Storytime at the library this morning. Rather a boisterous bunch and not just the children. There are a couple moms who keep bringing their kids who just have no interest in sitting and listening to stories. I just wish they wouldn't try to force them to sit there when they would be having more fun running around at the park or something. And I'm not just saying that because one of those kids fell over Cole and upset him greatly...

It's apparently Crazy Hat week at the library, and there was a notice in the paper inviting kids to wear crazy hats to storytime this week. So Accalia picked out her Mickey Mouse Sorcerer's Apprentice hat she got at DisneyWorld. There were a few other kids wearing hats, too, but the really odd thing is that storytime had nothing to do with hats! I was expecting that the kids were be read stories about hats. Maybe Mem Fox's The Magic Hat or Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat. There were no stories about hats. No movies about hats. No hat activities. No hat crafts. We must have a rather dysfunctional storytime here in Yankton.

Oh, I felt bad for Accalia when the activity started - leapfrog. Some of the kids found partners to play leapfrog while others didn't want to do it. Accalia wanted to do it, but she was too shy to ask anyone. Just as I was going to ask the little boy standing near her if he wanted to play leapfrog with Accalia, the librarian had everyone sit down again. I just hated seeing Accalia standing there alone and looking so sad. I think I must have issues from childhood about not being included in things or something. Or maybe every parent just doesn't want their child to feel left out. I don't know. I was exactly the same as Accalia growing up. I would have just stood there, too, not knowing what to do if someone didn't come up to me and ask to play leapfrog.

There was a mom at storytime with two kids - one probably younger than Accalia and one a little younger than Cole. I've seen her the last couple times actually and she's always nursing her youngest. Just sits there and nurses away. I think she saw me trying to nurse Cole one time, but Cole doesn't usually nurse in public and he wasn't interested at that time. I was going to talk with her today, but we just never got the chance. I sat down by her and said hi and she said hi back, but then her baby was fussy and she was walking around with her, and Cole was crawling all over, and then I was sitting by Accalia, and so on. Hopefully next week!

Cole and I are just waiting for Accalia to wake up. She fell asleep at 12:30! So strange. She must really be exhausted. Our big excitement this afternoon is buying Accalia new underwear. She wants to get the Disney princess underwear, and it just happens to be on sale this week.