Story Time

Tuesday's is Library Day for the girls and I. We have gone 2 weeks now and it's been interesting to say the least. First off, the teacher in me thinks it is WONDERFUL!! The MOM (Mother of Multiples) in me thinks its more like an aerobic workout. We start off singing a song to get all the "wiggles" out. My girls sit so still and watch and are complete angels during this song. Needless to say we really need to try next week and get those wiggles out!! Next is a story which my girls think is exploration time. Today they tried to take all the books off the display shelf, eat crayons off the tables, eat glue sticks and pour all their animal crackers on the floor. This all in just the first story. Keep in mind that after every event is me getting up off the floor, grabbing them and sitting them back down on the floor or onto my lap. We then sing another song which freezes them in their tracks again. This is the time to move girls!! Then another story (AKA chasing girls). They tell us to let them move around some but can you really get the moral of the story if you are behind the book? Um NO!! Luckily it goes by quickly and we can move onto the craft of the day.

Last week's theme was bath time. So, the craft was to glue a bath tub and a duck onto the paper and color. Kenedi sat at the table the ENTIRE time and colored and lined up her crayons and colored some more. I even handed her bathtub to her and she smacked it down on the paper almost perfectly. Kaiden on the other had never sat in her chair and followed the librarian around because she was blowing bubbles everywhere. Can you blame her? Kenedi really never noticed the bubbles because she was too busy hording crayons.

This week's theme was the beach. They even had beach towels for the kids to sit on (mostly I sat on it by myself). So, today's craft was to glue 5 fish onto the underwater scene and color. I went for the floor station this time and both girls sat for the ENTIRE time. They were still sitting when we sang the goodbye song!! Improvement!! Except this time Kaiden was very into the craft. She picked out her 5 fish from the bowl handed them to me for glue and then placed them on her paper. It was so cute. She really would think about where she wanted them to go!! She didn't want to have anything to do with coloring though. She just wanted to glue fish. Kenedi was hording the bowl of crayons, trying to eat the glue sticks and thought her sea only had room for 2 fish. She colored some but mainly wanted to see how many she could hold at a time.

We cleaned up our mess and headed for the exit. They BOLTED and started chasing each other down the isles of books. YELLING and laughing so hard. They thought it was the best thing EVER. They are super quick too. I scooped Kenedi up and luckily Kaiden was willing to hold my hand and made our exit as quick as possible. Everyone knew we were leaving though because they were yelling BYE BYE BYE BYE to everyone. We will have to work on an exit strategy for next week.