The black eye

So, my karate instructor approached me last night to inform me that he needed to speak with Jerry. A few days back, Ansley and Ally were taking a shower when a fight ensued about the shower massager.  Ansley, who has taken to arguing with Ally, rather than giving into her every demand got angry when Ally asked for the shower massager back after mere seconds.  She gave into to Ally's demand but more or less threw it at her, hitting her in the left eye. The result was an instantly black eye. Ally screamed and cried for at least 10 minutes.  Some out of pain, but mostly because she was upset about having to go to school with a black eye. 

Fast forward to the next day when the black eye is now cool and she loves and wants to protect Ansley.  I take the girls to karate while Jerry is at school.  Sensei Rod has a very strict no fighting policy, unless of course we are defending ourselves, so when he sees Ally's black eye and says, "It looks like you need to work on your blocking.  Where did you get the black eye?"  Ally, trying to protect Ansley from Sensai says, "My dad gave it to me."  I hear nothing of this and we go home.  That is until last night.  Sensai approaches me about how exactly Jerry gave Ally this black eye.  I am mortified and try to assure him that Ansley was in fact the one that gave her the black eye but that I would speak to Ally as soon as I got home.  Jerry was already at home studying for his comprehensive exam. 

So this morning I sit Ally down to ask her about what she told Sensai. She very proudly said, "Well I didn't want Ansley to get in trouble and I knew daddy couldn't get in trouble so I told Sensai daddy did it."  Sounds perfectly reasonable to me except for the fact that daddy can get in trouble.  So I explain to Ally that we can't go around telling people that.  She was clearly confused so I told her that some daddy's do hit their kids and if she tells people that daddy hit her they can arrest daddy and take her and Ansley away from us.  She immediately teared up and told me she didn't want daddy to get in trouble.  She assured me that Sensai was the only one she told that story too.  I guess for now all we can do is wait and see if DCF shows up.   Poor daddy gets thrown under the bus again!!