color blind IS NOT my fault

This week we took the kids in for their one and three year pediatric visit, you know to have someone look at them and tell us they were good! I just so happened to mention my concern with Lakoda not getting his colors yet. The same boy that has been talking in complete sentences since he was 18months old has had major trouble with memorizing colors.
Being color blind is not my fault, Bahaha or so i thought! I had put a lot of pressure on myself for Lakoda not learning his colors as it's a very basic thing, right? About a year ago I started taking great effort in trying to teach the whole color thing differently every few wks and did playful rehearsing of colors throughout our days. We'd play I spy on our hikes and his answers were always the same. Come to find out, I still have mad teaching skills but it's actually that I carry the color blind gene! So that's that, sorry dude!  Lakoda was able to call out an orange or yellow object and can recall a stationary image that he has memorized to be a specific color form, like green trees or our kitchen walls are bright red! But when asked what color the kitchen walls are it never fails, he says "purple, I mean red!" Then when I hold up another red object he will say purple without hesitation and no recovery or correction. So I have wondered for a long time now, is our man child color blind!

So, as I asked our pedi about it, he kind of laughed and said he had two tests that he can do for our brilliant 3yr old. And after doing both tests he let us know that Lakoda is red green color blind. Hearing our Pedi. say this almost made me cry. I mean he still sees beauty and charm in everything and can at least see!

Our pedi told us that once Lakoda is dressing himself that we should only buy him black and white outfits! This was meant as a joke but we were not laughing! Friggin crayzee! Our boy sees the world through wild eyes!
All of this makes me wonder what he really sees outside of his favorite color orange? Which by the way, I now totally get why that is his favorite color, it's because its one of two colors that sticks out! Poor bub!
So what color are the trees that he knows as green because we talk of them and their beauty all the time? I mean, really? He calls pretty much everything blue or purple when asked to name the color of any object since almost everything matches the hues that he learned with those names!

Sweet love of mine, what do you see?
Are the trees that line our property really blue? When we took you to the sea for the first time was the ocean purple?
Lakoda and Nyah will share their first birthday party tomorrow. I asked Lakoda what color of balloons we should order he quickly replied "orange and white and purple!"
Well, the orange and white ones are easy but what color do I get for that so called purple?