Bye-Bye Baby Bambini's

For those of you who don't know....my daughter was born with an eye condition called accomodative esotropia.  The picture above is one of the first pictures we took of her after she got her new glasses.  I will never forget when she was diagnosed and I was told that she basically could not see a thing (she is legally blind without glasses on) and that I would need to get a pair of special glasses for her called......

baby bambini's.

Of course I was devastated.  My heart broke into a million pieces.  My poor little baby girl.  She couldn't see a thing for the first 10 months of her life.  She wasn't crawling.  She wasn't even moving.  She just sat there and strained to see and crossed her little eyes.  Then we put those little miracle-workers on her precious little eyes.  And a whole new world opened up to her.  She took one look at the world through her Baby Bambini's....and she took of crawling and never looked back.  She was so happy once she could finally see.  As a mother, when I found out she would have to wear not only special glasses, but an EXTREMELY strong prescription (we are talking coke bottle thickness here people), I was devastated.  I didn't want her to have the struggles of being "different."  I didn't want strangers to stare at her and whisper about her glasses.  I wanted to give her my eyes and take away her broken eyes.  But I couldn't.  I could, however, give her the baby bambini's. 

From the day we put those little pale-pink glasses on her face, the world became a new place to my little Emmy Grace...a place she could finally see!  From that moment on, she and her baby bambini's were ONE wth each other.  The second she woke up, she asked for them.  Once she could talk, she would say, "Mom.  I need my glasses.  I don't see very well without my glasses."  And we would immediately put them on her face.  They wouldn't come back off until she laid her precious little head on the pillow.  Now that I have explained the history....you will understand my dismay when I walked in one morning to find the precious baby bambini's in the dog's mouth.

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Notice the bite marks all over the frames and the popped out lens with indentations from being chewed on...nice.  Obviously this resulted in a trip to the pediatric opthalmologist and from that visit, we have a big announcement to make....I would like to proudly introduce:

little momma in her new big girl glasses

And I would like to say a tearful goodbye to the baby bambini's.  Thank you for helping my baby see for the past three years.  I will never forget the look on her face the first time I slid you over her precious little eyes and she truly saw my face for the first time.  I will NEVER, NEVER forget you and I can NEVER thank you enough.  (sniff. sniff.  Yes, I am seriously crying about saying goodbye to my child's glasses.  Yes, I am psycho but I know I am so that makes it better.  At least, that is what I tell myself).

So what do you guys think of the new big girl glasses?!?!