Saturday morning, we took the kids to the Manheim Township Public Library. It is so nice inside (maybe not worth all the money we pay in taxes to have such a nice facility - after all, does it really need to be built with all that fancy stone work? But anyway...) We headed straight for the kids section, where the boys started out by playing with some of the toys they have in their like the kitchen sink, etc. We also noticed that there's an entire lego room that could be played with up until 12:30 pm. We didn't go in there because I wanted to look at books for the boys. We found several good ones!
The first one I'll mention is Amelia Bedelia. I loved her when I was little! She's a little housekeeper that mixes up the meanings to words. For example, in this book she gave a surprise shower (with a hose) to a newly engaged woman, she pruned the hedges by adding prunes to the bushes, she iced fish by coating them in chocolate icing, she scaled the fish by weighing them on scales, she "ran over the table cloth with an iron" and left shoe prints... and so many other classic little things that made me smile. The book was a little too old for the boys, but the mama still enjoyed it!
The next book was a book about mommies and how each one has their own style (some drive minivans while others drive motorcycles, some cook big dinners while others order pizza, etc.). But, the book said some mommies have universal traits, like loving their children and wanting them to be who they are, etc. It was a cute book, and the boys would say which one their mommy did on the pages. We enjoyed reading it together.
I got two more "easy reader" books for Joshua, but they were stage 2, which I didn't notice when I grabbed them. One was from the movie Tangled (which I read to them) and the other was a Thomas story.
We also got a "Biscuit" bedtime book, which is also an easy reader. It is highly repetitive with simple words, and we're reading it together at night before bed. The next book we got was a Dr. Seuss book about hands, fingers and thumbs with monkeys that drum diddy drum diddy drum. I think Dr. Seuss books are so clever and catchy! Which reminds me that we rented a Dr. Seuss movie "The Lorax." I've been trying to remember which movie we saw in school for a long time about how we pollute the earth and there won't be any more trees if we keep building and building and building... and this was it! The boys weren't all that interested, or so I thought, but Joshua has talked about it since he saw it, so maybe he was watching more than I thought. We'll borrow it again when they are older.
The last book, though, was our family favorite. Even the librarian said it was a good book. It's "Naughty Little Monkeys" which is about 26 naughty monkeys doing things they shouldn't do - each one doing something with a letter of the alphabet - from flying on Airplanes to jumping on the Bed to eating too much Cake, etc. It all rhymes and the boys laugh and laugh at the naughty little monkeys. Joshua & Caleb tell me the letters and guess the words (although the Bean is good at memorizing books, too, so he's eventually not reading but reciting what he's heard). It's an adorable book and one I would highly recommend. We've read it over and over and over again.
In the picture above, Joshua is showing his book to Ryan and describing the pictures in it. He is such a great big brother! And Caleb is enjoying all the reading and books as well. I'm glad Daddy recommended a trip to the library. :)
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