We Love our Library

We are very happy to take place in my friend Christianne's "Love My Library" blog party on her blog Little Page Turners.  Her blog is a great resource for fun activities you can do with your kids that center on a book.  I have done many of them with my girls and hope that you take the time to check it out.  And we would not miss a chance to give a shout-out to our local library that we love going to at least once a week.

Here is our library!

We have two great librarians, Miss Jean and Miss Nancy.  They are always so welcoming, even to Eve's stuffed friends, and they never forget to give Eve some smarties after she checks out her books.

For a small town library there is a great selection of children's books and they are always getting new ones too.

We always make sure to come on the 2nd and 4th Thursday morning for story time.  We have been going since it started when Eve was 15 months old and have maybe only missed twice.  Eve has a great time and even takes our out of town family with her if they are visiting. 

Here are some of the kids enjoying a song at story time.

We enjoy our time at the library, and can definitely say WE LOVE OUR LIBRARY!

Dandelion Curls

One of my earliest memories was walking around the block in our first house picking dandelions with my Grammy.  We would gather them all up and pop off the flower part.  Then we would get out a bucket of water and watch the magic of curling dandelions.  You just have to take the stem and peel them into 3 or fours strips.  Then place into water and watch and wait while the curling happens.  The past weekend the weather was so beautiful that I took the time to do some curling with Eve.  It was great to see her amazement as the stems curled and she was excited to put each one it.  I hope this will become as good a memory for her as the memory of doing this with my Grammy is for me.

Some of our curls in progress.

Some of her favorites!