3 year olds in glasses, Argh!

Who would have known that having a child in glasses could be soooo expensive, not to mention time consuming. You may be thinking, what?? Well I believe that Anna started wearing glasses the beginning of May after paying $75 dollars for an eye exam. After said eye exam we paid $300 for her first pair of glasses, and that was after a 25% discount for filling the prescription at the Dr's office. about 5 minutes after she was wearing the glasses we went somewhere else to have them adjusted. a week later another adjustment. A few weeks later a broken nose pad so a repair and and adjustment later we were in the clear. A week later another broken nose pad. Get the picture. We were spending more time in the car and at the eye Dr. that I ever would have imagined. Well the glasses frames we originally chose were chipping like crazy and when Rand and I came back from New York, Anna's lenses looked like they had been run over by a truck. So on to eyeglasses pair #2. This time I was smarter and found Lenscrafters which only charges 50% of the frames and lenses for kids under 12 because they know how hard kids are on glasses and how often they need replacing etc. I bit the bullet and bought new frames and lenses and with the 50% discount paid just $200 dollars. Well we picked up those glasses on Monday of this last week and yesterday found those glasses on Anna's bedroom floor. They were all twisted and looked like someone had stepped on them. The tech tried to repair them but broke them trying. On to pair #3. Good thing we only had to pay half of what we paid because of our warranty.
I know she's only 3 but heavens to betsy in 2 months and $700 dollars later, her glasses are going to put us in the poor house. If this keeps up we're going to have to put her in the titanium anti break frames that aren't at all cute. Oh, and we had a check up for $35 dollars and 3 minutes with the eye doc this week. He said everything looks good and to come back in 3 months... but I don't think so, maybe 6!