December 2017 Update...

I know the blog is LONG overdue for a decent update.

This update will not be the full update that is needed though.  I haven't written up a GOOD update in almost two years now I think.

It's been a rough year.  Well, year and a half.   About 18 months ago we learned that our landlord at the house would not be renewing our lease.  She claimed that she needed the house to live in, but she rented it out again.  It was what it was though.

We couldn't find a place to take all 9 of us (at the time.)  We looked at several places we could have made work for all of us, but as soon as anyone found out how many of us there was, it was no...   We have been on a VA Housing list for awhile.  So we ended up moving from the house to camping out at  my Mom's.  Wasn't the best, but we made it work.

We came up on the housing list and managed to get a place, moved in on September 8th, the day before Bubba turned the big 9.  (He turned 9 on 9-9) ... LOL ...

I love this place.  LOVE IT.  It would be better if it had a bigger dining room and kitchen.  But I absolutely love it.  We all love it.  It's perfect for the six of us.

Cal is talking about moving out and moving in with his fiancee ...   she's back and forth here, which we don't mind.  Love seeing our granddaughters.  And our daughter in law.

Anyway .....

Mini Updates.. 

We'll start with Noah.

Noah is almost 16 years old.  I'm not sure what all I have mentioned lately.  He was diagnosed with Glaucoma now, and Aspergers, ADD & severe Anxiety ...  his kidneys are also getting worse.  I think they are relatively stable, but he's starting to spill more and more protein in his urine. He still spills a lot of blood when he is sick, too.  We keep a pretty good eye on it.

Also, he has pretty much stopped growing.  He's 5 foot even, and I'm happy he even hit that.   For a kid who wasn't supposed to live at ALL...

Big changes this year, he's been homeschooling for awhile ... like, since 4th grade, and he decided this year that he wanted to go the highschool and see what they had to offer.  So we did the next school day ...He's been attending since the day before Halloween and loving it. He's mostly in the Life Skills room when he is learning skills to be independent....

He went from being so tiny and not supposed to live to almost 16 years old!

Now a smallish update on Nathan. 

He is such a silly guy and soooooooooooo smart.  He might be non-verbal (or non-understandable 90% of the time) but he tries REALLY hard.  

He doesn't have any big new diagnoses but his hearing has gotten worse, he still refuses the hearing aids because they are "too loud" ...  he also went through the VPI clinic and his VPI isn't as bad as was thought, but it's definitely there.   He has to get another sleep study done and then we'll revisit if he should do surgery.  He also needs to get into a speech therapy consistently (He gets ST at school but the ST he was in outside of school was 6 weeks of therapy and then it was someone else's turn and you got put on the bottom of the waiting list again....)

Of course both he and Noah have significant muscle issues.  Neither of them can walk very long without getting really tired.  Noah will push through it, but Nathan gets so tired out so quickly it's hard.  And he still isn't really gaining weight... 

I am worried about him getting put on continuous feeds.  But if that's what's needed, that's what we'll do.  He is still just getting feeds in his g-tube at night.  

He also gets sick and loses weight quickly. He got taken off his HGH because they removed the diagnosis of Russell Silver Syndrome, they don't think he has that anymore.  They are absolutely certain that he has some sort of genetic issue, but they just haven't found it yet.  

He's doing really good in school .. this year is remarkably different and I think it's because his best friend Rylee is in his class helping him out again.  He adores her.  He's also on anxiety meds and he's not freaking out in the morning anymore, which is AMAZING. 

The most important thing is that he has been hospital stay free for TWO AND A HALF YEARS!!!  That's unheard of with him!  It's AMAZING!!!!!!! 

From 3lbs 4oz at birth to 10 and a half years old! 

That's about it for now until I can really sit down and write up the notes from their doctor appointments... 

Tales of Ocular Hypertension

You send your 13 year old to the Eye Doctor thinking it'll be normal and un-eventful.....

Then you realize....  this is your child named Noah ......  nothing is normal and un-eventful with him.

Hubby starts messaging me .... "something wrong with Noah's pressure in his eyes" ....

Great.

GREAT.

g.u.r.e.i.g.h.t.

"They are doing a lot of pressure tests on his eyes"

nothing is ever easy ...

So what's going on?

Other than Noah being SUPER happy .....

The pressure in his eyes is 25 - a little higher than "normal" and concerning enough.

There is a possibility it's early signs of Glaucoma - yes, kids can get Glaucoma ....

He may have to start drops in two months  ....

