First Eye Exam

My little kindergartener has to have three exams to be in the clear for school: vision, dental, and a physical with up-to-date immunizations. Today, we marked the eye exam off our list.

Logan has never been to the eye doctor, except when he went with my on my last exam. I think that really helped him, and it's a good thing that he went with me because we could not find a single book about visiting the eye doctor!

Logan got to wear some pretty cool glasses for the first series of tests. One pair had little frogs on them and had lense that flipped up and down to allow for one eye to be covered at a time. Then, he got to wear a pair of black "Clark Kent"  3-d glasses to look at pictures in a book. Then the doctor came in and did the rest of the exam, which involved Logan looking like a robot :o) Logan did great, especially when it came to reading the letters-upper and lowercase. The doctor told me that there's a lot of kids already in kindergarten, who she sees, who do not know the alphabet.

The only thing we had the slightest problem with was when the doctor went to look in his eyes with the light. He was a little leery of it and thought it was going to poke him in the eye. It took a little time, but she got a good look.

Logan's vision is great! He is a teeny bit far-sighted, but the doctor said that is normal at this age, and most kids outgrow it between ages five and six. I asked her about his squinting and she said that since his eyes tested well, it could be because his eyes are sensative. And blue-eyed people are more light-sensative anyway. I also asked her about him sitting close to the television or holding a book close to his face. She said sometimes they get closer to block out other factors, and you may see it when someone is really engaged in something.

To top off our great visit, the doctor gave him a goodie bag: it was one of those draw-string backpacks, and it had a book, folder with coloring pages, and a box of crayons. Cool!

There's that pirate face again!