New adventures

These last few weeks have brought on some new adventures for the Griggs kids. First, Bailey has been sewing up a storm with her new sewing machine. She has learned the basics and has even sewn her very first project. She made a bean bag. I'm so proud of her.

Here she is threading her needle.

While I was gone to girls camp, Morgan took off Carsons training wheels. It only took him two tries to master the art of ridding without his training wheels. It's funny, but he actually does much better with them off. He was always tipping over when he would turn a corner or go up the driveway with them on. Now he is a pro!

During the summer I started realizing that Logan was having a hard time seeing different shades of color. He brought me a brown rock at the park and called it green. He was playing a card game and insisted that the color he laid down was green, even though it was brown. Immediately I knew that he was probably colorblind. Most people wouldn't jump to this conclusion, but my father was colorblind. So that means I carry the gene of colorblindness that my boys had a 50/50 chance of getting. It puzzles me how Logan passed preschool and kindergarten without it being detected. I decided to take Logan to see his pediatrician to see what they thought. Sure enough, Logan failed his colorblind test. So it was off to an ophthalmologist we go. I know there isn't anything they can do for colorblindness, but I wanted to find out what colors he has a problem with so I can let his first grade teacher know. Red- green is the color deficiency that he has.
Here are some facts about Logan's cool trait.

Red-green color blindness is a generic term for protanopia (red-blindness), protanomaly (red-weakness), deuteranopia (green-blindness), and deuteranomaly (green-weakness).

More than 99% of all color blind people are suffering from a red-green color vision deficiency.

About 8% of all men and 0.5% of all women are suffering from it.

Any severity starting from slightly over moderately, strongly or absolutely is possible.

Red-green color blindness is a recessive, sex linked trait (encoded on the X chromosome). This results in much more men to suffer from it than women.

It is usually inherited from a grandfather to his grandson, with the mother in between acting as the carrier of the disease.

Not only red and green can’t be distinguished, but the whole color spectrum is affected by color blindness.

Not only is Logan colorblind, but he also has astigmatisms in both eyes and is farsighted. Luckily for him, he has 20/20 vision when he uses both eyes. Not so good if he only uses his left eye. But who uses just one eye? lol

Logan the colorblind Terminator!

I don't think that because Logan has colorblindness, that it will effect his future. The ophthalmologist did say that Logan can never fly a plane, be in the army, become a mechanic, or be a trucker. But I think I'm ok with that :) If he wants to be a Dr, we all know that blood is red right? lol