Look Who Can See!!!

Last school year, Alexa got a note home from school that she had not passed the routine eye exam they provide for all of the students. I actually kind of brushed it off thinking they must send one of those notes home with anyone who had missed a couple of letters. We had absolutely no clue that Lexi was having any problems with her eyes. We followed up with her regular doctor at her seven year check-up and sure enough she completely failed the standard, "what's the smallest line you can read" test. Guess we missed that....whoops!!!!

Since the problem was only with one of her eyes, we were really hoping there might be some steps we could take like patching before we had to move to glasses, but no such luck! We took her to a Pediatric Opthomologist and he confirmed she would need glasses (AND maybe patching too - yikes!). Alexa already knew glasses were a possibility so we had already been talking about it a bit. She seemed a little nervous about it at first - especially her friends thinking she looked funny. We really tried to use it as an opportunity to talk about how everyone has things that make them different then, that she was beautiful no matter what, as well as how to handle it if people did say things to her that weren't very nice.

It seemed to work because when we actually went to pick out glasses she was actually pretty excited and couldn't wait to get them back. I didn't want to spend a gazillion dollars, but I also really wanted her to have something she felt good about wearing every day. The good news is we found something that both of us were happy about - purple frames with just a little bit of bling!!! She looks adorable in them - oh yeah, and she can see a lot better :)