The Doc thinks it maybe connected to his Mosaic Trisomy 16.   :: sigh ::

Kaedyn's Eye Appointment ....

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Kaedyn had an eye appointment today ....  The DR is really stressing the using of the eye patch.  Kaedyn cries every time and it breaks my heart.  He ends up (9 times out of 10) crying himself to sleep because he just can't see.  His prescription changed some.

This first one is the prescription his glasses are set at, and the lower one is what he was "today" ... which can change.  

I found a site HERE ... which helps explain what prescriptions mean.   This is what Kaedyn's (current - today's) mean ...  

RIGHT EYE - "Compound myopic astigmatism"

There is low myopia(shortsightedness) combined with low astigmatism . 

Myopia means that the near vision is better than the far vision, which is blurred. Most myopia is due to the eye being longer. Sometimes it is due to the cornea being more curved and sometimes it is due to both. 

Astigmatism means that images from distant objects, entering the eye, are not focused at the same focal point. The astigmatism is at an axis of 103 degrees. In your prescription, the focal points are both in front of the retina, instead of on the retina (where a normal image would be destined to focus). Most commonly, this is because the cornea is more curved in one direction similar to the curvature of a football or a teaspoon. Sometimes astigmatism is due to the crystalline lens inside of the eye being irregularly shaped. 

LEFT EYE - "Mixed astigmatism"

You have a mixture of farsighted astigmatism and nearsighted astigmatism. 

Astigmatism means that images from distant objects, entering the eye, are not focused at the same focal point. One focus is in front of the retina and the other is destined to be behind the retina. Most commonly this is because the cornea is more curved in one direction similar to the curve of a football or teaspoon. This means that the focus is farsighted in one axis and nearsighted in the other. The astigmatism is at an axis of 92 degrees. 

Farsighted means that the far vision is better than the near vision. 

Nearsighted means that the near vision is better than the far vision. 

New Glasses

Kaedyn had to get some new glasses this morning before we took Nathan to his appointment.  So we rushed off to go get Kaedyn's new glasses.

He fell asleep right away - apparently, it's too early for him ... ha ha ha ha ....

Here is our handsome guy with his NEW GOLD Glasses....

He has an eye appointment coming up soon :/

** UPDATE ** May, June & July

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Here is the long awaited update on the boys ..........

Calahan got his eyes checked out in May.  He needs reading glasses, but he has for years now.  He could go without them, it's a mild prescription.  Much like mine.

Calahan had his first date with his girlfriend :)   Even though they have been dating for about 2 1/2 years.

They went to see Fast 6 at the theater and then we went over to my mom's for a BBQ ...

He's growing up so fast, it's hard to believe in 6 months he'll be 18.   We'll be taking his Senior pictures soon!!

He's such a handsome guy :)

Nathan and Noah at the Ped's office - Noah is NOT happy ...  

Noah  is never happy going to the DR ...  but this day, he was exceptionally grouchy...  LOL.   Noah has a habit of not telling the whole *truth* when he's at the DR.   About what hurts or what's going on.  He'll say he's fine.  He hates the DRs and it causes him a ton of anxiety.

Noah at the doctors 

I had the shock of my life the day of their Ped Well Child....  Noah had gained weight, and height - which is a great thing!  Trust me I'm not complaining about that.   I have also, over the past few months, noticed stretch marks, and he's gotten a little mustache, and a tiny amount of under arm hair....   but when the DR pulled his pants down to check his boy parts, I was NOT expecting what I saw.  I was one of those cartoons with the mouth hanging open.  The other child (who won't be named, but he's older) ... itched and itched and itched, so we knew he was changing, but Noah's never complained.  It was bizarre.  I knew he had started puberty, thought it was too early but according to the experts blah blah blah .. its normal.   What the F*** do they know?  

Now normally I wouldn't talk about that stuff, but ...... I have one of those Mommy moments you want to rewind and take back.   Still reeling from shock, when we got home...  I marched Noah into the kitchen were Dennis was and proceeded to try to pull down Noah's pants to show Dennis do something really embarrassing, and Noah squealed with embarrassment and I snapped out of my shock.  It was a - WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING - moment.   I wasn't thinking, I was in shock.  My 1lb 12oz preemie has HAIR down THERE.  Rewind.  Walk in the door.  "Hey Honey, we're home ....... GUESS WHAT!!!   It's confirmed, Noah's started puberty."  Walks into bedroom.  Yep, that's how it should have went.  

Dumb Mom.......

So ... let's see, what was next.....

