Wordless Wednesday.....Wyatt's Glasses!

if you're happy and you know it!

just hanging out with my daddy!

give me the camera!!!

physical therapy....with ms. joanna...
practicing standing.....have you ever seen such a contraption????

Wyatt's Adventures Continue....He Got His Glasses!

and so the fun begins!  we got wyatt's glasses today, and it seems that wyatt likes his new glasses just about as much as he liked his bone conductive hearing aid!   i am so very thankful that i do not have to wrestle both of them on him at the same time!  (since it's been determined that he does not need the hearing aid....PRAISE GOD!!!)   not sure how long it will take him to get used to the glasses!  they are very cute, though!   the lady who fitted them on him said it might take about a month.....we can only hope!

i want to think that if they help him, he will want to keep the on.  of course, with his beautiful long eyelashes hitting the lenses from time to time, i'm not sure that he will ever get used to them, or forget that he has them on!  UGH!   at least they have a strap around the back that will keep them on him, somewhat....until he pulls them over his head, of course!   hmmmm..... why don't they just put kiddos in contacts?   i've had friends whose kids used them......but with his astigmatism, i'm not sure that would work.....plus the whole idea of trying to put contacts into his little bitty eyes....

and so the adventure continues.....he is one good natured fellow!    we are blessed!    and yes, i'll post pictures just as soon as i can get him to keep them on long enough to take a picture!!!! 

His Glasses Will Be Blue......

i asked tim to go with me to help pick out wyatt's glasses.  smart thinking, huh?   wyatt flailed, threw his head back, slung his head from side to side, anything he could do to avoid getting those glasses on his face!   it was so dramatic that it was comical....except it wasn't!    not sure how on earth we are going to convince him to keep them on his face!   with the hearing aid as well.....

wyatt's speech therapist happened to come into the optical shop at the same time, and gave us another set of eyes to try to figure out which pair would work best for wyatt, in conjunction with the hearing aid.   she is so optimistic and positive, she just kept telling me that we'll (together) "figure it out!"   i appreciate her! 

so we're going with the miraflex (plastic) glasses this time.  i know that everyone swears by the specs 4 us, made especially for folks with Down syndrome, but i don't think a metal frame is the best thing for wyatt right now.  seriously.  we've talked about it and made the decision.  done.   and we're going with a blue frame, since tim would not let me order red....i really wasn't going to order red, but he knows it's my favorite color, so he just assumed that would be my vote!   hahaha!  he doesn't know me as well as he thinks he does....but if orange had been an option.........

as we're leaving, tim said "you don't think you could have done that by yourself, huh?"   not on your life!  

Glasses Too?????

so today was wyatt's yearly opthamologist check-up.  he needs glasses.  i feel so confident that she knows what she is talking about....i don't need a second opinion.  i'm just so sad.  i cried when i talked to tim.   i told my friend carol (who has a son w/Ds).......isn't it enough that he has Ds, had open heart surgery, is wearing a hearing aid.....do we have to add glasses?   i know i've said this before, but it just makes me so sad that he has to have one more thing that makes him appear different from everyone else!   UGH!!!   her son also has glasses...

so now i research glasses, which ones are best for him....everyone has an opinion, and i think they're all different!   i read that approximately 87 % of kids with Ds will need glasses by the time they are 3!   i didn't realize the numbers were that high.   his appointment was pretty tough, once they got his eyes dilated, it took 2 of us holding him while the opthamologist looked in his eyes.  she is very thorough.....she said "i hate to tell you, but he's going to need glasses.....not sure how he's going to keep them on!"   hopefully better than the hearing aid.....as much as he likes to snatch everyone else's glasses, i'm not sure what we are going to do with him!   and now everyone in our family will have glasses!   more alike........