we love to read!

I took the girls to the Norman Library's book sale this afternoon! There were probably a million people there, it was nuts! I had to park way down the street because the library parking lot was full, along with the park accross the street.
The sale is a brown bag sale. Basically, you are given a brown paper bag, and everything that fits in it is $5.
We got about 30 books for $5. I got mostly children's books, but a few for me too. It was awesome!!

library adventures

Sometimes I wonder why I have so much gray hair.

I took the girls out in public today.
Its been so hot and we haven't ventured outdoors much in the last few days, I thought they needed to get out. We stopped by Sonic on the way and got drinks (juice for Portia, Dr. Pepper for Mommy), and headed to the library. As we got out of the car, I reminded Portia that there is a bathroom here, and if she needs to go, she should come tell me. We went in and started playing, and sure enough, after a few minutes, Portia came and told me she had to pee.
The Norman library has a bathroom just for kids that is great. Everything is smaller, so the kids can come in and go without help. Portia loves it. I scooped up Margot, and we headed in. Portia did her business and we went back out to play.
A few minutes later, I noticed Portia standing off by herself, very still (bad sign)! You guessed it folks. She had pooped.
So I grabbed my bags, picked up Margot again, and headed back to the bathroom. I put Margot down on the floor, silently praying no toddlers had missed the toilet lately and started cleaning Portia up.
She kicked the poop onto the floor.
So now, I had to clean up Portia and the floor. I think at this point, my eye started twitching. I got the floor clean, and Margot started trying to play with the poop in the toilet.
In case you've never tried it, cleaning up a 3 year old and simultaneously herding a 10 month old away from a toilet in a 3x3 foot room is really difficult.
I finally got Margot away from the toilet and Portia clean, and realized that I had forgotten a clean set of panties. Then Margot grabbed my half-full Sonic cup and dumped Dr. Pepper all over the floor.
Yeah. Really.
I started trying to mop that up with paper towels, but to no avail. The floor and the 3 of us were covered in sticky soda.
I got Portia to wash her hands, and ushered them out as quickly as I could, walking right past the line of other kids and mothers waiting to use the restroom. Not at all embarrassing.
Portia then realized that we weren't going to play anymore and threw a huge tantrum. How someone can both stomp and drag their feet at the same time is beyond me, but she did. I was just hoping that her skirt wouldn't flip up, because she was going commando.
We got home, I tossed the girls in the bathtub, and shreded my library card.
Not really.
But we won't be venturing out of our house again for a little while.

I'm not going back to the library for a few weeks.

You will not believe what just happened to me. I took the girls to the public library for a little bit before lunch. Portia was off playing and I was holding Margot on my hip, when a woman started chatting with me.
Now I'm used to strangers talking to me about my kids, I'm even pretty used to strangers tickling their toes or patting their chubby hands. I don't love it, but I'm used to it. But I was not prepared for what this woman did.
She pinched cheeks, grabbed toes, tickled tummy, her hands were all over Margot. It made me a little uncomfortable, but I assumed she would soon move on. She didn't. She then started kissing and hugging Margot. Kissing her face, hugging her close. Keep in mind that I'm still holding my baby, so she is really close to me. Then things started getting real weird. Margot spit her binky out and it landed on the floor. This crazy woman picked it up, and put it in her own mouth. What?!? Are you kidding me?!? She then tried to put it back in Margot's mouth. I intercepted it, thank heavens.
At this point, I was trying to get Portia's attention so we could leave, when the woman put her hands out towards Margot and said "Do you wanna come to me?" I held Margot tight and said something about needing to go soon. Apparently that was the wrong answer, because this woman grabbed my child and yanked her out of my arms, saying "I'm sorry, I just really love babies."
I was furious. I told her that I too love babies, especially my own baby, and could she please give her back. She did, and I grabbed my stuff and Portia and we booked it to the car.
Guess what. She followed us. I looked up from buckling Margot into her carseat and found Nutso standing with her own toddler at my car, ogling Portia now. I couldn't believe it. She made my skin crawl, and I was half afraid that she was going to grab my kids and run off with them. We got all buckled it and I locked the doors and we went home.
If you go to the Norman library anytime soon, don't lose sight of your kids.