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January 2015

Baby Sign Language classes ~ Register early ~ Space is limited
 
VaVOOM! for toddlers & preschoolers  
Fridays, January 9 - March 6, 3:30 - 4:15 at Blossom Birth, Palo Alto 

Introductory Workshops for those just starting out   
Saturday, January 10, 12:00 - 1:30 Blossom Birth, Palo Alto
Saturday, January 17, 3:00 - 4:30 at DayOne Baby
Tuesday,  January 20, 10:00 - 11:30 at the Peninsula Jewish Community Center
Saturday, February 7, 3:00 - 4:30 at Kaiser Permanente, Redwood City

Six-Day Playgroup Series once your baby is around six months and older
In This Issue
Signing for Toddlers & Preschoolers
Open House at Harmony
About Us
Baby Sign Classes
Saturday Sanctuary for Moms
VaVOOM!
Signing Series for Toddlers & Preschoolers 
I love you
Starting This Friday! 
 
Eight Fridays
January 9 - March 6

3:30 - 4:15
Blossom Birth, Palo Alto 
Click for details and to register

or call 650-321-2326

Va Voom! takes Touch Blue Sky's Boom and Zoom Playgroups to a new level - just for toddlers and preschoolers.  Your child will have a blast learning American Sign Language (ASL) with singing, dancing, story time, and action-packed games.
 
Eight fun-filled themed
sessions include:

- Let's Eat
- More than a Rainbow of
   Colors

- Lions & Tigers & Bears & More
- We Are Family
- Vehicles That Go VaVoom!
- What Are You Wearing?
- Let's Go Outside
- Move & Groove

Signing benefits big kids in all sorts of ways.
Harmony Open House

Sunday, January 11th
12:00 to 5:00

Free demo classes, mini-massages, mocktails, and a chance to win a free massage, photo sessions, Tiny Tots gift certificate and more!

Touch Blue Sky Instructor Erika Vetter will be giving play class demos for our baby and toddler sign language classes at 12:30, 1:00, and 2:00!

Harmony Birth
621 E. Campbell Ave, #14
Campbell

Go here to see the schedule and find out more!
About Us
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Touch Blue Sky is the collaborative work of the husband/wife team of Kathleen Harper and Bill White.

We help parents live with more joy by illuminating new ways to nurture, communicate, and connect with themselves, each other, and their children. We love to share what excites us with families throughout the Bay Area and beyond, including sign language programs for families and children of all ages, and one-on-one life coaching sessions and workshops for moms.

For more information, please visit the Touch Blue Sky website and feel free to contact us with any questions.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Take care,

Bill White
Sign Language Director

Kathleen Harper

Certified Life Coach/
Program Director




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Moms of Steel

Mom of Steel
Motherhood changes us. When we become moms, we become something stronger, more resilient, more beautiful than what we were before.  This change happens in much the same way that iron ore is turned into steel.  We're depurated in the intense heat of our experiences as mothers - like learning to cope with little sleep, making hard decisions about going back to work, caring for and worrying about sick children.  The choices that we make as mothers - in service to our children and families - shape us powerfully and often painfully, like a hammer to hot metal. We are not the same as we were before.

But often this process burns off too much of our old selves.   
 
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Baby Sign Language
I LOVE YOU Emery
Teach your baby to sign
I LOVE YOU

 

Touch Blue Sky offers many ways for you and your family to learn, practice and enjoy baby sign language:

 

- A 90-minute Introductory Workshop where you'll learn about the benefits of signing with your baby, how to integrate signing into your daily routine, and start your signing vocabulary with 40 signs. 

 

- Playgroup Boom and Zoom - two different playgroup series that meet for six one-hour sessions.  Both Playgroups include the essential basic starter signs but vary in the more advanced vocabulary.  

 

- VaVOOM! Touch Blue Sky's new Toddler/Preschooler Signing Series that meets for eight 45-minute sessions.

 

 
Coming Soon!
Register Today ~ Space is Limited
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Babies are welcome but not required to attend

Introductory Workshops
Birth to 18 months old
 
Blossom Birth, Palo Alto
Click here to register
or call 650-321-2326 
 Saturday    January 10   12:00 - 1:30 

 
DayOneBaby
DayOne Baby, Palo Alto
Call 650-646-7644 to register
Saturday    January 17    3:00 - 4:30

Peninsula Jewish Community Center, Foster City
 Tuesday   January 20   10:00 - 11:30

Kaiser Permanente, Redwood City
To register call 650-299-2433
Saturday   February 7    3:00 - 4:30
 

Six-Day Playgroup Series
4 - 18 months old
 
Blossom Birth, Palo Alto
Saturdays   January 17 - February 28
10:45- 11:45   Playgroup Boom
12:00- 1:00   Playgroup Zoom
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Kaiser 

Kaiser Permanente, Redwood City

Open to the community! 

To register call 650-299-2433  

Saturdays   February 21 - March 28
3:00 - 4:00   Playgroup Zoom  


VaVoom! 
Toddler & Preschooler Series
Eight 45-minute sessions | 18 mos. - 5 yrs.
 
Blossom Birth, Palo Alto  
Eight Fridays   January 9 - March 6
3:30 - 4:15
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Host a class at your home
and earn a free registration!
 
Dreaming Into the New Year
Dream Cards

What are your dreams for 2015?  Is there more that you want to bring into your life but you're not sure exactly what it is?  How do you get from Point A to Point B - especially as a mom when your journey includes children, the heavy diaper bag, and all of the flotsam and jetsam that comes with a family?  At this Sanctuary gathering, you'll learn how creating a vision board can bring clarity, creativity, and direction.  And we'll talk about ways to create the time and energy to follow your dreams.

Saturday, January 10th 

San Mateo  

 

Morning Sanctuary 

10:00 to noon

$40

Register Now! 

 

The groups are just for moms so that you can take the time for yourself without distractions from your family. Space is limited to only eight moms; registration is required.  Light refreshments are provided. 

 

Come to Saturday Sanctuary for Moms to rest,
relax, and renew.  You'll head home happier.

Contact Kathleen with any questions or please visit the Saturday Sanctuary page on the Touch Blue Sky website for more information.