Flower garden...

Today is a sweet happy lunch for Miss A...a sweet little flower garden with mini bite size flower sandwiches. To add variety and color the bread is at the bottom and I rotated the cheese and turkey on top and held them together with toothpicks for fun eating! We have peas again because well ummm I need to finish the can! Ha! I garnished the peas with some flower carrots. For dessert we have some peaches and grapes!!! Yummy!!!

Clown face!

Had an early morning meeting and did not have time to post today's Bento Lunch! Miss A is too young to have seen Poltergeist or IT and have a fear of clowns. She still loves unicorns, rainbows, and clowns!! Against my will I did a clown Bento for her. Mac and Cheese orange hair, ham face, cheese and olive mouth and nose along with a tomato nose. We added a few grapes and blackberries and some peas. SCARY CLOWN! Okay...he is kind of cute I will admit it. But I still don't park anywhere close to those sewage drains on the street!!!! Haha

Bunny?

So this morning Miss A and I had some creative differences. She says this is a bunny and I think the ears are too small!!! Okay I realize I am over 30 and my bento creative partner Miss A is under the age of 5 and I should be the adult here but come on!!! Soooooo I will try to take the high road...We have a so called bunny sandwich (haha, just kidding) with ham and an olive and cheese face. We also have some fabulous blackberries, tomatoes, and cheese shaped as eggs and flowers. We also have a pretzel border to keep it all nice and tight! We also added some bunny picks to the fruit and cheese. Have a great one!!!

Somewhere over the rainbow...

Poor little Miss A was sick two days last week so no Bento boxes last week. She had to rough it with my mom with homemade tortillas and homemade chicken soup. Ha! But, back in business with her rainbow masterpiece this morning. As any young girl does she loves rainbows, dolphins and unicorns! So today is a cheese rainbow she painted with food coloring on provolone cheese. Provolone cheese clouds and birds atop rice and some chicken at bottom. Side of grapes and fig newtons per her request and there you have it!!! Happy Monday everyone! Hope everyone survived those crazy Texas storms we had last night!!!

Mermaid

Well thanks for all the prayers and well wishes, I am off bed rest, policing myself with absolutely no strenuous activity! Thank you thank you! 32 weeks and counting...

We celebrated last night by going out to eat one of Alexa's favorite things....fish! With the leftover fish we fittingly made a mermaid! Alexa cut out the hair and circle cheese face. We used edible markers for her eyes and mouth. She then cut out lots of little provolone fish! She added some coral reef ham with more fish...she looooves to cut out those fish!! We put a sea fan sugar cookie with some seaweed green beans and a fabulous cheddar biscuit!!! WOO HOO!!! Happy hump day everyone!!!

Ooh La La!

Fourth day of bed rest for me and second day of fabulousness of Miss A's bento box lunches. They are studying France in school. So fittingly she chose the Eiffel Tower! We had some chicken leftover from last night (she wanted to dye it blue for the sky, but convinced her not to...ha). With a butter knife she cut the crust off her bread for the bottom layer, she placed the chicken on top and used a veggie cutter to cut the cloud provolone cheese. She used american sliced cheese to cut the sun and Eiffel tower. I did the middle cut out but she did the outline of the tower with her butter knife. She placed the green beans for grass and for flowers she chose marshmallows from her Lucky Charms breakfast this morning!! haha. She is too funny! Ooh La La she is just too fabulous for words!!!

Girly dress...

Well friends I am out of commission for a couple of more days...this over active little baby in my belly has put me into bed rest for a few days. I went to hospital Friday night and am waiting to go back to the doc on Tuesday to see what next steps are. Hopefully it is just temporary and I will be good to go with limited activity by end of the week. I am going CRAZY here in the house!! No baking, no cooking, no outings, no packing for the move....oy vey!!! So this morning Miss A took matters into her own hands....this is all her!!! She cut her sandwich, meat and cheese with the dress cookie cutter, then punched out all the polka dots on her dress. I helped her with the ruffle at the bottom, but she pulled it up and placed it on the dress and even added a neckline ruffle. She added her grapes, tomatoes, and nutri grain crisp bar. I told her we needed another vegetable so I convinced her to do carrot flowers, in which she wanted three different types of flowers. This is the ONLY way she will eat carrots!! She is such a trooper and it is so fun to watch her put it all together. Such a cutie pie! Have a great Monday!!!