I Can See Clearly Now

Bryson just got glasses, and boy did he need them.  When we went for his physical before the beginning of the preschool year, the doctor doing the vision screening couldn't tell if it was because he didn't know his shapes and letters well enough or if the fish really looked like a duck to him because of vision problems.  Well apparently, the fish DID look like a duck because we just got the results from spring vision screening at school with a referral to a pediatric ophthalmologist for "high far-sightedness."  It makes sense now because he sometimes has difficulty seeing things right in front of him like the board at school and has been having trouble reading because he said "it's hard to look at the words," and there are multiple vision problems in both sides of our family, but I had no idea his eyes were in such bad shape. 

Upon our visit to the ophthalmologist, we found out that without glasses, the poor kid is nearly blind.  Bryson is EXTREMELY far-sighted, so much so that he was the most "high far-sighted" child the doctor had ever seen -- though she was relatively young.  She gave him the maximum prescription he can have at his age (+4 in each eye . .. he was supposed to have 6 in each eye, but the doctor said she'd try these and work up to those if necessary).  He has some vision loss in both eyes after trying to focus his eyes for so long without vision correction, but hopefully he's young enough and we caught it in time that he can regain some of that vision back with the use of glasses.  If not, there may be some eye therapy in his future.  It almost made me cry when he put on his glasses and exclaimed, "Mom, I can see.  Everything looked little, and now it's big!"  Here's to hoping his cute little glasses solve the problem and he gets used to wearing them 24/7 here soon and that he doesn't have too many headaches with them (literal and figurative ones).  I think he looks quite sophisticated and handsome in his new glasses.

Every Once In Awhile

Every once in awhile I decide to be "that mom."  You know, the one who is creative, extra patient, and has milk and cookies for you when you get home from school.  So today I made a Cinco de Mayo muffin tin lunch with Bryson's help.  He loved eating it out of the tin and we had fun making it.  I'm just going to go on the record to say today I WAS"that mom."

A Crazy Winter. .. I Mean Spring

We are having a pretty crazy spring here in Colorado.  It's been unusually cold and snowy, and what's more is it will be seventy eight degrees one day giving us hope for more days like it and then two days later, there will be a huge snowstorm.  It actually got up to 80 degrees today, and then there is more snow predicted for Wednesday.  The last two Tuesdays have had snow storms and traffic is always terrible when it snows.  This week, Jarom was almost late to school and Bryson was tardy for the first time ever because of it.  It's the wet spring snow and it doesn't usually stick around for very long to sled or do anything like that, so Bryson has contented himself with shoveling it.  He doesn't care if he's digging out the car or covering the table in our apartment's courtyard "like an ice cream sundae," he just enjoys being out in it and shoveling it with dad.  I, on the other hand, am so ready for spring to stick around. 

Home Preschool Activities

Bryson and I have been busy this school year.  He goes to ECE (Early Childhood Education) in the mornings and works with his teachers doing their curriculum and then in the afternoons, Bryson and I do preschool activities.  We've gone through the entire alphabet now and are still going strong with 100 Easy Lessons to Teach Your Child To Read.  Bryson knows all his letter sounds and is reading simple sentences and short easy reader books.  He's doing awesome, and he's learned a lot since August.  Here are some of the activities we've done for the last half of the alphabet, letters M-Z (since there are previous posts on letters A-L here, here, and there's even more here).

M:  Me

 

N:  Nursery Rhyme

O:  Ornament (Christmas)

 

P:  Presents (Christmas Giving)

Q:  Quilts

R:  Rainbows

S:  Stars and Solar System

T:  Transportation

U:  Uncles and Family

V:  Valentine

W: Weather

 X:  X-ray

 

 

 Y:  "Yany, yarning Dr. Suess" (Read Across America Day)

 

 Z:  Zoo

 

Our finished Chicka Chicka Boom, Boom letter tree