Storytime at the Library

Today I took Lauren to the Tumwater Library for Storytime. It was their "Halloween Special" for Toddlers....so everyone was in costume. Lauren was Minnie Mouse and pretty proud of herself! She walked in like she owned the place. She sat very still for the first 50% and participated. The first book they read was "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything". I started giggling. This book was written by my preschool teacher of which she read to us before she got the copyright in 1986. So I have an autographed copy! Pretty fancy huh! It's a great participation book for the little ghosts and goblins. Lauren has her own copy as well!

During book #2 (there were 4 plus songs and other stuff), there was a little girl dressed as Cinderella that Lauren decided to be friends with (the little girl didn't have a chance to disagree). They started looking at other books that Lauren would go get off the table. Lauren is VERY outgoing....but other kids are a little unsure of her forward nature! At one point, the storytime leader had the kids acting ghostly and swooping around the room. Lauren thought this was time to gallop and dance....of which she didn't understand that when they stop singing and start reading books again, it means you stop too! So yes, our kid is that kid! Granted, she was the youngest besides a couple of tiny siblings.

Then at the end they had a person in a dog costume come in. I guess that's their mascot for the library. All of the other kids walked up and shook a paw or gave him a hug and took a piece of candy. Lauren walks up and high fives the dude, then tries to take the entire bucket! The bucket had a plush Clifford the Big Red Dog attached to it of which she was more interested in than a Hershey Kiss. (Grandma reads her a Clifford book multiple times when we visit, so you can see her infatuation with the plush basket!)

I don't have any pictures....I don't think it was that type of event. So costume pictures will come later! Have a safe weekend!