Planning our Summer fun with the San Antonio Childrens Museum Discovery Camps

Disclosure: This post is being sponsored by The San Antonio Childrens Museum. All thoughts and opinions are still all my own.  

Schools almost out and that means our kiddos will be home all day and we need to find something fun to occupy them in NOW before summer sneaks up on us! But I know that for many parents its not just about ways to occupy them but also ways to stimulate there minds with fun and creative new things. 

This is where the San Antonio Childrens Museum comes in. This summer they are offering STEM based Discovery Camps that are different every week. They offer ways to Discover, Explore, create and Learn while in an air conditioned safe environment which is a perfect way to escape the summer heat that we Texans know all too well. 

For parents who work and struggle with camp schedules they are also offering before and aftercare to make this experience go by even more smooth!

They have special promotions going on such as A 10% sibling discount, a 10% discount when you sign up for 5 or more weeks of camp and a 10% refer a friend discount. They are even running a contest starting mid-May for a free week of camp so be sure to follow them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to stay in the loop! 

Heres a bit more of information on these awesome summer Discovery Camps: 

What plans do you have for this summer? Have you ever been to the San Antonio Childrens Museum with your little ones or done any of there camps? Hope you check them out and Happy summer planning! 

I leave you with this video introducing The Do Seum! What is the Do Seum? Why its the next phase in the San Antonio Childrens Museum coming in 2015. Be sure to check it out and get just as excited about it as I am, because me and my kiddo cant wait!  

The Do Seum :: Discover, Explore, Create, Learn from The Do Seum on Vimeo.

My 2012 Journey

So I was sitting here thinking how A new year is about to begin and how to me its a clean slate. I get to start all over again and make the new year the best year possible. But before the New Year starts I was reflecting on my 2012. What happened, what I did, how its gone for me. So here is My 2012:

January: Start of 2012, My sisters 21st birthday (new Years baby), 2 special little girls birthday, my first hair cut in over 3 years! Yep! Wow! But I really felt like I had no time for it

February: Tax season craze! The people in costumes were always stalking us on the bus. We went to Seaworld opening day. We fed the dolphins! We turned all our family members into Bacon. Leap year (always great to get an extra day) and celebrated Valentines day!

March: Spring Break! See munchkin leaping off the floor playing with water, St.Patricks Day! (lots of green)

April: We had a great Easter! Check out my Easter basket cupcakes I made. I also made my own cascarones and rice krispies eggs! Sadly most of the month I had a horrible Bad ear ache that closed my ear and made it sound like a muffled hum mixed with ringing and pain and endless Dr appts! I spent so much time with my ear against a pillow.

May: Aquatica at Seaworld had its grand opening and of course we had to be there to check it out! Mothers day,  SOL (Seeds Of Learning) classes ended and we had a party at the San Antonio Childrens Museum to celebrate a good year (Thankyou to the museum for this amazing free kids program)

June: First official day of summer (Although in Texas it feels like Summer most of the time) so we had a lot of fun in the Sun!

July: We saw the fireworks at Seaworld 4th of July. Sadly I stepped on a nail when I was walking outside in my neighborhood and had to get a shot and antibiotics. It made me stay in alot the rest of the month so I could heal.  

August: Went to The San Antonio children's museum Free day with Sid the science kid (KLRN kids sponsor), My dads bday, We went to the Witte Museum to see the Darwin Exhibit which was amazing! (Thankyou Maker Mama for the Giveaway) and I officially started blogging (whoo-hoo)!

September: We started going to Play and Learn this fall, We went to the Witte again! We celebrated Grandparents day, started our alphabet journey. We went to Seaworlds Howl-0-Scream

October: We went to National Night out and Munchkin even got to take a picture with Mayor Castro! We went to Howl-O-Scream again, We went to Chalk it up for the first time and loved it. We got lucky to go free to the Botanical gardens and we saw the dinosaurs! We had fun at Treat street and Coffins on parade on the Riverwalk. Had a spooky Halloween! Most important of all we celebrated my munchkins 4th bday!

November: We went to Dia de los Muertos events and the Diwali festival of Lights. We went to Seaworlds Christmas Celebration, celebrated my birthday and my brothers. Had fun at The San Antonio Childrens museum. Got in the holiday spirit when we went to see Santa on the Riverwalk.

December: We went to the Zoo to see Santa deliver presents to the animals, We went to the San Antonio Museum of Art for a special book launch, Survived the end of the world again, and had a Beautiful Christmas! Now getting ready for a New Year!

I want to say Thankyou to my family for always being there for me. Thankyou to Colleen Pence for your kindness and for introducing me to such a beautiful group of Bloggers that have only made me grow. Thankyou to the readers who visit the blog. Thankyou To Play and Learn for all the fun and learning.Thankyou Seaworld for the amazing year with the Fun cards I won during the Flat Jack contest. They let us go to Seaworld all this year and it was awesome!

How was your year? Think back on this year and all the Happiness and tears you shared with loved ones and How this 2013 is sure to be an amazing new adventure too! Thank you 2012 for all the memories but I cant wait to make my mark in 2013! Hope you are all here to follow along in our journey and share it with us. Happy New Year guys!

Love Always

-Alvina

Having fun at the San Antonio Children's Museum

This past Wednesday after going to Play and Learn at Central Library we went to one of our favorite places to have fun at... The San Antonio Children's Museum! It was still pretty cold outside and The Children's Museum is a great place to bring your kids to play where they can be warm.

When you walk in the first thing that always catches my eye is the PowerBall Hall. Its pretty awesome to look at. Munchkin loved running around to get balls and put them in various tubes. It makes a child think about action/reaction. If I put this ball here then turn this here then this happens. Its fun to see your child use problem solving skills while playing. He even ran underneath the Ball drop!

Next Munchkin went to play at the Old market where he got behind the counter and helped me with my order and rang me up on the register.

We then went shopping at the HEB kids market. This is a must see play area!

Then I sat down and had a nice waiter take my order (Munchkin)

Afterwards it turns out we went on a good day because they had a Pint size Science Lesson (free with museum admission) We made our own Bubble Bath, learned about shaving cream and about oil and water.

We ended the day with a Plane ride. We had such a great day and made many new memories. It was a great way to spend a weekday indoors. My munchkin had lots of fun and we will be back soon!

You can check them out too! The San Antonio Children's Museum has a free night for parents and kids every third Tuesday from 5-7 pm.

Check out how The San Antonio Childrens Museum rings in the new year : Monday, December 31 (10:00 am- 1:00 pm)



Visit to the Witte Museum

This week my familia and I visited the Witte Museum. It was amazing! I had entered a contest to win 4 tickets to the Witte plus entry to the Darwin exhibit and guess what? I won! I received my tickets in the mail (Thanks Makermama) and off we went!

We checked out all the long term exhibits and my 3 year old was thrilled with the dinosaurs and mummies and snakes oh my...

We checked out the Darwin exhibit and it was more than what I expected. We loved it! Truly my favorite ♥

                                The New South Texas Heritage Center is a must see too!

 We had lots of fun and took tons of pictures and my son never got bored. We hadn't been at the Witte in quite some time but we are definitely not going to let a long time pass again before our next visit.