Learning and exploring

Yesterday morning I was told, "Bye Mommy, I go to school" " I have my backpack" by a 2.5yr old apparently, ready to walk out the door with Daddy. So I suggested that we go to story hour, take the backpack and pretend that it is school She was game. However, when we got to the library we learned that story hour won't begin until Sept. 19th. AND it is only for 3-5yr olds who can be left unaccompanied. Does anyone else's library do this? I'm going to try and get a hold of the leader of story hour and get the details. But we of course picked up a couple of books and now have new favorites. --Does a Kangaroo have a mother too? and Five little monkeys jumping on the bed. The monkey book came with a CD...which is way more cool to listen to than Mommy reading the story. Fortunately the book is recorded twice on the CD so it lasts a whole 10 mins. In the afternoon, CJ locked me in the backyard --bad little monkey! It took a few minutes, but I convinced her to unlock the door, but I wasn't sure how long it was going to take as she stood on a chair in the kitchen getting into a cupboard shaking her head no at me.
This morning CJ and I went to the park early, before it got too hot...to find out that it was covered in heavy dew and unless we had an extra set of clothes it was not going to be fun. But we got to listen to a rooster greet the morning. No matter how many times I tried to explain that it was a rooster, CJ insisted that it was an elephant, and her elephant at that. I suggested we head to the farmers market and along the way we sang Old McDonald...disappointment, the market was closed AND there was no farm. See, CJ thought we were going to an actual farm. We walked along the river, that CJ kept assuring me would take us to the farm and saw the largest grasshopper type bug ever! It was 3-4 inches long, black with markings and really ugly. I had wished I had my camera, just so I could identify it later.
We headed to Walmart and picked up a new car seat for Laurelei. CJ thought she would like the pink one. From the moment I held Laurelei, I just knew that she was going to be more feminine than CJ, and I'm not the only one who senses that. Laurelei seems to love the new seat already. What is messier than a 6mos. old eating rice cereal? A 2.5yr old making her own rice cereal and playing with Mommy's new 12 x 12 card stock as place mats for her rice tea party! We had lunch with some friends who are leaving next week and now looking forward to a quiet afternoon. Play dough calls!