I do think you are all right in that we should be honest with Mikey. As I said I absolutely hate lying to any of the kids. Heck in our home lying is about the worst offense you can do really. Just being a mom my first instinct is to protect the littlest ones from hurt but Mike has felt all along we should be upfront with Mikey. We wanted to give it a week of solid searching and trying to "bait" her back out if she's hiding with live rodents in vented containers before we told Mikey what's happened.