Day Off

My office was closed for President's Day so I got to play stay-at-home Mom!  First on the agenda was a lovely, crowd-free shopping excursion to Wegman's...pure bliss.  Then we went to a story/music session at a local library.  I was specifically looking for an event such as this to attend because they only offer them during the week so all of us working Moms can never attend.  This one was for a book called "Giraffes Can't Dance" which was given to me by one of my oldest friends, Mary, at my baby shower.  It has become one of my favorite books to read and Parker regularly pulls it off the shelf before bedtime. 

I was interested to see how Parker would react to such a crowd and it did overwhelm her just a bit.  We got there early and walked around the Children's section of the library first and the filed into the room with everyone else when it was time to start.  At first I sat on the floor with Parker, but she wasn't really happy about that so I got up and sat in a chair with her on my lap.  I snuck a few pictures from my phone.  The first song was about beach balls (not related to the Giraffe book) and you can see all the balloons and balls they threw in the crowd to bounce around.  Then they handed out musical instruments for the kids to play during the Giraffe set.  Parker seemed a little bewildered most of the time, but she did enjoy banging the noise stick and shaking the shaker.