Summer Reading

I took Drew and Gracie to the library today to sign up for the summer reading program. Drew has really become a book lover in the past month or two. It makes trips to the library interesting, though. Drew has almost outgrown his stroller, but I still put him in it for the library, because he loves books so much that he wants to choose stacks and stacks of books for himself.

That's not my only problem with Drew and library books. I try so hard to watch him when he is looking at library books, because I know he can still be a little bit rough with them at times. Unfortunately, it seems like I end up at the circulation desk all too often, explaining the damage to one book or another. Our librarians are awesome. I always offer to pay for the damage, but more often than not they say it is something they can fix, and that they are happy that Drew is learning to love books. I am glad, too. I just wish he wouldn't love them quite so hard.

I am trying to decide how to choose books to read to Drew and Gracie this summer. I usually pick a few books at random and then let Gracie (and now Drew) pick some. Gracie almost always gets ones we have read before, and Drew just picks a handful that are all in a row from one shelf. I would love to have lots of variety in the books that we read, and I'm sure I'm missing some great books with my random choosing. Maybe I will adopt Drew's strategy and start at one end of the alphabet (for author's last name) and work our way through the library's picture book collection. :) I wonder how long it will take to read them all ...