Sit!

One of our favorite things to do around here is to walk to the Barnes and Noble book store. It's a nice walk along the Riverwalk, not too far. It started as something to do in the winter months, and so when the weather got nice we kinda stopped going. The other day we were taking a walk downtown and when we passed the bookstore Anabelle pointed and let me know she wanted to go in by screaming loudly "go go!" We didn't have anything else to do, so in we went.

We took the elevator up to the 2nd floor and made our way to the children's area. The weather outside was beautiful, so we had the whole thing to ourselves, which was pretty nice. They have a large train table for the children to play with, so we played with that for a few minutes. But then Anabelle spied the stuffed animals. Lately she is very into gathering her stuffed animals and making them "sit!" in a line. She does this at home on the floor, couch, chairs, you name it. She frequently gets frustrated and wants you to make the animals "sit", it seems when she does it they fall over. She is very picky about where they must sit, and in what position. We are working on having her make the animals "sit".

Anyway... on this day she decided to take out all of the animals and have them "sit" on all of the story time benches. She was very good about doing almost all of them herself, except for a few who wouldn't cooperate, so Mommy helped. Here are all of her animals.

When it was time to go she was very good about putting all of the stuffed animals back on the shelves, with only a little bit of protesting about the very last one- the monkey in her arms. She seemed to have gotten attached to him, but I explained we have more monkeys at home and that seemed to work- for that day at least :)