Innocence

Early this evening, while Evie and I were doing girl stuff, the boys decided to have a knock down fight. Well as you can imagine, it was all sorts of fun until Eli kicked Ethan in the mouth and tore out of the room with fire on his heels. I calmed Ethan down, sent Eli to time-out (we have fair fighting rules, you have to draw a line somewhere and face-kicks are past the line) and went about our night. An hour later I was brushing Ethan's teeth when Eli walks in and asks "Why is Efan's mouff bweeding?" "Hmmmm," I say "Eli why do you think Ethan is bleeding?" And with the most innocent face he replies "He wost a tooff?" "Nope, that is not why he is bleeding." A thinking look appears on his face and he asks, "he got hurt?" "Yes, he got hurt and do you know how he got hurt?" Another moment of contemplation and then a scrunched up face with "Oh." He promptly turned tail and ran for safer ground.