2 dogs, 3 kids & us: Library Turkey Time

Laptime this week turned into turkey time. A fitting theme for the week for sure. Unfortunately, no cameras were to be had at this event, so you will have to settle for some mental pics. No, not even phone cameras. Yes, there was a lot of talk of cameras. Then the chaos of a library laptime morning was upon us, so I repeat, no cameras were to be had at this event.

Our littles did awesome getting ready and such. In fact, they were so excited to go there were many tears about who was going to be put in the car first. Of course, one could construe that to be tears of "but I wanted to go" or "Momma, where are you going without me?" or "Momma, why are you on the other side of the gate and I'm not??"...but I like to think of them as tears of supreme excitement. It was very nice having an extra set of hands helping me get kiddos to the car, and from the car to the library.

As I've said before, even though pillows are offered, I choose to not use them. The large pillows aren't large enough for three. I don't want to deal with kids on different pillows and such, so my trio simply go without. Since we were able to arrive a smidge early this week we were sitting on the floor ready to go in plenty of time. That is when I looked over and noticed Addie. She was sitting next to a big pillow, with her elbow resting on the pillow, drumming her little fingers on it. You're expecting a nice smile or something to go with such a sweet picture, right? Wrong. Girl was as straight faced as could be. It was such a mix of sweet and funny I actually wished we had remembered a camera (coming from the girl who was against the whole camera thing). Katie chose to stand between Grammy's legs for most of the song and story. It worked because then Grammy was able to help her with her songs. Again, as I've said before, no matter how much head, knees, and toes we do at home come library time my little are still as can be. (no, we don't know shoulders yet...we're 16 mos, we've got some time still). I was proud that everyone stood for the elevator song - another one we've been working on at home. Zach and Addie even got the giggles going back dooowwwwnnnn the elevator. I love that my kiddos smile some now. They are actually warming up.

Story this week as about the turkey trying to hide as every other animal on the farm. Eventually poor turkey had to hide as a tree, but it worked! Farmer and family were stuck eating pb & j for T-Day. That is, it worked...until....they went looking for a Christmas tree! Uh-Oh Mr. Turkey!! A fun story. And even better, the craft that goes with it. Fruitloop Turkeys!

Yep! Fruitloops. I had actually seen something about fruitloop crafts on Facebook, but didn't think my kiddos were old enough for color sorting, counting, and the such. Leave it to Ms. Angie to come up with a toddler friendly fruitloop craft. The littles sat so nice at the table. Addie was doling her loops out one to the craft, three or four to her mouth, one to the craft, etc. Zach was awesome, doling out his to the craft not realizing he could be eating them until he was done. Katie realized right away she could eat them (is anyone really surprised?) so Mom had to steal them and ~~do the craft~~ help her do her craft. The only tough time came when Addie accidentally knocked her little cup of loops to the ground. The tears started flowing. If anyone has seen Addie cry, you know it is about the saddest thing ever watching those alligator tears stream down. Ms. Angie quickly came to the rescue with more fruitloops for our peanut and she got back to ~~eating~~ crafting. We ended library time with a little bit of play. All in all a good day. Almost no tears again this week. And really, who can blame a peanut for crying about her dropped snack? I'd cry too!

Once home we promptly attempted to take pics of our turkey day crafts.

Zach with his fruitloop turkey. I think it was a thin layer of royal icing holding the loops on since it would harden to keep them on.