and yet, after showing me how much higher he can can jump today than yesterday ( which higher still than a 100 days ago ) and a bath and a few books, he will be fast asleep, but only after reassuring himself that there are, in fact, no bats in the house. for whatever reason, months after the last sighting of bat, he’s suddenly become quite concerned that they are back and is convinced that they are "scaaaaawweeee". which is odd because we consciously try to not talk about the bats in negative ways around him and have never told him that we thought they might have ever been in him room.