Busted

The first thing busted for the week was Trevor's ears. Over the weekend after swimming lessons he developed quite the gunk pile in each ear - yuck. Mommy was on a girls getaway to Red Wing with her friend Erin all day Saturday and part of Sunday and came home to the sight - double yuck. We called the doctor and they recommended starting him on ear drops right away. Not quite sure how the drops would get in his gunk filled ears, but we're no experts! On Monday they still weren't better so we took him in and the doctor got all of the gunk out so he could examine the ears (which Trevor was NOT a fan of - 8 minutes of screaming while Mommy had to hold him down). What he discovered was a double ear infection. Great!! But, the tubes did what they were supposed to and drain the gunk and Trevor was in no pain which was evident when comparing him to ear infections sans ear tubes. So we got a prescription for stronger ear drops that contained a steroid to help reduce inflammation as well as for an oral antibiotic which we were instructed to use if the ear drops didn't help in 24 hours. Fortunately, the ear drops worked and we avoided the umpteenth oral antibiotic for our little trooper.

The second thing that busted for the week was Brian's car. On Thursday we had a sitter so we could go see our favorite band, Cowboy Mouth. Well about the time Brian was to be home, Sara received a call that went like this, "Uh, I'm going to be late, I got in an accident. I'm fine, gotta go" - So 2 hours later we finally were on our way to the concert. What happened you ask? Ducks!! A car slammed on his brakes to avoid ducks, the Jeep in back of that car tapped him, Brian hit the Jeep, and the car behind Brian tapped him. A chain reaction to avoid freaking ducks!! The only car that was really in bad shape was Brian's :(

So we did have a great time at the concert with our friends Jon and Katie but found out this morning that the insurance adjuster is marking his car as totalled. Big yuck. So now after not having car payments for the past 3+ years, we're on the hunt for a new car. Booo....but at least Brian isn't hurt. Cars are replaceable.

The third thing busted this week was Trevor's head. He fell off a chair on to the hardwood floor this morning and got a huge goose egg on his head. His first such owie on the right side of his forehead (the past markings were on his left side). The poor kid just can't catch a break. Given the size of the goose egg we kept him home from school and Daddy watched him in the morning and Mommy watched him in the afternoon. He seems a-okay fortunately. What a hard head he has :(

But after dinner tonight he got a treat at Mickey-D's drive-through....a yogurt parfait which he goes crazy over.

And yes, as if there was any question...he finished the whole thing - no problem!!