Weekend Update

By BK -
Isaiah is doing great lately. We had a little scare where he tumbled himself onto his noggin, but it turned out to be nothing. He didn't even have a bump. We watched him closely the rest of the night to see if he got nauseous or crabby, but nothing popped up and he acted like nothing happened within about 15 minutes. He's been squawking more and more lately and I'll try to get a video up here if my computer wants to cooperate. Lately the 5+ year old box has been putting up a fight with me lately. We've been planning to buy a new one for a while here, but were definitely waiting until my job situation gets figured out.

On top of the computer the Toyota is acting up again. Its emissions system keeps tripping the check engine light and so far every time we've brought it in and they smoke the car to find where the problem is it has somehow reset itself so all they have is a generic code that there's something wrong with the emissions system, but they can't figure out what to fix it. Hopefully it can get figure out soon because A. we don't really enjoy polluting the already smog filled ATL air with our 11 year old Corolla, and B. It's due for a registration renewal in early August and we need to pass the emissions test, which I'm fairly certain we won't right now. Just more stress that we need on top of everything else right?

I'm sure things will work their way out, as God has taken care of us to this point with all of the help from family, friends, and the luck of continuing long term disability payments for Rachel. After all, Isaiah's surgery stuff is working out and we're still on schedule for his second stage of syndactyly release surgery on July 30th.

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Unknown said…
Keep an eye on that Toyota... a friend of mine just had his Toyota catch fire almost as randomly. That's the second time it has happened to him in the last 3 years... the first time he car was burnt out and he had to buy a new one because of it. (he did make a bling necklace out of the hood ornament or whatever you call the logo.)
June 17, 2009 at 2:04 AM
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