Can I make you Jealous??

Among the many, many great things about having a large family, do you want to know one of the things near the top of my list??

Our allowable total of books to borrow from the library!! In Cairns, we were allowed a modest 10 books ea, 60 is nothing to complain about absolutely, but at our new library we are allowed 15 items each with a total of 90! books every time! this was this morning's haul after spending the day at the cultural centre down the road. It is still not our full quota and if we ever reach our limit, we can always drag Jamie down and sign him up for a library card, can you imagine that! 105 books. oohh I'm all a quiver ;P

I'm thinking of purchasing a small bookshelf to corral them all - shussshhh! don't tell Jamie :) the basket we have been using is just not enough, and even down right disrespectful to our beloved library books.

While at the library this morning we finally attended a storytime session, i have always meant to do so, even back in Cairns. I was pretty sure we had missed this one, as it took us so long to get our act together , but we ended up being about a half hour early!
The Library lady read the children Wombat Stew and afterwards (I didn't even realise this part!) they all did a craft relating to the story, 1 guess for what it was. They made wombat stew! I had to duck around the shelf for a phone call and came back halfway through, Samuel was helping Sophie with hers and they were all working so beautiful together - one of those heart smiling moments :)

The end result?

Do you see the brown thing in Sophie's hand? it's a wombat Claire and Kaytie made as soon as we got home :)
I had to laugh, When we came home, we discovered Claire had lost her 'emu' feathers from her stew, upon handing her the container of feathers at home, she said "I will have red, because I extremely like red" A little 'Charlie and Lola' rubbing off there i think. :) We sooo very much love Charlie and Lola.

They are still 'playing' wombat stew at the moment so I'm off to dig out our copy of the story for some more fun.

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Oh yes, Jamie is completely fine as he predicted, though he did nearly die of boredom!, he spent all day in his room today sleeping and watching movies in aircon on full pay! ahhh the life hey :) he is slightly annoyed he can't be onsite until at least 7am tomorrow though, - he's normally there around 4:30 -5am