Sweetness in my morning

I'm getting ready for work and I hear the boys playing in the adjoining room.

(THUD)

Ari, indignantly, "I going tell on you!"

He runs out to find me.  "Mommy, Xander hit me with the ball.  He hurt my heart."  He touches his chest.

I kneel down next to him, concerned.  "Did he hurt your heart because you're sad, or because that's where the ball hit you, in the chest?"

"Because I sad.  He hit me, he not love me anymore," he says with a sniffle.  I pull him into a hug.

Xander has heard this interaction and comes over. "I DO love you, Ari," he says.  "It was an accident.  I didn't mean to hit you with the ball.  I'm sorry."

"Did you hear him, Ari?" I asked.  Ari nods.  "Do you accept his apology?"  Ari nods again.

And just like that, play resumed.