Glasses and Contacts!

Our baby starts kindergarden this fall. That is all I can say about that right now! However, it brings back memories of our very first kindergarden preparations with Avery. I took him in for his physical, and we found out that Avery had VERY POOR eyesight! This was a shock to me, because he never gave any indication whatsoever that he was struggling with this! The most shocking thing of all is that Avery is pretty much blind in his left eye! I felt like a horrible mother for not knowing this for the first FIVE years of Avery's life! He was such a cutie in his new glasses.
It was a whole new world for him. The day he got his glasses we drove to Nashville for camp meeting. He read EVERY SINGLE mile marker between Jackson and Nashville. He was so excited, because he said he did not realize the signs had numbers on them!! Again, felt like a horrible mama. He wore his glasses 24/7. We would have to go in his room at night and slip them off.


We also had six weeks of patching his right eye in hopes of waking that left eye up! Patching - Is - Not - Fun. Especially with a busier than busy boy!


His favorite patch was his "pirate" patch...


I was so thankful when the patching was over. It did help the left eye a little bit. Thus began the many years of broken glasses, frames bent beyond recognition, weekly trips to the eyedoctor to get re-adjustments, and so on. Speed up time SEVEN years...and we now have CONTACTS...and instead of starting kindergarden, we are starting seventh grade! I am proud of my oldest son. He keeps life exciting, he scares me to death because he never looks before he leaps in any of life's circumstances! I am prayerfully looking forward to the next phase of Avery's life!