Beary Fun

Jillian and I are winding down from our very busy week. I am not sure I succeeded in wearing her out, but I most definitely wore myself out! Besides toddler open gym and music, we also enjoyed a couple of playdates, our first visit to MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) and Mommy and Me Yoga at a local children's yoga studio. I regret to inform you that I have no pictures to share pertaining to those events, mostly because it is just plain difficult to document our life while chasing my very curious child. I haven't been a mom long enough to be comfortable with my child running everywhere and getting up into everyone's business, so I am usually chasing her and coaching her to have "nice hands" (meaning no hitting, eye poking,etc), to sit down on whatever chair she's standing on, and to use her words (as opposed to this new dinosaur-like scream she uses to express irritation/frustration/desire for someone else's toy, etc). Anyhow, those are all ongoing activities, so I will hopefully have stories and pictures to share from future classes.
I did, however, manage to extensively document a nice activity we attended this morning. Rochester has a very good community education program for young children, and they offer a variety of experiences. Today, we went to the "Beary Fun Book Brunch". This was a morning for children under 5 to enjoy activities with a bear theme. Since Jillian is still pretty excited about bears, I thought it would be fun to do.
We began the morning by having a little bit of breakfast. Jillian and her good friend Malea enjoyed the muffins and berries while seated at a big kid table.

I'd like to pause for a minute here and ask if anyone knows where these two babies went?!?!?

Did I mention that Jillian enjoyed the muffins?

Next, Jillian checked out all the bear books. Here she reads "Brown Bear" (at home, she asks for this book by name by saying "bow ber")

She tried out the other available options for seating

We counted bears, and sorted them by color and size

We even colored a bear picture (or in this case, scribbled on someone else's bear-shaped masterpiece)

The morning concluded with a "bear hunt" that ended when we found a large stuffed bear seated by a basket of bear-shaped graham crackers. Beary fun, indeed!