Craziness

Sorry for the long blog sabbatical, I know my readers are probably getting desperate. Or maybe not, maybe no one even noticed or cared. Anyway, I have been very busy with my "log job", as well as all the other weekly activities and household duties. Last week Bri went home with my sister Jessie to Nebraska to stay with Grandma Margaret for the week. Bri had a great time and so did Emily, being an only child (the life she never had, since she was 5 months old when we found out I was pregnant with Bri!) At one point last week I asked her if she missed her sister, and she said, "No, I like it just me." I didn't really expect her to answer otherwise but it was still funny. Here are the two of them the morning that Bri left.
That weekend the 3 of us went to Moorhead to visit our friends the Olsons. Emily and Lily played absolutely wonderfully together. It was such a nice, relaxing weekend for us with the girls entertaining themselves.

Whenever little girls get together, the most popular activity is dress-up. Lily's dress-up outfit of choice for most of the weekend was this flower girl dress which she looked beautiful in! Is this quite the model pose or what?

Now for what's consumed our minds for the past couple days. Last Monday Emily had her preschool screening where they just want to see if their development is where it should be. She passed all the little activities with flying colors, except for the vision test. Her right eye was great, but her left eye couldn't see past the second line. They recommended that we take her to an eye doctor to get re-checked. We figured we would do it sometime in the next month but weren't overly worried. Then that weekend she developed a little white bump on her eye, with redness all around. That started getting us a little concerned and we decided to bring her to an opthamologist yesterday. They discovered that although the bump was probably just a minor infection and had nothing to do with her vision, her left eye's vision was very poor. So to make a long story short, she is going to wear glasses for the next several years and also a patch on her right eye for 2 hours a day to help strengthen her left eye. It is their hope that since we are doing this now, eventually after many years she won't have to wear glasses anymore.

Bri was, of course, jealous of Emily getting to try on all the glasses.

Her glasses will be done in two weeks and then the real work will begin! Please pray for her that she won't mind wearing them and that her eye will strengthen quickly!