Wrecked cars - 1
Sick children - 1
Birthday parties - 1 (so far)
Return calls from chickie's insurance company - NONE!

For those of you who don't know, Grant has been sick since last Thursday. I will spare you all the details but he had a virus that caused an ear infection. Off to the sick clinic we went, he got a shot of rocephin for the ear infection and the dreaded you wasted a copay for a virus diagnosis. We've all been there, you know everyone hates that. Later that day, he took a 5 hour nap and when we woke up, he had a 103.8 fever! I called the ped's office back one minute before the phones switched to the after hours message. The nurse called me right back and said if motrin does not turn it around within 45 minutes, go to the ER. One hour later, 101.7 so we are going in the right direction. Basically he had a raging fever all weekend long, we never totally broke the fever but it would go down to 101 or so then back up to 103.6 or 103.8. Saturday I called the nurse on call, she said go to the LeBonheur after hours clinc, so we off we go. The ped there said it's still the virus (much more expensive copay for urgent/ER visits), be more aggressive with the motrin or advil so that is what we did. He also prescribed an oral antibiotic to prevent the fluid behind his ears from getting re-infected. ARGH! Luckily for us, this morning he was fever free and apparently stayed that way all day since daycare did not call us.

During the mist of all of this, I still needed to shop for Parker's birthday prior to picking her up for a Dr's appointment Friday. Grant was a trooper all morning as we went from place to place, all the while with a 103 fever. You would have never known he was sick unless you touched him, he was laughing and playing the whole time. Crazy, huh? Anyway, on the way home Friday, a teenager turned her Volvo into my car. Brandon was on his way home when I called, he picked up the kids from the 'scene' while I waited for the police to finish the report and issue HER ticket. Both of her parents came and were very nice about the whole ordeal, assuring me they would take care of everything. As soon as I arrived home, I called their insurance company, I was told it would be Monday before I heard anything ... well Monday's business day is over and I still have not heard anything. I should mention, I left our assigned adjuster 3 messages this afternoon, how crazy is that?

On the bright side, Parker's 5th birthday is tomorrow. We had her party yesterday, I hope to have pictures uploaded tonight (hint-hint honey do) for a birthday post tomorrow.