Noah and Evie got new glasses!
Noah and Evie have been complaining about not being able to see, yet again. It's only been about 18 months (August 2016) since they originally got glasses so I thought it couldn't be all that bad. But then again, I tend to think most things aren't a big deal and they were definitely were due for a checkup. Evie would often take her glasses off and shift them to look through the more powerful, thicker part of her lenses to see things far away. And I never realized until after she got new glasses that the reason she sat on the floor during family movie night was not because she liked it, as I had thought, but because she couldn't see. Whoops.
Her old glasses at Samuel's 7th birthday party on February 1.
Noah wearing his old glasses while messing around when Samuel was posing for his reading game the day before Samuel's birthday.
So, since it's finally a new year and we had more medical money (the bulk of it going to Noah's braces and my Lasix last year), we set Noah and Evie up with an optometrist appointment the day after Samuel's birthday, Friday February 2. They had both gone up a step and a half or even nearly two, I guess. Judging from this original glasses post, they both only had negative one (-1) prescriptions originally, but now they needed negative three (-3). Apparently that's a big jump for so short a time period.
When Terry returned home with them (since he had a checkup too) and told me the news, I grabbed my old glasses from 2009 and gave them to Evie to try (crazy that the baby I was holding in that post could now wear them!). When she put my glasses on, her face was "a study of wonder," as Tolkien said of Butterbur in Return of the King (I just listened to that yesterday).
For the next week, while we made up our mind about what to do, since the optometrist suggested a couple different expensive contact lens options, Noah and Evie would argue over who got to wear my glasses. Ha! Evie won most of the time since they were more feminine.
But in the end, we decided to stick with glasses for now, though we may try on some contacts...
Time for a before and after session.
Here is Noah in his first pair of glasses a year and a half ago. They're so much bigger on his face back then, and therefore we can see that yeah, he had clearly outgrown them.
And the new glasses! They're a darker, more mature red. They're perfect.
Evie's original glasses were always a little wide for her face. Plus I didn't like them due to the nose pads that always got bent out of shape. She looks so much younger!
And the new ones! They are crazy light due to being made out of nylon (!) and they fit her face much better. I love them on her.
I made them stand in the frigid cold outside Independent Optical to capture their new specs. This photo made me realize that Noah is quickly maturing. He's so much taller than Evie! Plus look at his upper lip...! Gah! My kids are getting huge!
As an added bonus, here's a funny one of Terry. Ha ha ha.
I really liked these Oakleys for the future since his current glasses are pretty sad. Maybe we'll get something similar since they're ungodly expensive. He looks so handsome!
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