A New Accessory

Last month, during Spring Break the girls both went to the eye doctor - a long, long, long overdue visit. We'd gotten reports from the school nurse that both girls had failed eye exams at school ... possibly because of not knowing how to read the charts, possibly because they needed glasses. The pediatrician felt that since his test was basically the same as the schools, we should take them to have their eyes checked by an optometrist. Since this recommendation, Rebecca has had a difficult time reading the board at school and within the last few weeks, has moved up to a single desk near the board so she wouldn't have to move around so much during class.

The Optometrist found that Emily's eyes are prefect, and that Rebecca definitely needed glasses... we got her prescription and she picked out frames she loves. She had definite ideas of what she did and didn't like and we let her make the choice all on her own. She choose some really cute, Kenneth Cole frames in blue - thank goodness for insurance!



They took much longer than they should have to come in (a month!) ... thanks to a lost piece of paper on the frame gals part. So the second we got a call saying they were in and ready to be fitted to her face on the 14th, we raced off to get there before closing time. Last week, on the 23rd the lenses were ready and she and Grandma went to pick them up.

When she got home from picking them up, she walked straight in the door and started showing me how to clean them, and that the gal in the frame shop had to shorten the ear pieces 'cause they were too long, and look at my case mom ... she was SO excited! And they look perfectly natural on her face.

I don't have a single picture of her modeling her real, perfectly fit glasses yet, but I'll do that after school today and post a better, full picture of her sporting her new glasses.