This week, we celebrated a huge milestone for Madeline: her first library card. She tells everyone she's old enough for her own card because she's 4 years old and a responsible preschooler.
I don't have the heart to tell her she could have gotten one much earlier. She just now got it because, after exactly 53 months, mama finally bought a copy of her birth certificate which is a requirement for a kids library card and *cough cough* kindergarten applications.
She was so excited to have her own card and insisted on checking out her books all by herself.
She takes this new-found responsibility very seriously.
She takes this new-found responsibility very seriously.
Before we left, she threw her arms around my belly, pressed her face into it, looked up at me and said, "You're the best mom EVER."
It made for a semi-noisy scene in a quiet library but I totally didn't mind. I threw it right back at her and quietly yelled, "You're the best kid EVER."
Because she totally is and I want her to always know that, with or without library rules.
It made for a semi-noisy scene in a quiet library but I totally didn't mind. I threw it right back at her and quietly yelled, "You're the best kid EVER."
Because she totally is and I want her to always know that, with or without library rules.
2 comments:
My 8yo just got her first library card -- only after she took a field trip with her school to the downtown library and they signed everyone up for one.
I think that's a pretty big mom fail on my part ; )
I blame it on paperwork, which I despise with the core of my being. I'm actually surprised I ever got a library card for myself at all -- I'm guessing it was because I didn't have to dig up my own birth certificate.
Oh, and my 3yo also does not have one of those -- and I only got them for my older two children when I absolutely had to.
Madeline's excitement is adorable in that photo! Who knew it was so simple attaining the status "Best Mom in the World?"
I still get excited about having my own library card. Which is why I thought it was necessary to get a Monroe Country Library card when I went to IU. I love the smell of library books. My favorite memories are of going to the library with my mom.
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