It's a Good Thing....

A few weeks ago I took the girls to another library than the one by our house; just for something different to do. All went very well - at first. The girls loved the play activities they had set up and made brownie points with the librarian by helping her clean up. They picked out a stack of books that I checked out at the self-check out desk. As I was doing this, Amelia started to head towards the door and I called her back, telling her she could hold the receipt that was about to be printed off. Allison's ears immediately perked up and her eyes glimmered with mischief - she quickly grabbed the receipt as it was printing.  This sent Amelia into meltdown mode and she tried to grab the receipt from Allison. At this point in time both girls were SCREAMING bloody murder and the librarian that was showing me how to use the self-checkout looked at me and said "good luck." 

I quickly dragged the kids out of there as fast as I could and gathered them into the corner of the lobby and shared my displeasure of their behavior. I also shared my displeasure the entire car ride home.. yep Mom, I said it...."And another thing...." 

By the time we arrived home, I was livid and the girls just nodded their heads and acted like they were listening to me when I know they had tuned me out long before. They went into the house and immediately put in the Curious George CD they had checked out from the library. When I walked into the room, I saw them laying on the floor and sharing the book together while they listened to the CD.  It's a good thing they are so cute or otherwise I would have returned them to the library with the books when they were due two weeks later.