We heart our library

I just feel the need now to confess my love for our library system.

Although we visit our branch library at least once every 2 weeks, we took the boys for the first time today to the main downtown library. They were in awe by it's massive awesomeness. As many times as I have visited in the past, I am still dumbfounded by the row after row of books, DVD's, and CD's just begging for me to take them home. They have an enormous childrens' room complete with a puppet theater, train table, dress-up clothes, computer games, and cozy reading nooks, so our kids were in heaven. After filling the one and only bag I brought with me (I should really know better by now), we headed up the stairs to the media room (which an entire floor is devoted to) and the kids grabbed videos left and right. Arms breaking, I picked up a few CD's and cookbooks on our way out and somehow checked out without dropping everything. The best thing about the entire trip is that we didn't spent a cent. The kids were happy to be out of the house and we have a week or two worth of free entertainment now.

My oldest has become more interested in reading lately and they had an entire isle of ready to read books, so I am excited to sit down and work with him on those. I love that he's starting to read books to me. His little brother sits and tries to read along too by memerizing the words. My oldest has also been spending time copying entire pages of his books onto paper and I'm hoping to get him some bare books soon so he can begin writing his own stories. It makes me so happy that he's found a love for reading and writing. :)

Even as an adult I still get so excited walking into a library and bringing home new books, I can only hope and pray that our children never lose their new found passion.