Lilah had her monthly check up with her eye surgeon. 

I get anxious every month before her appointment. 

I worry they will say "no progress this month."  

Those words make my heart sink.

We discovered her lazy eye right after her 2nd birthday, but what we didn't realize was how terrible her vision was. Lilah is legally blind in her right eye. Her doctor explained that if we don't correct her vision by age 7 she will likely be blind in that eye for life. Thus, we're doing all we can to correct it. We patch her strong eye so the weak eye has to work. 

AND

Today we got great news!

Lilah's vision and lazy eye has made continual progress. Today we got the go-ahead for new (WEAKER) lenses in her glasses. We get to patch 8 hours a day vs. 10-12 hours, and we'll see the Dr. every other month vs. every month. 

This news made me smile.

For the second year in a row we ventured down to Ocean Shores.

This year our group grew.

Kids, swam and swam and played and ran and were caked in sand.

Adults, sat and drank and ate and played games and were caked in sand.

I think we all had some good laughs.

Hopefully we'll all do it again next year. 

We headed over the mountains to Eastern WA. We stayed with Grammy in Spokane and took lots of adventures. We created a new family tradition that we plan on doing each summer. We took the kids to Silverwood. For those of you who've never been (like Mike and I) its a theme park/water park in Coeur d'Alene ID. It is fantastic. Even at 2 and 4 the girls loved it! Its extremely family friendly, clean, and appeals to all ages. 

Playing a serious game of croquet

 

 Lazy River floats at Silverwood

 

 Day trip to Pullman

FIRST STOP COUGAR COUNTRY

 We got to watch practice!

 

 Then home to watch the Everett AquaSox baseball game. I had to add this adorable pic of the girls and Allie taking a stroll.