Oh the things I can do!

If any of you are finding this blog for the first time- I want to tell you that it gets better.  All the fears and worries that you are having right now... I promise- it gets better.

6 years ago (almost to the day!) I worried so much about all the things Tommy would NOT be able to do.

Here is a short list of the things he CAN do:

He can ride a bike (still on training wheels, but that has nothing to do with his eye!)

He can ski downhill!  (We are going on 3 years of skiing now!)

He can read!! (Ok, he's learning)

Even when patched!

He can explore in the woods:

He can do so many things.

The list of things he can't (right now) is short.  He doesn't love roller coasters (but is that his eye or his common sense?), he does take time to get used to new sets of stairs, and he still hates his patch.

This EYE that was so much of a part of my worry when he was little- has not held him back at all.

I'm a big kid now!

Tommy has grown and changed in so many ways over the years.  As I keep repeating, I am continually amazed at how little of a role "the eye" plays into our every day lives.  As he has gotten bigger, he has been more and more interested in taking care of his contacts by himself!  This past summer, when he was 5 years old, he started learning to take his contact out.  Here are some of his first tries at self care!

We have also started trying to have him put them in.... we aren't quite as successful there!  (Please excuse the crazy mama in the background!)