Finding Elmo

One of Ethan's favorite words to say is, "Elmo."  When I couldn't convice him that Curious George or Blue Alphabet Dog were Elmo's cousins, we decided to head to the library to check out some Elmo books.  Here is Ethan ready to go in his car seat which takes grandma about 20 minutes to hook him into.  He can only breath diaphragmatically after his strapping, but it's a short trip.

The library has a Halloween scene set up on arrival.  Ethan loved looking at the pumpkins and ghosts.  I explained that he would never see one of those rats at his house.

The library set up has changed since I last took Anne and Mike.  There are some books for older children in a stack when you walk in.  Ethan quickly knocked out about 6 of these.  We both got the 'look' from the check out person, who looked like she just got out of lock up to come to her job.  I wish I could have shared this visual, but the timing wasn't right.

We made it to the Picture Book section and starting looking for Elmo books.  Ethan quickly came upon two children working on computers.  I explained this is where all the home school come for some lessons.  He looked up at me and said, "How do I sign up for that gig?"

 

He was excited to see games and puzzles at the library. 

Finally, we found some Elmo books and another one of Ethan's favorites- Dr. Suess.

Ethan is old enough to have his own library card, but his parents must be present to get one.  Checkout gal said, "Just drag em in with you next time." 

As I was checking out the books, Ethan found computers with Vegas type games blasting.  All I could hear was, "Up"; so I knew he had a find.  There were four computers set up with two of them occupied (more home school kids--see above)

Ethan and I started playing the game...something about flying to China---but then checkout girl came over and told us we had to sign up to use those computers.  Maybe they don't want 18 month olds banging on their keyboards or maybe it's one of the perks of being those home school kids!