Sailing with Elton Jagger???

Today our food play was for breakfast and lunch...

SAIL AWAY

For breakfast we had Miss A's favorite cheesy scrambled eggs...so here you have a sea of cheesy eggs and a tortilla ship with tortilla sails. The yellow tomato sun with tortilla strip rays is shining down....hee hee. The ship is headed to an island with a palm tree that Miss A constructed out of blueberries and grapes! She made fun of my sun so I made fun of her palm tree...yeah yeah...I am supposed to be the adult here but seriously...that sun kicks butt!! haha. Just kidding.

ELTON JAGGER

So this mac and cheese girl had potential and then it went downhill somehow. Miss A is obsessed with glasses for some reason this week, so we thought we would put glasses on this little girl. So we have mac and cheese golden locks, an oven roasted turkey face with provolone cheese glasses, nose, and mouth. Blueberry eyes and a fruit roll up bow. Somehow this little girl looks like an offspring of Mick Jagger and Elton John...I know that is not quite possible but I am sure you can see it too!! Can't you???? Anyway....even Miss A admitted this was a funny looking one, but it didn't stop her from eating everything but two pieces of macaroni, but that is only because they fell on the floor!!!

So today was not a perfect day, just a fun creative day that we learned it is all about having fun, not so much how it looks. Have great one!!

Aesop's Fable and a Librarian...

So day two of Miss A being home with me and the newborn Mighty Max...my dad has changed Mighty Max's name toBig Max. At 5 weeks he weighed 10lbs 14oz...yeah...apparently he is eating and growing well. ANYWAY...so I am trying to keep her busy and strangely enough planning her lunch or dinner takes up adequate time! She knows her nursery rhymes well so I thought I would read a few of Aesop's fables. I used to love those.

THE LION & THE MOUSE:

So her lunch was based on the Aesop fable The Lion & The Mouse. We have a turkey lion sandwich with olive and cheese face. The lion mane is a small bag of cheez-its. Hee hee. The mice are strawberries and although the story only has one mouse...ummmm you can't just eat one strawberry so we have three. So the famous fable mouse is the one in the middle and the two on the sides are his brother and sister; at least that is what Miss A made up!! haha. They have blueberry eyes and a fruit roll-up tail. Some people use icing and glue on chocolate chips or something else for the eyes. I try to use the minimum amount of ingredients because I don't like to waste. Sooo if you cut the blueberries in half the natural stickiness of the juices will help it stick just fine!

LIBRARIAN:

Sooo I call this little lady the librarian because of the bun in her hair, Alexa just thought it was a mom....OUCH! We have spaghetti as the bun with a spinach hair piece. Mommy and daddy had a whole spinach salad with balsamic vinaigrette so the spinach leaf in her hair had some dressing...and much to my happy surprise she ate about 6 spinach leaves with the dressing!! Can't get any better then that! She tried something new and healthy and loved it! We have some cheese french bread for the face with olive eyes and carrot nose and mouth. The other olives and carrots on the bottom are her shirt.

Sooo not a bad day. I survived. I really do not know how those amazing stay at home moms do this day in and day out. I barely got one load of laundry done! Have a great week everyone and until tomorrow!

Food Fun!

So Miss A is out for summer and has two weeks before her next summer camp sessions start. Sooo sadly that means no Bento's for us. :( BUT...we are playing with our food and just having fun with breakfast, lunch and or dinner!!! We do this quite often depending on what we are eating. Like for instance when we have cereal...yeah...not much to do with that one! BUT...like this morning we had bagel and Miss A always makes a face or uses it as a boat for her grape family...really quite amusing. So this morning we took a mini-bagel with cream cheese, blueberry eyes and mouth, and a grape nose! Then for dinner we took the pasta and created a face and added yellow tomato eyes, a raspberry nose, and cheese for his smile and ears. We also added a party hat (not really sure why...hee hee) out of hamburger meat and the decorative pom poms on the hat are also raspberries. So there you have it....just having fun with our food! We will play with this for awhile and see how it goes!! Kind of nice to have a full plate and also some new food items that we don't have to worry about tasting good cold in her bento lunch!

A Lovely House...

