Library Card

I have to admit, and I'm a bit embarrassed by it, but we have never taken our kids to the library. I don't know why! It seems like it would be a logical place for us to take our kids, especially since we are home educating. Well, I'm not sure why, but Emma has been begging to go to the library for the past few days. We take them to B&N and we buy them books when we can, but she wanted to go to the library. Good for her! We aren't going to stop her from exploring.

So, when Drew surprised us today by coming home after a few hours of working, we took that opportunity to go to the library, just Emma and myself. We did, however, have to be back in time for Drew to go back to work for a few hours ( I love that he is able to flex his time). When we got to the library we opened an account. I got a card for myself and Emma got her own. She was so excited. One thing I learned from this trip is that we really have to work on teaching her how to write her full name, address, phone number and birth date. The Librarian asked her all of those questions and I was a bit disappointed in myself for not teaching her those things in depth sooner. I know they are very important, so that's something we will be working on from here on out.

After our account was set up we learned about how long the books, dvd's and so on are allowed to be borrowed. Then, the Librarian told us where the children's books are located. The Librarian asked Emma if there were any books that she was looking for in specific and Emma replied, "Bird books." So the Librarian located one children's bird book and another bird book from the adult's non-fiction section. We then looked around, found 3 dvd's and 4 picture books, 2 of which were for Benjamin. I was really surprised at the amount of books that we are allowed to take out at once. 100 books is a bit much but it's nice to know that we won't have to worry about a limit really. Another very nice thing about the library here is that we can return the items to any of the Erie County Libraries. That will come in handy when I will have Drew return books or dvd's at the Edinboro location.

When we returned home, Drew had to leave right away to get to a school for his work, but Emma, Benjamin and I sat down and read 2 books right away. Now they are both watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs while I write this post.

I think I might be just as excited if not more than Emma about the library.