Addy

Addy started squinting her eyes awhile back.  I don't even know when it started, maybe a year and a half ago.  It used to be mostly outside, and mostly one eye.  We thought it was just a cute little quirk, but then she started doing both eyes, and doing it more and more.  Most people said it was most likely a phase, but a couple people said we should take her in, just in case.  I started searching on the internet, and was getting concerned that it was something called Amblyopia, so we took her in.  She was the most AWESOME patient.  She was so cute and did exactly what they told her to do.  Her doctor said she was the best patient they had all week!  She doesn't have Ambloyopia, she has something called Strabismus.  It's basically a mis-alignment of her eyes.  The way he explained it is that she is constantly trying to get both of her eyes to look at an object, and it can be very frustrating for her, so she will close one eye to make it easier.  We can tell when this happens if we have her look at something in the distance and tell her to open both eyes.  You can see one eye going to the side slightly.  She goes back in six weeks to check them again, and will most likely have surgery to correct them.  Surgery on her little eyes scares us, but if you do not correct it it will turn into Amblyopia, which could lead to loss of vision.  So, we will see in about six weeks what we do from here.  

 Our little "pirate".

 Cute little Addy.

This is why we thought it was cute...haha.  This

picture cracks us up!

Sweet girl ♥♥  I feel bad we thought it was cute, and here

she has been having a hard time seeing.