Mean Boys!

This picture is from last night (I had to wake her up to document the evidence).

This is a picture from this afternoon.
(I guess it's not as bad as I thought this morning but it's still pretty bad!)

This is what I was faced with when I picked Ashley up from ESS yesterday afternoon. Turns out, while Ashley was playing tag with another little girl, a boy (who shall remain nameless although I would LOVE to say his name but that's immature) picked up a pine cone and threw it at Ashley!

I was signing Ashley out when the ESS director was telling me about it thinking it wasn't going to be that bad but I turn around and BAM! First thing out of my mouth? "Oh, geez!" The director assured me that the boy would be written up, the parents would be talked to, the Ashley was very brave and mature (she didn't even cry!) and she's incredibly sorry. I was in total shock, trying to not freak Ashley out, and wanted to get out of there to ask Ashley who the little snot was (sorry, inappropriate but did you see her eye!).

Turns out, it was a trouble-maker that Ashley has mentioned before. The worst part? He's in her second-grade class! Needless to say, when we got home and Jeff saw it, he hit the roof. He didn't think a time-out and written up was a big enough consequence and called the ESS director right away (my hero!). The ESS director told us that if one more incident happened with the boy, he would be kicked out of ESS and that seemed to appease Jeff.

Her eye wasn't injured (thank goodness!) but it's incredibly swollen and it was stinging like crazy last night when we had to clean it and when she took a shower but we can only hope it heals without any lasting scars. (It's going to take everything I have to still be nice to the boy when I volunteer in the class on Wednesdays!)

This morning, I got a call from the ESS director saying she checked on Ashley and spoke with her teacher and principal about the incident. And after seeing her eye today, she felt like the boy really needed more punishment than just a write-up so he was suspended for 2 days from ESS. Plus, she took a picture of Ashley's eye to show the parents so they know how severe this actually was.

So I'm pretty happy with how the school is dealing with it. I know I can't expect Ashley to be protected 24/7, I mean she hurts herself all the time when she falls down but you don't expect your kid to come home looking like she got punched in the eye!

(especially when it's Ashley who is the most non-violent/non-confontational girl on the planet)

(seriously, if she didn't look exactly like me, I'd wonder if she really was my kid.

It's definitely the Borra Zen in her) . Perfect example of this? She just read this post and when she got to my part about volunteering she said "Mom...you HAVE to be nice to him!"

Plus, looking on the bright-side, at least it wasn't Ashley who threw the pine cone!