Has it been that long?

So I completely missed out on Brody's 8 month update.  He will turn 9 months on Friday so I will just wait until then to do an update for him.  I will, however, include his 8 month picture in this post.

Lots of exciting (and terrifying) things have been happening in the Woelper household.

One being, Brody is on the move.  That is both exciting and terrifying and I will add more about that on Friday.

We bought a new (used) car.  That was exciting (even though its not mine).  The reason we had to buy it was terrifying though.  Jason was in an accident on the day after Mother's Day.  He leaves for work at 6:30am and, of course, if the kids are still sleeping, so am I.  And on this day, both kids were sleeping when the phone rang at around 6:45am.  It rang twice and when I grabbed it there was no one on the other end.  I knew it was Jason's number because of the caller ID.  So I just hung up.  I put the phone down next to me and rolled over.  About 2 minutes later it rang again.  It was Jason again.  This time he was there.  The words were kind of hard to understand at first.  "Hey, I was in a pretty bad accident on Ft. Smallwood Road."  Of course I jumped out of bed freaking out simultaneously trying to tell myself in my head "He's on the phone with you so that means he is ok".  Those were the next words out of his mouth "Im ok, but the car isn't".  "Should I wake the kids?  Do you need me to come get you? What happened? How is the other driver?"  I think those all came out of my mouth at the same time and Jason says "Gotta go bye".  So naturally I am sure something is wrong.  I frantically call my mother (who is also still in bed.  Like mother, like daughter) and tell her what is going on and that I may need her help with the kids if I have to take him to the hospital.  Then the call waiting beeps.  "Hey, sorry to cut you off like that but the officer needed me to get what I needed out of the car before it was towed".  Phew.  "My Dad is coming to pick me up, im in 7-11 getting bandaids while I wait."  In the impact he had slammed both of his hands into the dash and his knuckles were pretty badly cut up and bleeding.

So what had happened was, he was going straight through a green light and the person coming the other way turned left in front of him, and I mean right in front of him, so there was hardly time to brake.  Neither of them was badly hurt so that was good.  And the young man he hit was only 21 and very apologetic and sorry.  He admitted he was only watching the car in front of him turn and wasn't paying enough attention.  So a few days later we learned the car was totaled (we kind of figured) and we would need to get a new car.  Which sucked because his car was payed off and in excellent condition.

Goodbye 4-runner.  Hello Jeep Patriot.  

We absolutely did not want another car payment considering the 4-runner had been paid off, I'm not working for another year (possibly), and it was just not financially feasible.  So we took the payout and bought something cheap (this is a 2008 and its 4 years newer than the 4-runner) and this was what we found.  I actually really like it.  The jury is still out with Jason.  He doesn't like American made cars.  He thinks they are not as reliable as Japanese cars.  He may be right but I think it was a very nice car for the amount we paid for it.  Of course a month to the day after we bought the check engine light came on, so that was awesome.  But it was an easy cheap fix so im not worried.  They checked it all over at the Jeep dealership and said everything else looked good.  So fingers crossed, no more issues.  Oh and we were actually able to bank a little bit of the money we got for the 4-runner.  SO win win.  

Oh and here's an 8 month pic of Brody for you as promised!

He's trouble.  Just look at that smile