Little Tattletale

We have a neighbor girl who we are trying out as a potential baby-sitter option to have on hand.  She is sixteen and seems really sweet.  My husband and I like the fact that she actually gets down and interacts with the boys while she is here.  We also like her house being right across the street because her parents are nearby if she needs help.

The first time she watched the two older boys while I took David in for his WIC appointment,  I called her the day of, and it just so happened she was available.  This worked out wonderfully because WIC was running behind schedule, as usual, and it was so much less stressful with just one child to attend to.  My husband made it home before I did, so he paid our neighbor and sent her home.

Then we had our first adoption support group at our church (the one we started...I will write more on that at a later time), so we asked our neighbor to once again watch the two oldest boys for a couple hours, and we took David with us.  We came home and sent the girl back to her house (of course we paid her and checked in on the night).  After the neighbor went home, we were asking James what he did and if he had fun.  Here is the conversation:

Me: What did you do with Miss Sue?
James: I jumped on the trampoline.
Me: Oh, so you played outside for awhile?
James: We played outside a long time.
Me: Did you have fun on the trampoline?
James: Yeah! And, Sam stepped on a thorn. Miss Sue called on the phone...then knock knock on the door...her mom came and got the thorn out...and we put on shoes so we didn't step on any thorns.

The poor neighbor girl was probably embarrassed about this event (she didn't mention it to us), and here James, our little tattletale, is telling us all about it.  We felt a little bad for her because we often let the boys in the backyard barefoot, and this has never happened before.  We didn't even know there were thorns in our backyard.  However this information was good for a few reasons:

1) Miss Sue will call her mom if she needs assistance (she has called me each baby-sitting time too, but those were questions on where to find something or where to dispose of dirty diapers).  This is part of the reason we like how close she lives.
2) James will share with us when something out of the ordinary happens while in someone's care.
3) We found out we may have to be concerned about thorns in the backyard.
4) It reminded me that I should probably tell Miss Sue where our first aid kit is in case she ever need band-aids or anything like that.  She may have called her mom because she didn't know where to find tweezers in our home.