Hoist the mizzenmast!
Step two in the fight against lazy eye is a patch for Juniper. She's supposed to wear it for 6 hours/day, which typically means that it goes on when she gets up and comes off around nap time. She's been wearing the patch for a week now, and so far it's going well. We don't know how long she'll have to wear it. Results vary widely by kid, and it can take anywhere from a few months to a few years for the patch to work.
I have to express my deep gratitude to the world that patches have gotten much cooler than when we were kids. We were able to go online and order two mixed boxes of patches that include rocket ships, dragons, flames, aliens, spiders, stars, trains, and soccer players. (Trains and soccer players came with the rocket ships, aliens, and dragons. We predict they will be the very last patches used.) So far she's very enthusiastic about putting on her patches in the morning. The only hard part is deciding which one she wants to wear. "Well, if I wanna be a dragon, I can wear this one. But maybe I wanna be an astronaut." So far, the patch with rocket ships seems to be her favorite.
On Monday, she was particularly excited to wear one of her spider patches because they were studying spiders and making yarn webs at school. Juniper's been looking forward to making, "a whole mess of webs" ever since she helped Miss Shannon create this week's lesson plan.
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