March 16, 2024 - Saturday

C.L. was acting crazy today! Patrick kept telling us she was super chill, but she's been going nuts, trying to get out of her little bin and seeming to be desperate to get outside. We put her outside for a while, but it was never enough! I think she spent like 3 hours out there, total, and was free, trying to get outside for many hours in addition to that. 

Ben and I decided to leave the kids for a while to get the bags and to run to the grocery store for some snacks for the party tonight. We put C.L. in her bin and headed out. While we were gone, Jonas calls us in a panic saying that Murphy attacked Clem! He said he's never seen so much blood and was FREAKING OUT. I told him to have Clem get in the tub (if she's bleeding that much, I don't want to deal with a huge mess 😅) and that we'd be home ASAP. We shopped at the Giant Eagle down the street so that we'd be close by. We run home, and Clem has really deep gouges on her leg, arm, and hand. I feel so awful. He really went at her! Jonas said that she was just minding her own business, nowhere near Murphy, so this attack was entirely unprovoked. And now we have no idea what to do. We threw Murphy outside and he's lucky because Ben wanted to stomp his little head in. I don't know what we'll do moving forward, but for now, he's outside. Ben thinks it's because he feels threatened by C.L. somehow, but I just feel like that's no excuse to hurt our kid. 

We had our game night tonight with HC friends. It was really fun. We should be doing this more often! I know the Hawthornes tried to have a regular thing going for a while, but it didn't work for us while the kids were younger, and I know a lot of families are still in that situation now. I'm thankful that people came to hang out for a while! It was a good night.