We'll miss you Miss Barbara!

I've been taking One Philly Son to our local library for free story time since he was only a few weeks old, before I returned to work when he was 10 weeks old. The groups are split by age, which means he is nearing the time to leave his 0-23 month old group and move onto the 2 year old group.

We've grown to know and love our group, and will miss it. We know the finger plays, we love the songs (Itsy Bitsy Spider and I'm a Little Teapot are favorites) and One Philly Son now LOVES to turn on the smiling toy that leads us in "If you're happy and you know it" to end story time. Miss Barbara knows us and accepts One Philly Son running laps around the room while she reads. One Philly Son is so in tune with our story time that he "looks" for Miss Barbara in her office next to the story room when he's decided it's time to start.

I've attended two of the 2 year old story times to ease into the new group and practices. The teacher expects a little more in the way of sitting, which One Philly Son is not quite used too. But I can see glimmers of loving this. He's not ready for sitting through the longer books yet, but we played "ring-around-the-posey" today and his eyes lit up. Another big hit was our twirling song, where even the grown ups stand up and twirl, march, and hop. We haven't made it all the way through a new story time, but I'm sure we will.

Still, it's another reminder of all the ways One Philly Son is growing up and the circle of his life is growing and expanding to include more and more. I'm gonna miss Miss Barbara for lots if reasons.