Christen's new specs

For a little while now we have wondered if Christen needed glasses. We took her in during Fall break and sure enough. . . Actually, what he explained that she really needs is some eye therapy. Something about when she is studying up close for a long time and than as she looks up to see the board, for example, her eyes wont focus soon enough to see distance. Her muscles are strong but they dont expand and contract fast enough looking down and then up quickly.

As it turns out vision insurance usually does not cover eye therapy whach is quite expensive. It also turns out that Todd had the same problem as a child and his parents did exercises at home with him and then he ended up not needing glasses anymore. We are guessing that is what will happen. Until then the glasses are a quick fix so that she wont strain as much when she reads. When we picked them out and she got them fitted I almost fell over when I realized that they are essentially trifocals - but they call them graduated lenses. Anyhow, we need to google the eye exercises. We figures we could attach a baseball to a string for her to track cheaper than the other. I am sure there is more to it than that which we will need to check.

Anyhow, she loves tham and loves the butterflies on the sides. I am trying to make sure she undetrstands that they are not a toy!! We will see. The are fairly kid friendly