Don't forget...

Life keeps chugging along--like it should.  Here are a few things I don't want to forget about this month:

Colter had a cough and runny nose for a few weeks, which turned into a fever and feeling really crummy...then Adell got it, then Clare and finally Wyatt.  I had to line up the heavy hitters and get everyone deeply medicated to get through it.

Lorien has friends over once in a while.  Most of the time she cannot stand her younger siblings interacting with her friends.  She gets annoyed if they are even breathing in the same room as her friends.  It's awesome.  I try to be consistent with the rules: everyone gets to play sometimes, I will try to give you a break from the younger siblings but they get to play sometimes.  One day Lorien and her friend Erik came over to play Minecraft.  They let Colter play for awhile and then they burned down his house in the game.  Colter was so sad.  Like distraught.  It was disappointing that they would do that as a prank. 

Speaking of Lorien, she got into Savannah College of Art and Design and Mass Art.  We are waiting to hear from UCLA and UC Irvine. 

All three big kids got glasses.  We finally saw a different optometrist instead of our regular people at Kaiser.  We've always been told, the kids eyes are weird and they could have glasses if they wanted them--but didn't have to have them to see.  Our new optometrist, Dr. Diamond, was excellent.  He figured out exactly what was wrong with each kid's eyes and what kind of glasses they NEEDED to wear.  Lorien cannot see close up when both of her eyes are open.  She has underdeveloped eye muscles that might always be underdeveloped at this point.  They cannot focus together...just one at a time.  He had Lorien do a test where she looked at her phone with both eyes, then he covered one up.  Her response "Oh, wow!"  When I asked how she was able to pass her eye exam for her driving test he explained, they only test eyes one at a time.  She can see just fine one eye at a time...not both together.  So she has glasses to make her eyes focus together--at the same dam time. 

Wyatt is pretty much blind in his left eye.  He has great vision, near and far, in his right eye and can't see for crap out of his left eye.  So his right eye just does all the work and his left eye sits back doing nothing but looking pretty.  So he has glasses with a prescription in one lens so his left eye will do some work.  He can wear them when or if he wants to.  So far, he wants to wear them and has enjoyed being able to see with both eyes. 

Clare, who had been near and farsighted, needing glasses to see period, somehow got rid of her nearsightedness.  So she only needs glasses to read now?  I have zero explanation for this. 

Colter tried on Lorien's glasses and looked exactly like Macaulay Culkin in the Pagemaster.  Remind me to make my kids watch that movie.

All of Clare's dreams came true this month when she finally got braces!  She's had crooked teeth for a while now and all of her friends have gotten braces.  I think she's felt a little left behind.  She was all smiles to get things started!

Clare is officially taller than Lorien!  She's been eating her vegetables.