Disaster strikes again!!

Since it was such a gorgeous day today, we continued playgroup after the big kids were done with preschool, and took lunch to Dewey Park.

The kids were running around having a blast, and kept coming back to the picnic table for snacks and drinks. At one point, I was pushing Caleb on the tire swing when Katherine ran off to get a drink of her soda. Caleb decided that he was thirsty, and ran to meet her.

All of a sudden with the straw up to her mouth she starts screaming and bursts into tears. She puts down the glass and runs to me. At this point, I'm assuming that she tripped and the straw hit the roof of her mouth. She's absolutely beside herself. Screaming at the top her lungs.

So while I attend to her, Caleb runs to grab the glass. I'm at loss -- I don't see any blood, any scrape on the roof of her mouth and *thankfully* all of her teeth are attached. I can't figure out what happened.... UNTIL Caleb starts screaming. I run to him, and he has his mouth open and pulling on his tongue. Out comes not one, but TWO bees. I pulled one bee out of the side of his mouth, and the other one was still squirming on his tongue. So disgusting... so cruel...

When we got back to the picnic table we noticed a swarm of bees -- in the apples, on the juice boxes -- everywhere. It was horrible. EVERYTHING went straight in the trash!

Within minutes, Caleb's lip started swelling and the left side of his tongue was bright red. Katherine's tongue was very swollen -- and painful. Talk about bad luck! The chances of this happening to one kid are remote enough, but two??? And within 60 seconds????

So in all the chaos of both kids screaming, and everyone else afraid of their kids being stung, I sat both kids on the picnic table in the sunshine so that I could take a good look inside their mouths. Normally, never an issue. My kids are island dwellers. We have a huge island in the kitchen and they are forever sitting up there to help me cook, do crafts, etc... But today, Caleb spins wrong and falls off the picnic table. More crying... He didn't get hurt, I just think it scared him, but after the bee episode, who could blame him????