Brooklyn's First Eye Exam

Last Wednesday, March 26th, Brooklyn had her first eye exam at Craig's school.  Craig didn't do the exam since he doesn't have any days in Pediatrics, but he was able to be there for the exam.  Brooklyn did pretty well for the most of it, she did want to grab all of the 4th years instruments, but other than that she was very cooperative.  She even did well when they put the dilating drops in, but when the appointment took a turn for the worse is when it was time for the BIO.  She didn't want to keep her eyes open and didn't want to look where she was supposed to (which is really a lot to ask of a 1 year old), so she started to have a meltdown.  I calmed her down but they still needed to look at her right eye, so I held her and Craig held her eye open while the 4th year looked with the BIO.  To get to the point, it was a very traumatic event for little Miss Brooklyn.  The drive home was not much better.  She didn't want to keep her sunglasses on so that didn't help the situation, but she screamed the whole 25 minute drive home.  It was pretty awesome and of course Craig was in his own car since we had met him at the school, so only I got the opportunity to listen to her scream.  At least her eyes are healthy so we won't have to go through this again until next year and hopefully by then she will understand a little better what is going on and not freak out so much.