An Extra Set of Eyes

Labour Day 2012 was a historic day for our tween!
That was the day she became the reluctant owner of an extra set of eyes!
Prior to that day, our tween had occasionally been complaining that her eyes "sometimes feel a little blur and watery". Her 'complaint' was often followed by a request to take her to the optician. Her eagerness made it seem like a trip to the optician would be a real adventure...and as though wearing classes was a really cool accesory!

So off we went to the optician after a sumptious dim sum lunch on Labour Day. She happily walked into the dark room to get her vision tested. When the verdict came through that her power was indeed below perfect, she remained in high spirits. That is, until the moment came when she was given her 1st pair of spectacle frames to try on! She must have tried on like a dozen kids' frames before she found one that she was reasonably satisfied with.

When her chosen pair of glasses was custom made for her, reality set in and complained non-stop that she looked like a dork! Though of course, a dork with crystal clear vision! She worried the entire night on what her friends would say of her new accesory. Her highly sarcastic mother shot off various comments on the speed at which her enthusiasm had evaporated as soon as the handing over ceremony of her latest accesory was over. ;-)

The BEFORE picture

Wow! Unbelievable!
My new glasses make my eyes so much bigger and rounder!

      

I like my new look!

Side profile

Our tween greeted the following morning at school with great apprehension. And true enough, her tween friends passed snipe remarks about her dorkiness. When picking tween from school that evening, yours truly here was greeted with pouty lips together with a shocking request to return to the optician to choose a different set of spectacles frames!! Pouty lips was greeted with a ghastly expression from her chauffeur accompanied by the well-used phrase "YOU MUST BE JOKING!!"

Two months on ... our tween appears to have devised an ingenious way of getting Mum and Dad to change her spectacle frames! After a long period of silence for the last 7-8 weeks, she casually commented during dinner one night that some of her spectacled-friends' parents take their kids to the optician for an annual check up..."Mummy, then sometimes their power goes up so they have to change their glasses...you know." Unfortunately for our tween, her no-nonsense mother's immediate response was "can....we can take you to the optician for a check up every year to check your power...we can just change the lens and still reuse the same spectacle frames!!".

Immediate silence.
Bliss.
For now.

~ Jottings from the proud mother of a beautiful dork!
(love you, Ying Han!)

The Proud Dad
Now, father & daughter have an additional thing in common!