Once we got here and got moved into the house we still had several things to do. First, we had to get the kids enrolled in school. The school district here starts on the 20th of August. That was a process, I had to take the kids to get one more shot that isn’t required in the state of Washington, the Hepatitis A, they got one shot then and get another in 6 months. Thankfully, they have clinics that do immunizations for cheap. Also I had to call a friend to grab their official state birth certificates (thank you Peperli!!!). I didn’t think about it as we were preparing, our old school accepted hospital copies. A friend sent us them because it would take 6 to 8 weeks and $60 per birth cert to get here. Thankfully the school let me sign a waiver so they could start school but have their birth certificates here within 30 days or they will be unenrolled from school. We also had another issue where Ashleigh was possibly having to go to another school because technically the first grade was full. They give a week grace period for those who were previously enrolled at the school and if they didn’t show or get enrolled by that Friday they were out. So after we got all that figured out they started the 23rd of August.
Next, we had to get our insurance figured out. Since I am pregnant and William is a student we qualified for Medicaid. Thankfully this process was pretty painless. The only real issues was shortly after we got here Spencer started to show signs of one of his typical flare ups or sickness. We still had not found a doctor and just got our insurance. I had to take him to the urgent care. I also learned that this was allergy season here. So we got him some meds and we were good to go. We are still trying to find a pediatric pulmonologist for him, apparently they are pretty limited for our insurance and everyone who I was referred to no longer or doesn’t take it. I plan on scheduling a well child for all the kids here soon with the doctor our insurance recommended and see if they can refer us to one.
Thirdly, we had to make sure William’s financial aid was already to go for school to start on the 5th. The financial aid advisor that is over him was very kind and she understood our long move and helped us get ahead for books and other items for his classes. William is taking 19 credits this trimester! That’s a lot. He is taking A&P I and II. Chem I and II and Trig. They have the tri set into two 7 week periods tho so it’s not all at once. So right now he takes A&P I and Chem I till middle to end of October then the rest of the classes after that till Dec. A&P seems to be all review with a little extra here and there. Chemistry is proving a bit more difficult but he is trying his best. He goes over to campus Mon, Wed, Friday mornings for A&P, and chem is all online.
The first couple weeks seemed to be pretty tough with the house not being move in ready and getting life started here. Our new ward here in Dallas is nice. The people have been nice and welcoming, the kids have already made friends and the choir is small, but talented. William has already found himself part of a mens quartet! The second counselor in the bishopric is a chiropractor and a Parker alum, he has encouraged us to utilize him as a resource for any questions or assistance we might need. William has already been assigned to the cub scouts. The bishopric said they won't give me anything too strenuous until the baby comes, we'll see how that pans out.
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