Ok, I know that we're ALL proud of our kids, or mostly so, anyway. But someone once said that how your kids act when AWAY from home is the REAL measure of how "good" a job you're doing raising them. And today, I learned that I'm doing a pretty darn good job! The 4 year old had his eyes tested at school, back in January, and the letter came home stating that he needed an eye exam. No big surprise there, 90% of my family wears glasses, I'd have been MORE shocked if they said his vision was perfect! SO I make the appointment. The first one was scheduled for whatever day it was that they cancelled school because of the cold, and the doctor's office called and said that SHE couldn't make it in, so it was changed to today.

On Sunday night, I was watching all the "Jon & Kate Plus 8" episodes that I'd missed, and the one where a couple of the sextuplets need to go to the eye doctor came on. I thought nothing of it, until AFTER the kids were crying and upset by the doctor visit, and then I realized... "OH NO! We see the eye doctor on Wednesday! CRAP!" So I spent Monday and Tuesday doing damage control, explaining that since he did SUCH a good job at the Dentist, and that was a WHOLE lot more of a "big deal" than an eye appointment, (thank GOD they didn't do a glaucoma test... ACK!) he'd have NO problem with this. Apparently, some of it sunk in.

He marched in there, sat in that chair, and was SO good! He got a little bit unnerved by the drops, but even when she had to do a second set of drops in each eye, he just put his head back and let her do it, without fighting at all! It was AMAZING!

Then we got to pick out glasses for him. He's going to be SO darn cute in those little buggers! And I can't wait to see if her predictions of maybe him settling down some after he gets his glasses, and he can maybe see things up close, maybe he'll mellow out, and start enjoying some quiet play, instead of the current entertainment choice of chasing the pets, and trying to make ME insane.

Maybe? That'd sure be cool!