glasses for Miss E.

So a few weeks ago the kids and I were all in the kitchen getting dinner ready.  It was getting late and dinner still wasn't on the table.  So I said, "Kids it's getting late.  We need to get this dinner on the table." :)

Emma says to me after squinting for too long at the microwave clock across the kitchen, "It's not that late.  It's only 5:30." 

Ummmmm...It's 7:30.  I think to myself.  Okay.  So Mike and I both have bad eye genes.  We figured we would pass this sweet gift on to our children so we've been on the look out for it.  Emmett needed glasses when he was in the 1st grade.  Mike needed glasses when he was in the 4th grade and I needed glasses when I was in the 5th grade.

SIDE NOTE:  I think I actually needed them before that but my sister, Danita, ended up getting glasses.  And I so didn't want to tell my parents that I needed glasses and have them think I was copying her just so I could get some.  (Uh...yes, I've done crazy, ridiculous things just so that I wouldn't be like someone else since before 5th grade.)  So I squinted at the board for a while.  The day I got glasses and was driving home from the doctor's office with my mom I was so excited.  I said, "Mom, I can see that the trees have leaves!"  I have no idea how long I'd been seeing them as just a glob of green.  I also loved to take off my glasses every 5 seconds when I was at school and clean them with my cute little white cloth and bottle of spritz cleaner.  Yes, the boy next to my desk DID tease me about that.

Back to the story of Miss Emma.  This test is just up Emmett's alley (he loves tests...he and Mike like to sit around and quiz each other about things).  So...Emmett immediately springs into action with a series of vision tests that he creates to see what Emma can and cannot see.  We discover that she clearly can NOT see past about 10 feet.  The next day I called to set up an appointment for her.

The following day at school she told her teacher that she was going to the eye doctor and that she was going to get purple glasses.  There's no changing her mind once she makes it up.  So, no matter how much I tried to convince her that this pair of glasses was cute or that pair of glasses was a great color, she picked the purple pair.  And really, they are the cutest pair of glasses on her because of the way her eyes light up about them when she wears them. 

changing. LIFE.

I have to say that this image just cracks me up.  What the heck is Miss Miriam doing?  And Emma..."What glasses?  I have a lose tooth..."