Snow with Captain Anderson!!

Because Mother Nature has decided that she wants my students to fail the AP test we have had more snow days! The positive, of course, is that I was able to hang out with Anderson! He was not crazy about actually touching the snow but really liked being outside in in.

His clothes look gigantic, which is an effect of the layering. Lots of layering.

Chloe & Gabs love the snow more than any kid. They seriously are like siblings with the way they fight. It is hilarious.

We did a little coloring on the pirate thank you notes. If you are lucky, you will get one with a little extra fun on it!

One of the requirements of a snow day is to stay in jammies all day & we definitely did that! Here he is drinking his milk out of his sippy cup! Like a grown up! Actually, this lasted for about a second as he does not like to drink alone & he doesn't do well getting off of furniture yet. It did make a cute picture, though!

He has lately become fascinated with the high chair straps, the car seat straps...really anything that he can take apart or put together. It clearly is a boy thing because after the high chair is clean I have no interest in it.

Update on Captain Anderson: The cataract is still here. Apparently he is pretty special because this only happens to 1 of every 10,000 babies. (I am pretty sure that is the same odds of winning a lottery?) His pediatrician has never even seen a patient with one. We went back to the ophthamologist & she said that he has made some progress but the cataract is continuing to impact his vision. This means that we have to increase the patching to 4 hours a day and surgery is "most likely". This was, in my mind, the worst case scenario. Then, she told us that even with the surgery we will have to continue patching AND glasses. Not just baby glasses, but probably for life. Depending on the surgery he might not be able to wear contact lenses. She kept throwing around 11 as the year when we know a lot more about his permament vision because his lens will be developed. So, I had 2 days to adjust to life with a 1 year old and there I was trying to process that I am going to one day have an 11 year old who is wearing glasses. Part of me kind of felt like he was being given a life sentence. I know it's glasses, not a million things that could be worse, but how unfair that he doesn't have an option. Don't think I am against glasses, I have worn them as long as I can remember and so do most of the people that I know. It just seems realistic for me, but not my baby. But, as I watched him play (try to climb on the $10,000 eye machine) like the perfect curious, active, precious thing he is I realized that he is the best thing ever, no matter how many cataracts he has. (Even though I would like to keep it at one) He will learn at an early age to suck it up & that he has parents/family who love him enough to wrestle a giant bandaid on his eye 4 hours a day for possibly 11 years.


Comments that I heard that were very helpful...

"We'll get through this." (grandmothers-emphasis on "we")

"The kid in Jerry Maguire was so cute really because of the glasses." (Aunt Cole. True)

"Harry Potter wore glasses & he saved the world." (Clare. Also true)

"Bathilda Bagshot had a cataract, so maybe he will grow up to write a history book." (One of my students with a perfectly straight face. As if him writing a history book would make everything ok. It was really cute.)