Glasses?

At Gavin's 5 year appointment with the pediatrician, the nurse wanted Gavin to cover one eye at a time and tell her what she was pointing at. Gavin would take off the eye patch, put the patch back on and then tell her what it said. After we told him he had to keep the eye patch on, he would squint his way through the test. The doctor was concerned so she suggested we see an optomotrist. We did. Luckily he has a mild prescription but he does have an astigmatism. He is also near sided which is odd because McKay and I are both far sided. The doctor said that kids can grow out of that. In the mean time, he will need glasses. So Gavin got to pick out his own glasses. I gave him a bunch of choices (of course, he got to choose from the kind that are bendable). He picked blue. I tried to get him to choose grey or black but he was sticking with blue. He chose good because I think he looks so adorable with them on.

I am so glad he got glasses because for the longest time, he didn't want to learn to read with me. He would get so mad when I brought out his reading books. He would read one page and then be done. He hated it. Since he got the glasses, his reading has improved a lot. He is wanting to read more of his books and he can actually finish a book in less than 5 minutes. He is doing great on his reading and I owe it all to the glasses!