Pirate Party

So obviously this picture wasn't taken at the actual party. John took it for me at home and it is the only picture in which I'm not making a weird face. And you can see one of the purple boots I bought for this outfit.

The pirate party consisted of three pirate books and lots of rhymes. Most of the rhymes were adapted for the occasion. i.e. "Old MacDonald" became "Old MacPirate." After story time the kids got to color and make pirate hats. I was mostly an observer again, but I did get to help hand out pirate stickers.

The small amount of interaction I had with the children reminded me that when I was working at the Athens library my favorite part of story time was at the very end when the children were handing back in their crayons after coloring. It wasn't my favorite part because story time was over (usually), but because that was the time when the kids could talk to me if they wanted to. It was one thing to entertain them for half an hour, but something else to build a relationship with them and be a meaningful adult in their lives. I miss that.

My mother got me started on bar jokes this morning, so might as well:

A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his pants. The bartender says to him, "Do you know that you have a steering wheel sticking out of your pants?" The pirate says, "Arrr, it's driving me nuts!"