Three Girls And A Guy: Library

Today I took Lucy to the library for the first time. It's kind of pathetic that I've never taken her before, especially since there are at least three libraries within ten minutes of my house. I've looked online at the children's schedules before and there has never been a story time that would work with my schedule unless I wanted to go to the main branch, which would require me to park in a downtown garage- and that's not happening! Today I finally decided that there doesn't have to be an event going on for us to go to the library, and we might as well take advantage of something we pay for anyway!

This morning I told Lucy we were going to the library and she said, "Library? Go get books?" I immediately thought (for only the 1000th time in her life) that she must be a genius. I've never told her what the library is before. I just told her we were going. Then I quickly remembered an episode of Caillou we've seen several times- where Caillou goes to the library and checks out books. So much for my child genius theory!

The whole time we were in the car on the way to the library Lucy said, "We're going to the library, Mommy. We get books. I'm excited. " It was so cute, and she really was excited. But first things first. We had to get Mommy a new library card, because Lord knows I haven't had one since high school! While we waited for my card Lucy talked to the lady who was helping us and told her we were going to get some books. We went to the children's section and I let Lucy pick out three books- and I let her pick out whatever she wanted. We ended up with "Bedtime, Nelly", "Waiting for Gregory", and "Never Take a Shark to the Dentist".

I'm excited that Lucy gets excited about reading. I'd say on an average day we read no less than six or seven books, but it was fun to turn Lucy's love of books into a Mommy/Daughter outing- and we'll be doing it again soon, I'm sure.

Playing on the Chick-Fil-A playground- we never go anywhere without going out to lunch!