Jace's New Glasses!

A little over a month ago, I went to the boys school to help out with the vision screening testing. All the students came into the cafeteria one class at a time to have their eye sight checked. There were two volunteers in each line. One to help the kids cover each eye and have them stand in the right place (behind the red line) and the other to point at what letter was to be read. If the kids could read all the letters standing behind the red line then they were seeing at 20/20. Caden came through my line and he did great, I checked Jackson in between classes and he was fine. Then Jace got to come through my line as well. When I checked him, I had him do it like 3 times, poor kid...he couldn't see a thing! I went with with him over to the eye doctor who did more extensive testing on the kids who had trouble reading in my line. He was seeing at 20/70.

So, needless to say, we got him into the eye doctor right away. Sure enough, he needed glasses, but luckily he won't need to wear a patch or anything.

Jace was so excited to get glasses! I was a little surprised at how anxious he was to get them. He came in crying one afternoon after he'd had them for just under a month. He'd fallen off his bike and totally crunched the frames! There was no fixing those puppies! So I threw him in the Yukon and we ran down to the eye doctor to order a new pair. He's on his second frames and he's had quite a few close calls...I've had to bend them back into shape about 3 times (in less than two weeks!!!) I went ahead and ordered another set of frames, because he's six years old and he's a boy...and I have no doubt in my mind that we will need them before long!

We just had his one month follow-up visit and the doctor said he showed visible improvement. Yeah! He is so cute in his glasses!