For the past couple of days, Joe and I have been noticing that Evie closes one eye when she tries to look at something up close, like her food or the computer. Then she did it again this afternoon when she was talking directly to me. She was due for her annual eye exam anyway and needed it done for her kindegarten forms, so I called our eye doctor, (Dr. Heckman is by far the best doctor there is!) and even though they were closing early (Memorial Day) and they had just taken their last appointment, Dr. Heckman said that she would stay to see Evie. So anyway, it's official, my baby girl is farsighted. And not just a little.. (and not terrible by any means), but quite a bit. I gave her a "shopping tray" (Lenscrafters' jargon), and let her select 5 styles for us to sit down and choose between. We looked at one tan metal Barbie frame.. Evie loved it because the demo lens said "Barbie" on it, but I assured her that it wouldn't say that when she got them back and to not choose them for that reason... those blended in too much so I swiftly got those eliminated. Then a new Occiolini metal frame that I LOVED... it was a light lavendar (almost silver), kind of rectangle in shape, and with flowers cut out in the temples.. so cute.. but they looked a teensy bit wide on her and with her prescription being a magnification power, I was afraid that the shape wouldn't mesh well with her RX. On to an adorable burgundy colored (plastic) Polo frame, kinda cat eyed.. loved it, so did she and we also found it in tortoise but the burgundy was prettier.. this was our second choice frame (which I will pick up this summer so that she can have a second "look"), and then the one that we finally all agreed on, (Thanks Joy and Patty for helping), a maroon Ray-Ban metal frame. It's so sweet on her!
So far, she is keeping them on her face. She is to wear them full time except outside to play.. then in two weeks she goes back in to have her eyes dialted and rechecked. The doctor feels like she may need more power than what she gave her but she wants her to get used to this first so that it won't be too much on her all at once. You know.. I feel kinda sad, I don't want her to HAVE to wear glasses. Fitting eyeglasses on people is what I do for a living.. it's what I've always done, it seems, and I love to see people change their look and be able to see clearly.. For myself, I love getting new glasses and sunglasses.. but I don't always HAVE to wear them.. so I kinda hoped that neither of my kids would have to.. unless they WANTED to.. and certainly not so young. Hopefully she will outgrow some of this farsightedness as she gets older. We'll see!
Here's my girl after we got home, posing for the camera,
And here she is playing "World of Warcraft" on the computer.. (not paying any mind to me snapping pics of her concentrating)
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She looks so cute! It's nice to have a mommy in the eyeglass business.
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