April 16, 2011- Tie Dyed Eggs and Alien Eye Patches...

     Since we will have just have gotten back on Easter Sunday, and the kids will be with their dad, Gammy, Grampa, the boys, and I are celebrating the holiday a week early.  We found a tie-dye Easter egg kit at "Wally World" and made some pretty cool eggs for hiding tomorrow! At 7 and 9, my boys have not yet grown tired of these fun holiday traditions.  I will miss these activities as they grow older and lose their "kid vision" of the world.  They had as much fun playing with the left over dye decorating folded paper towels with smiley faces as they did decorating the actual hard boiled eggs!
     Tonight, we were also finally able to pick up my baby's new glasses.  In addition to the glasses, his special eye patches I ordered last week came in the mail.  He was very excited to put on the black patch with green aliens on it to accompany his new eyes.  He looks quite handsome in them, and we have plenty of pictures to show for it.  He really has been a trooper about it, but it will be interesting to see how it goes now that he is required to wear the patch and glasses for 8-10 hours a day for the next few months. He has only worn the patch only for up to 5 hours, sometimes breaking that up into 2 1/2 hour segments, so he still has a ways to go. Because he can see out of the right eye and has been using it so efficiently for so long, he has trouble understanding the importance of practicing with his weak eye. We are trying to emphasize to him that he needs to try, but when you are trying for something you never really knew you were without, it's difficult to see the logic in it. :)
    The good thing is that the excitement of the Easter bunny possibly leaving some treats for them in the morning got him through the rest of the evening with the patch and glasses on.  My oldest was even more excited than the younger one, saying he knew he wouldn't sleep well because he was looking forward to seeing what the bunny dropped off over the night.  It's so much fun to be a kid, isn't it?  And it's even more fun to get to be a kid again while watching them as the mom this time around.  :)  Happy Easter a little early everyone!!