EXTENDED: Register and book your FREE photo session before March 22nd!
Spring time is here!! It’s time to shake off those February blues and put on your spring time shoes!
We’re super excited about this contest because not only do you get a FREE hour long spring time session with Butler Photographic Artistry at their absolutely gorgeous studio with cute and cuddly live animals, BUT you also have the opportunity to win our prize package sure to make your spring pretty amazing for the whole family!
A special thanks to the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU for sponsoring our contest this year!
How to Enter (please read carefully, you must complete each step to be entered into the contest.):
1. Register your child(ren) March 1 through March 22nd, 2015. If you have more than three children you may fill out a second registration. Register here.
2. To help you schedule your portrait session, Butler Photographic Artistry will reach out to you after you submit your nomination and schedule your FREE appointment between March 1 – April 4, 2015.
Your photo session will take place at the beautiful Butler Photographic Artistry Studio and photos will be available for purchase*. (Hurry! Sessions are limited.) If you would like to call and schedule your appointment you may do that as well:804-744-4700Butler Photographic Artistry will provide Richmondmom.com with a photo of your child for our website and voting page after you have your photos taken.
3. Voting will begin April 8 – 25. Spread the word friends, parents, grandparents and get them to vote in the contest.
4. Winner will be determined by most unique votes and announced in our newsletter and on Richmondmom April 29, 2015. Our grand prize winner will receive our prize package.
*Although it’d be a shame to miss out on the opportunity for a free session and beautiful photos, there is no purchase necessary to enter or win.
Age categories for the contest are:
- 0-2 years
- 3-5 years
- 6-8 years
- 9-11 years
Check out our fun family prize package below:
A Portrait Wall Panel valued at $1249 from Butler Photographic Artistry
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It’s an annual tradition and it’s back at The Science Museum of Virginia!
See the Polar Express on the big, big, BIG screen in the new and improved DOME theater.
Read our 2013 review of The Polar Express at The Dome here and enter below to win 4 tickets to use this holiday season!
Tickets for the giveaway were provided by the Science Museum of Virginia.
SMV is a sponsor of Richmondmom.com
It’s that time again!!
Time for the Annual Model Railroad Show at the Science Museum of Virginia!
If you’ve got a little train enthusiast on your hands making a trip out to SMV should be your new Black Friday tradition.
The Science Museum of Virginia, once known as Broad Street Station, is no stranger to trains. Richmond’s Union Station opened in 1919 and according to the website, the former train station averaged 57 trains each day during World War II. There’s pretty much no better place in Richmond to learn all about trains.
In addition to traditional and quirky miniature cities and landscapes that will adorn the Museum throughout the weekend, SMV will help you discover the science of trains, have live science demonstrations, performances by the Carpenter Science Theatre Company and give kids and adults a chance to sample seasonal snacks from the Boost! kitchen. And of course there will be trains. Lots, and lots of trains.
Bring your coat, because the fun continues outside where you can watch a blacksmith in action and say hello to some visiting Clydesdales on Saturday and Sunday. Friday guests will be able to ride a trackless train for rides around the Museum.
Trains have also rolled into The Dome this holiday season. The Dome will feature special giant screen presentations of Rocky Mountain Express and the classic holiday film, The Polar Express.
37th Annual Model Railroad Show at the Science Museum of Virginia
Friday, November 28 – Sunday, November 30The Model Railroad Show is included with exhibit admission.
Tickets are $11 with $1 discounts for ages 4-12 and 60+.
Showtimes can be found, along with a detailed schedule for the weekend, at www.smv.org or by calling 804.864.1400.
The Science Museum of Virginia is a sponsor of Richmondmom.
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The Science Museum of Virginia invites the community to a special presentation of its free Lunch Break Science program on Wednesday, November 19 at noon.
Dr. Brigette Gleason will present Overview of the Ebola Epidemic: Insights from the Field in Sierra Leone and Key Features of the Ebola Response in the US. As an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Gleason will share her personal experience combating the exotic disease in Africa earlier this fall.
The November 19 lecture will provide background on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and the current ongoing EVD epidemic. Dr. Gleason will offer insights on Ebola surveillance activities at the district level in Sierra Leone as well as other prominent events, including the house-to-house campaign, identification of survivors and the role of culture on the outbreak. The presentation will delve into the challenges, rumors and look ahead to potential practices before opening the floor to questions.
About Dr. Brigette Gleason
Dr. Brigette Gleason graduated from Furman University before spending one year at the National Institutes of Health under an Intramural Research Training Award. She then completed a dual degree program to obtain her Doctorate of Medicine and Masters in Public Health at the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and completed her residency at Case Western Reserve University at University Hospitals in their international health track. She now works as Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is stationed at the Virginia Department of Health. In September of this year she deployed to Sierra Leone for one month to provide technical assistance in epidemiology and surveillance for the Ebola emergency response.
