The Little Angel's Library Card

Yesterday was a proud day for this mama:  My little baby got her first library card!  For someone with a graduate degree in fiction, this is indeed exciting.  She gets to check out as many books as she wants.  COULD THERE BE ANYTHING BETTER?

The side effect of this frivolity is that I can also gauge if she will look the book or throw it mercilessly to the ground (as she is wont to do) before making the mistake of purchasing its shiny self for $11.50 plus tax in Barnes & Noble.

We went to the big, pretty new KCMO library on the Plaza.  It has a huge children's section (carpeted - I was shocked the rest of the library is uncarpeted and has book-warehouse-looking shelves sporadically placed on the concrete - kind of like a cement plant with interesting furniture) that contains the following:  1) tiny chairs shaped like blocks 2) a globe you can sit in - how cool? 3) a bunch of stand-up boards with buttons to push and things to slide around 4) squishy pillows to jump on 5) little-angel-sized shelves 6) a fairy playhouse and 7) "boo - os", as the little angel frantically repeated, over...and over...and over.

We joined the summer reading club. She can now win fabulous prizes after three hours of listening to Goodnight Moon.  Ain't life grand?