And then there was one...

With a recent visit to the eye doctor, there is now only one person in our family who doesn't wear glasses--RYAN!

Elizabeth got a new pair (for when she isn't wearing her contacts).
And Alice now has to wear glasses as well. Over the past four years we've been monitoring her vision, because she doesn't always focus her eyes together. We've done all kinds of exercises with limited success. She just wasn't using her eyes as a team. She'd use one or the other--switching back and forth, and the eye not being used would wander. It wasn't too much of a worry as long as both eyes remained strong--meaning the brain was still using them both, but with this last check-up, her right eye had dropped to 20/60, meaning it was getting used less and less, while the left eye was becoming dominant. Without intervention, that course would likely continue to get worse.

And, she had no depth perception.
So, glasses.

But not just to correct the right eye's near-sightedness. They have prisms to help her eyes focus together. Suddenly, she is going, "wow! It is like things are jumping out at me!" as she sees things in a whole new way. The doctor explained that the prisms help her eyes relax and work together. It caused a lot of muscle strain for her to always try to force them together. They just weren't made to do that! So she wears her glasses all the time and really likes them. And after just a week or so of wearing them, she now says her eyes ache when she is NOT wearing them.

Thank heavens for cute styles!