楽しい事いっぱいの火曜日！/Fun Packed Tuesday!

今日、やっと外に出掛けるぐらい体調が良くなったので、アパートから1.5キロ離れたロングビーチダウンタウンにある図書館で火曜日にやっている本の読み聞かせに行ってみました...この読み聞かせは０から３歳までの子達用で、今までで行った事のある図書館で一番設備が整っていて少しビックリ：）子供用の本の部屋の奥に行って発見したのが本の読み聞かせ用のミニ劇場！すごいでしょ！？古本バイキン恐怖症さえ無くなればどんどんここで本を借りれるのに...
Today we visited the Main Library located right in Downtown Long Beach about a mile from our place... They have a Story Time for kids that are 0 - 3 years old that I've been wanting to take Madison to and since I finally felt good enough today I thought we would celebrate our better health by checking it out:-) To my surprise they had a really nice mini-theater in the back of the kids book section and the kids section itself was really large and the best I've seen in libraries in the States... If I didn't have such a phobia of touching used books that a million strangers have touched I would have taken such an advantage of all the picture books that they had...　

ミニ劇場に入るなり気に入っちゃいました...本当に劇場みたいにカーペットの段が階段みたいにあって本を読む人が一番下からみんなを見上げる感じ...本の読み聞かせって初めてだったんだけどその他に歌を歌いながらダンスをしたりと良い事沢山：）最初の３０分ぐらいは良い子に聞きながら座っていたマディソンは、歩き回って良いんだーっと気づいてしまいそれからは階段を上ったり下りたり劇場から出たり入ったりとちょっと落ち着け〜！でした。でも初めての他の母と子２０人もいる本の読み聞かせにしては良くできた方かな？体を使った歌踊りも楽しかったしこれから毎週火曜日はここに来る事になりそう...
I loved this mini story time room as soon as we walked in... It is set up like a theater with really wide carpeted steps to the bottom of the room where a librarian reads books for us. We sat at whatever step we felt like sitting and Madison enjoyed going up and down the steps. I don't think I've ever been to a story time before so I didn't know that they also sing and dance in between reading books which was really nice, we sang songs that I've never heard of, but fun since mommies can dance with their babies while pointing different parts of the body... The story teller brought out toys, teddy bears, and instruments to keep the kiddies engaged:-) Madison was really nicely sitting for the first half, but then she realized she could get up and move around... then out the door... then back in... I'd say she did pretty good for the first time ever in some kind of organized activity with 10 other babies and their mommies though... and looks like this will be our Tuesday morning activity and we are very excited about it...

本の読み聞かせが終わった後直ぐ近くにある水族館にお魚観察に行く事にしました。行くまでに絶対寝ちゃうだろうなーと思っていたら頑張って起きていたマディソン、機嫌も良く楽しそうにお魚を見る事が出来ました。もう一つ良かった事は、前に来た時の車椅子でいっぱいの老人の日とは違ってほとんどガラガラの水族館だった事。好きに歩き回ってとてもリラックスする事が出来ました。今日のマディソンのお気に入りはドリー...まだ熱帯魚のタンクあったら相当喜んだろうなー。
After the story time we zoomed over to the Aquarium of the Pacific for some fishie time! I was so sure that Madison would fall asleep on the way over but she powered through and stayed happy so we actually had a great time at the Aquarium plus there were no wheel chairs and walkers like the other day and was quite empty except other mommies and daddies with kids and their strollers... Madison was absolutely in a good mood to either follow me or walk with me while I pushed her bugaboo so it was quite relaxing...:-) She was sooo excited to see all the colorful fishies and kept pointing at them with a big smile:-) I would say Dory(Blue Tang) was her favorite today... Imagine if we still had our salt water tank she would have loved it! oh well...

水族館を出てすぐマディソンはとっても遅いお昼寝開始、そのおかげでとっても遅いお昼を買って合計約５キロの散歩一周を無事終える事が出来ました...
On the way back Madison fell asleep and I was able to get my late lunch and complete our 4 mile circle back to the apartment which went quite successfully...