a little sister?

Meredith and I go to the library's preschool storytime almost every Thursday morning.  It's 30 minutes of songs and books read by a librarian followed by a craft and coloring sheets.  The librarian, Miss Julie, is very sweet, patient and always puts together great themes for the storytime.  For instance, if the theme is dinosaurs then every book will be a story about a dinosaur, the songs will be about dinosaurs and the craft afterwards will be something relating to dinosaurs.  Meredith loves it and we see at least one friend there every week so she looks forward to going.

This morning we were late and completely missed the stores.  I'm not sure what happened.  Storytime is always at 10am sharp,  yet this morning I thought it was at 10:30am.  We totally missed the stories and singing and dancing but at least Meredith was able to do the craft.  Afterwards we like to have a snack in the garden and play for awhile before going home.  Today, none of her friends showed up for storytime.  Meredith was feeling a little sad in the garden until she spotted this little girl by herself.  The grandmother was trying to coax the girl into playing and running around but the girl was not interested.  I suggested to Meredith that she ask the girl to play and, after a few minutes, she did.  And she loved it.  She loved it so much that we stayed longer than we usually do (a full hour in the garden!) and all afternoon I heard how she wishes she had a little sister -- one just like this (26 month old) Brooke, of course.