Taking Tattling to a Whole New Level...

As we have mentioned before, we gave Kari's old iPhone to James when she upgraded to her new one.  It doesn't have a SIM card so it can't be used to make calls but it still works as a iPod.  James listens to music on it and plays games on it. 

I set him up with an email address (james@isispower.com) and connected his phone to our home Wi-Fi.  I can send him emails and pictures when I am traveling. 

A few nights ago, we went through our regular routine to get the kids in bed.  Shower for James, bath for Katie.  A few books for Katie, then she goes into her bed.  James and I go downstairs to practice his spelling words while Katie falls asleep. 

This whole routine works very well when Katie goes to sleep.  James goes straight to bed then.  But if she is up, they usually talk, play and goof around. 

I brought James up at 8:30 to go to bed and Katie is wide awake.  I put her back in her bed, put James in his bed and told them both to go to sleep.  I went downstairs to my office to do some work.  While I was down there, I heard some noises upstairs but I assumed that was Kari.  At about 10:00, I get an email from James with the following picture attached. 

When I went upstairs, James was in his bed, genuinely trying to go to sleep.  Katie was wide awake.  He sent me the picture of Katie standing on the edge of his bed trying to get something off of the bookshelf hoping that I would come up an put her back in her bed. 

That is a whole new level of tattling.