{"id":1202,"date":"2008-12-13T14:34:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2008-12-13T14:34:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T20:34:51","slug":"four-better-then-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/13\/four-better-then-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Four, Better then Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0838.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1205\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/13\/four-better-then-two\/2008-12-13_img_0838\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0838.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1229201135&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2008-12-13_img_0838\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0838.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0838.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1205\" title=\"2008-12-13_img_0838\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0838.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today was a special day for Max. Today was his first of many days of wearing glasses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1206\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/13\/four-better-then-two\/2008-12-13_img_0803\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0803.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1229193732&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;21.966&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2008-12-13_img_0803\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0803.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0803.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1206\" title=\"2008-12-13_img_0803\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0803.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately\u00a0for us, he has a different idea. Getting him to wear the glasses is going to be a struggle, and after only an hour we came to the conclusion that the frames are probably not the right ones for him, or at the very least need some adjusting. They just don&#8217;t fit tight enough, but it was kind of hard to determine that while we were there since he wouldn&#8217;t wear them for more then a second. It wasn&#8217;t until later when we were able to\u00a0distract\u00a0him that he wore them for a few minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0823.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1204\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/13\/four-better-then-two\/2008-12-13_img_0823\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0823.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1229196010&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2008-12-13_img_0823\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0823.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0823.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1204\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"2008-12-13_img_0823\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-13_img_0823.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After the visit we took them to McDonalds for their first visit to the play area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the photos are on <a href=\"http:\/\/tomchak.smugmug.com\/gallery\/6818699_gPc26#435782063_vFgf8\" target=\"_blank\">SmugMug.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a special day for Max. Today was his first of many days of wearing glasses.\u00a0 Unfortunately\u00a0for us, he has a different idea. Getting him to wear the glasses is going to be a struggle, and after only an hour we came to the conclusion that the frames are probably not the right ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13,118,21],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text","tag-andrew","tag-glasses","tag-max"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-jo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1211,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/max-and-his-glasses-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":1202,"position":0},"title":"Max and his Glasses &#8211; Video","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"December 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"[flv:\/blog\/video\/Max_EyeGlasses-Blog.flv 500 375]","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Video Post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Video Post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/video\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4265,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/13\/that-didnt-take-long\/","url_meta":{"origin":1202,"position":1},"title":"That Didn&#8217;t Take Long","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"October 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"During a time-out tantrum Max took out his anger on his 2 week old glasses.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;HDR&quot;","block_context":{"text":"HDR","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/photo\/hdr\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_3586.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_3586.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_3586.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1217,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/19\/watching-baby-einstein-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":1202,"position":2},"title":"Watching Baby Einstein Video","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"December 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 There is nothing that gets the boys attention faster and calms them down more then putting on a Baby Einstein Video. They are not only very focused, but they laugh and smile at times while watching as well.\u00a0 And Max had his glasses adjusted so that they stay on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photo Post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photo Post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/photo\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-19_img_9292.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-19_img_9292.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/2008-12-19_img_9292.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1145,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/23\/its-never-too-soon-for-an-eye-exam\/","url_meta":{"origin":1202,"position":3},"title":"It&#8217;s Never Too Soon for an Eye Exam","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"November 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This week we took the boys in for their first eye exam. We really wouldn't have thought to do so, but we did for two reasons. On and off we've seen Max with one eye slightly out of line with the other. And second, when I went to get my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Text Post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Text Post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/text\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/infantsee-top-center-image.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4261,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/03\/new-glass-for-little-guy\/","url_meta":{"origin":1202,"position":4},"title":"New Glass for Little Guy","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"October 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 \u00a0 After nearly 3 years of wearing his iconic blue\/green plastic glasses, Max finally has a more adult looking set of frames.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Let\u2019s see how long these last.\u00a0 \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;iPhone&quot;","block_context":{"text":"iPhone","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/iphone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_3481_Snapseed.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_3481_Snapseed.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_3481_Snapseed.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1194,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/max-eye-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":1202,"position":5},"title":"Max Eye Update","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"December 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"On Monday I took Max to see the pediatric eye specialist to verify that he needs some help. 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