A few weeks back my pinterest page was full of people pinning things to do this summer lists. So I decided to create my own. I had thought I would get 100 things, but I ended up with 80. My goal is for us to complete them all, and attempt to blog about some of them!
Even though it is pouring out right now, Portland in May has been awesome. We hit almost 88 on Mother's Day, and the sprinkler and pool were used more than once.
Using the new sandbox that daddy built
Swinging along
Notice that her ice cream matches her shirt?
Ice cream at the zoo
Her favorite hat, even for running errands
We are hoping she can take the training wheels off later in the year
Since India’s eye surgery back in February 2008 and
getting her glasses in February 2009, we have been making a visit to the ophthalmologist’s
office every 6 months, and every time we hear the same thing. Her eyes are doing what they are supposed
when she wears her glasses. I expected
to hear the same thing today, but sadly, this was not the case. Her left eye is starting to get what is
called Dissociated Vertical Deviation (DVD).
From http://www.aapos.org/terms/conditions/44
“DVD is a condition in which one eye drifts
upward. The eye may drift upward only occasionally or be deviated almost
constantly. The amount of drifting may even vary during the course of the day.
Often, DVD is only seen in one eye by a parent, while testing by an
ophthalmologist may reveal the problem is actually present in both eyes.” She is making up for this by leaning her head
to the right. Jeff and I never noticed
this until they pointed it out to us today.
It is just a slight lean, but enough that it is totally obvious to me
now.
The good news is that her eyes want to work together, if they were not her left eye would be drifting around all the time not just occasionally. The bad news is that she will more than
likely need another surgery. I had
really hoped that she would never need another, so I am pretty sad to hear that
it might still be an option. We have to
go back in and have her looked at again in three months and see if anything has
changed, and possibly change her prescription, get a patch or schedule a
surgery.
I know that there are so many worse things that could happen to your
kid, but hearing your child will probably need surgery is still something, no
parent wants to hear. I will post more
after our next appointment.
I heard a couple of families at preschool talking about
apple picking, and I realized that I have never picked apples.I looked at the weather forecast and told
Jeff I thought it would be a fun family event, and he agreed.What I probably should have looked at was how
far away the place was!It took us about
an hour and a half, which seems a little far for apples to me but I decided to
look at it as an adventure instead.
When we got to the place, it was packed.They were doing their yearly Edelweiss event.If just seeing the word Edelweiss doesn’t get
you singing the song from “Sound of Music” I don’t know what is wrong with
you!
Most people seemed to be just getting apples out of bins,
and I freaked out for a second thinking that maybe there wasn’t any u-picking
going on.While we roamed the orchard,
we saw a hayride go by so we jumped on.The ride made a stop to see a few animals that live on the orchard.There was a giant steer and a 44-year old
horse.I had no idea horses lived that
long. India feed the steer a pear, and I hoped that none of my family would
have their eyes gouged out by its horn.
We finally figured out the u-pick situation, and headed out
to the orchard.We ended up with 11
pounds of various apples for $11.Pretty
good deal in my mind.Hadley doesn’t
have a huge vocabulary at this point, but she did learn to say “apple” while
walking the through the rows of apples.
We had a great time, and I will add this on to our things to
do again in fall list.What must do fall
things are on your list?
