Ornery Kids (aka A Trip to the Library)
The kids rose especially early this morning, so we got our school work out of the way pretty early and had an early lunch, picnic style in the school room. After that, I deemed it nap time for all since we had gotten up so early. An early nap and we had time for an afternoon trip to the library. Grace had joined a Kindergarten Club hosted by the library and they are offering a deal where Grace would get a library card of her own (not sure how I really feel about that, but that's another post) and read 10 books. When she reads 10 books, she can turn in her list for a prize of a kids' meal at our local pizza place. So, today I decided to get the girls each a library card so Grace and Ruth could check out a few books. Here is where it gets funny...sorta.
I thought perhaps I'd get a few books and maybe a video or two for myself first. We made our way over to the Christian fiction section and I began to browse. The kids began to pester each other. Ruth, Grace and Miss A all tried to sit on the little round step stool and began fussing at each other, while David proceeded to roll on the floor (I'm not sure if he was an animal or just being plain ornery). I corralled them and made them sit in a line on the floor next to me. I went back to browsing. Then, I looked down and noticed that Miss A had taken off her shoes, David was laying down again, Grace had pushed an entire row of books to the back of the shelf and Ruth was sitting on the round step stool. A sigh, a righting of kids and Grace fixing the shelf I tried once more to browse. I picked a few books and tried to look a little bit more, but by that time, the kids had all readjusted themselves (not to my liking), David kept asking me why the pictures on the front of the books looked the way they did ("because that's the way the artist drew it...") and Miss A had taken off her shoes again. Elapsed time: 10 minutes. I checked out my books and headed up to the more kid friendly...Kid Section.
Once upstairs, we met up with our friends (and distant cousins) and the kids were talking at about 80 decibels (roughly vacuum cleaner loud) acting as though they were long lost friends (after all it had been almost 24 hours since they had seen their friends. I noticed the kids getting a few dirty looks, so I shushed them and made them come pick out books with me. That ended up being really fun. Ruth chose a few books on her own that interested her (all non fiction-yeah!). We did that for a while, then I allowed the kids to have a little play time.
The girls all sat at a table with me to look over their books, but David decided to play at the train table. He was playing so nicely with the other boys there. He was proudly showing them how to catapult trains. Yes, catapult trains. It seems that there is this great new bridge on the train table. If you push down a lever, it lifts the draw bridge for boats to go under. However, if you set a train on top of the draw bridge and then quickly slam down the lever, your train will fly off the bridge and crash onto the train table much to the delight of your new found friends. Yes, that's my kid. Teaching your kid how to be obnoxious at the library.
I thought perhaps I'd get a few books and maybe a video or two for myself first. We made our way over to the Christian fiction section and I began to browse. The kids began to pester each other. Ruth, Grace and Miss A all tried to sit on the little round step stool and began fussing at each other, while David proceeded to roll on the floor (I'm not sure if he was an animal or just being plain ornery). I corralled them and made them sit in a line on the floor next to me. I went back to browsing. Then, I looked down and noticed that Miss A had taken off her shoes, David was laying down again, Grace had pushed an entire row of books to the back of the shelf and Ruth was sitting on the round step stool. A sigh, a righting of kids and Grace fixing the shelf I tried once more to browse. I picked a few books and tried to look a little bit more, but by that time, the kids had all readjusted themselves (not to my liking), David kept asking me why the pictures on the front of the books looked the way they did ("because that's the way the artist drew it...") and Miss A had taken off her shoes again. Elapsed time: 10 minutes. I checked out my books and headed up to the more kid friendly...Kid Section.
Once upstairs, we met up with our friends (and distant cousins) and the kids were talking at about 80 decibels (roughly vacuum cleaner loud) acting as though they were long lost friends (after all it had been almost 24 hours since they had seen their friends. I noticed the kids getting a few dirty looks, so I shushed them and made them come pick out books with me. That ended up being really fun. Ruth chose a few books on her own that interested her (all non fiction-yeah!). We did that for a while, then I allowed the kids to have a little play time.
The girls all sat at a table with me to look over their books, but David decided to play at the train table. He was playing so nicely with the other boys there. He was proudly showing them how to catapult trains. Yes, catapult trains. It seems that there is this great new bridge on the train table. If you push down a lever, it lifts the draw bridge for boats to go under. However, if you set a train on top of the draw bridge and then quickly slam down the lever, your train will fly off the bridge and crash onto the train table much to the delight of your new found friends. Yes, that's my kid. Teaching your kid how to be obnoxious at the library.
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