Thirty Minutes

Thirty minutes is about how long Dekker wore his glasses today. Out of the hypothetical 1440 minutes that go into a day, 30 doesn’t seem like enough. However, it is hard to consistently put glasses on when the arm keeps falling off. So back to Saskatoon we went!

I was terribly nervous for today. Probably more than I should have been. But I was so scared of failure, and that one hard day would lead into two hard days, that would lead into Dekker never wearing his glasses. I had tried to put Dekker’s glasses on him over breakfast three times with no success whatsoever. I expressed my concern to Brady and he took initiative, which I really needed. While I drove us to Saskatoon, Brady put Dekker’s glasses on him, and held his hands so he couldn’t rip them off. Dekker screamed bloody murder, and thrashed around for a solid minute. I bawled too. It was awful to hear him so upset. He still cried for a little while, but then he seemed to warm up a little bit. Brady worked hard to show Dekker every possible thing in and outside of the car, and didn’t reprimand Dekker for being upset. If someone held my hands down and made me so something I didn’t want to do, I’d be pissed too! At one point, Dekker seemed comfortable with the situation and played with his toys a little bit. As soon as we took an eye off of him though, it was off with the glasses. Its hard to enforce glasses in the backseat from the front seat, but we got a solid five minutes, which I think counts.

We went to visit our friend Jerilee at work and buy her a drink. Punk wouldn’t let us though, so we just had a quick visit and then headed off to our eye doctors office to ask them to fix the arm of Dekker’s glasses. They saw us coming and called us over by name. I was kind of embarrassed that they knew Dekker’s name already, as his first visit had been very loud and uncooperative. They reassured us that the young kids they had through there were there a lot, for repairs and whatnot, so they just knew all of their names. And honestly, that made me feel great! They take notice of the kids, and they won’t think we’re terrible parents if Dekker rips the arms off his glasses more than once. The arms on his go all around his ears, and we had to get them put on, as they didn’t originally come on the glasses. For that reason, they didn’t hold as strong so we just asked them to super glue them on. Dekker was very patient and luckily, the glue job worked awesome and we were out of there in just a few minutes.

For the rest of the day we would put Dekker’s glasses on him every time we’d head into a store. He would have his one minute scream in the car, and then we could take him into wherever we were going and he would forget his glasses were on for the first couple of minutes, five minutes here and there. Nothing huge, but definitely something! Right? Hopefully my expectations are realistic…

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Our longest stint with glasses on was in Walmart. Deks didn’t want to sit in the cart, but opted to run around, so he really forgot about his glasses. I think we got a solid ten minutes out of him there!!! However, when he had taken them off, we let him be free of them for the last few minutes and avoid the big ugly screaming fit in a public place. But for the first time ever, he actually let me walk with him and hold his hand!! He’s never let me hold hands with him, even when he was learning to walk. He wanted to do things on his own time and didn’t want help, but today he let me hold his hand, and he even reached up for me at one point, just for my face, and planted a big kiss on my lips 🙂 SO proud of my boy today!

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He was pretty wiped when we got home, so he went down for a nap and we cuddled in for some tv and basically just getting me off my feet. Its way too early in my pregnancy to complain about my achy self, but forgive this next part because I’m going to say the word “pubic” a few times.

I’ve had this crazy pain in my hips for a while, but my chiropractor has corrected it very nicely! However, I have this pain directly on my pubic bone that is borderline debilitating. I remember a similar soreness towards the end of my pregnancy with Dekker, when I would do too much in one day or I walked too much. But this is a very crazy, persistant pain in just directly one area. It is so strong that if I roll over in the night, I either cry, or wake up completely. It feels like I’m either on fire, or like my legs are ripping off my body. Yes, I’ve just had all my bloodwork and a urine test, and I have no kind of icky infection or anything. Its probably everything loosening up and spreading out but it is completely excruciating!!! But all that being said, I was in rough shape after our city trip and laying down was exactly what I needed! Even though I only have relief until I have to move my legs…

We invited Jerilee over for the evening since our visit had been so short, and we just sat in the living room and chatted. I feel like people who read this regularly probably don’t want to come over, as we so often just chat with our guests and don’t provide them with any other entertainment. I think we even tricked her into thinking she was coming over for a movie, and then we just never watched one. Bad friends. Sorry Jerilee!!

All things considered, it was a good day. I think. Dekker wore his glasses for about a half hour, which feels good and bad. I’m not sure what to think. But as Jerilee kept reminding me, it was our first day. He’ll only wear them more tomorrow. Its such a huge learning curve for all of us, I think its easy for us all to panic a little. It was nice to be around people who understood and sympathized. We came home after a successful day in the city to clear skies and my daylilies 🙂

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Thanks again Willa! Love these flowers!

Willa

You guys are doing awesome to get that much ‘wearing time’ in in a day! I wonder if it has clicked with Deks yet that he can SEE so much better! (Hey and I’m jealous…..MY day lilies aren’t even in BUD yet!).