Beau's Glasses

Beau has somehow upped his awesomeness. I should have known at his four-year-old check up this summer that he wasn't just being grumpy when he was doing his eye exam...but I didn't. I felt really impressed to have him tested for speech, and while the whole speech therapy was a really good thing, perhaps the most important part of the whole process was his eye exam. (They not only test speech - they test vision and hearing and motor skills.) A very diligent nurse tested his vision and was persistent when he again became suddenly grumpy trying to read the shapes with his right eye. It turned out that he just couldn't see with that eye and knew that he was getting the answers wrong - so he didn't want to do it. She referred me to an eye doctor and I took him in for that appointment a couple of weeks ago. After several hours, lots of tests, and having his eyes dilated (not fun), we found out that Beau has a lazy eye. Amblyopia. Not a wandering lazy eye (the kind I always think of), but just where his right eye is weaker and doesn't focus like it should.
So Beau gets to have glasses. Bekah and Jacob were/are super jealous. We all told Beau how lucky he was, and he was SO excited to get his glasses. He doesn't enjoy wearing them all the time and will ask for a break every few hours, but all in all he's doing really well. He still really likes it when someone tells him he looks awesome in his glasses.
Because he does.