Gracie's Library Card and a Celebration!

Today was a big day for Gracie! I have been promising her that when she is a "big girl" we can go get her own library card! We try to go the library but don't go as much as we'd like. When I was on maternity leave with the twins, I always took Gracie to Storytime and that was special because that was something that she and I could do together. She loves going to the library and ALWAYS checks out books about animals. Maybe that means she will do something with animals in the future? Anyways, we tried a couple of months ago but went to a Joliet library when we live in Plainfield and they told us that we have to go to the Plainfield one to get it. Didn't really make sense but whatever. So we finally went there today to get her her own card! She went and checked out 4 books (cuz that's how old she is) and we went to the desk to get her card.

She wanted to write her own name. Looks like we still need to work on the correct direction of 'm's and 'w's,

The proud owner of a new library card!
Well when we popped into the library today, it just so happens that they were having an Earth Day Celebration! PLus it was free! We hit that up. We got there right at lunchtime so there was really no one else there. First the girls made some butterfly headbands.

Evie really loved coloring hers and added some sparkly stickers too.

My girls showing off their beautiful new headbands!

The next thing we did was make some edible birds nests.

It was so cute and yet so simple and healthy! All you do is crumble up some frosted mini wheats. Then you add some yogurt in to hold it all together and mix it up. Finally, drop some grapes in for the eggs. All of my kids ate it even Gracie!

This will be one yummy snack that we will be making at home.

Presley of course was asking the librarian for more grapes. He loves his grapes.

After we filled our bellies, we stopped at the coloring stations to color some rainbows.

Presley tried so hard to stay in the lines.

Evie was excited there was markers. She was even more excited that they had pink!a

I helped Gracie read the color words on the rainbow and she colored it that way too!

Beautiful just like our Earth!

We even played a bean bag game where we had to throw recycable items in the recycling bin. Everyone had a turn and guess what? All 3 of them won frisbees made out of recycled materials!

After all that fun, it was time to check out our books. Gracie knows how to use the self-checkout. She used her new library card of course.

Then Presley had to have his turn. He got to check out 1 book too.

The libraian went nuts taking pictures of my kids. She commented on how cute and well-behaved they were! Ah, it makes me so proud! I also got lots of compliments on their personalized bags (courtesy of my Aunt Jan, thanks Aunt Jan!). They work great for holding library books!

Looks like we will be going to the library more often. Espeically this summer. We already are talking about storytime and classes that the offer.

This is just one great thing to with your kids to get out of your house!