BEST Library Ever!

We made the tactical error of wasting lovey days at Jonathan's house doing things around the farm.  Thus, on the day we decided to go out to the park, we were sorely disappointed when it was raining.   We spent that day indoors, which necessitated getting out of the house the next day.  Alas, there was more rain.  Never fear!  Kristy directed us to the giant city library.  It turned out to be a great idea!  They had a decent sized kid's area, but it was not separated from the rest of the library.  On the plus side, it had a train table, a lego table and.... wait for it.... Puppets! 

I know, who'd have thunk it?!  They had a little puppet show station and tons and tons and tons of puppets.  The kids played for an hour and a half.  I kid not.  They actually were entertained for 90 minute by all these fabulous puppets!

 See, when I said puppets, you were thinking boring puppets!  Check out this awesome sheep!

 How fun would it be to have this guy when you read "Llama, Llama, Red Pajama"?! 

See that long bookshelf behind Marian and her raccoon?  that was filled with puppets and the kids had so much fun going through just about all of them!

Camden found a cool Dragon and Callie has a lovely tiger.

Miranda thought this Woolly Mammoth was neat.  It was.

I know, there really were millions of fabulous puppets!   and Callie was totally in her element with the Puppet Theater.  Combining making up stories with bossing people around- yep, she loved it!

Marian and the little weasel puppet were so cute and she really made it look real. It was getting jut a little creepy for me.

Delaney and Emily working on their program.

Rylee really wanted to do her own puppet show, without any of the big kids.  she was very upset when she kept getting overlooked.

I had to hold back the big kids so Rylee could give her 30 second show.  It was pretty amusing, and she was SO pleased with herself after.

Yes, Callie wanted a picture with every-single-one! 

Delaney enjoyed herself, but did not stop for photo ops.

As the bigger kids wandered off to find new puppets, Rylee found herself in charge of the theater and gave an enthusiastic performance with her horse.

The train table did get a lot of use, but nowhere near as much as the puppets!

Same with the Lego table.

So if you ever happen to be in the Des Moines area, you need to find this library!  Best way ever to spend a rainy day!  Thank you Des Moines Library!