15 Months Old

Anni is still growing in leaps and bounds, mostly in her hair. She has a total of 10 teeth now. Four on the top and on the bottom in front, and 2 molars on the top and bottom. She seems to get teeth in pairs or fours. She's been chewing on her fingers and everything else so much I think she must be working on more, but I can't feel them yet. She bit me pretty hard last night when I was trying to feel for them.No new words yet, just "up."The problem now is that she uses "up" for everything. It's kind of hard to differentiate between when it means up, down, look at me, give me that, or I don't want to play anymore.Empty diaper boxes are one of her favorite toys, she loves being pushed around the room in them like Great Grandma Sonia used to do with her toy box. We're working on the "where's your..." game. She knows nose and head, I'm going to post of video of it later, assuming I can get her to cooperate. We're also teaching her to blow kisses. She gets it sometimes, and sometimes she puts her hand over my mouth instead of hers. It's still cute, so I'll take it.We had a good visit from Uncle Ross, but I'm going to do a separate post for that.Lastly, we got Anni a winter coat. It's only an 18 month, but it's huge on her. She was so excited to get it, she cuddled it all through the store, the whole ride home, then played with for another 5 or 10 minutes when we got home. I had a hard time getting a picture of it because she was running around flapping her arms. Her little hands don't even come out of the sleeves yet. We can roll the cuff for a month or two until she grows into it. Because we bought it big she may not hit a growth spurt till spring, but if we'd have bought it to fit I'm sure she would have out grown it in a hurry.

Horrible Luck

After the misadventure with my car, I figured things had to start getting better. Nope!

I was working out in the garden center last night, when I heard the unmistakable crunch of two cars colliding. I thought, "Oh, that sucks. I wonder who got hit. Probably just some customers."

A few minutes later Josh came out and asked me if I drove a truck with Utah plates. He then told me that MY truck had been the one that got hit. She was 16, driving her grandpa's Mercedes. She thought her foot was on the brake, but was on the gas. When she mounted the curb she panicked and must have pushed harder on it because she not only went over the curb, but also 6 feet of sidewalk, then hit my truck and knocked it a good foot or two. Josh told her she was lucky because she'd hit the car of the nicest person in the store, which was sweet of him. Poor girl, if she's have hit the car next to mine it would have been the biggest jerk in the store.
The insurance company is paying a repair shop to pick up the truck in the morning and for Enterprise to get a rental to us tomorrow too. This mess should be cleared up pretty quickly, thankfully.
The top picture is my truck, obviously, and the bottom one is the front of her grandpa's Mercedes.

My Poor Geo

On my way to work today I got in a car wreck. Someone cut off the guy in front of me, he slammed on his brakes, and then I did, but not fast enough. The jerk that cut him off just kept driving, so he got off scotch free.

Everyone was okay, I've got some whiplash, and my neck and back are hurting, but I'll be fine in a few days. I keep laying on the floor to stretch my back out and Anni keeps body slamming me. Little turkey.

It didn't really do any damage to the other guy, he was in an '05 Ford Mustang. There was a dent in his bumper and I scratched the paint a bit.

The insurance probably isn't gonna do a thing for us, we only had liability on my Geo.

This is the damage.