We spent the month of June just reading and logging the books and once Paige arrived, we started going to storytime at the library on Monday mornings and to have Luke's reader log initialed so he could receive a prize. The librarians would always ask Luke questions about some of the books that he read, and he very shyly replied to them each time!
Luke received some pretty cool prizes through the program. The first week he received coupons for a free pretzel at Auntie Anne's and bowling. The second week he received a ticket to the Reading Program Grand Finale and a coupon for free ice cream at Culver's. The third week he got a coupon for a free personal pizza at Chicago Dough Company and tickets to the Windy City Thunderbolts baseball game Labor Day weekend where he will get to walk on the field with all of the other readers. The fourth week Luke got a free book from the library. He chose "Big Chickens Fly the Coop". He also got some free "extra effort" drawings tickets for going above and beyond!
Before storytime we would have a tea party!
Here's Luke riding some rides at the mall when we went to get his free pretzel!
There was a park right next to the library so we stopped there a lot too!
The grand finale was very cool. They had a guy bring some cold-blooded creatures to the library. We were able to see some of the other daycare kids there too, which was nice since Luke has been home with us for a few weeks now.
We saw a large tortoise, a huge snake, a small alligator, and a huge alligator named Bubba! Would you believe that some kids were able to ride the tortoise and Bubba! Check out the video below. The last girl on Bubba is Abby from Punky's (she is Punky's daughter). Punky's husband brought the kids and I have since spoken to Punky who was not too thrilled that her daughter was riding an alligator! (And no, his mouth was not rubber-banded. He is a trained alligator...is there such a thing?!?!)
