Two for Three....

After Jonathan's preschool vision screening in February, I got a phone call. It was the woman who ran it calling to tell me that something weird had cropped up during the screening.... that Jonathan had different visual acuity in each eye. (or something like that) The discrepancy is an indication of strabismus, she said. This caught my attention because this is why I had eye surgery when I was 18 months old and then wore glasses until I was 10. At the advice of our pediatrician, we had the two older kids screened really early by an ophthalmologist to make sure they showed no sign of it since tends to run in families. They were both fine... Ben is near-sighted now and wears glasses, but that's unrelated. Simon will eventually need glasses for the same reason...

I had planned on taking Jonathan soon anyway, but the vision people recommended I take him a.s.a.p.
I had never noticed any eye crossing at ALL, plus, I knew he hadn't been especially cooperative for the screening AND the other two kids had been fine, so I procrastinated a little.... between other commitments and the doctor's busy schedule, we didn't end up going until today.

He did great. Complied with everything they asked him to do.  Even handled the eye drops like a pro!

Well, turns out, he is far-sighted! His one eye turns in a bit when he is trying to focus on things that are close. She said it's really mild and that I never would have noticed it until it got worse, (which it would have) and that it was an EXCELLENT catch on the part of the vision screening people.

We left with a prescription for glasses, which she says will correct the problem and he'll eventually grow out of it, hopefully....

I took him out to lunch for being so good and the glasses place was right next door, so we went and and took care of it while we were out. They'll be in next week! He chose little red ones.... super cute! :)
He was mad we couldn't leave with them today, so I think getting him to wear them might not be an issue!  Whew!

Seriously though... how cute is this!? He was very serious about the whole thing.... but he was really happy... don't let the lack of smile fool you! ;)