New vision

Jordan has his new glasses, and when he put them on, I suddenly remembered what it's like. Those of you who have gotten a major new prescription ever, do you remember how the walls curve, how the floor hills up in front of you, how peripheral objects move around with you a bit as you move your head? It's a few days before your brain straightens everything out. Jordan put his glasses on and laughed out loud. "It's all bouncy!" he said, joggling his head around for fun; walking on tiptoe around the office, he said, "The floor looks really deep." And then he took the glasses off and set them carefully on the table with the temples folded and lenses up, as he had been instructed. Uh... hon? You leave them on. The optician said to me on the side that this is very normal, that it's hard work for him to wear them at first, and that we should not force it but should just consistently encourage him to wear them a little here and a little there. Slow and steady wins the race. "And this race will be won," she stated definitively. He will want to see well.

This morning I suggested that he wear them while he was doing some letter mazes in a book. Two different camera poses:

Then on our way out the door, he said he wanted to wear them to school - not just on the way there, but all day. So much for slow and steady! I became very nervous. Could he possibly wear them all day and not lose them? They're $300 and I can't even put his name on them. But even with discussion about how it's okay if he's not ready, that they're the important thing he carries with him (much more important than his field trip permission form), that it was essential to bring them home either wearing them or if he couldn't wear them in their case, etc, he still wanted to wear them. How could I say no?

At school, I found his buddy Benjamin who wears glasses, explained that it was Jordan's first day, and asked him to help Jordan out. Benjamin seemed interested in this task. I also checked in with his teacher about it. Fingers crossed.