Miss A is that prime age where drawing is a huge part of her everyday activities. She loves to draw animals and houses. So last night as she was drawing she said she wanted to make a house. We had white rice last night so while it was still hot and steamy last night I set some aside and molded it in a house cookie cutter. That way today I just flipped it over and there you have a rice house! She did cheese roof, and a door and I cut the windows. She of course arranged everything. Actually Miss A wanted to do a whole apartment complex but I told her we did not have a bento box big enough! Plus she would have to eat all of it and that would be a lot of rice! I don't know where she comes up with this stuff sometimes. Anyway...we have turkey and ham alternating as the driveway, a small paper grass divider (you can buy these like 200 in a pack for 3 dollars. They are the ones you see in take-out sushi at the grocery store). We used pirate booty cheddar puffs for the clouds and the pink sugar cookie..well...that's just there because it's a sugar cookie!! haha. Tomorrow she wants to use them as flowers, but sadly we will not be staying at school for lunch, so perhaps for dinner tonight she can create her plate with a couple of sugar cookie flowers and I will take a picture of it! Have a great one everybody!!!

Stegosaurus for a boy-osaurus!!

So Miss A has ventured over to Dinosaurs lately. She has been watching a lot of NickJr Dino Dan and also said one of the boys at her school really loves dinosaurs so she loves them too. Good gravy...have I ever mentioned she is already boy crazy at the age of 4 1/2!?!?!? Anyway...so we have some of her favorite broccoli rice leftover from last night, some chicken rocks, and a provolone stegosaurus. We added some mandarin oranges and some peas! Yummy!!!

Slick Juggler

So yesterday we went to see a juggler at the library called Slick Juggler. He is in the Guinness Book of World Records 2011 for longest time juggling...12 HOURS!!! The longest "anything" I can do for any length of time is sleep and that is only about 6 hours. Other than that if I can stick to something for an hour that is a record! So of course today we wanted to do a silly juggler and she also asked for a jelly sandwich. Not exactly the healthiest thing some would say, but it is summer and every once in awhile is just fine. So we took our gingerbread man cookie cutter and made a jelly sandwich man with cheese eyes and mouth. I would have suggested fruit roll up for the face but Miss A really thought cheese would go nicely with jelly. Yuck! But it is her lunch so be it. I added some sticks with turkey and string cheese. We have some grapes and blueberries as our juggling balls! This guy juggled everything under the sun yesterday and after the show he had balls or scarves to purchase. Miss A really wanted to learn to juggle and was so inspired, so I got her the juggling scarves. Especially because she had such a great day at Ooey Gooey Camp and is ready to go back today! Of course if you notice in the second picture the scarves are not getting used exactly for juggling...they are accessorizing her many Barbies...oy vey! haha. Gotta love her!

Old Mother Hubbard's Doggie...

Last night while Miss A was reading nursery rhymes to Mighty Max and she started talking about the nursery rhyme Old Mother Hubbard. She truly felt sorry for that doggie when the cupboard was bare. So this morning we found our doggie and bone cookie cutters and made little sandwiches for her Bento this morning. So we have a turkey bone sandwich and a doggie shaped sandwich. Provolone doggie with american cheese spots. She was very particular about having a spot around this dogs eye. The eyes are black olives as suggested by Miss A. We also have some green beans and some blueberries and grapes!!! This week Miss A is at Ooey Gooey Science Camp and I must say she was not to thrilled of getting all gooey with all sorts of ooey things. This is the little 4 year old princess who her idea of a picnic is actually driving to the park, sitting in the car, and rolling back the sunroof. Now when I say rolling back the sunroof, I do not mean the glass part just the cover so she can see the sky. That way no bugs fly in!! Yeah...my sister her Auntie taught her at a young age that "nature is dirty". She really really believes her! Haha. No I can't blame my sister, Alexa has been this way for a long time. As Lady Gaga puts it...I was born this way. She sure was; we don't touch bugs, we don't like dirty shoes or clothes, and we just started to like finger painting! So let's hope this week at camp goes well and we can actually do something fun in her Bento that is both ooey and gooey. Doubt it but here's hoping. Hope everyone has a great week!!!