Beginning of June we went to Seattle for Noah's Nephrology appointment. If you don't know what Nephrology is... it's the kidney Dr.   So we had a check up with him and Noah's still pretty stable.  They did some blood work but it seems it turned out all good since I haven't heard anything otherwise.  We all went that day ......

After that appointment we went to what we thought was going to be an Orthodontist appointment, but all it was - was another pediatric dentist.  We already have one of those.  She told us the only way to get orthodontics covered by insurance was through Cranial Facial   ...  Now, Noah use to see Cranial Facial   in WI and I dropped the ball on that specialty when we moved here.  So we got a referral to the one that is at Seattle Children's (that Nathan sees) ...  so I'm hoping maybe there is a chance, but I doubt it.  I'm not holding out any hope on that so we're trying to raise money for it.

So ...  Noah's oral surgery was scheduled for the end of June and the dentist we saw above made me feel as if the only way to get Noah Orthodontics was if we went through them and saw the surgeon that she wanted to do the oral surgery, because she was the one who did the orthodontics through Cranial Facial  ... but our local Pediatric Dentist, whom we know and love - had already scheduled the surgery ...  so we decided to go ahead and do the surgery.  So in late June we went in... it was Nathan's last day of school.  I got Nate in the van and Dennis called my cell and asked if I left yet, cuz they called to see if we could come in early.  So Noah came out, we dropped Nathan off, and then I took Noah to the dentist.  She did the surgery right at her office.  So she came out and told me they pulled 17 baby teeth out of his mouth.  You have 20 baby teeth that you lose between (normally) 6 and 12.  He had lost only 3, and those were always a pain to get out, they were loose forever - not for lack of trying, they just didn't want to fall out.  Much like the rest of his baby teeth.  But all his adult teeth were coming in around or behind the baby teeth ...  Noah had three rows of teeth ...his baby teeth in front, the front two adult teeth behind those, and then the two teeth that are suppose to be beside the front to teeth behind the adult front teeth ... on both his upper and lower jaws.  He has an incredibly small jaw. She also fixed a couple cavities he had - no more No Cavities Club for him.

So yeah....   he came home with 17 teeth in a bag, and 12 teeth in his mouth ...

He is still struggling with eating stuff.  Most of his adult teeth are coming up all at once now that the baby teeth are out of the way.  

Also Noah saw Orthopedics about his legs.  Now, Orthopedics says it's not an Ortho issue, and sent us to a Rheumatoid Arthritis doctor.... we just saw him, and he says - that he doesn't *think* he has it.  Even if it makes sense with his symptoms he doesn't have the wear and tear that would come with having it all his life untreated.  He's not saying he absolutely doesn't - but he says because he came in symptom free, and from what he saw, he doesn't think he has JRA...   so we still don't know why Noah's legs are in pain all the time.

Nathan has officially graduated Kindergarten!

 He was so proud :)

So in May, Nathan had another appointment with Dr. G in Urology, Dr. B's colleague whom trained under him, and hes going to be the one handling Nathan's hypospadious/undecended testicle surgery.  We liked him enough, still like Dr. B better but he's not doing surgeries at the hospital anymore and since Nathan will be staying in the hospital, it has to be done at the hospital.  Dr. B promised we were in good hands though.  Dr. B did his last surgery (2nd one) and the first one was done in Wisconsin.  This will be his 3rd surgery, and even this may not be the last.   They are going to be taking some skin from inside his cheek to put around his urethra to try to bring it to the tip of his penis since it's still on the underside.

Nathan absolutely LOVES the dyson hand dryers..... he will keep using them over and over and over and over...  LOL....  and he laughs when he's doing it...  

Nathan's self portrait drawn on one of the dry erase boards at the DR.  He's a happy mutant cyclopes... but at least he's smiling! 

Then we saw Dr. P (ENT) and we talked about his surgery ... and he wanted to look at Nathan's ears.  He said ... his left ear is con-caved in right now with the tube out.  He talked about taking his tonsils and adenoids out...  and they were going to try to schedule both surgeries together.  But he forgot about the talking about taking the tonsils and adenoids out.  So we had to go back to see him to talk about that again.  @@  LOL...   it is what it is, right?   So got that all squared away, and he decided to NOT take out his adenoids.  So hes going to get tubes and then his tonsils and because of his fragility - he'll be staying over night for that too.  :/

Because, after waiting a month and a half, FINALLY got a call with a date and found out they couldn't schedule them together.  I know that Dr. P wanted it done ASAP because of the way its affecting him.   So I just had them schedule them separately....  his Urology one will be August 2nd (next week, er, a week from tomorrow) and the ENT one will be September 3rd.  

