Glasses!

A couple of weeks ago we took Silje to Kris's ophthalmologist to have her eyes checked out. Sure enough, she needed glasses. She's quite near-sighted already, -5.5 in one eye and -6 in the other. She will just get more near-sighted as she gets older. So we needed to get her into glasses.

When we first went to look at glasses I wanted to cry. All the ones small enough for her were so awful. They were just big and really round (why are baby glasses all super round?! They have super round faces! It's not a flattering look!) and in pale pink. They looked horrible on her. I wanted her to have cute glasses! So then we looked online and couldn't find anything better. I was bummed.

Last week we were down in Indy for a cardiology appointment (she's doing fine, by the way) and so I had looked up a pediatric ophthalmologist in Indy and it turned out they had an in-house optics store. So we stopped by there. They had better options. And she said she could take regular plastic temples and bend them to go around the ear to keep them on. The place here in town hadn't suggested that option. They just told us to go with cable temples, and that was much more limiting! So then we found her some cute frames.

Today we were down in Indy again for a neurology appointment (doing well there too) and luckily her glasses were ready to be picked up. She seems to like them. It's been fun watching her with them. She's just looking at everything. She hasn't messed with them much either. I suppose she likes having them on and finally being able to see!





I took this picture for Karin so she could see that there are sparkles on her glasses. I knew she'd be happy that Silje finally has some bling!

Standing and Silly Pictures

Silje really likes to stand, and she's getting pretty good at it. Of course she needs help, but she's very strong - she just needs to help for balance.



And then we tried to get a decent picture of the two of them together tonight. We didn't. But the series is kind of funny.

Fourth Birthday - Take Three

And then when we got back Stian had his birthday party with his friends. We had the party at the gymnastics center. The kids had about an hour of open gym, then went upstairs for snacks. I don't think you should post pictures of other people's children on the internet without their permission, so I can't post too many pictures from the party. Or at least not too many good ones. I've found some here where the kid's face is blocked, so I'm putting up some of those. But trust me when I say there was a good turn out, and the kids had lots of fun!





















This is Stian and his best friend Julian:

And a few more

A few more pictures from Thanksgiving break at my parents' house.

We took another family shot.



And got some cute ones of the three kids together.





Two super heroes watching "Shawn the Sheep."

Fourth Birthday - Take Two

We celebrated Stian's fourth birthday at my parents' house too. My mom made Stian an awesome Yo Gabba Gabba superhero cake and then she made super hero capes for Stian, Nate and Silje and also for Stian's animals Claire, Brent and High Lighter and one for Nate's Wall E. It was a huge hit.