Little Chub Goes to the Library

We stopped by the library today to pick up an exercise DVD and a few books. They have a whole little kids section (as I'm sure most public libraries do), but this area has a big colorful mat on the floor, a basket full of board books, and a lot of stuffed animals. Before today, I can't remember Little Chub ever coming in contact with any significant sized stuffed animals, but today at the library there was a big stuffed monkey that was a little bit bigger than she is. I kept lifting it's arm and letting it fall back down, and Little Chub just BURST into laughter! She thought it was the greatest thing ever. She crawled over to the monkey, and was very tentative about touching it--she would put her hand out and touch it, then pull it back really quickly. I'm pretty sure she thought it was alive! :o) She babbled and laughed at it a lot, and a little boy (probably about 3 yrs old) was just sitting and watching her and smiling and laughing, and then he brought her some more stuffed animals from around the room and was hugging her and trying to play with her a lot. It was so cute! Of course while we were there I also read her some books and she crawled around and banged the board book basket around and stuff, which is her kind of fun.

Today at the library was great, so I've decided that everytime we go to the library, we should make a stop into the kids section and play around a little bit. I also realized while we were there that stuffed animals CAN be good for something! Maybe we'll get her one for her birthday...?