Lucky Gabe

So, I have decided that Gabe either has a really good guardian angel or that Heavenly Father must have some really important work for him to do here because I swear that kid has already dodged death like, three times in his short life.

As most of you know, my water broke at 29 weeks pregnant and as I was getting ready to have him the doctors told me it didn't look good and he'd probably have to be sent to Salt Lake for a long time. Then he's born and he does well and they keep him in Rexburg and he's had no lasting health effects from it. Then when he was about 18 months old, we were at a friend's apartment and Gabe and her little boy were playing in a bedroom and after about 30 seconds of them being in there, I went to check on him just as the giant dresser was about to fall onto him and crush him. I managed to catch it enough so that just the bottom drawers fell onto him.

Now here is the most recent bullet he's dodged. As you can see from the pictures, it doesn't look very good and the impact happened right where Gabe was sitting in his carseat behind the passenger seat. I was on my way home from Walmart and I pulled up to a four-way stop heading north just blocks from my house. I saw a large service-type van with a ladder on top of it that was coming from the east approaching the stop sign also. It looked like he was slowing and I proceeding to pull out and cross the intersection. The next thing I knew, out of the corner of my eye, I saw his van speeding towards the right side of my car right towards Gabe. In my mind I thought (and may have screamed) "Oh my Gosh!" and I also thought in that split second, "Gabe is going to die." The impact was so hard I started to fly out of my seat to the left but my seatbelt stopped me and when I landed back in my seat I hit the seat belt buckle pretty hard - leaving me with a pretty bruised right hip. But I just immediately jumped out of the car and ran around the other side to get Gabe. I pulled him through the completely shattered window as he was screaming, but thankfully, and unbelievably, all he had was a large bruise on his forehead. By this time the other driver had gotten out of his van and ran over and I think I screamed (as a crazy mad mom) "You totally ran that stop sign!!!" And he said, "I'm sorry I had my foot on the brake and then it slipped off onto the gas and I couldn't get it unstuck." I noted that both of shoes were untied as he stood there and I thought, "Gee, maybe that had something to do with it!" Caleb was screaming still but he seeemed okay in the middle of the back seat, still strapped in. Lots of people stopped right away and were helping me and the boys. One nice girl whose younger sister I knew from highschool actually pretty much held Caleb the whole time I was answering the police's quesions. There were many witnesses and the other driver who all said the same thing - it was his fault not mine. So at least that shouldn't be a problem to dispute. But sadly, our little old Honda is probably no more. I'd be really surprised if our insurance did not total it. As we went to the ER to get Gabe checked just to be safe, all he kept saying was, "Where'd our car go? Oh no!" He was pretty sad about that. He must've watched the tow truck take it away because when we got home he found a little red SUV car he has that looks most like our Honda and hooked it up behind this Big Bird driving a tow truck that he has, then he came and got me to show me. I was like, "Yup, our truck went with Big Bird."

So that's a bad Monday for you right? But at least we're all okay. It could have been so much worse if the impact would have been even a foot more towards the back of our car. Gabe wouldn't have fared so well.

In other news, we are hoping to close on a house October 31st so we've been running around trying to get things organized with that. Hopefully we canget a decent amount of money to buy another used car so it all works out, but we'll see. You know how these things with insurance go. (Right Charm? :) We're just mainly glad Heavenly Father was watching over us and kept us safe. Hope you all had a better Monday than we did!