Mommy Kisses

This picture was taken last August when Maysen was only 9mo old. We were at Lincoln City, Oregon on the coast visiting my dad and Jo for the last time before they headed to Florida. They haven't seen him since. Man, has he grown since then. He's his own person, now. I hope they get to come and see him soon, although we try to make-do with the webcam every once in awhile. The screen is 2x2" wide and so jerky you get major vertigo just trying to see the other person.

Mommy kisses are the best. I can't actually get him to "give kisses" although he does know how to "blow kisses" now. Makes your heart melt!

I don't understand insurance companies. They seem to cause a big stink if your car gets damaged avoiding a major accident, yet if you totally would have wiped out the entire freeway, there would be no questions. Where did I get this? Wednesday Nate was ran off the road by some almost non-english speaking Korean lady who didn't know where she was. She came blowing onto the freeway via an on ramp and, not looking, started merging at warp speed into Nate's lane. Of course he had Maysen in the vehicle with him. So, trying to avoid being wiped out by her and causing a 10-car pile up, Nate chose to hit the concrete median barrier. Luckily, he had slowed to about 55mph before hitting and there was no body damage to our vehicle as the jersey to the concrete median is very low. Only Nate's front L tire hit messing up alignment, rim, tire, barrings, etc. The Korean lady stopped "Oh, I sorry!" was what she could muster and provided Nate with her insurance information. Now, here we sit, battling insurance companies at "whose fault was this?" Are you kidding me!? If Nate would have let her slam into him, who knows what would have happened - BUT! We wouldn't be in the middle of insurance nightmare. This happened one other time to him (poor Nate). He was at a light and there was a semi truck to the R of him going to make a L turn towards Nate. Nate could see that the semi was going to hit him if he didn't back up. So, he backed up quite a bit. So, here comes the semi full speed ahead and his trailer was coming RIGHT AT Nate. So, instinctively, with the vehicle already in reverse, he hit the pedal and smacked into the guy behind him (who had just pulled up behind him). Who's fault? Nate's of course. But what was he thinking? He should have done was let the semi run over him, right! You bet!