Davis Strong Family

B-E-E Spells Bee.

We get together with two other families in our ward on the 3rd Monday of each month for dinner, FHE lesson and dessert. Yesterday we were at the Sweet's house and they have some hornet nests on their basketball hoops (a big one and a little kid one.) Well, not long after we got there, Sam pointed them out to us and the kids. He told them to leave them alone, that hornets sting and it hurts. Each parent reiterated it a few times. Well, soon the two boys, Carson and Tanner started throwing a basketball at one of the small hoops. We stopped them and reminded them that there was a hornet nest and that hornets sting like bees. We told them to stop and play somewhere else. A little while later, they were throwing rocks at the nest. We stopped them again and said, "You REALLY need to listen to Mom and Dad, those hornets will HURT you and you will be sad." We were sitting around talking and Tanner came running up to me. He had his shirt sleeve up by his mouth and tears in his eyes. I asked him what was wrong and he said, "They stung me and it hurts!!" He then started to scream. I took him too his Dad so he could restrain him while I looked at it. We put honey on it (someone told us too.) and ice. It didn't look too bad at first......














I had a hard time feeling bad for him and told him if he would've listened to his Mom and Dad, he wouldn't have gotten hurt. A little while later I looked at it and it had swollen more...it made me sad for him, but I was hoping it was a good enough consequence......















I started to worry a little after it got REALLY big.















Now if you ask Tanner if we bother bees (hornets or yellowjacksets) he says, "No way, it hurts!!!"