Hello friends! I am sorry again that I have not been posting. Life has been a little crazy around here. We sold our house after 8 months on the market, and had to find a new one immediately as they close on our current house on the 26th. Luckily we found a home we love and after all the fun of inspections, appraisals, etc. it finally looks like everything is a go to move on the 26th.
On top of all the house moving/packing craziness, at Aidan's last eye check the doctor told us to start patching. I bought the adhesive patches at the store and he did okay with wearing it (he only needs to wear it an hour a day at this point). But then I took it off and my poor little man's face was red for at least an hour afterward. I immediately began a search for a better way to patch because I cannot do that to his poor face everyday. I ended up ordering from
Framehuggers. I found a fabulous blog called
Amblyopia Kids and they were recommended on there. Lots of great info I have been sifting through to help my boy on our new patching adventure. Do any of you have experience with patching? Is there another fleece/felt reusable patch you would recommend?
This is Aidan and his friend Khaki:

Khaki has a new pair of glasses! I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before, but as I was researching a different way to patch Aidan's eye, I saw a lot of programs that sold stuffed animals with glasses. And the stuffed animals would get a patch to match the child's. So smart!
But Aidan already has two special friends, Khaki and Shorty. Khaki happens to come from the Build A Bear Workshop. I knew they sold sunglasses for the bears, but was hoping that they also sold real glasses. They did! Aidan was able to choose between "Harry Potter" glasses and these brown ones that were shaped more like his. You can see he chose the brown rectangular ones so Khaki could look like him. After we got home he said he wants to go back and get the Harry Potter ones for Shorty so he can be as handsome as Khaki and himself. :)
During patch time today I had Aidan use some markers and color a patch for himself and one for Khaki. So he was pretty excited to put his patch on today. I read somewhere in my research that a parent put a little bit of lotion on the skin before applying the patch so it wouldn't adhere too thoroughly. We tried it and it still stuck just fine and did not hurt him a bit to take off (YAY!!!!). I was so scared to put a patch on him the last two days because I did not want to rip it off his poor little face at the end of the hour. But I know it needs to be done, so I am glad this little lotion trick worked until we can get the reusable fleece patch we ordered. :)
Today he only asked once to take the patch off. I just said it wasn't time yet and he left it alone for the rest of the hour. He was very happy that Khaki was wearing a patch and glasses just like him. So happy that I thought to check for glasses at Build A Bear. They were only $4 and I had a coupon - so worth it to help my little guy!
Anyway, that is probably way more info about my life than you care to hear about. I kept thinking I could keep up with my blogging even with all the moving, the patching, and other stuff, but I just haven't been. So I apologize. Hopefully things will get back to normal here in a few weeks, but until then, I will just accept that I will be posting sporadically at best. Thanks for listening to my ramblings... if you made it this far!
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