Some exciting things happened this week:
- L was invited to compete at an international diving meet. First time ever, so she’s over the moon excited. And proud as can be. It’s for the top twelve age-group divers in each country, which obviously means that L is in that category, which is a huge thing for this girl who tries so damn hard and who broke her foot before nationals last year and who lives and breathes this sport. She keeps saying, “…..and there’s going to be divers there from Australia and from Europe….” like she can hardly believe it.
-T got glasses. He’s over the moon excited too. He’s been hopping up and down every day since the optometrist’s visit, saying, “….I can’t wait, I can’t wait…” I asked (gently) probing questions to try to figure out why he wants glasses so badly, but all I really understood was that he wants to be like his big brother, who wears them. I’m really glad that he’s happy about them. I remember my younger brother getting glasses around this age and him despising them. He was always “sitting on them by accident”, “losing them”, “forgetting to put them on”, and breaking them.
Which reminds me of when R got glasses. He was five, and apparently, had 20/200 vision in one eye. Both eyes like that and he would have been considered legally blind. I had no idea until the routine kindergarten vision screen, after which I wanted to get t-shirts printed saying Have Your Child’s Vision Tested! He could read and see things close up, but everything in the distance was just a vague blur. Which I didn’t know. Urgh. That might have explained his reluctance to play soccer. He could barely make out his mother walking towards him, never mind see a whizzing soccer ball going by. I spent the weeks before his glasses came in an agony of self-reproach, which I got over, but the actual moment that he put the glasses on……absolutely magical. I still get all teary remembering. He put them on, his eyes widened, and he said I can the snowflakes! Followed by I can see the leaves! and on and on all the way home.
How exciting for L. I wish her the best luck!
As for T wanting glasses…my daughter does too because a couple of friends of hers has them and she thinks they are so neat. And I agree…the styles these days are so cute. Not like in my day, when all I had to choose from were large, plastic frames to go with my coke bottle lenses. I’m so glad the sizes shrunk along with the advent of ultrathin lenses too.
wowow- talented and driven girl. How impressive and how exciting. And as for T, maybe he s quite aware that he will be able to see the leaves. Thats lovely , but yea , the mother guilt…
Congratulations, L… and where and when will this international diving competition happen??
Any picture yet of T wearing his so much anticipated glasses??
thanks for the congrats…i’ll pass them along. i’ll be sure to take a pic of t soon.