Pop-Eye

Ben was Mr. Pop-Eye earlier this week. We went to Sidecut park Tuesday night and the mosquitoes were terrible! I think Ben might have gotten a mosquito bite right next to his eye. His eye looked a little funky Wednesday morning, but I did not have time to do a full inspection. Then at daycare he and Ashlyn got into an argument (nothing new there) and instead of biting or hitting, what did Ashlyn do? Headbutt Ben, catching him right in the eye. And the result of these two things was Pop-eye.

As a side note: I have decided that head butting is a fitting form of 'retaliation' if there as to be one at this age. With biting, only the bitee feels pain, along with hitting. But with a head butt, both the head butter and the head buttee feel the pain which I think is appropriate, especially since in most cases both parties are at fault. But of course, there should be no violence to begin with, but 2 and 3 year olds are not exactly the best at practicing restraint.