7 years, 4 months and where can we get health insurance?

Ok, since I’m often told, “wow, that was a long post”  I thought I’d just go ahead and group all this stuff together and make it another long one.

First- Happy Birthday Zach!  Zach is 7 years old today.  Unfortunately, this is his 6 year old portrait because we rarely get a picture of him anymore.  Natalie and I took a cookie cake to school and we celebrated with his favorite mac and cheese for dinner.  Of course, presents had to wait til after Daddy got home so Zach tried to squeeze in some new Lego building before bedtime.  I can’t believe how fast 7 years have gone.  It’s been amazing to think how much he’s learned since he first arrived.  He still can be very sweet and cuddly.  Today, all three of them rocked with me while I sang Natalie to sleep.

Next- Natalie is 4 months old today.  She did great at her checkup but we have to go back later for her shots.  I was running late to get to Zach at school for his birthday treat so had to cut the visit short.  She’s up to 11 lbs 8 oz and 23 1/2” long and is in the 75% for Trisomy 21 kids in height.  She even registers on the regular grow charts though in a low percentile.  The doctor said she looked great.  She had 2 poopy diapers today so hopefully I was just being a worried mommy last week.  Natalie was baptized on Sunday so Nana and Papa, Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Jill were here to help us celebrate.  I started crying during service thinking of how far she’s come in the last 16 weeks.  When we got up on stage, I just kept looking at her.  She kept grinning back while we were waiting so I forgot to be sad.  Still want to try and get some better shots of the dress but don’t think it’ll happen this week.  Got to keep working on Zach’s birthday party stuff and every day counts!

Third- David accepted a new contract position at Wells Fargo last week.  Huge praise!  Unfortunately, we are having a hard time finding affordable health insurance.  With epilepsy for him, thyroid cancer for me and Down’s syndrome for Natalie, we are an expensive family to cover!  He can get insurance through the contracting company but they have a yearly cap per person.  If we were healthy, that wouldn’t be a problem but Natalie’s hospital bills from this year already make us think it’s risky.  We are waiting to hear from another private company and a third he tried wouldn’t cover him at all.  We don’t exactly know why and they wouldn’t tell us for 21 days so that’s not going to work since we need to get this figured out by next week.  If anybody has any ideas, we’d love to hear them and we especially need prayer that something will work out.

Again, I’m up too late so better cut this short and get to sleep.

Amy