Who Knew?? - Our Cool Visiting Praying Mantis

In early September I wandered downstairs to take Emma outside and discovered an awesome praying mantis on our screen door.  He stayed there all day long - not bothered by us opening and closing the door.  The hubs took these great pictures of him:

I was happy to have him visit but I didn't really think much of it.  He left sometime overnight and when we got up the next morning he was gone.  Fast forward about 5 or 6 days and low and behold he was back.  This time he was on the window by the front door and I caught him having some breakfast:

He is actually a really cool bug - very attentive - checking me out as I stand there like a crazy person talking to him while he munches on some beetle or some other unfortunate insect.  So - of course I had to look up the interesting fun facts about praying mantis:

There are 2000 species of praying mantis
They have excellent eyesight and can see up to 50 feet away
They can rotate their heads almost all the way around - no other bug can do that!
They are more closely related to the cockroach than the grasshopper - EWWW

Evidently they can live for about a year so maybe we will be lucky enough to see this guy a few more times.