We started the day with Luke's follow up eye doctor appointment. You may remember from one of my March blog posts, that was patching his strong eye full time (pretty much from when he woke until about bed time) for the month of April with the goal of strengthening his weaker eye. He did a great job patching, as usual, and was very patient with the longer days of wearing the patch. Today we learned that it paid off! His vision improved considerably and for the first time (that I can remember) he was able to see some of the 3D images during their testing! This exciting news after about 9 months of patching prior (for 6 hours a day) that wasn't making any improvements. Our eye doctor wants Luke to patch for another month, this time for 8 hours a day, to see if his vision will improve even more. So, the patching will continue through mid-June.
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| Playing with the hypercolor board in the waiting room at the eye doctor |
Fun, random tidbit from our drive to the eye doctor today: The topic of conversation ranged from who was the strongest super hero to why do people smoke. Luke thought the strongest super hero was either Hulk or Thing. We had a tricky time explaining how your body gets used to having cigarettes, but that it's also bad for your body to smoke them. Deep thoughts for a six year old:)
At school today, the kindergarten classes had Construction Day (or in Luke's terminology: Destruction Day...he has a hard time saying construction and instruction, they both usually come out destruction:)). They built buildings out of boxes, cups, and paper plates, made building plans for their construction projects, got to try out different building toys, and played with some levers that catapulted cotton balls. Exciting, hands on fun for everyone!
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| One view of Luke's construction project |
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| Opposite view of construction project |
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| Building plans for construction project |
After school, Luke had his first of four Community Ed math class. In his words, "The class was boring because the kids kept interrupting while the teacher read a book 'Once Upon a Dime'." We're thinking bored was probably not the word he was looking for, maybe distracted or bothered??? Not sure, but we'll see what he says about the class next week:)
This evening we had another class (see, it was a busy May Day!) as a family with Mayo's prenatal education. It was a sibling class that explains some of the realities of having a baby at your house, and what it will be like when Mom and Dad go to the hospital to have the baby. They got a tour of the postpartum unit and got to see a brand new baby in the nursery. They also practiced changing a diaper on a doll and swaddling a doll. Luke said his favorite was the tour:) We're very excited to see Luke in action as a big brother in just a couple months!
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| Diapering practice |
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| Swaddling practice |
T'was a busy May Day for the Pickers! We're all vegging in our own way at home recovering: Luke watching a show, Brent with his Kindle, me blogging:)
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