Hello my Hippies! I wanted to take a minute to share with you one of my favorite little gems in Elgin, Texas. I have been going to the Elgin Public Library for about four years now. Since before my daughter could even sit up, I would have to hold her up in my lap. It was so cute. So now my daughter is four and I can honestly say we have been to a million and twelve library events. I can also honestly say that I have loved every single one of them.
Yesterday we spent the afternoon attending the “Dia De Los Ninos” celebration. 
One of our towns local restaurants, Mariscos De La Costa located at 109 Hwy 290 east, hosted the event and gave away free kids meals. How cool! There were snow cones, pop corn, a bouncy castle, and face painting all for free.
My son particularly loved the Elgin Fire Department allowing him to terrorize their truck for a few minutes.
My favorite part was the beautiful ballet folklorio. The girls did an amazing job.
Other than celebrating Dia De Los Ninos, the library hosts a ton of other events. There is a Halloween festival at the beginning of every October. There is always a magic show and balloon animals and a ton of other contests and things to do. Now I don’t mean to brag, but my crew has won the costume contest twice now.
Here is my oldest’s first year going and first year winning! We were matching ladybugs.
Here is little man. We shaved his head that summer so we thought he looked like “baby Gandhi”
Here he is with his prize basket.
The Christmas time Gingerbread decorating party is another tradition for our family. Sign up is required. Every kid gets their own little gingerbread house and candy. It is really cute and the kids have a blast.
This week the library is celebrating Children’s Book Week. Here is a cute little pic of us last year. We were assigned “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom”. We read the book, made a craft, and ate a FREE dinner.
I really do not want to stop with all of the pictures. but I will because I have so many. The Elgin Public Library really is amazing.
I want to recommend if you have a child under the age of five that you highly consider taking them to story time every Tuesday. There is a bigger kid story time program for ages three to five at ten thirty, we do not go to that one. We do to the lap sit program at ten forty five. The lap sit program is for ages newborn to two. We still go to this one anyways, along with a bunch of other moms. It does not matter how old your child is, the librarian does not care. I take my kids to this program for a few different reasons. My daughter is an avoider, she would not go and play with the other children. I used the time after we sang our songs and read our book to let her go and try to play with the other kids. When we first started she would cling to me, over time with a lot of patience and coaxing, she runs right through that library like she owns the place. My son on the other hand has a problem with controlling his body. He has no problem rampaging through the tidy little children’s area like a tornado with a vengeance. So for him I use the song and story time as a way to work with him on sitting still and following directions. I know a lot of moms who say “oh my kid is way to loud” or “my kid would never sit through something like that”. Its ok! My kid doesn’t either, but we are working on it. It is a judgement free zone.
There is a ton of activities the children’s program offers that I have not even touched on like Wednesday night craft, movie night every month, summer reading program. There is too much.
Other than all of that, the adult part of the library has their own long list of activities. One in particular I do want people to know about is the special needs support group for people with a loved one with special needs. It is the second Friday of every month and children are welcome. I have never been able to catch the group, but I have always thought it would be a great place for me to go and connect with others that may have children with special needs as well. If you have been I would love to hear about it if you message me or comment down below.
There really is a ton of amazing activities that are offered by the Children’s program and the adult side of the library. I suggest you follow both the regular library and children’s library pages on Facebook, that is how I keep up with all of the activities.
Here is the link to the regular library page
https://www.facebook.com/elginpubliclibrary/
Here is the link to the children’s library page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/778538885511039/?ref=br_rs
If you pop into the library there is cute little colored print outs you can take with you, I also try to grab one of these and tape it into my planner. That is it for today my Hippies. I honestly could go on and on about how much I love and appreciate all of the amazing FREE programs at our library, but I am sure you get the point. Its awesome, lots of stuff to do. Even if you do not live in Texas I still want to encourage you to check out your local library. I am sure you will find something there for you to do.
If there is anything that I did not go into enough detail about or you have a question about, please comment and let me know. Thank you so much for reading about our adventures. If you would like to see more from this Hippy make sure you sign up for my HippyEmail list so you can get all of my latest content sent right to you. I also have a YouTube channel where you can watch all of my adventures, as well as Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. If you head into the Elgin Public Library make sure you tell them this Hippy sent you! Have a Beautiful day my Hippies.
Here are some fun pictures of our library adventures.
This is Easter.
This is Andy’s gingerbread house from last year.
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