Luke’s had a few headaches recently, occurring near the end of the school day, and so we decided to get his eyes checked.

He had his appointment last night and it turns out he’s slightly farsighted. So the doctor recommended glasses for reading, doing homework, and when he’s playing handheld video games – just to ease the strain on his eyes a bit.

Luke picked out these fun black frames with blue sides. They look pretty fantastic on him.

They had the lenses in stock, so he was able to get his new specs last night. Even more fun, they let him go back and hit the buttons on the lens cutting machine. So Luke actually got to make his own glasses.

He put them to use right away while doing his spelling homework with my mom. They have a standing spelling homework phone date each week.

Luke was actually pretty excited that he needed glasses. He’s always loved wearing fake glasses (we have a couple of pairs without lenses in the dress up bin). So he was thrilled to have a reason to wear them – and to school even!

He told us last night that when he has his glasses on he would like us to call him Andrew. Apparently he’s got like a Superman/Clark Kent sort of thing going on. We’ll see how long that lasts for – he cracks me up.