As you can see, Maria just loves her new glasses.
They didn’t fit very well at first. The main optician was out and the assistant was kind of a moron. She was terribly inconvenienced that Maria wouldn’t sit up straight and the glasses ended up crooked, off center, and the side piece dug into her head. I took her by and got the real optician to fix them today and they fit much better, though they look a little off in the picture.
She really seems to like them. She looks around with this thoughtful expression. I think she doesn’t really realize they are there. From what I’ve seen, mostly she discovers them when sucking her thumb then starts pawing away to explore them. I’ve seen her deliberately take them off but each time she was very tired.
They darken in the sun, which is a relief. We can’t get her to wear sunglasses which is apparently common in kids with low vision. OK, it’s common in all kids, but especially kids with low vision. The sunglasses reduce their vision so they are resistant. We took a walk today and even when they got dark she didn’t try to take them off, probably because she had time to get used to them. Sunglasses are kind of important in Phoenix.