Once every two or three weeks, the kids and I make a trip to the library. I remember loving our frequent trips to the library even throughout highschool. I used to read constantly! I still read quite a bit but not nearly as much as then. I had a paper route for several years and one day realized that I knew the specific path I always took from house to house (cutting through yards of the people I knew didn't care...walking down and up the driveways of the ones that did, etc.) that I could take a book and read while I walked. One neighbor happened to be outside one day and commented that he was always afraid that I would run into his mailbox - not that I would hurt it, but that it would hurt me! :) I always saw it out of the corner of my eye. I was rarely bored as long as I had a good book around.
So anyways, I want my kids to learn to love books as much as I did and so we read books all the time and always look forward to our trips to get new ones. I decided to take my camera today and capture a little of our outting as it usually happens. Of course, two main things were missing today. :-p The main children's librarian was not there today but is usually dressed up as something crazy and wonderful, including facepaint, feathers in her hair, sparkly clothes, or whatever the theme of the day might be. In the circle room that you'll see in the pics, there is usually a GIANT stuffed animal - sometimes a huuge long "bookworm" (snake) or sometimes a giant floppy moose to cuddle up next to. Anyways, I'll explain the pictures as we go...
This is the open entrance from the main library into the children's library, which is very nice except when the baby likes to talk loudly! You can see the yellow circle room in the middle. In the far back right corner is the "reading pond" and out of the picture on the right are the shelves you will see my oldest choosing books from in a minute. 
Here is the "reading pond" with "lily pads" to sprawl on with a good book! This is also where story time happens, although we don't usually arrive in time for it.
The circle room! The girls love this room and are perfectly content to look at books in here while I choose books from the shelves. I like the open layout of the children's library here because I can see the girls while I walk around with the baby.
After spending time reading on their own, it's time to clean up! This is how my oldest puts the books away....
aaand this is how my middle child does it! :) part of it could be age, yes, but i think a lot of it is just personality! my oldest has gotten the "neat freak" gene, which is both good and bad... :) my middle one rather lacks that gene!
While the girls clean up the books, the baby hangs out and practices blowing kisses. I am a huge fan of hats on my little boy and for some reason this particular hat does not like to stay on straight but would rather flip around sideways like this! :)
My generally happy sweetheart! :)
These are the shelves I mentioned before. I usually choose several books for the girls and then at the end they walk around with me and choose a few of their own off of these shelves. After that it's time to check out and we're ready to head back home and find our favorite reading couch and explore some of our new books! :) 
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