L & R at the Library

We all were pretty excited about our first trip to our new neighborhood library. I was happy to have a new toddler-friendly destination for our morning outings, and Lucie and Ryan couldn't wait to "buzz" their books through the machine like Lola does in Lola at the Library.

What did Lucie and Ryan remember most from our library trip? The book drop by the front door (they thought that was really cool), carrying their selections to the front desk for check out, and handing over my library card, or "money" as they like to call it.

I loved to watch which books they each decided to check out. Lucie went for a few books about babies, Max's Christmas and The Matzah Man: A Passover Story. Evidently, she really liked the holiday book section. Ryan wanted to check out all his favorites from home, including How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? When he saw the copy of Danny and the Dinosaurhe started shouting excitedly, "Grandma! Grandma!" remembering that Grandma Laura likes to read that book to him.

While I don't have any photos from our recent trip, these shots are from story hour at a library close to my parents' home. They had a wonderful program created especially for toddlers – a combination of short books (no more than a sentence or two on each page), rhymes, songs and playtime. We haven't made it to our new library's story hour yet, but hopefully Lucie and Ryan will find it as fun as this one.