{one} One of my most favorite nephews turned seven this month.
Happy birthday Samuel, aka Sam-well or Butter-bean :)
{two} Home with my three cowboys will always be my favorite, happy place.
• 25% of students in grades K-6 have visual
problems that are serious enough to impede learning.
• When vision problems go undetected, children almost
invariably have trouble reading and doing their schoolwork. They often
display fatigue, fidgeting, and frustration in the classroom - traits that can
lead to a misdiagnosis of ADD, ADHD, dyslexia or other learning
disabilities.
• It is estimated that 80% of children with a learning
disability have an undiagnosed vision problem.
• Early diagnosis and treatment of children's vision
problems is a necessary component to school readiness and academic
learning. A vision screening, either at school or at the
pediatrician's office, is not a substitute for a complete eye and vision
evaluation by an eye doctor who specializes in developmental vision.
• Early testing for vision problems is critical
to mitigating learning disabilities or, in some cases, significant visual
impairment in children.
• Vision is a complex process that involves over 20
visual abilities and more than 65% of all the pathways to the brain. One
in four children has an undiagnosed vision problem which can interfere with
learning and lead to academic and / or behavioral problems. However, it
is important to know that these children frequently do not report symptoms
because they think everyone sees the same way they do.
I've had a few friends/readers reach out to me regarding vision therapy and please continue. I was so blind, pun intended, to this problem. We'd had his eyes checked - twice and everything was fine - 20/20 vision. Unfortunately, we were thinking that he was going to be a "slow learner" when in fact he hated reading for a reason. “Even the most gifted students will struggle academically if they have trouble seeing the blackboard or focusing on a book."
This photo of Kal is certainly one of my new favorites. Kal loves his candy and his horse loved his candy face!
Keeler's friend went along with us.
Keeler loved showing him around and driving us in the Ranger. Certainly in his element.
My favorite little cowboys. This photo just makes me smile :)
{five} And lastly, my new favorite shoes,
Vionic Women's Ease Sydney Loafer
I bought mine right around Christmas and catch myself wearing them almost everyday. Leopard is a neutral! I found them at Dillards for over $120 but as soon as I tried them on, they were a must! It's rare to find a shoe with such cute style and amazing comfort. This is my first pair of Vionics but supposedly their "Orthaheel Technology naturally aligns your feet and helps relieve heel pain by reducing over-pronation..."
Since I got my pair - my mom, sister and SIL have ordered a pair. We found them on Amazon Prme for a fraction of the price too :) Win! Win!
well if this isn't the cutest blog i ever came across! your boys are so adorable! im glad i found your blog through the linkup and can't wait to follow your blogging journey! hope you'll stop by mine as well!
ReplyDeleteLOVE those loafers! So cute. Learning about your son's vision therapy is SO interesting to me. I've always had a very slight lazy eye (mostly when I'm tired or angry). A few years ago my vision in that eye started getting funny, a little blurry, and after my son was born it got worse. I eventually went to the doctor and they told me it was a result of an issue I must have had as a child that went diagnosed and treated. I'm told that if I had got to therapy/worn a patch as a kid, the eye would have gotten stronger and healed itself, but not my 'strong' eye has overcompensated so much that there is not much they can do at this point. Thankfully, it only really bothers me when I'm very tired or hormonal (nursing and pregnancy definitely make it more noticable!) and I can work around it. All of that to say, GO YOU momma, for taking the initiative to find out the issue and correct it!
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