glasses

Iris got glasses. We took her to her regular ophthalmologist appointment and he decided it was time to give her glasses. He has told us in the past that she was very far-sighted (like all kids) and that as you get older you become more near-sighted. 

He also said that he wouldn't have decided to give her glasses now but her left eye is doing more work than the right eye since it's less far-sighted, and in fact, he would rather see her more far-sighted in her left eye since we know that both eyes will become more near-sighted in the future (since that's what happens with all kids). He also emphasized that the far-sightedness in the right eye is very slight. 

While I did know that many of the other ACTA2 r179 kids have glasses, I hadn't realized until later that almost all are far-sighted, and many need bifocals. So I guess it would be a safe bet to think that Iris might need bifocals in the future.

It's hard to get too upset about her needing glasses, though, considering that we originally thought she had aniridia, a condition far more vision-threatening. And she's so darn cute in these glasses. I took her to pick out her frames and she decided she wanted blue ones since blue is her favorite color. (I'm not sure how long blue will hold on to that title.)