So in other news, one hot afternoon when moods were boiling, Nathan pissed off Kaedyn somehow (really, its not that hard) and Kaedyn picked up a full 2 liter bottle of soda (Mt. Dew to be specific) ... and THREW IT AT NATHAN hitting him in the head.  He came crying and screaming and blood GUSHING out of his nose ..  (I have pictures of the massacre but I won't share, cuz it looks like someone was murdered.)  Anyway - I knew he probably broke his nose, but it wasn't obvious like Noah's had been when he broke his in Aug. 2011.  So we took him to see the same DR.  Noah had seen when he broke his.  Anyway, it was a process.  We didn't take him in the night it happened because we took Noah to the ER with an OBVIOUS break, and they hemmed and hawed over if it was broken or not, they TOLD Dennis it wasn't but then send them home with paperwork that said it was!  Regardless, Noah saw the local ENT the following day and he said it was absolutely broken.  So - we felt it was pointless if they couldn't tell that Noah's broken nose was broken, Nathan's wasn't obvious - so they'd say it wasn't.  So the day after it happened, he woke up with brusing in the corner of his eyes by his nose, and across the bridge of his nose.   We took him into the Ped to get the referral to the ENT, and had to stop for x-rays in between.

The verdict.  Hair-line Fracture.  It would heal in 6 to 8 weeks.

Nathan has also been having a lot of asthmatic coughing spells so we've increased his nebby treatments.  He is really good now for them though, sits there like a champ!

This is Nate and Kaedyn playing one hot day under the A/C in the master bedroom ...  it's a one room A/C.  They kept themselves occupied with their Leap pads.  

Eating a snack after therapy one day.  Nathan still had therapy so ... Nathan was HAWNGRY so we got a snack.  Got Noah some too for after his therapy.

This was BRIBERY ..  I found this at Goodwill and it was only a couple dollars, Nathan LOVES Angry Birds.  So this was bribery to put on short sleeves because he just won't.   So - it obviously worked!  Once he's in them and he's not throwing a fit, he's okay.  It's putting it on and fit ensues....  

This is another day at Seattle Children's with the Dyson Hand Dryers ....  LOL

 They make him so happy!

Nathan got his Sure Steps that he was fitted for w/ the last update.  He actually enjoys wearing them.  They said socks on the inside, and always have shoes on, well, that's easy for them to say.  Nathan is mostly inside and he doesn't wear shoes inside, he barely wears socks....  so we put socks on the inside after Mommy got to see them on his (bare) feet and put slippers on, that works.... right?   We also figured we could just put socks on the outside too if he wanted that ...  that way, not so slippery ...   hospital socks!  Or socks with treads on the bottom....   note to self, steal many hospital socks while in the hospital ....  and get socks with threads....

 He did have some redness after wearing them for awhile....

Nothing makes me happier then those moments where Nathan is giving me those true smiles.  Like this.  Not the smiles to appease me ... the ones where I have to say "Look at Mom" a hundred times and "Smile" fifty.   No - this is a spontaneous smile...   this is the best smile EVER ...

He got to go bare back riding at our friend Lisa's one day recently ...   he didn't like bare back riding much...

But he had a BLAST leading De around.  And just look at that picture.  He is a 6 year old little boy who is the size of a two year old, leading a horse around.   WOW right?

We got Nathan's new ear pieces for his hearing aids today.  This is what he picked up....

Kaedyn got signed up for his THIRD year of Pre-school.   This bummed me out soooooo much.  Kaedyn is totally 100% ready for Kindergarten - first kid who is very clearly ready.  But he missed the cut off by EIGHT DAYS!!!!   Ugh....  the cut off is Sept. 1 and his b-day is Sept. 9.   Yep, 8 days....

Kaedyn went back to the eye doctor and got a new pair of glasses, a little weaker prescription ... he went with Daddy and picked out his own glasses and was much more open and not as shy during the whole process so it worked much better...  Here is my handsome guy with his new glasses.

At the end of school they sent home a whole bunch of artwork......

And here he is with this end of the year diploma

He also drew his first self portrait for me .......

I always knew he was a box head.  Wait........ since he's a mini-me, does that mean I'm a square head?

For a little treat, here is Nathan, Kaedyn and Mickey Mouse at Seattle Childrens ...

