Moooooo! Willems, That is.

Let NaBloWriMo begin!  It's October 1st and the goal is a post every day this month.  Rock & roll!

Last night Mo Willems launched his third in the Knuffle Bunny trifecta, Knuffle Bunny Free, at our local B&N. 

They started handing out wristbands (to acquire one, you had to conveniently buy his new book) at 9am for the 6:30pm event.  For those of us who do this extremely inconvenient thing called WORK, a giant wrinkled nose in B&N's direction.  By the time I got out of work, picked up and fed my kids, and zoomed the half hour there, it was 5:30.  Needless to say, it was standing room only, and not even behind the seating area, I'm talking back in the book bays between shelves.  Where you couldn't see anything.  BUT we did get to hear Mo read and answer a few questions before we stood in line for an hour and a half waiting for his signature.  Luckily for us, he was also signing any books you brought along from home (which is probably why the line took so long, lol), so we got the first two signed as well.

 Curly Jones waiting for Mo - The kids got to dress in pj's and bring stuffed friends.  She was so excited to show "Serious George" a whole endcap dedicated to him!

 This was my momentary blurry view of Mo... behind a million people... between bookshelves.  For most of his short talk, he was over more to the left, completely obstructed to me by the bookshelf.  Darn bookshelf in a bookstore.  Sheesh.  This blurry photo reminds me of Sasquatch.  Like... snapped in the one tiny moment I actually saw him from afar...

 Tootsie Roll falling asleep between bookshelves.  We were actually stuck between the bookshelves from 6:00 to about 8:15 when they FINALLY got to our part of the line for signatures.  Good times.

 Tootsie Roll with a life-sized Knuffle Bunny.  Yeah, um.... in Holland.  You have to read the book. ;)

 Curly Jones, who I assure you was not quite this happy for the entire 2 hours.

 Mo!  Finally!

Mo!  Signing our books!  WOOOHOOOOOO!  He was incredibly patient and sweet even though he was winding down nearly 2 hours of signing.  Tootsie Roll gave him a 3-pg (single spaced, 24 font) story that she wrote about Trixie and Knuffle Bunny.  He thought that was great!

So it was long, and not super fun until the very end... but it was worth it. :)  Yay, Mo!