Lily gets glasses

My sweet Lily got glasses yesterday. Ugh! She is only 3! I think this is the start of a lifetime of glasses and contacts. She has a lazy eye and these glasses are to make her eyes work harder in a sense. She LOVES them...when they are in the case. Since they don't make her see any better, I guess it is like you and I trying on someone else's glasses whose prescription is just a little stronger. She has to wear them all day and we still have to patch 6-8 hours a day (which she also loves, as you can imagine). This is all occuring while she is going through a major embarrassment stage. She hates too much attention, so wearing glasses and a patch is a little much for her right now. By the way...if you adopted a child...get her vision checked no matter how young. I have many patients that I could not diagnose in the office that there was any visual abnormality, but when seen by the pediatric ophthalmologist, there was significant visual loss present. Visual development only occurs until age 6 years old, so you can correct many problems before then, but not after. Anyway...she loved these clip-ons, so if you see her indoors wearing them...it is the only way I could get them on her that day! Also, if anyone knows a place to get cheap children's glasses, let me know. Otherwise, I need to start a vision trustfund!
















































































































Below are Kate's empathy glasses. Kate has been spared the glasses thus far. Thank goodness!