Charles at the eye doctor

Well, it looks like Charles got his dad's eyes, poor little guy. After miserably failing the eye screening at his 4 year check-up I finally got around to taking him to the eye doctor. I was pretty sure he needed glasses, and after talking about it for a few weeks, he was actually excited to get glasses. Although he did tell me at one point "I can just use binoculars to see the TV, mommy"

So we went today to see Dr Bowen. After measuring his eyes she already knew he was near-sighted, but then she did a little bit more examining to verify his prescription. It turns out he is around 2100 in each eye ( a little worse in the left actually) which is a prescription of around -2.5 and -3 for anyone who cares.

We are going tomorrow to pick out his glasses. Dr. Bowen said to expect him to make comments about the leaves on the trees because he probably hasn't really noticed them very much up to this point in his life. So sad! :(

Here he is checking out the eye equipment
This is where she told Charles she was looking at the back of his eyes and could see part of his brain. He thought that was pretty cool.
Mr. Serious, just like Joshua was at that age. Charles was the perfect patient for this exam...very cooperative.