"Eye" Can See Clearly Now!

Next week Kaylee will be getting registered for Kindergarten! UGH!! I can't believe this is going to be happening. Part of this great adventure is many doctor appointments. As many of you know children are mandated to have all of their doctor visits current by the first day of school or they can't start. So the first appointment out of the three: Eye Doctor, Dentist, Pediatrician, was the eye doctor. I made our appointment together as Kaylee can be a little apprehensive at doctor appointments and this was going to be a whole new experience. I had told her over the weekend what we would be doing on that Monday. She became a little nervous and I explained this was the easiest doctor to go to. She had a pre-school screening last year and they did a couple tests at her well visit last year. She passed the screening, however at her well visit one of her eyes didn't do as well as the other, but Dr. Rosa wasn't overly concerned as she knew she would be going to the eye doctor within the next year.

Monday came and she was starting to sound excited about it. She told Ainsley in the car that morning "Daddy will be picking you up today and going to Jump Spot, I will not be at Jump Spot because Mommy will be picking me up early and going to the eye doctor, ok?" To which Ainsley replied, very whatever like and said "OK".

We got to the eye doctor and she did FABULOUS, not one freak out, she did everything they asked her to do and was great. (I had told her previously that if she did a good job we could stop and get a treat on the way home.)

The doctor, whom I really like, she has a 2 1/2 year old and a 1 year old, found that Kaylee has an astigmatism in one of her eyes, just like her Mommy! Her vision was running about a 20/30, which isn't that bad. We didn't get to the "reading" distance test and she ran several different tests for far away to get some consistent numbers, because although Kaylee recognizes letters some of the tests can be confusing and after awhile I think she was just getting tired. We all know how it goes "Is it better 1 or 2", "top or bottom"? The eye doctor said she would need a prescription, she will wear the glasses for a month and we go back next month for a follow-up to see if the prescription needs to be tweaked at all. She was very excited about getting glasses.

She picked out some pink, Disney Princess, glasses. We picked them up yesterday. Brad felt bad that she had to get them, but with as bad of eye sight as he and I have I think this was not surprising for me. In fact the eye doctor said since I have an astigmatism and Kaylee does, Ainsley probably will too.

I'm glad that we got this taken care of. When I was a kid I didn't get glasses until mid-grade school. I finally was taken to the eye doctor because I was having issues in school and low and behold had to get glasses. So I would rather get started correcting it now, rather than waiting to see if it corrects itself and it ends up getting worse. Today is her first day wearing them at school. I'm so proud of her and how well she has done with this! I'm hoping our dentist appointment next month goes as smooth....but I won't hold my breath!

Anyway, here's the big girl in her glasses. Really makes her look like a "girl", not so much a little one anymore :(

P.S. After the appointment we went to Walgreens (it was the closest store) to pick out a "treat" for a job well done. Kaylee originally asked if she could get 2 so she could pick one for her and one for Ainsley. I complimented her on how nice that idea was and agreed. She spied a Disney Princess Tea-set. We opted to just get that as she said it could be for her and Ainsley's tea parties. They have really been into playing tea party lately with their friend Audrey (she's imaginary). Such a sweetie!