Mean Girls

So last night we were at Danny's softball game and Ashley started playing with a little girl (a BOSSY little girl I might add) who was probably about 6 or so. They were rolling down the hill, playing duck, duck goose (just the two of them which was pretty funny), etc. The little girl wanted her to do backwards summersaults down the hill but Ashley didn't want to so I called Ashley over to me and told her that if a friend asks her to do something and she doesn't want to do it, she doesn't have to do it. Anyway, then another little girl (also about 6) came and joined them and I think this was a pretty good friend of the other 6-year-old (Ashley is 3). They were all playing but Ashley was obviously the 3rd wheel. They were looking for bugs and then they told Ashley to go away, they didn't want her to play with them. She hung her head down and came and sat on the bleachers with her face in her hands and tears in her eyes. She asked me why the girls didn't like her. My heart broke into pieces. I wasn't ready for this yet. About 5 minutes later the bossy little girl came back over and said, "I'm not playing with my friend anymore so you can play with me now." Ashley said "No thanks." ;) That's my girl!