Let's just say she was one happy birthday girl!
We had a wonderful lunch with family and then started the birthday celebrations.
I don't know how she did it, but she stayed up till 9 o'clock that night. She was so tired she slept through the entire night. :)
So I have to say this was one of the most emotional birthdays for me. I remember when she was born we would talk about "when she turns 3" all the time. We knew her birthday would fall on Thanksgiving and thought it would be great to host Thanksgiving at our house. Well that thought became a reality this week. I continue to be amazed at how far she has come. I guess every birthday is a bit emotional for me because it marks another year we've made it with our baby girl.
As for other news, Arianna has been excepted at the school district to receive speech therapy once a week. However, her pulmonologist does not want her attending any sessions at school during the winter. I'm still waiting to hear from the ST to find out how many children will be with Arianna. If it's one-on-one then I might allow her to go. If not, then I'll push for at-home therapy through another program.
Some of you may remember Arianna had a dental visit 2 months ago and needed to get a cavity filled and cleaning done at the hospital. I've been waiting for the insurance to approve this and finally I spoke with the dentist office last week and apparently I have to pay $400 for before they will do anything. I called insurance and they said everything is paid for and the dentist is trying to double dip. Apparently, the dentist office tried to get a professional hospital call approved for $88 and insurance denied it. Insurance has already approved this procedure to be done at the hospital so they will not pay for the doctor to drive there. So....this means they are trying to charge me $400 for the dentist to freaking DRIVE to the hospital!!!! You have got to be kidding me!!!! I'm waiting to talk with our pediatrician on Tuesday at Arianna's 3 year check up. I've already given her a call and she was going to call both my insurance and the dentist office. This is why I love our pediatrician! I'm hoping she has come up with a better answer than I have.
I thinks thats about it for us. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
7 comments:
Third birthdays are extra special because Arianna will remember a lot of her special day for a long time. Looks like she had an awesome day. And Happy Thanksgiving too!
What a lot to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving! So glad everyone had a wonderful time! Happy birthday to Arianna and best wishes for the year to come.
Glad to hear that her day was wonderful!
Hey, we do speech through the school system and they provided a homebound teacher to come to the house two times a week for Madison. All we had to do is provide a note from her immunologist. Give it a try.
Happy birthday Arianna!! I love your princess bounce house!! I hope that you have a terrific 3rd year!
I love the jump house how cute, I bet she had a blast how fun.
Happy Belated Birthday hope you had a great 3rd Birthday :)
I really hope you get everything figured out with the Doctor that is outragoius they want to charge you for the drive over there. Good Luck with that.
I can't believe Arianna is THREE! What a big girl! Three is definitely a very special birthday. I'm soo glad she (and you) had such a fun, special day. Happy birthday, sweet girl!
Good luck with the dentist/insurance stuff. I hope your ped can get things sorted out for you.
Wow. Isn't it amazing how quickly that "3" sneaks up on us?! She is getting so big! It looks like you all had a wondeful day:0)
Hope you get things worked out with speech. The set up we have for Vaeh's school/therapy is such that they'll come here if we need them to!
As for the whole dentist-insurance thing... ugh! What a bunch of jerks trying to buck the system! Hope you get things cleared up with that!!
Give that big girl big (belated) birthday hugs from us!!
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