Love Hurts

Paige and Cason are pretty darn good about being gentle with Neely, except that sometimes I have to watch them when they're feeling especially lovey. It's like they feel too much love and have to prove it by rubbing her belly a little too vigorously, or by kissing her cheeks right off. They really loved her lots today.
Lately when I ask Cason to pose for a picture, he says cheese, but poses like this:
Just what I'm always hoping for in a picture. :)

Paige had her first eye exam today. Tyra came to babysit the other two for me, so I tried to nurse Neely right before we left, to make sure she'd be happy and well fed, for Tyra. But she wasn't in the mood to eat, and was amazed by the light coming through the fabric of my nursing cover. And yes, I AM about to show you pictures I took under it, but NO, you don't have to worry about the content of these photos. Haha. I made Tyra wonder when I stuck the camera through the top of the nursing cover.
She kept going cross-eyed, trying to focus on the print of the fabric like two inches from her face.

Then Paige went to see Dr. Berguson. She was SO excited to go, but once we got there she was SO shy and quiet. She was really good and did everything they asked, but would answer their questions really quietly and kind of cover her mouth with her hand when she was talking.
She was so cute.
They laughed at me. Apparently all parents don't take pictures of their kids' first eye exams. Ha.
Then he thought she might be a little far sighted, so she had to have her eyes dilated. I guess the drops sting a little, but she was really tough and was such a good girl. They even thought she may need glasses, so we got to try a bunch on while we waited for the drops to kick in. She was still shy and was all stoic while we tried them on, but she would whisper to me which ones she liked.
She didn't end up needing them, although she IS far-sighted, and he wants her to come back in a year, instead of the usual 2 years for kids her age. So chances are she'll need them before long. I don't think she realized before we came, that the eye doctor might say she needed glasses. But once they had her try them on, she was sad when we left and she found out she didn't get any after all.

She did, however, have to wear these awesome things for her light-sensitive eyes on the drive home.
She was cute playing in the front yard with them later.
Cason liked them too. :)
Here's Neely watching them play.
And in the bearzee coat when it got chilly.