Bats and Spiders, Spiders and Bats

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There is a Little Einsteins episode where the group goes into a cave.  As they go they chant, “bats and spiders, spiders and bats,” over and over.  Nick was watching that episode on my tablet on our way home yesterday and he kept chanting that over and over (it was really cute).  We stopped at CVS and as we entered he acted like it was the cave and we had to say, “bats and spiders, spiders and bats.”  He thought it was the best fun, but I had no clue that I was going to live it!

Early this morning, at around 3:00, I was woken up by a click clicking sound from the area of our window.  I thought I was hearing something like bunny nails on the rocks outlining our little garden there.  I figured they were trying to eat my flowers so I got up to investigate.  When I moved the curtain I saw something crawling up the window screen (it’s really tall) on the inside!!!  I thought it was a mouse or a chipmunk.  Looking back I can’t believe I thought it was a mouse because it was way too big.  In my sleepy state I had the brilliant idea to close the window and trap it.  What we would have done then I don’t know, but I didn’t get to figure out because when I started to move it fell off the screen.  I screamed bloody murder and went running out of the room.

Then I started screaming for Jason upstairs.  He came running down and I told him what I thought I had seen.  He turned on the bedroom light by the door and the bat started flying around!  He pulled the door shut as fast as he could, but then we weren’t sure what to do.  Jason finally decided to go outside and open up the screen to let the bat out.  Well, let me tell you that no one is breaking into our house by pushing that screen open.

We have a lot of spiders around our house and they are always making webs in our windows, so the fist thing that happened when Jason went to open the screen is he walked into a big spiderweb and the spider fell on him.  He came back inside to change into pants but then realized that they were in the bedroom with the bat.  He did grab his coat though to cover up his arms.

When he went back out the second time he got the screen open just a little before a bat outside swooped down on him.  I was inside and heard him yell and figured the bat had flown out.  He then came back in frustrated as could be trying to think of another plan.  My only thought was to open all the doors and windows and try to corral it outside, but Jason was afraid the bat would get lost in the house.  He instead put a hat on, grabbed the broom (to help pry the screen), and headed back out.

I was sitting inside waiting when I heard him yelling again.  Then there was some banging before he came back in.  Turns out he had finally gotten the screen open enough for the bat to crawl out, and after crawling out the window it had continued to crawl across Jason’s coat before flying away.  I still get the shivers thinking about it!  The banging had been him shutting the screen.

Luckily we did get the bat out although we still don’t know how it got in.  Wouldn’t you know that Nick, whose bedroom is right above ours, slept through the whole thing!  I had no clue that when I was playing with Nick yesterday that our chanting would bring us “bats and spiders, spiders and bats!”