And one last thing, we have some new furries in our family right now.  Our Cat, Autumn, had kittens.  She had five - one had severe Spina Bifida ... she lasted over 24 hours, and then Cupid, was a white kitten with only an orange tail and an orange heart on the back of his head ...  he died of Kitten Vanishing Syndrome which is pretty much Failure to Thrive.  We tried to save him ...  it was really sad.

Marnie is our kitten herder ...  she literally runs around them keeping them on the bed... it's funny.   The kitten names,  Rex is the Orange one climbing on Marnie.  Abby is the one that she's "hugging" and Boo is the black and white Persian ...  we lubs them.   Originally we weren't going to keep any but we had to put our cat Mia to sleep.  So ...  yeah.  There went that theory.

And I think that's it for this update!!  Next will be some entries from the hospital for the first surgery, I'm sure....  

It's time for an UPDATE!!!

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Yes ... the update I've been promising for awhile.  Winter season is usually a tough one for us.  There is a lot of sicknesses traveling through the household.  We had stomach viruses, colds, croup, bronchitis, a major outbreak of pink eye, ear infections, more stomach viruses, more colds moving into the chest and lungs... it was a never ending sick fest here ....      Springtime seems to be the time for an influx of doctors appointments.

So let's get updated....

Calahan has started therapy.  He has never had an easy time dealing with his anger.  He isn't an "angry child" but he has angry outbursts.  I can go toe to toe with him, but he is very self damaging when it's said and done cuz he knows he was in the wrong.  Some of this stems from what happened with his biological father, what he witnessed his bio-dad do ... and what may have happened to him - but we'll never know cuz he was really young and may have it blocked if he could remember it at all.  The therapy has been helping him, but sometimes he gets frustrated.  We realized one day when we were discussing school work that he has some major Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder from when he was bullied.

Short version - from 1st grade really onto Jr. High - he was bullied.  It got bad in 3rd grade.  There was one kid who followed him home saying he had a screwdriver in his backpack and he was going to KILL him.    Another day, same kid (I think) followed him home again and yanked on his backpack making him fall.  There were tons of threats.  I addressed all this with the school - they begged me to let them handle it - but each time they did - it was just a matter of .... don't do that, you have detention.... it might stop for a day, then start up ... happens again, I call....  don't do that, you have detention.... vicious cycle.  Jr. High he was chocked, and that was my last straw.  We pulled him out to homeschool him at that point ... then came to WA and he went back into public school ...  the second there was a hint of bullying, it was all over again. Major anxiety and PTSD... even some depression.

He hasn't had an easy life, but he's a smart kid, he's compassionate and he's so loving.

He and his girlfriend have plans for the future, and here they are on Valentine's Day when he met her up at school and gave her a gift.

He also started to see a psychiatrist to deal with his ADHD/ODD meds, and if he should decide he wants to try something for the anxiety and/or depression.

He had a recent eye doc appointment and he continues to need reading glasses.  There are some concerns though, this left optic nerve is bigger than his right by 15%.   This could be a sign that he has glaucoma - but she says it's more probable that it's just the way he's made.  We won't know for sure for awhile.  That's a little scary though.

Noah is doing very well right now.

Dr. M (Noah & Nate's Endocrinologist) says she doesn't need to see Noah anymore unless there are new issues that come into play.  She's really happy with his growth - and especially since he has hit early puberty (she confirmed my suspicion on this) and is having some major growth spurts.  Especially with weight (he has stretch marks - oh dear!)

There is still concern about the growth on his birth mark especially since he's got the new spot on the back of his head.  But we're still keeping an eye on it and going to get him into a dermatologist soon.

So Noah had Physical Therapy evals. I knew that Noah would need it.  The appointment  went good and it was really interesting. The lady who saw them and will continue to ... I like her. She also homeschools. Anyway ... Noah has abnormal tone - a mixture of high and low tone. He has something called Supinated Foot, and he has hyperextensable joints (don’t know what this means?  Think of contortionists… and this is funny cuz he is always so stiff), but not all of his joints are this way - just some. She's thinking of what to do for him, he's perplexing her a bit. (As in if he just needs shoe inserts or what) ... right now she wants him to practice doing five jumping jacks a day - in two steps. Do the jump and hands up motion (rocket ship) pause, and then back down (back together). She says that his ham strings are really bad right now, and his knees have issues.... she says he feels impacts a lot when he walks and stuff.... and a lot of what she's going to do with him is stretches and exercises to just build up his muscles and loosen him up. 

We had his first PT appointment the other day and she said she was still thinking what kind of inserts she thought was going to be best for Noah.   So I guess we'll see.   

