Practicing

M has been very involved with her contacts and patching lately.  She is very willing to pick out her patch in the mornings (we ordered a large amount of variety with our last order that she helped me pick out online), and is almost always agreeable to getting her patch put on.

She has been wearing monthly disposable contacts for the last several months (more than 6 now I think).  She is always able to have her old contact when we start using a new monthly contact.  She loves getting to play with the old one!  She gets a contact case, keeps it in water, carries it around, takes it in and out of liquid holding it, and just examines it.  The old contact usually only lasts for one day in M's care, but she enjoys getting to handle it the way she wants to.

The other day she was putting her old contact in her doll's eye.  Handling it just the way we do, and trying to insert it into her doll's eye.

Perhaps a few more months of getting older, and more practice on the doll, may result in her being able to put in her own contact!

Taking Out Her Own Contact

M has reached a milestone I thought was unreachable!
I thought this day would never come.
I thought it was ridiculous when I saw other blogs saying that their child could do this at the age of 3.
M is so proud.
She does it every night now.
She reminds me every morning she is going to do it at night time.

Any guesses?!

She can take out her own contact!!

I hold her eyelid, and she puts her finger to her eye, and takes out her own contact.  My 3.5 year old (will be 4 at the end of February) can take out her own contact!