Eye care for the little ones

You know what I hate... glasses for kids... you know why I hate them... because they are not indestructible.

My son is 4 years old and he wears glasses see -->

Cute little bugger but let's talk eye doctors. His first appointment went fantastic he loved all the different things there this was a lot better then most of his doctors appointments go. They told us he needed glasses that he has horrible vision and astigmatism in one eye. Luckily we have insurance right? Wrong they told us it would be three months to get him a pair of glasses because we have the state insurance. So we bought a pair, 60 bucks I was excited this included the lenses and everything score one for the mommy and they were in an awesome blue color that he loved. In the meantime we ordered a pair of glasses with the insurance and got them 3 months later. So an hour after his appointment my little man walks out with glasses on his face. Now we were warned that he may not want to wear them all the time blah blah blah he took right to them I was thrilled this was one fight I got to avoid. So last month little man had another appointment this time they wanted to dilate my 4 year old's eyes. This was not fun it took three of us to hold him down to get the drops in his eyes and then he was miserable for hours after. Turns out he had worse vision then they thought. Now originally they only gave him half the prescription well this time around they told me the prescription was double what they had originally thought and that if his vision was any worse he would be legally blind. So I thought okay they still have the 60 dollar pair of glasses I'm good I can afford this and we will order a second pair from the insurance (I will get to why this is important in a min) well turns out insurance only covers 1 pair of glasses a year for kids and his glasses needed to be special ordered it would be almost 200 bucks. WOAH 200 bucks? I can't afford that! My mother in law however found him a place that ordered his glasses for 70 bucks thankfully.

Now why do I keep mentioning a second pair. For people that don't have kids or don't have more then one kid.  Little kids break things and when one child has something the other kid wants it in the worst possible way. My 2 year old wants her brothers glasses and she likes to rip them off his face randomly then she twists them and breaks them and I end up spending more money every few weeks to fix them. So a 60 dollar pair of glasses has cost me well over 200 in the past 6 months. So a second pair lets me hold off getting the other pair fixed until I have a little money well now I can't afford that second pair... So far she hasn't broken this set but my mother in law was smart she got the super flexible glasses these do not make them impervious to little toddler hands but it does make them a little harder to break.

Now comes the fun part, you know glasses get dirty all those little finger prints not to mention mud, food, and sticky crap get on the lenses and that is almost a certainty with a young kid that there will be something on his glasses. He wont let me clean them.... like really kid let me just let me clean them up a little you will see better but no... I am not allowed to clean them anyone else can but not mommy. I don't get it. What the hell gives?

All in all having kids that need glasses at a young age sucks... and I hate it. But don't tell him that he loves his glasses cause he can see better.