Opticians

Both Doug and I are short-sighted.  I'm - 8 in both eyes (that's the technical term for blind as a bat) and started wearing glasses at age 7.  So when Jacob announced that he was having difficulty seeing things from a distance, we both feared that son #1 had inherited our rubbish eyesight.

Two trips to the Opticians later, what we've realised is that Jacob just fancied getting a pair of glasses - there's nothing wrong with his eyesight at present.  So, a little irritated with him for lying to us, but relieved that he's ok for now.

Here he is with weirdly assymetrical pupils as the effects of the eyedrops that the Optician put in start to wear off:-