Jesse Alyse...

I am so amazed with our little princess that I must blog about it!! She recv'd her glasses in the mail yesterday... I bought them via an awesome site (www.39dollarglasses.com) and was able to get Dora glasses in the smallest possible size which, I might add, Wal-Mart Vision Center doesn't even carry. She is in a 38mm frame... anyway, the cost for that frame at another local vision clinic is $120 to $130 but I got them for $79.99 INCLUDING the lenses. :) Go momma'!! I was so stoked about that and they turned out to be awesome. I will have to edit in an image to this later of the intricate detail to the sides of her frames--Dora and flowers!! I will be investing in the brand name Seiko lenses for her though since her +4 lens is a bit thick.
She is an awesome, resilient child though! A couple of times we have had to bribe her a bit to keep them on or but them back on... she doesn't take them off on her own but we are allowing her breaks here and there with them off. We can't expect her to suddenly wear them 24/7. But the bribery is just this: we get excited and tell her how beautiful she is with them and how we can read a book so much better or that a sucker will taste so much better with them on, etc., etc. lol. :) Hey, whatever works, right? And it does....
Anyway... I will add a bit of an email that I sent a friend as an update on Jesse a couple of days ago. (Mandi, if you are reading this you are likely laughing!! LOL -- I'm a copy and paste freak when I can be. It is my nature since I am an MT.)
Love to all...
--- "Did I tell you she has to start wearing glasses? Yep, she had a checkup last Wed. at Children's Mercy in KC with her pediatric ophthalmologist and she doesn't have to patch 4 hours a day now, but just 2 hours a day with glasses. I've been so mixed up about it. :( I hate to think of making her wear glasses at such a young age. He states it may be temporary. Their young eyes change so rapidly and since we caught it so early (remember orig. at 7-months-old she started patching due to a refractive error +1 in the right eye and +3 in her left). It is common for children to be farsighted at this young of age, because they are still getting depth perception, etc., but she is now a +1 and +4.... so in glasses she goes. :) We go back in 4 months to see the result thus far. I ordered her glasses online and they should come today or tomorrow... I picked some pink Dora ones. lol... of course, I need all the help I can get from Dora on this one. :)) We had went to Wal-Mart to see the exact size she needed (her p.o. just prescribes them on a prescription note and then sends you off to wherever you want to purchase them). So... I'll definitely take a zillion pics of her new style as soon as she gets. So far she is excited. I talk to her about it a lot and daddy and I wear glasses and/or contacts so she is used to the idea that it is normal. I wear my glasses the majority of the time lately, so that helps too. It's daddy's fault, btw. He has +7.50 vision and had a lazy eye at a young age too. Damn daddies!! LOL"