Erica saw an ophthalmologist on Monday morning. Everything went well, except for some eye-patch associated trauma.
Erica was seen first by an optometrist who wanted her to identify different sized pictures. The optometrist tried to put a patch over one of Erica's eyes and Erica was not impressed. She was screaming louder than when she receives immunisations. I ended up taking her out of the clinic, going for a walk and getting her a snack in an attempt to calm her down. When we returned Erica immediately put her arm over her eyes and wouldn't let the optometrist get near her. We eventually completed the exam by letting Erica put her own hand over one of her eyes (but I'm not sure whether she was peeking through her fingers). The irony is that Erica happily wears a pirate eye-patch with her Captain Feathersword costume.
After seeing an ophthalmologist it was determined that Erica is farsighted, which is causing her strabismus (eye turning in). She needs to get a pair of glasses which will improve her vision and hopefully help the strabismus to resolve.
So today we went shopping for a pair of glasses. A piece of advice I was given many times is that letting the child pick their own frames increases the chances of the glasses being worn. This makes sense in theory, but enacting that in reality with a two year old turned out to be anything but straightforward.
Our first attempt at picking glasses was thwarted by a misplaced pair of sunglasses. There was a single pair of bright pink swirly flower-patterned Barbie sunglasses on the rack and Erica refused to pick any glasses because the Barbie ones were absolutely her favourite. We left that store and looked unsuccessfully elsewhere. So, I decided to return to the first store. However this time I arranged in advance for the Barbie sunglasses to be removed.
We stood in front of the rack and I asked Erica which pair were her favourite and she picked a pair very similar to these..
The design was the same but the colour was a solid bright pink. Unfortunately they were a little too big for her face and we had been advised that she would be better off with frames that have nose pads to keep the glasses further away from her long eyelashes.
So, onto Erica's next favourite. She picked these..
I think these are pretty cool! Unfortunately the frames are also a little too big for her face and again no nose-pads.
Her third favourite were these..
I looked at her in the glasses and thought that the frames seemed oddly familiar. Then I realised that these were similar to the glasses that DJ Lance Rock wears.
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I confirmed with Erica that the appeal of the glasses was Yo Gabba Gabba-related. Fortunately they were again too big and without nosepads (and I wasn't too keen on having a mini female DJ Lance Rock running around the house).
At this point the optometrist and I pulled down the glasses that would be appropriate and presented them to Erica. She tried them all on. I asked her to pick one pair. She told me she needed three and pointed out all of the above pairs. I picked out a pair that I thought most closely resembled her first pick, but also stayed on her face. I put them on her and let her wonder around in them for a while. She didn't take the frames off, so they were declared the winner.
After that we ate some well-deserved ice cream and then headed to Toys R Us to look at all of the toys that wear glasses. There aren't many! However we spotted a Doctor Barbie wearing a pair of pink glasses. How stereotypical! Why no glasses for malibu Barbie or evening gown Barbie? If anything, Doctor Barbie could probably better afford LASIK. Is it stereotypical of me to assume that Doctor Barbie is wealthier? Perhaps she is a young American-trained Doctor with a massive student loan to pay off or maybe she just really likes her glasses? Am I waaaaay overthinking this? Yes.
We bought the Doctor Barbie and have been using her all day to 'practise' keeping glasses on. Erica removed the glasses tonight before tucking Barbie into bed. We'll see how Erica goes with her own pair in a few days.
Erica was seen first by an optometrist who wanted her to identify different sized pictures. The optometrist tried to put a patch over one of Erica's eyes and Erica was not impressed. She was screaming louder than when she receives immunisations. I ended up taking her out of the clinic, going for a walk and getting her a snack in an attempt to calm her down. When we returned Erica immediately put her arm over her eyes and wouldn't let the optometrist get near her. We eventually completed the exam by letting Erica put her own hand over one of her eyes (but I'm not sure whether she was peeking through her fingers). The irony is that Erica happily wears a pirate eye-patch with her Captain Feathersword costume.
After seeing an ophthalmologist it was determined that Erica is farsighted, which is causing her strabismus (eye turning in). She needs to get a pair of glasses which will improve her vision and hopefully help the strabismus to resolve.
So today we went shopping for a pair of glasses. A piece of advice I was given many times is that letting the child pick their own frames increases the chances of the glasses being worn. This makes sense in theory, but enacting that in reality with a two year old turned out to be anything but straightforward.
Our first attempt at picking glasses was thwarted by a misplaced pair of sunglasses. There was a single pair of bright pink swirly flower-patterned Barbie sunglasses on the rack and Erica refused to pick any glasses because the Barbie ones were absolutely her favourite. We left that store and looked unsuccessfully elsewhere. So, I decided to return to the first store. However this time I arranged in advance for the Barbie sunglasses to be removed.
We stood in front of the rack and I asked Erica which pair were her favourite and she picked a pair very similar to these..
So, onto Erica's next favourite. She picked these..
Her third favourite were these..
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At this point the optometrist and I pulled down the glasses that would be appropriate and presented them to Erica. She tried them all on. I asked her to pick one pair. She told me she needed three and pointed out all of the above pairs. I picked out a pair that I thought most closely resembled her first pick, but also stayed on her face. I put them on her and let her wonder around in them for a while. She didn't take the frames off, so they were declared the winner.
After that we ate some well-deserved ice cream and then headed to Toys R Us to look at all of the toys that wear glasses. There aren't many! However we spotted a Doctor Barbie wearing a pair of pink glasses. How stereotypical! Why no glasses for malibu Barbie or evening gown Barbie? If anything, Doctor Barbie could probably better afford LASIK. Is it stereotypical of me to assume that Doctor Barbie is wealthier? Perhaps she is a young American-trained Doctor with a massive student loan to pay off or maybe she just really likes her glasses? Am I waaaaay overthinking this? Yes.
We bought the Doctor Barbie and have been using her all day to 'practise' keeping glasses on. Erica removed the glasses tonight before tucking Barbie into bed. We'll see how Erica goes with her own pair in a few days.
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