Story Time at the Library

For those of you who aren't aware Katie LOVES books!  Not only does she love chewing on them (as all babies do) she loves sitting in your lap and listening to stories and looking at the pictures.  Her attention span is amazing when it comes to books. 

Katie at 4 months

Apparently she just read something that cracked her up.

Reading her first library book

Our library has storytime every thursday for preschoolers and Katie and I have been going since she was about four months old.  The librarian reads books, they sing songs and do finger plays.  Katie loves being around the other children and really pays attention.  Today when we walked into the library the librarian commented on how well she paid attention and how amazed she was of Katie's love of books.  We read to Katie everday and hopefully we are instilling a love that will last a lifetime.

We try to get to the library early so we can pick out books before the other kids get there and it's crowded.  Katie likes to sit on the floor while I grab the books.

She likes to grab books off the shelf, too so I give her board books that she won't be able to tear up.

After we pick out books we go to the storytime area.  There's always puzzles sitting out for the kids to play with before storytime starts.  Katie likes to chew on the pieces.

At the end of storytime all the kids do the teddy bear song.  They each get a felt cutout of a teddy bear and they listen to a song that tells them to put the teddy bear on their head, foot, elbow, etc.  Katie just holds onto her teddy bear really tight and watches the other kids.  

And that's our Thursday morning at storytime!