Lego club at the library tonight. The person that usually runs Lego Club is taking a break from library duties and I wondered if the librarian might cancel club until she returns. Nope. Twenty some children hit the library right after school let out and it was only the librarian and one teen aged helper to keep them in line. I need to man the front desk and just have to hand out a treat to each child after they finish their Lego creation. Had one boy that came through the line for a treat twice and shooed another attempting to sneak behind my desk to get an extra treat but that was it. Probably because the kids found the Easter basket of eggs we keep near the door. Each plastic egg had been filled w/ a piece of candy and a slip of paper for a free book. Toward the end of Lego, the librarian brought over the basket to my desk. It was still full of eggs but they had been emptied via some sort of feeding frenzy. Two girls came up w/ slips of paper and asked about the free books. I showed them where they were and while they looked through them, more kids wandered over to see what they were up to. Logically I could have let them all take a free book but was pretty sure it would be the 'basket of eggs' all over again w/ each child seeing how many books they could grab at once. I told the children that they needed a slip from one of the eggs. A mad scramble to see if they could find a discarded slip on the floor. A boy came up w/ a slip and I said he could also have a free book. His eyes lit up and he headed for the stacks. Had to run around the desk to catch him before he walked off w/ one of the library's lending books. Some of the kids had little stuffed animals about the size of their hands. They were hiding them behind books in a sort of hide-go-seek game. When their parents showed up, a little girl's orange cat could not be found and she broke out in tears. When all of the children had left and the library was again quiet I wondered why Mom had ever pushed me to become a teacher.
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