Beeping Easter Eggs and Other Notes

Well, I tried the salmon, and I liked it.  We had it for the second time tonight.  I broiled it instead of grilling it.  The recipe is here if you are looking for a good salmon recipe.

Buddy seems to be seeing more.  In the past few days he has shown signs of being able to see a little more in brighter lighting than before.  He has also started turning toward us when we talk to him, even if he can't see us when we talk to him from across the room, which is exciting.

On Saturday, the Division of Blind Services paired with the Delta Gamma sorority from UF to have a beeping egg hunt for visually impaired children.  Buddy is way too small to hunt for Easter eggs, but we went to see what it was like.  Buddy got to pet some bunnies (real ones) and then he fell asleep.  We met several other parents of children with disabilities.  Comparatively, Buddy seems very blessed.  I think that next year, he will be very happy to participate in looking for eggs.  I could also see that it would be difficult for someone with low vision to look for eggs, and so the chirping noises the eggs made would help a lot.

We also met a little boy that has albinism.  Children with albinism tend to have even more trouble with their vision than children with only ocular albinism, and it was amazing to see how active this little boy was.  He was very independent, and participated in all of the activities.  He didn't seem to let anything stop him from accomplishing what he set out to do.  That was really encouraging to us, and we felt a lot better after meeting him.

Another cool thing we learned on Saturday was from one of the activity tables.  Some companies make coloring books with raised outlines for visually impaired children.  They are really expensive, and as much as I love Buddy and want him to succeed, I wasn't sure that they were worth the expense (not that he can color yet, anyway).  At the egg hunt, they had a craft table, and they had made raised line coloring pages for the kids by taking regular coloring pages and going over the outlines of the images with puff paint.  Simple, and cheap.  I think Buddy will definitely have some of these.  It seems like a tool like that could help any child learn to stay within the lines. 

We go to the geneticist on Tuesday.  I don't know if they will do the test then, or if they are just going to talk to us about it and make an appointment for the test.