What A Vision

Towards the beginning of the year we began to notice that Ammely has a bit of a lazy eye. Her left eye doesn't work as well as her right eye and begins to turn towards the center of her face sometimes.

 

It seemed to get more and more pronounced as time went on and so we scheduled her for an appointment with the eye doctor.

It went horribly.

She did not cooperate at ALL. You would have thought we were performing some specialized form of torture for all the screaming that she did. We went home tired, frustrated and depressed. And with pizza. Our exhausted parental souls needed pizza.

Last month we decided to give it another try. Ammon dilated her eyes in the morning and then we went in for her appointment that afternoon.

And she did GREAT.

She looked into all the machines with BOTH eyes.
She looked where the doctor asked her to look.
She looked into the bright lights.

And we at last got a prescription (yahooooo!).

This meant that we could pick out some frames for our cutie pie. Not many options exist  in her size and it was not looking too great.

But then we came across a small pair of frames. No straps. No goggle-look. Just normal frames. And they were pink.

And adorable.

See?

 We eagerly awaited their arrival and by the end of the week they were in!

Ammon brought them home and we put them on her. Everything went well for, oh, a couple of minutes.
But then her eyes started watering. And she kept taking them off.

She did not like them. At all.

 Poor dear.

So the next morning we put them on and hoped that her morning-fresh eyes would adjust better and she might enjoy them a bit more.

And we tried to show her the joy of actually seeing what you are doing.
So we colored and painted.

MUCH better, right?

Still, it was quite a long process of getting her to wear them all day. Time and time again we'd have to go searching for glasses. It was only a couple of days before she totally bent one leg of her glasses completely outward and we had to go get them fixed.

But we made small improvements day by day and it's now been several weeks and she does GREAT.

And do you SEE how darling she is?

We'll go back to the doctor again in a few months and see if they're helping her lazy eye to not be so lazy.

Meanwhile, we are grateful she has them; we are grateful she is wearing them; we are grateful she's such a cutie pie no matter what we do with her!