Alex to the Doctor
As I was scrolling through the photos on my phone, I realized that I forgot to post a photo to the journal. On May 25th, we took Alex to the doctor. Daycare had reported to us that he had some stuff coming from his eye. It was yellowish looking mucus, so we took him down to Dr. Paroulo’s office. Dr. Paroulo said it was a cold in his eye and gave us some eye drops.
Have you ever felt sometimes your trying to hard to do the right thing? Well, we held Alex down and pried his little eye open to put the drops in his eyes. Of course, he cried until we were done. This evening it dawned on us - why don’t we just lay him down and drop the eye drops in his eyes as he is looking up at us? No holding him down, and no eye prying. Sure enough, this worked much better. He stares at the bottle until the drop hits him in the eye. He blinks a few times, but doesn’t really seem to care.
It would be nice if they published a manual for this parenting thing.