bee sting

Mabel learned a little more about bees today than she would have liked. One was inside the house on the window behind the couch where the girls like to play. It was really scary because both girls started screaming at nearly the same time. I thought that maybe they had gotten burned by the heater, but they both kept talking about bees and Mabel was holding her wrist and trying to scratch at it. Sure enough, after a few minutes a little welt started developing on her wrist with a tiny red spot in the middle. I found the bee on the window, captured it in a cup and let it go outside. We talked about how the bee was scared because it just wanted to go home and couldn't get out of our house. We also talked about not touching bees anymore, but I think they already figured that out. The welt went away really quickly. There were no traces of it after about a half hour. I was thinking that maybe she didn't get a full-blown sting, because the bee still had it's stinger attached afterward.