My Kockabootie Life

This weekend we entered a new phase…..that of loosing teeth!  Tyler lost his first tooth Sunday while eating a fruit roll-up (go figure).  I was kind of caught off guard with the whole thing.  I mean, I knew his tooth was loose, but we had not gotten anything ready for when it fell out.  After talking with my friend Margie about the tooth fairies going rate, we decided that Ty should get the same thing his friend Perri did so when they talk they would find out they got the same thing.  The whole idea is really cool to me!!  So, we had made the decision to give him a $1 gold coin from the tooth fairy.  Well, Sunday comes, he looses the tooth, and we have NO $1 gold coins!!  What are we going to do??  My quit witted thinking……”Man, I sure hope the tooth fairy isn’t off on the weekends like your dad is”!!  I was really impressed with coming up with that one just in case we couldn’t find the coin sometime that day.  Well, it all worked out.  Mark was able to stop by the Post Office and get a few…WHEW!!  Here is a picture of “the missing tooth” and one of Ty putting his tooth into his tooth fairy pillow he got from Grandma Page.  Oh, and just so you know, Ty was very excited to find a GOLD coin in his tooth fairy pillow this morning!!  (Thanks Margie!!!!)  

Okay, so the official word straight from Dr. Larson is “It looks like Tyler is going down the Mark path”.  Tyler’s last eye exam before today was in November.  At that time we was about -3 in both eyes.  NOW, just 4 months later he is a little over -4 in both eyes.  WOW!  I know.  But, I keep telling myself that it could be much worse; he could have something really wrong and if it’s just his eyes then I should be happy about that.  So, he of course needs to get new lenses made which means he will be wearing his old glasses (with lenses that have a prescription from a year ago) until his other ones are ready.  The one silver lining in this whole thing was that since his prescription changed so quickly the doctors office is going to cover the cost of the new lenses!  Yeah!!  Sure helps when you don’t have eye insurance.  Any hoo, that is my Tyler news for the day.

Tyler had his yearly check up the other day (I know it’s really late!).  Anyway, one of the main things I wanted to take care of are all his necessary shots that he is going to need to start kindergarten this fall.  I had him all prepared to get a shot when his pediatrician told us No Shots!  I guess he is totally caught up with them until he is 11!!  That just seems crazy to me, but Ty is all for it.  I now have a print out of his complete shot record for his school application packet.  Man, I still can’t believe that he will be starting school this fall! 

Let’s see, what else did we find out……Tyler weighs 52 pounds and is 47 3/4 inches tall.  The doctor says that he is well perportioned and that he seems very athletic.  He has all the bruises on his legs from soccer to prove it!  He can also hear to a whisper (when he wants too), but his eye sight…..man his eye sight is bad.  Even with his glasses on he was only reading at 20/50!  I am having Mark give Tyler’s eye doctor a call to see what is going on.  He just got his new glasses in October and there is no way he should be seeing that bad!  Given Mark’s sight history I am really worried about this.  I know there are worse things that could happen to him, but I’m his mom….I’m suppose to worry about stuff like this!  I guess we will just have to wait and see what his Optometrist has to say.  I’ll keep you posted…..