Bat Lady

We visited the Bat Lady today at the library, who is not a superhero, I might add.  She is, however, super fun in an educational way.  She did a great job talking with the kids and teaching them about the two different types of bats, mega and micro.

She even brought a bat out, one named Robin.  True story.  Of course, there was that theme going on throughout - she had a Batman t-shirt on, and all sorts of Batman items about, such as Batman jewelry and even Batman shoes.

But it was all about the bats today, and for an hour she talked about bats, and you'd think you'd be bored out of your mind.  You'd think the kids would be too.  But this was an effective presentation, complete with bat silhouettes for the quiz, and bat masks too.  When Robin showed up, the kids were pretty excited - but excited in a quiet sort of way.

Today we had speech therapy in the morning, which went well.  Mrs. Courteny says there is a lot of progress going on, and Madison does seem to like it there, and practice a lot outside the office.  It's difficult, but she has her chores chart back up and going, and the hard part was getting started again on a routine.  She made her bed, did piano practice, read, and did online homework assignments too.  What exactly is a friendly number, you ask?  She did a little with friendly numbers.  These are the kind you want to run into, and not those mean numbers.  Some people don't know any friendly numbers so they start making up imaginary numbers.  Remember imaginary numbers?  As a student, I never could get over that concept.  Why have an imaginary number when you have an infinite number of perfectly good numbers to work with?

Anyway, it was a fun day.  We finished book two of the Origami Yoda series, which is called 'Darth Paper Strikes Back' or something like that.  I won't spoil the ending, but these two books have been surprisingly good, both Madison and Mommy sitting up in bed listening to every word that Daddy reads.  We'll have to look into getting more from this series as the summer progresses.

Other than that, the day was chores, rest and oh:  LEGO Batman 3.  Yeah, we kept up the bat theme by giving her that copy of LEGO Batman 3 that I've been holding on to since Christmas.  It would have been just white noise to give her that amongst all the other goodies, so this has been waiting for just the right occasion.  The right occasion is her birthday, which passed by, and Daddy forgot to bring the gift with us to Florida.  So then the right occasion became great behavior at the library, completion of the chore chart, completion of a big section of piano practice, and a post-birthday gift related to the bats we talked about earlier.  It worked out, and she was delighted.  So we did the first level, going after Killer Croc, and thus, we start off on another LEGO adventure.  We're itching to try out the Jurassic Park version, but that may wait until Christmas.  And it just might be more for Daddy, actually.