Lunch Break Science is held on Wednesdays at noon. Free to the general public. Seating is limited.
Science Museum of Virginia is a sponsor of Richmondmom.
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Are you good at puzzles?
Good enough to join the Mindbender Society?
I took a trip through the new temporary exhibit, Mindbender, at the Science Museum of Virginia and I can’t wait to come back with my 6 and 8 year old boys.
When you enter the Mindbender Mansion, you’ll watch a video and pick up a clue card. As you try your hands and test your brains at the various puzzles and brain teasers, you’ll get clues along the way. If you get them correct you’ll be able to solve the final challenge and join the notable Mindbender Society, complete with your photo (see my 18 month old son, left) on a certificate so you can gloat your genius off to all of your friends! (I think he cheated.)
Perhaps kids will have the advantage during this exhibit, in order to solve the puzzles, you’ll have to change your perspective, look at things in a new light and shed preconceived ideas. Many of the puzzles that look easy are much more challenging than they seem, and those that seem difficult likely have a simple solution.
In addition to 40 individual puzzles, the exhibit gets the whole family involved with 5 large-scale activities for your whole group to solve together. Work as a team to tilt a giant labyrinth, or untangle yourself from your kids in a pair of handcuffs. Answer trivia like “What mythical creature is half woman half fish” by hopping on the letters of an oversized key pad.
The Mindbender exhibit is probably best for ages 8 and up. While younger kids may enjoy playing with the many different materials, I’d like to think that if I couldn’t do some of the puzzles they can’t either (but I’ll be honest and say an 8 year old might have me beat).
Mindbender is at the Science Museum of Virginia now through January 4, 2015.
Pssst… Admission is buy one get one free at the Science Museum of Virginia every Friday with the Richmondmom Savvy Saver App.
The Science Museum of Virginia is a Sponsor of Richmondmom.
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It’s been all monsters, all the time at the Science Museum of Virginia this summer!
What better way to celebrate these amazing creations with the biggest, baddest, most notorious monster of all: Godzilla.
Bring your monster-loving friends to see “Destroy All Monsters” — the ninth film in the original Japanese sci-fi Godzilla series. This campy show is complete with live music played by Richmond’s own Goldrush with its unique blend of pop, indie rock and classical! $5
The monsters bid a frightening farewell on September 7th so catch them before they vanish.
Learn more about the monsters exhibit here.
Find out how to score a bogo deal at SMV here.
The Science Museum of Virginia is a sponsor of Richmondmom.com
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Congratulations everyone nominated for the Dream Baby Shower!
A big thanks to
Hip to be Round
For hosting our Dream Baby Shower Expectant Girls Day Out
and
The Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
for sponsoring the 2014 Dream Baby Shower
Without further ado, the Dream Baby Shower Winner is….
Christine Lowman!
(Read about Christine and all the other nominees here)
We had a great time giving away door prizes, eating cupcakes and getting to meet some amazing women. Pictures were taken by McAbbott Studios.
Best wishes to everyone and their new arrivals!
Photo booth fun
He was too cute!
One of our many giveaways!
Christine and her family have been showered with prizes provided by…
Science Museum- 1 year membership
$250 Gift Card to Hip to be Round
Massage Envy – Free 1 hr Massage ($80) 
All Fired Up – Gift Certificate
Romp n’ Roll – month membership
Virginia529 – $100 inVEST account
Real Life Studios -$350.00 gift certificate
Sleepytime – $50 gift certificate for sleep consulting
Shannon Milligan – piggy bank with $75 to start college fund
Nanny Van – gift certificate free registration for annual membership ($150 value).
Flying Squirrels – Baby’s first Flying Squirrels fan gear!
Fit4Mom – 1 month of stroller strides classes
ChildTime – free week of infant child care ($224)
Babbie Laddie – in-home lactation consultant (2 hours) and one follow up visit (1 hour) ($300)
Spinal Correction Center of Richmond (1) One BodyWorks Package (includes a wellness evaluation/exam, consultation and 30 minute customized massage) (2) One Full Hour Massage (choice of: Therapeutic, Deep Tissue or Swedish Massage)
Melody Magic – 1 month of free music classes
…and lots of other great goodies like:
Sticky Bellies – 12 month stickers to track your baby’s growth
Mommy’s Bliss Gripe Water and other great products from our Virginia This Morning Segment
See our past winners
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Relive this timeless story of a doubting young boy who takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole. The Academy Award®-winning team of Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis are reunited for this holiday adventure based on the Caldecott Medal-winning children’s book of the same name, by Chris Van Allsburg. Polar Express is playing in The Dome for a special limited engagement.
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