Noah also had an eye appointment and he passed with flying colors.  She said that he has a teeny tiny astigmatism but it's not bad at all.  She did agree, though, that he has major allergy eyes.  She prescribed some drops for him.

Nathan is doing okay in growth - he still isn't on the charts - HOWEVER - he is following the RSS growth chart line pretty much right on (which is only on the height chart) ...

Nathan also had a PT evaluation …  I wasn’t sure he really would need it, turns out he does.  One of the reasons why the appointments (for Noah and Nate) were so interesting was because of how opposite Noah and Nathan are.  With Nathan .... he also has abnormal tone (a mixture of high and low tone in different areas) ... He has flat feet (which I knew) ... but he has functioning flat feet - which means the arches are there (at least right now) ... they just collapse. I guess it's called Pronation - from what I've read. It's the opposite problem that Noah has ... she says he definitely has Sensory Integration Disorder - she talked about getting him an SPIO (Stabilizing Pressure Input Orthosis) - she's going to put him through a trail with one to see if it helps him calm down. And she says she definitely feels he needs some Sure Steps (which is the name of the shoe inserts) - which is a thing that will go around his foot to help correct his issue. Other than that - she didn't have much to say about him - she says she's just going to monitor him over the next few weeks.

He had his first PT appointment and she realized she hadn't seen him do some stuff that she needed to - like walk, run and do steps.  She had just been observing him in the room while we talked.  So she did that - and worked on some stuff with him and he did really well.

He had to go through some allergy testing.  He got these spots all over his back and such, and I thought it was Chicken Pox.  But alas, it wasn't.  Noah, Nate & Kaed all got the shots, and Calahan had Chicken Pox when he was 3 years old.  So it's been a long time since I had seen them ... but ....  turns out they were hives.  So Nathan has started a allergy med regiment too.  He went through testing and the only thing he reacted to -really badly - was grass.

The spot on his spine is the "control" spot.   The one on the left side - middle of - his back is the grass spot.

Nathan also had an eye appointment ...  he has trouble focusing on things, so she wants him to get some +1 glasses to read with.  She hopes it'll help him focus better.

Nathan has 3 appointments coming up next week.  Craniofacial Clinic on Monday, Neurology on Wednesday and Urology on Saturday (yes - Saturday!)

The following week he had an appt with the Autism doc and Cardio... and he needs to have labs done.

Not too much going on with Kaedyn.  Just managing his eczema and his allergies.

He also had an eye doctor appointment....  he has something called Amblyopia.  One of his eyes is lazier than the other.  Usually this corrects in infancy and toddler years but with Kaedyn it hasn't completely.  We did notice it when he was a baby ....

 Of course it wasn't always that bad, this was a picture taken a few days later .....

Regardless - this is something he's obviously been struggling with.  She said that glasses are the first step, then there is eye patch therapy - and after that it's surgery.  SO ... let's hope the glasses take care of it.

His eyesight is really bad in his left eye.  It's a little bad in his right.  But his prescription for glasses is worse then Dennis' and imagine what's going to happen as years go by and it continues to decrease.  It kinda scares me.

Here he was in the middle of March - trying on glasses to order them.  He wasn't happy ....

But his glasses came the other day and after a little bit of inital fighting over it - and us telling him a thousand times how HANDSOME he looks with glasses on ... and the fact that he realized he can see better... we really haven't had to fight with him much to wear them.  And he is ABSOLUTELY HANDSOME with them.  He reminds me of a little Jonathan Lipnicki  (Stuart Little) and a little Harry Potter all mixed into one...

The bottom three pictures are of when we were at the eye clinic trying them on so they could be adjusted - he hated them at that moment.   The top picture is about an hour - hour and a half later ....  he's starting to get use to them!   He wore them until about 6-7 o'clock the first night (Tuesday) ...  and said he could see and didn't need them anymore (I think he was hurting) ... and so I put them on my dresser and I told him "you got to put them back on right away tomorrow" and he said "okay" and ran out of my room.  The following day (Wednesday - yesterday) he wasn't up when we had to leave for appointments ... so I put them on the entertainment center infront of the tv and told Cal that's where they were - and according to Cal he put them on without a fight and wore them all day.  He took them off about 7 last night and told me he couldn't wear them to watch Noah and he was watching Noah ... ha ha ....  and tonight - it's 8 o'clock and he still has them on :)  Of course he's taken little breaks here and there through out the day ...

So that's the update I have so far :)  More to come ....  for Nathan ... anyway ....