Although we do not have vision issues in our immediate families, we noticed something odd about our littlest guy and his eyes. Recently we witnessed one of L’s eyes going a bit cross-eyed. The right eye would be looking straight, while his left eye would turn inward. This typically happened while he was looking at something close-up like eating his food, or brushing his teeth while looking in the mirror. As I mentioned above, we don’t have a history of vision problems so both Nate and I were clueless as to what was going on. After some online research I came across words like strabismus and esotropia, which defined L’s condition to a “T”. I made an appointment with a pediatric eye doc and after a very thorough exam he was diagnosed with estropia. If left untreated eventually his left eye would go “lazy”. Basically he has one weak eye and the stronger eye has taken over. With the help of his new-found glasses they will strengthen the muscle in his weaker eye, and hopefully years from now he will no longer need glasses at all. Although my first reaction was to cry and ask “why”, I’ve come around to the idea and I’m glad we found this problem sooner than later.
So here is our lil man with his Disney glasses he selected. Doesn’t he look handsome?
Oh and that’s Jessie from Toy Story in his arms. She had to join us for the day. Okay, it’s not such a Wordless Wednesday after all. 🙂
Shannon says
I am glad that they caught this early for him. I think he looks adorable in the glasses too.
Tiffany Schmidt says
Oh my gosh, how sweet. Those are very classy frames. I remember only about 10 years ago, children’s glasses were chunky and blah. They’ve come such a long way and now rival the adult frames!
Jennifer H says
They had a chunky version, but we showed him these Disney glasses and he was sold. Thank goodness! LOL
Julie says
I LOVE little kids with glasses. I have yet to see a kid with glasses that wasn’t completely adorable.
Jennifer H says
🙂
Maria H says
He looks so adorable!!
Jennifer H says
Thank you Maria
Bob says
wow !! he looks just like his Pa-Pa with his new glasses
people who wear glasses are “cool” lol
Jennifer H says
lol
Billie Rowell says
I never could stick with being wordless on Wordless Wednesdays, lol. He looks adorable in his new glasses!
Jennifer H says
LOL I know right? It’s hard! I like to talk. hehe And Thank you!