Glasses? Glasses.

Our large family of eye glass wearers will have a new member join its ranks on July 11...Korri! Upon our ped's recommendation, Jim took Korri to the eye doctor this afternoon. Korri has a wide bridge which makes her eyes appear crossed and she has a droopy eye every once in a while. These two potential issues were the reason for the appointment. Jim had good news and bad news...the good news is she has pseudostrabisums which is the false appearance of misaligned eyes. We are hoping she outgrows this. The doctor also didn't notice anything out of the ordinary with her droopy eye, so we are to take a picture next time we notice it and bring it along to her next appt.

The bad news? Korri is extremely far sighted in one eye and near sighted in the other! Due to this, she is starting not to use one of her eyes, which needs to be corrected with glasses! She will likely need to wear glasses forever, but given her genetic pool, I guess it isn't that surprising (I was just hoping it would be much later). Jim and I both thought that Finn would be the one to get glasses first!

The first thing I did was text my friend, Holly, because her son, a few months older than Korri, has had glasses for a while. Upon her wise, frugal suggestion, we went to Walmart and walked out with glasses on order (to arrive 7/11) and only $100 spent. Not bad considering how hard it is to find somebody who carries glasses for somebody younger than 2 years! Korri took to them right away when we tried them on her. She pulled them down a bit and said, "Boo" to Jim! When we took them off, she kept wanting them back, so I am very optimistic that the transition won't be too difficult. Here are the glasses (will upload a pic of her wearing them when we get them, obviously!).

Holly's other wise suggestion: get a back up pair! We didn't do that tonight, but I have no doubt we will need them. She said the hardest part is at daycare...all the kids want to try them on and play with them apparently. Walmart has a one year warranty on the frames, so hopefully we can quickly and easily get them fixed WHEN the need arises!