Eye doctor appointments for all this morning

I scheduled an hour with the eye doctor this morning.  I had to get checked, so did Violet and Calvin and Vanessa got in for her first exam. 

It went as well as I expected.  Vanessa was the one who presented the most challenges as far as cooperation and overall obedience, Eli slept the whole time in his car seat, and Violet and Calvin happily hopped up in the exam chair for each turn.  Violet went first.  She got eyedrops and her eyes dilated for the first time which she didn't think was that fun but she was a good sport through the short time it stung a little.  Calvin also did great, he made a sour face when the eye drops went in and dabbed his eyes with the kleenex he was holding.  The pupils got huge and while we waited for their eyes mine got examined.  They seemed to really enjoy holding the thing that covered one eye, then the other, and repeating letters over and over.  The eye doctor found both Violet and Calvin to be slightly far sighted but nothing requiring eyeglasses.  Both see well.  He also noted some small congetical cataracts (each have one) in each of their right eyes.  He said they have probably been there since birth and won't get bigger or have any negative effect on their vision. 

Vanessa sat on my lap for her exam and pointed to pictures and tried saying the words for what she saw.  The most audible words that we could decipher were "bir" for "bird", "car" and "han" for "hand" on the pictures across the room.  She was uncooperative when we tried covering her right and left eyes.

All of our up close vision was super blurry from being dilated, we got some "roll up" sunglasses to wear on the way out.