"Story" Time at the Library

Alex is strictly opposed to participating in the story portion of story time at the library. I'm kind of with her on that decision, I have to say. Putting aside the erroneous website information about times for the different age groups of children and what time story time actually starts.....

I don't know who chooses the books to be read, but they stink. No rhyming, complex pictures that the kids have to be close by to see properly (and they don't let the kids all sit on the librarian's lap - Alex has come the closest but been shooed away) and way too much Baby Einstein. Bleh. Albert is rolling around in his grave for sure, those books are pathetic. At least the ones I've seen. I haven't seen that many, if you love them, good for you. Go be happy with your crap books elsewhere. Anyhoo.......

They also do a few songs, also I believe from Baby Einstein, and the singer and musicians appear to have been sedated before the recording. So lame. How can you sway back and forth so slowly? It's a travesty, I tell ya. And all the songs are originals, ie., not anything familiar to any baby who isn't growing up in a Baby Einstein household. So, Alex. Now, she can hear music in the rumblings of the vacuum cleaner, so I won't deny that she kind of likes the music. But still. Doesn't anyone go round the mulberry bush any more?

Anyway, mainly, Alex is so not going to sit still to listen to a book that's better being looked at at close range, and certainly won't dance now that the cd player (Cd player? They still make those?) is broken. And the new librarian in charge of story time has a chalkboard-fingernail kind of voice, imho. Not good.

So, we'll be in the play area stealing puzzle pieces and blocks from the less aggressive babies whilst occasionally banging on the windows to the story room at a hopefully pivotal point in the day's horrible story.

Whew, well, I guess what I'm trying to say is that story time is fun for Alex sans stories, and we plan on enjoying all the little people time at the library that we can, and will hope that the next library has a better program. Ok, and that Alex will be old enough to sit through even the most horrible of stories. Until then, we'll wear the pages of our books at home thin, and eat Legos that we've stolen from other kids at the library. :)