Glasses & Sound of Music

This past week, Miriam got her long-awaited glasses!  When we went back for the follow-up visit with the opthamologist, we discovered that Miriam is very far-sighted in her left eye (+6.0), and because that eye is so bad it has a tendency to cross.  Even more, because she has not really been able to see out of that eye, her brain has stopped using the eye.  Even when she has glasses to correct her vision, her left eye avoids trying to see and she still predominately uses her right eye.  So, in a few days in addition to her glasses she will start wearing a patch over her right eye to force her left eye to learn to see.  I'm pretty sure she is going to hate the patch mostly because at first she will have a very hard time seeing anything and will have no depth perception at all.  But the good news is that she LOVES her glasses, and thanks to some encouragement from loving friends and neighbors, she is convinced everyone who sees her in her glasses thinks she is even more beautiful with them on!

It turns out that Elijah also has some significant vision problems.  He is very far-sighted in both eyes, and has astigmatism in both eyes as well.  He has a much more pronounced tendency than Miriam to cross his eyes.  So, glasses for little Elijah as well, and likely surgery down the road to correct his crossed eyes.  And here I thought all the vision problems in our family were going to come from Isaac! Elijah's glasses got ordered today, so in a week or so he should be getting them.

One of the first things that Miriam wanted to do when wearing her glasses was to re-enact the wedding scene from the Sound of Music where Maria marries the Captain.  So we decorated (didn't make it into the pictures) and Miriam convinced her brothers to be the bridesmaids. :)  Miriam of course was the bride and Abba was the groom.  Enjoy the video of the service. :)

Trying on the glasses for the first time!

Look, I can see myself in the mirror and I'm so cute I can hardly stand it!

The wedding party