my kiddos' eyes

Yesterday Samuel had his first ever eye exam.  He's done the annual ones at school & the pediatrician, but this was his first dilated eye exam to check his eye health & vision all at once.  He wasn't too thrilled about the dilation spray, but aside from that, he handled everything really well & the exam showed that his eyes are perfectly healthy in all ways.

Today was Savannah's eye appointment.  Some of you may not know she was born with a birth defect that affected her eyes.  As a toddler/preschooler, she had 4 surgeries to correct the problem & then wore bifocals for 5 years before she was considered "cured".  Today was her check up with the eye doc who did all of her surgeries.  She was given another 'thumbs up' today.  Vision was good and all her surgical repairs are still in place, nothing  has 'slipped' since the last surgery & everything is fine.  Yahoo!  We don't have to go back for a couple of years!  The funny thing is, the doc could tell by something or other he did in the exam that within a couple more years, she'll need glasses for nearsightedness, although she's not quite there yet.  It's sorta funny that after all the 'stuff' her little eyes have been through in her lifetime, she'll need glasses for a "normal" thing now!  That's ok, though.  The rest of us are all nearsighted & have glasses for it.  We can certainly deal with that!!