The other night after daycare Alec requested to stop at the library on our way home. This is a completely unusual request. We had stopped going to the library a little while ago. While our library has what I would consider to a great children’s room; when we would go Alec would rarely, if ever, take any interest in the books. He would talk with the fish and play with the train table but no books. I always ended up dragging him out kicking and screaming and it just wasn’t worth the effort. Now we all know he loves to read so I would randomly grab some books off the shelf to take home as we were walking out the door so we could get some fresh reading material. He has enjoyed many of the books I have grabbed but apparently this one book stuck in his mind and he wanted it back!
I’ll admit I was reluctant to bring him. I didn’t really have the fight in me to try and direct his attention to the books and away from the train table, fish, stuffed animals etc as we didn’t have time to linger -dinner still needed to be made and the nighttime stuff taken care of. He was very insistent in the most pleasant way and he threw a decent and non-whining argument to me and he won. Off we went.
I am happy to report- I was wrong. I explained to him as we walked in that I needed to use the computer to see if the book was in and who the author was so that we could find that section. Alec was so well behaved. Walked with me to the computer and helped me type in the name of the book. We walked around to find the book and not an eye strayed to trains or fish or anything else. He was on a mission. We took more books by this author. Alec carried them all up to librarian himself, told her his name and stayed right there while she checked them out. Determined to get these books I tell you. Once the last date was stamped on the books, his mission was complete and off he dance to the train table and to visit this fish….AND TO LOOK AT MORE BOOKS! I talked with the librarian for a while and when I told him it was time to go ….and wait for it…..he put his jacket on with no argument! This is MY child? Wow what did they feed him for snack at daycare? DO IT AGAIN!
So what book was it?
Alec belly laugh when we read it. And the funny this is I know he doesn’t get half the jokes! We own this next one and it is usually in his pile of favorites:
And we picked up
We climbed into our cozy fort. Radiant heat makes building forts even cozier-it was like a heat hut in there! The cat loved it.
And that’s all we’ve been reading since Thursday night. And reading and reading and reading…..
1 comment:
Awesome! I LOVE those books and the kids like them too :)
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