broken glasses=a complaining SJ

Thursday night we were watching television together.  SJ was up to his usual hijinks instead of paying attention to what we were watching.  At one point, he jumped onto the couch and slammed his face into the couch cushions.  I could hear something, but it was muffled since he was under a thick blanket. 

"Oh no!  Not again!" yelled SJ.  I knew exactly what happened.  We have had this situation a few times before.  "Did you break your glasses?" I asked him.  He looked up at me and sure enough he was holding the broken glasses in his hand.  "Can you fix them?" he asked my husband and me.  I knew we wouldn't be able to, but my husband still made the attempt.  The pin had broken on the arm of the glasses, so it was not fixable.  My husband put some electrical tape on it to temporarily mend them.

The next morning, I saw SJ fussing with his glasses.  I told him not to keep stretching them, since they were only held together with tape.  They kept sliding down his face, so I made a makeshift band to tie them to his head.  It didn't look pretty, but it was working.

When we got to school, I first saw his aide.  I told her about the glasses and that they were only held together with tape.  I then went down to Mrs. Valentine's class to let her know about the glasses.  She said it would be okay, but I wanted to give her a head's up.

When I picked him up at the end of the day, he was complaining about the glasses.  He wanted to go get a new pair, but we were experiencing bad roads due to winter weather.  I told him we would go to Wal-Mart tomorrow to get a new pair, but he kept insisting that we were going that night.  We made it home and the complaining continued.  The bad weather trumped SJ's need for new glasses, so we stayed in for the night.  The complaining continued all night!

The next day, we drove to Wal-Mart and luckily they had the same pair in stock.  They were able to pop out his lenses and put them in new frames.  I did make SJ pay 50% of the cost.  (I wanted to make him pay for the whole thing, but I compromised with my husband on the 50%.)  I hope now that he had to pay for them he will be more careful.  He will, won't he?