Jill's House

Pajama Party at the Museum of pay!

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Monday Kicks for Ages 2 to 6

10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Playful learning activities designed for 2- to 6-year-olds, one Monday a month. This month: Pajamarama. Wear pajamas and join in the “slumber party!” Sing and dance with teaching artist Sarah Peters. Included with general museum admission fees.

Playful learning activities designed for 2- to 6-year-olds

My favorite links...

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I thought I would tell you a little about my favorite links...

Confessions of a ROCin' Mama: http://rocinmama.blogspot.com/ The adventures of my friends life as a Mama :)

Camp Good Days and Special Times: http://www.campgooddays.org/ This is a wonderful organization providing camp for FREE to children with cancer and their siblings. Looking for a good cause to support, ere ya go!

Little Learners Lounge: http://littlelearnerslounge.blogspot.com/ This is a wonderful website by a dear friend, Kara and her daughter Eva. Follow them around on their adventures at home and out and about in Rochester, NY. There are many, many wonderful craft ideas here!!!

Looking for something to do in Rochester and surrounding areas? http://kidsoutandabout.com/ is your place to check! There were nearly 5 PAGES of activity ideas for February Recess!!

Does your child love Music? Every Monday at the Peace Lutheran church you can find Meredith and the children happily singing, dancing, making sounds and playing with the parachute. The class is always followed by a healthy, yummy, homemade snack! Come this Monday for the one year anniversary celebration!! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mama-Goose-on-the-Loose/174300099273876

Have you ever heard of the Waldorf style of learning? Well, we are lucky to have a Waldorf style kindergarten right here in our neighborhood! check out Kristy's website! http://rivernorthkindergarten.com/

Need to know the fees/hours/events going on at local kid friendly establishments? Here are some quick links!

Seneca Park Zoo- http://www.senecaparkzoo.org/ (My wonderful families chipped in and bought Jills House a membership this year! THANK YOU, WONDERFUL FAMILIES!!)

Strong Museum of Play-http://www.museumofplay.org/ Im sure you have seen many, many photos of our adventures here! We love it so much, we go once a week!

Springdale Farm-You might think its too cold to visit the farm, but the animals still live there! My little ones love the BIG GIANT PIG the most! http://www.heritagechristianservices.org/springdale/default.aspx

Rochester Toy Library- Im glad to be posting this link, because I forgot all about it! You can borrow toys with your public library card! How cool is that? Send them back when your kids get bored with them (and they do get bored, believe me!) Save money! Stop buying toys they get bored with after a few weeks! http://frontiernet.net/~whitfield/toy_library/

Rochester Public Library- Ill bet you dont even know half of the resources your local library provides! FREE internet! Story times! Dial-a-story! Books on tape! Books you can listen to, etc... the list goes on and on. and its all FREE!! I never mind paying my fines for late fees, as I know all my money goes back into this wonderful establishment. Visit your local library today! We go every week, although sometimes my little ones grumble on the way there, they ALWAYS seem to have fun once we get there! http://www3.libraryweb.org/home2.aspx

well, thats a little more information on some of my highly recommended links! Hope you have a wonderful day! xoxox

Happy 2012!

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I must admit I am behind on my blogging, so sorry!! Ill try to give you all a quick summary (in pictures of course!)

Jill's House has been having a lot of fun! We take regular trips to the Strong Museum of Play, Story Hour at the Highland Library, the Public Market, as well as our neighborhood playground (we love the Linden Street Playground!) It has been a mild winter, so we havent had much time to play in the snow, but have had a couple chances to make snowmen (or snow women!)

Another Mom and I asked our librarian if we could include a project at the end of her storytime and she said YES! We try to tie our projects to her weekly theme and its been a big hit!

This is NOT your typical January in Rochester! I promise!!

we have been celebrating quite a few birthday recently! Skylar turned 4! Keira turned 5! Simon turned 3!

here is Skylar on her big day:

The wizard of Oz exhibit is at the museum right now, I couldnt get the kids interested until Simon found the Farm area, now its a new favorite!

Projects sponsored by the Highland Library branch!

Jill has turned the back porch into an art center, its being well used!

To make life even more fun, we have been hanging out with our good friends Zosima, Giada and their Nanny, Dora, more kids makes for more fun! We get together and play and bake a lot!

Life is sooooo good, I thank God for making my passion possible! I thank all my families for their trust and love, I thank my landlord for allowing me to do this here, I thank my neighbor downstairs for putting up with the noise! I thank the library for being their for us, for my neighborhood for being so wonderful, I thank YOU for whatever part you play!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

Playing with the trains at the Garden Factory

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Upwords is great for letter play! :)

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Playdough fun! :)

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Our housekeeping/art center

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Dancing at the strong museum! :)

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Checking out the trains @ Garden Factory

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Gingerbread House Fun! :)

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Craft Fun!

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Zoo fun!

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Strong Museum Fun!

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Snow Fun! :)

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Painting fun!

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Happy Birthday! :)

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Thanks for the playdough Ms. Diane!

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Catch me if you can!

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Dress up time!

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Building Frosty! :)

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Finally made it to the Rochester Resource center (Toy library)

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Toy Library
click the above link to get to their website...

The Toy Library was a nice surprise! Its located at the Lincoln branch of the Rochester Public library off Joseph avenue... You walk through the library to get to the TOY LIBRARY. Upon entering you see a nice staff person sitting at a desk, ready to help you. The toys are all organized by type: Board Games, baby toys, Transportation toys, etc.... They also have dress up items and BIG things you can borrow (puppet theaters...playhouses...ride on toys)

Hours are Monday and Wednesday from 10am to 6pm, Thursday from 12 to 3pm and Saturday from 11 to 2pm...

You are allowed to borrow up to nine items. We chose a few board games: Cat in the Hat and Harold the purple crayon, a couple bigger things; a train set and a car garage, a doctor kit, and a puzzle! We can keep them for 3 weeks and they are borrowed against our library card.. for FREE!! No more buying new toys for us that the kids get bored with after awhile! THANK YOU, TOY LIBRARY!!

photos below are taken from their website...

Garden Factory Visit

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We enjoyed our visit to the Garden Factory. Unfortunately, all the fun events happen on the weekends, and we got there too early to see the model train running, but we had fun, nonetheless LOOKING at the model train and saying hello to the Reindeer!

gardenfactoryny.com

All Aboard!

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The conductor, ready to board the kids onto the train :)

Drive-in!

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