Dylan's New Look

One of our many appointments this month was to follow up on Dylan's eyes.  They're not horrible, but bad enough that they recommended he get glasses and get used to them before kindergarten next year.  I had no idea my little Dylan had a need for glasses at all.  Go figure. At first I was a little sad that my baby wouldn't look the same, but I'm quickly getting used to the idea and I think he looks pretty cute in them.  Anyway, they were supposed to take about a week, but were in two days later so we went to pick them up last Friday.  The whole process was another classic Dylan adventure.  When he got the glasses, he called them his detective glasses and walked around the store singing "Mysterious, very mysterious" (from Backyardigans).  I swear I can never get that kid to hold still for five minutes.  Just getting him fitted was quite the project.  I put Preston in a cart with a seatbelt on so I could at least worry about one kid at a time.  We got them at Sam's Club and went over to get some pizza for dinner afterward (remember, no kitchen at our house)  When I got to our table, Dylan was wearing the glasses down on his nose and I was trying to explain to him that he could see better and would look like a big kid with glasses if he pushed them on all the way.  I told him old men reading the newspaper wear their glasses down on their nose, not big boys who need to run around and play.  I finally had to say detectives wear their glasses on their face and it worked.  Of course he giggled at every comment I made. He looked around and said, "Like that old man over there?" I quickly replied, "Shhh, be quiet. Yes, like that old man," (so embarrassing).  He giggled again and repeated himself plenty loud.  Honestly child!  When Marcos saw him, he caught onto the detective thing and started singing the song from Inspector Gadget.  We got him transition lenses, even though he wanted these magnetic clip-on sunglasses because I knew he would not be able to keep track of those.  I helped get him excited about the different lenses by telling him they were magic because they change color all by themselves.  That got him pretty stoked about the glasses again.  So if you run into Detective Dylan singing "mysterious very mysterious" or "da da da da da inspector gadget" and telling you his glasses are magic, just play along. :)