August 25, 2012, Saturday Meeting

Hi Friends! We had a great meeting on Saturday with a wonderful turnout. Folks came bearing questions about ring slings, wraps, mei ties and double wearing. 

There was a slight bit of confusion recently on our Facebook page that I would like to clarify. You do not need to be a member of Babywearing International (BWI) to attend our meetings! We welcome any and all that would like to try on carriers, learn more about the carrier you have from any of our expert Volunteer Babywearing Educators (VBE's), or share and chat with like minded mamas! Non members are welcome to come try on anything, however to borrow from our lending library, you do need to be a member of BWI. To join, please complete this BWI membership application and pay your annual fee of $30. Half of that fee stays with us in our local organization to help us continue to grow our carrier and book lending library, the other half goes to BWI. At this meeting, we gained two new BWI members and have made many new additions to our lending library recently. If you have any suggestions of additional member benefits, please let us know!

VBE Courtney providing ring sling assistance 

VBE April teaching wrap braiding and VBE Courtney adjusting a beautiful ring sling. 

Beautiful Mama and Happy Baby in a wonderfully positioned ring sling. 

Cutie Patootie Baby wear-ie.

VBE April comparing the outside temperature to the central air flow. :)

Babywearing friends

Super mama double wearing in a ring sling on the front and a wrap on the back.

Super mama nursing while entertaining toddler on her back!

Our big kids playing. Feel free to bring your big kids! There's always someone to play with!

Our next meeting is Monday, September 10th at 10 am.

October 13th at 9:30 am, we will be having a yard sale!

July 28th Saturday Meeting [Raffles!]

Hi Friends!! What an exciting meeting we had on Saturday! The weather was beautiful and we decided to hold our meeting in the playground outside the church. The older kids definitely enjoyed that!

Folks who wanted to buy raffle tickets, or buy more raffle tickets, bought them at the beginning of the meeting. We also spoke about what things you all would like to see us do. The possibility of a YouTube channel was brought up, and I am currently in the works of building a channel full of our recommended videos of proper carrier techniques. If you have a video that you love, please share it in the comments below or on our facebook page. We will check it out and consider adding it to our YouTube channel. 

If there are any other things that you would like to see- especially in reference to member benefits, please let us know!

VBE, Sara, having snuggles from her wee ones.

The beautiful Lillian!

 Raffle time!

Our super helper, Isabella, picked the winners for the raffle.

Digging deep!!
 

The winners of our raffle were: Nicole S, winning the Ergo; Melanie, winning the Beco; Laura S, winning the Sling Rings; and Katie Z winning the Babywearing Institute mirror! 

Our fundraiser helped us gain 4 new members and we made $160 in raffle tickets! We will be spending our money to grow our carrier library as well as our book library.

If you are interested in becoming an official member, gaining you access to the lending library, please see this Membership Application Information.

Happy First Birthday BWI of Central Virginia!

Hello Friends! To celebrate our group being active for one very busy year, we held a birthday party! It happen to fall on one of the most hot days of the year- almost 110 degrees! That definitely affected the turnout and length of the party, but for those who came, we had a great [hot] time!

Our historian, Kati, held a few mini photo sessions as a fundraiser. Several folks brought munchies for all to share as the older kids played in the playground. Phew it was hot! 

Several carriers were donated and/or won at the International Babywearing Conference. While we are keeping several for our lending library, we decided to raffle off a few of the doubles as a fundraiser. Up for the raffle is an Ergo Carrier, Beco Carrier, Babywearing Institute mirror and a pair of Sling Rings! Our raffle will be held July 28th at 10am, our regular Saturday monthly meeting.