Today started in my favorite way - with lots of cuddles. I woke up at 7am to Isabella walking in our room. She climbed over me into the bed between John and I, told me that she loves me, and snugged up. Then, our sweet dog Ellie got into bed too and wriggled between John and Isabella. We all just dozed and snuggled for about 30min at which point I got up to take a yoga practice and John, Isabella, and Ellie lounged in bed a bit longer. Life is good!
After my yoga practice (and after John left for work) Isabella started asking about bats. We went to the zoo a couple days ago (as we do about once every other week) a
nd this last time the exhibit she was most into was the nocturnal exhibit which included some really cool bats. So we spent this morning searching for pictures of bats online, printing out bats, drawing bats, and cutting bats out. I learned quite a bit. Did you know that there is some sort of mysterious illness killing the east coast bat population off? Reaserachers can't figure out what it is that is killing these bats off in alarming numbers. They are worried about how it will affect crops. The estimate that, for example, cotton farmers would take in 15% less profits if it weren't for the reduction in insects that bats bring about. A nursing female bat can eat up to half her weight in insects a day. Wow! I leave you with this picture of a vampire bat. Scary! 
4 comments:
uh, that pic of the fam is ADORABLE. ps I think I have the exact same duvet cover as you. PSYCH!
I don't understand why you posted a picture of Rose in the bat section of this post.
RE: nursing female bat eating up to 1/2 her bodyweight a day; how is that different than humans???
Juliet - I posted a picture of Rose in the bat section because I thought it would only be fair (since I posted a picture of you cuddling with John and Izzy in bed... or wait... is that Ellie? Can't tell...)
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