Well, today is another one of those adventures. We had to go to Ft. Worth again today for a routine eye appointment - yippie! Since i had scheduled the appt over six months ago it is a little hard to change the time of the appt as you get closer to the date. I didn't even think that Riley would be eating normally at the time we made the appt so that means stopping and eating at a restaurant so Riley, Kevin and I all could eat. It takes about an 1 hr 1/2 to get the appt in Ft. Worth so we had to allot extra time for Riley to eat.
Although Riley only prefers baby food at the moment, we were looking at the menu here and he was thinking "where's my menu?"
We decided to eat at Chili's since it is more kid friendly than most and our table was in a corner which was nice. Not many onlookers. Riley decided that chewing on the end of the table was so much more fun than eating so we tried not to fight him too much, he would start screaming when we did. All I could think about were the germs - YUK! So lunch went pretty well and Carter did fine until our food came and then he decided that spitting up would be so much fun. We only have the cheapy single stroller that we got for free as we have always used the double stroller until now. So now Carter has now spit up all over himself and the stroller and Kevin is trying to feed Riley .... and our food? Getting colder by the minute. We finally all finish and get moving to get to our appt on time.
Here is Riley tasting the table
Carter chillin' in the stroller.
The appt went as well as expected. Carter is nearsighted but not to the point that he requires glasses as of yet. They did tell us that he can only see clearly for about 3 feet and then it gets fuzzy from there. So we see the Dr. again for Carter in one year and fully expect to purchase a new set of spectacles for him at that time.
Riley on the other hand wins the prize. He gets his new pair of spectacles now. I really don't know how well this is going to go over and how many pairs of glasses he will break but I am sure I will keep a count. I could barely keep the nasal cannula on him and that was taped to his face. I don't know how in the world I will keep the glasses on him. Riley is nearsighted (more than mom actually) which we had expected due to his eye surgery that he had back last Sept. The dr. had already prepared us for this along with the fact the surgery itself did take away some of his peripheral vision. Not a whole lot but he does not have all that normal people should.
Overall the boys are doing well, they are both cutting their two top teeth at the moment and it makes for fun times around here.
On a funnier note.. people who live around the DFW area know that you can see the funniest things. We were driving on Vickery to go to downtown and we were following an SUV that looked like it had a lot of stuff in the back. Then, all of a sudden, we saw a rat jump from the window on to the pavement and scurry across the road. We looked at each other and went "Did you just see that?" It was probably the funniest thing we saw all day. Although that was a riot, I don't think it topped the time we were driving on Rosedale going to see the boys when they were in the NICU. We actually saw a lady brushing her teething while driving down the road. I couldn't believe it. You just don't see these kind of things where we live and I just couldn't stop laughing. We just had to assume she was late for her next appointment. At least she brushed her teeth. The things you see while driving - go figure.
