it's been too long since I complained about the paperwork

Hang on to your hats, this is going to be a fun one. I think it's time to revisit all the fun I have been having dealing with the forms needed to get Dylan insurance. To recap: after a suspenseful wait and many phone calls, we successfully got her birth certificate and social security number in time to apply for the (very expensive) family insurance plan that neither of our jobs will pay for but will cover the hospital and pediatrician costs retroactively, but only if we applied within 30 days of the birth. Meanwhile we have applied for the insurance that Dylan will be on longterm (on the last day possible to have it be effective in October), which is separate from our insurance and could not be applied for before she was born and would not cover any of the costs of the first month. She may well get this insurance effective October 1st, but the paperwork has not been processed yet so we still don't know if it will all go through and must meanwhile keep paying for the (very expensive) family insurance. We have called many times to see if it has processed yet and been told several time frames and also that our application didn't exist. We decided to ignore that one and called them back an hour later so they would tell us something different, which they did (it could exist, but because we dropped it off in person--necessary because of the deadline--it wouldn't be in the system until it's processed). Meanwhile the insurance company's regional headquarters is in Buffalo and has been incapacitated for a week because of all the snow, which, you know, Buffalo has NO experience with.

I am sort of tired this morning and can't remember if I have mentioned this before, but we have this fancy baby monitor that monitors the baby's movements and beeps if she doesn't move for 30 seconds. It may be a total gimmick, but it does make us feel better. If you pick the baby up and don't turn off the monitor, it astutely detects that she is not moving and 20 seconds later, when you have already carried the baby downstairs, it beeps loudly to alert you. I would say that happens about once a day.

Still working on the camera...