On the playground

When I picked up Lily from school today, she hadn't finished eating her lunch yet. She was still sitting at the table, with her chair pushed back about a foot or two, and half of her sandwich sitting on the table in front of her. At first I thought she was in a timeout and I wasn't sure what was going on.

And who knows if that has anything to do with anything else.. but it's the first time that it's happened in the 2-plus months she's been going to school. I was even a little bit late picking her up, which happens sometimes. (Okay, more than sometimes.) So, I was surprised.

She said she was done, so I encouraged her to head off to the bathroom. And she did. When she came out and back over to me, she started talking about a boo boo she'd gotten. I said "what?" several times, as I was a little confused. Part of the confusion was because one of her teachers (an assistant?) was standing 3 or 4 feet away and didn't interject. At all.

The other part of the "confusion"? Lily was telling me that a girl had thrown a ball at her outside and then was laughing at her! And some point in between Lily had fallen. I think I said something like.. "what?!" And I don't even know what my face looked like, but it included some really, really widened eyes.

I was just about to ask her for more details (like, uh, what happened to the horrid brat that injured ma pwecious wittle munkin) when the teacher finally spoke up to say that Lily had tripped over a ball outside and that that was what my child was trying to tell me.

Hmm.

The two stories were sort of similar (both involving a ball and my child meeting the pavement harshly) and yet not similar enough. I had no idea if this teacher was even outside with them when it happened and I wasn't interested in arguing with anyone (because also, I'm pretty certain they already think I'm nutso) so I didn't say much in response. I believe my comment was "oh!".. like 'gosh, aren't children so silly and amusing.'

In the car and once we got home the story was more along the lines of Lily tripping over a ball (but I couldn't determine if it'd been thrown at her or not).. then someone ran over (in a ride-on toy) her arm!

So, I don't know. I think something happened TO her, not just 4 year old clumsiness/inattention, but I don't know what. And I'm never going to know, really. Because whichever teacher or teachers were out there probably didn't see the incident from start to finish.

But she told me she cried, that a teacher picked her up to hold her, and that she got a bandaid. So.. that.. at least that.