Going batty

Well it has been a crazy and interesting week here. Kevin was away last weekend and the boys and I had a nice time together, that is until Sunday morning. The boys were sitting nicely in my bed watching a movie, so I jumped into the shower. As I finished, I threw back the shower curtain and all of a sudden there were wings and something near my head and Kaiser was leaping in the air, I hit the floor and looked in the hallway and saw what I thought was a bird (but should have known) flying down the hall. I ran into my bedroom and closed the door. The boys seemed oblivious, thank God. I peaked out the door and the thing can flying at me. So I stood there in my birthday suit trying to decide what to do. I gathered myself, got dressed and called Brett, who was came over to help me find the bat and remove it. I peaked into the hall and no sign, so I crawled down the hall and down the steps to open the door for Brett. In my mind I figured it would not come down that low to attack me!
We finally found it hanging upside on the blinds in the kitchen, brett took it outside. Good riddance.
Monday evening, Kevin calls me frantically while I am at a dinner, there are more bats flying around the house-two he thinks. So he packs up the kids and the dogs and we stay at my mom's. Then I head to Kohl's to buy us all clothes for the morning. Of course in his rush, Kevin forgets to bring Maks' inhaler and of course, Maks who hasn't had any wheezing in a year, starts to. So I have to get another Rx called to the CVS near my mom's. Complete insanity.
Mind you, all this is going on as the contractors have been working in our bathroom, so our house it already upside down.
The bat people came out on Tuesday., said our attic is clear and still sealed from several years ago, but one of our chimneys is not capped, so they think that is how the bats got in.

So Tuesday night, we moved back in, sort of, we all slept in the basement. Thankfully we have the basement we do with a full bath, so it was easy to move in. The kids think it is fun, like one giant sleep over. A week later we are still in the basement! Wednesday we decided to have a fire in our other fireplace (the one that is capped), we heard alot of noises during it, so we think we may have done one of them in.

Last Thursday morning, just as I was feeling good about no bat sightings, I flicked on the foyer light in the morning and out came a bat flying right into the living room, I didn't stick around to see where he went.

Friday, Kevin notices the flaps for our whole house fan are separated and some black residue is there, so he thinks the remaining bat got up into the attic. He promptly sealed that all off and we haven't seen any since. Though I am not taking any chances as we are still sleeping in the basement. It is better since our bathroom is still being worked on and the upstairs is so dusty, I rather wait until they are done, then clean and move back in.

Of course, we are hosting Thanksgiving, so it makes it more interesting, hopefully Mr. Bat is in his winter slumber and does not make any holiday appearances...