The Muppets

Today, Avery and I watched the new Muppet movie, The Muppets. He LOVED it, and I quite enjoyed it myself.  I am glad we both liked it as now we have something else to watch besides Sesame Street.  Not that I don't like Sesame Street, but I have seriously seen every single episode several times and am up for something new.  Watching the movie made me want to see The Muppet Show as I don't think I've ever actually seen any episodes.  I also think that would be nice to watch with Avery because I would enjoy it better and Avery loves anything with people and Muppets (he has never liked any cartoons). I looked online and I can get all the seasons from the library. Yay!

What I Learned: Avery liked the Muppet Movie and I can get The Muppet Show from the library.

Ants

Today on Sesame Street (yes, I learned something new from Sesame Street), Elmo and Telly were reading a book with fascinating insect facts. One such fact they revealed was that ants don't sleep. I realized that I had never heard this fact before. So I did some research. According to several websites, ants do actually sleep but their sleep is so unlike ours that it can barely be called the same thing. It seems that most ants "sleep" together as a colony for 8 minutes every 12 hours.  For all the work ants do, it's amazing that they can function on so little sleep, if sleep is what you even want to call it.  Now if only humans felt rested after only 8 minutes of sleep!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1967,00.html

What I learned: Ants sleep for 8 minutes every 12 hours.