Clear vision

Jacob has an appointment with the optometrist on Monday. They tested his vision in school and saw enough of a problem to request a more in depth test with the doctor. Jacob's mom called last night with the news. All summer we were concerned about his eyes. He was blinking a lot, which his mom chalked up to the chlorine in the pool. I wasn't so sure. I asked him if he could see the pattern on some wallpaper about 30 feet away and he couldn't. Once we got up close he could tell that it was a square.
The funny thing is, is that Jacob is the one who's been clamoring for the eye appointment. He wants glasses in the worst way! Every chance he gets, he's either wearing my or my mom's glasses. And he looks adorable in them. As my brother-in-law said last night, "Harry Potter made wearing glasses cool". I think that if he starts wearing them now, when he's still young, they will just be natural to put on every morning. I think the worst thing that the optometrist can tell a kid is that they only have to wear the glasses when they read or watch tv. Because then they will never wear them! And I would know.
I got glasses in the 3rd grade and didn't start wearing them on a regular basis until I was 12. I couldn't read the board and I was too shy to walk up to the front of the class. I was failing my classes. One of my teachers called my mom and he found out about me & my glasses. See, I never wore them at school. The teacher called me out the next day in class. "Julie, where are your glasses?" I thought that I would just die. 30 pairs of eyeballs on me and someone at my table said, "You wear glasses?!". From that point on, the glasses went on every morning without fail. My eyes are so bad now that even with contacts, I will never have perfect vision. I'm just so glad that Jacob has a better attitude than I had with the glasses. And he looks as cute as a button wearing glasses. Even better than Harry Potter!