We went to a colleague’s for a party after work on Friday. The host’s teenage daughter was nice enough to sit with a couple of the younger kids while the adults chatted and drank champagne. Sophie, the sitter, was competent and sweet, but she wasn’t fast enough to keep Ava from running across the basement and tripping face first into a chair.
So this is her first black eye. She cried for a bit, but she was over it pretty quickly. I think it helped to have other kids around; Ava had to save face, at least figuratively.