Her First Ralph Lauren Accessory

Okay, well, Ellie has had some trouble with her one eye drifting inward and crossing. We've been monitoring it, but it's not getting any better. In fact, it's gotten a bit worse, so her eye doctor decided it was time for eye glasses - make that bifocals. The lower part of the lens is blurry which is supposed to encourage her to keep looking in the top part, thereby preventing her from lowering either eye into the crossed position. This is apparently a very common problem and often can be corrected by glasses that eventually kids grow out of needing.

Jay and I had just gotten to the point where we wanted to know we could look our kid in the eyes - both eyes - at the same time. I figure with as fastidious as Ellie can be she might actually be a two-year old who WEARS her glasses, and so far, so good. And we think she looks freakin' adorable. We went with the kind of thick framed hipster kind of look instead of the wire-framed Barbie glasses. Jay thinks she's looking like Sarah Palin. I think that is completely ridiculous because I'd prefer her to look like Sally Jessie Raphael or even Harry Potter over Sarah Palin, but we try not to talk about politics much at our house. Just look at her - can't you just see her studying for finals at Harvard?

While we waited for her glasses to be made, we went to the Build-A-Bear store, and I let Ellie pick a critter out. My Mommy Idea was to have her create a critter and get said critter a pair of glasses that would somehow let Ellie know that glasses are cool - even stuffed animals wear them. It was Ellie's first trip into the world of Build-A-Bear, which is a scary world indeed - Just ask her sister who has been in the store twice and suffered emotional breakdowns both times the big fluff pipe has been stuck into her shell of an animal and cranked up loudly to bulk it up. Happily, it was a pleasant experience for El, and she came away with a be-spectacled girl monkey. She even kissed the little red heart before we stuck it in and had it sewed up.

So, like I said, so far, so good...