The ants go marching...

Here's a handy hint: When your daughter makes the comment from the other room, "Mommy, I'm watching the ants," you should maybe quick check it out instead of nodding with a "mm-hmm" and continuing to try and catch up on blogging.  After hearing this twice in 20 minutes I finally got up and discovered an entire ant colony that had hatched and was invading our living room through the cracks surrounding the wall air-conditioner unit.  There were some worker ants, a few larger winged queens, and hundreds of winged males. (Who says you can't learn anything in elementary science class?!? ;o)  I immediately grabbed the vacuum and starting sucking them up with the attachment hose.  However, within 30 seconds there were more ants swarming out.  This process repeated itself numerous times over the next hour until Lincoln woke up from his nap and we wanted to go to the pool.  Then it dawned me to get out some painter's tape and seal the openings.  It's a very temporary fix, but it did the job.  I haven't seen a live ant in the house since, although our vacuum canister is full of dead ones!