Isabelle's Latest Eye Exam

Isabelle started wearing glasses back in June of last year right before she turned 5. We took her in for an exam because she had been looking at us cross-eyed. Her optometrist said that she was very farsighted, and possibly her vision could correct by the time she is a teenager and she wouldn't even need glasses. He did say, however, that it may take a few weeks or months for us to notice a difference with her crossing her eyes, and that he would probably need to change her prescription at her next exam.

Well, at the beginning of this month, I took Isabelle in for her second exam, and to the optometrist's amazement, he recommended NOT changing her prescription and not doing an exam again for another year! He was very pleased with her progress and very proud of her. She needs no prompting to put on her glasses. She puts them on immediately in the morning and if she has taken them off for something (like roughhousing with her sis or Daddy), she puts them back on right away.

Isabelle has adjusted very well to her glasses! Yay!!

Melina's "glasses"

Unfortunately, we had to recently replace the frames of Isabelle's glasses because Melina is very quick to grab them off her face. First time she broke an arm off the glasses, we got it fixed, but when it happened the second time, the eye doctor couldn't fix it. She points to her glasses and says "eyes." She does this with anyone who wears glasses, including sunglasses.

Well, Melina takes her teething necklace and pulls it up over her eyes and says "eyes." Her own glasses. She is quite proud of herself whenever she does this. Here she is with Uncle Pat, showing off her "eyes."

Isabelle wears glasses!

For the past 2-3 months or so, we've noticed that Isabelle would look at us cross-eyed, usually just the left eye, and would also squint with her left eye when looking at the TV or computer. We took her to the optometrist who said that she is farsighted and that she would benefit from glasses until at least her teenage years when she could possibly outgrow the farsightedness.

Isabelle tended to look at me cross-eyed with her left eye when I was talking to her or scolding her. I told her I felt this was very disrespectful and asked her to stop (she said she could control it, but obviously she couldn't). She would try to stop, but I would continue to see her looking at me that way, so in one of my bad parenting moments (one I'll feel guilty over for the rest of my life), this is how our conversation would usually go:

Marla: Isabelle, stop looking at me cross-eyed when I'm talking to you.
Isabelle: But Mama, I'm not.
Marla: Yes, you are.
Isabelle: I'm not.
Marla: Yes, you are; stop it!! Stop being so disrespectful!!

It turns out that all the poor thing was trying to do when looking at me was focus her eyes since I was a blurry image. Poor thing, I've probably scarred her for life!! :)


Anyway, she is treating the glasses very responsibly and in the last 3 days that she has had the glasses, we haven't noticed her looking cross-eyed to focus anymore.