Got Glasses?

Grace is getting glasses! Chance will be the only soul in our house without them (except the dogs), starting tomorrow. Let's hope she'll wear them. Perhaps the ability to see better will overcome her dislike for the physical "discomfort" she feels. The only glasses really suited for 17-mo-olds are these bendable plastic frames with plastic lenses (and elastic headband) . . . we could buy metal frames, but those would last a day before breaking, esp. with Chance around. This pic shows a sample of the frames, as well as Gracie's unhappiness in wearing them, but these are NOT the shape we bought . . . we bought a smaller, rectangular frame, also in pink (color options were blue, white/transparent, pink). We'll post a pic of her wearing her actual glasses later this week.

After the trip to the opthamologist and then frame store, we stopped at Baskin Robbins for ice cream. Mommy needed it. She bought quarts of Rocky Road and Pralines 'n Cream, our favs!

A bit of history: Since Gracie's birth, Mommy has incessantly worried about her eyes. Her first official (i.e., noticed by Mommy) "social smile" didn't occur until about 5 months old. Her eyes sometimes "shimmered" (still do) when she tries/d to focus on something close-up after looking at something far away. No one else worried or even really noticed it until Mommy insisted. Of course, Mommy took her to pediatricians and to pediatric opthamologists, the latter telling us in late January that she was farsighted more than "normal" but not enough to warrant glasses. We were to check back in 6 months. So, after finally getting an appt., we saw the doc again last Thurs., when he said her eyes were beginning to cross slightly (when she looks at something up-close)--thus, glasses, which will "correct" this and probably means she'll stop wearing glasses eventually, so say the docs. (That is, Mommy says, until she turns about 13 yrs old and she's nearsighted, like Mommy and Daddy!)

On a different note:

Aunt Manda gave Gracie this ADORABLE outfit with Dots (the candy) on it. (Right after the twins were born, Mommy ate some of these and ferociously protected her boxes of them--now a family joke.) Gracie has finally grown into the outfit, though she does NOT like the hat. (She doesn't like things on her head--um, glasses?) She does, however, love her brother--see pic of her kissing him.

Chance likes the hat more than Grace does.The chair was only warm (didn't want you to think Mommy let her sit in a burning-hot seat!).