Seeing clearly

 I always take the kids in for a vision check-up before they head to Kindergarten.  Then I don't usually take them again until they complain about their vision or I notice a problem.  A couple of weeks ago a note came home from school that Isabelle had been screened and they thought it was possible that she would need glasses.  I took her to our ophthalmologist and sure enough, it became apparent rather quickly that she needed glasses pretty badly!!

And unlike a lot of other kids her age, she did NOT want glasses!  I think she purposely didn't mention anything to me about her eyesight because I really had to press her to get her in to see the eye doctor.  Now that I know about it, she has been asking me about things she can't see well (like the numbers for the hymns at church when we're sitting half-way up the chapel)!

After making sure that she really WAS too young for contacts, (ahhh vanity!!!) she reluctantly went to try on frames. She observed each of the different glasses for about ten minutes per frame and then after surveying herself from every angle she decided on these frames:

first time trying them on after school today

They're kind-of purplish/pink from the sides:

  

 I think they're pretty cute on her and I think she is beginning to like the idea of being able to see!!