurance is going to do. If I am 51% or more at fault, my rates will go up and we will have to pay for the damage to his trailer (the siding of the trailer is dented in and the wheel well is damaged from scraping up against my car).