I wish I had a superman costume...

Today we randomly came across a old school telephone booth with an actual working pay phone. I had little S stand inside then incredibly started wishing I had a superman costume to change him into to compelte the scene  This way at least he'll have proof of payphones and phone booths existing in his lifetime.

Lilttle S goes shopping

It has been increasingly difficult keeping little S in a cart now that he is getting closer to two. He wants to run and explore and I can't blame him. Today at trader Joe's I handed the child a kid cart and let him help. This was so much fun for both of us. Sure it meant I needed to make a big waving motion to the other adults who may have gotten in the way to let them know my little S was coming fast with a cart, and of course I had to take things out of the cart that we really didn't need, and I even had to stop a melt down when the cashier wanted to check us out and little S didn't want her to take his things but I highly recomend this method of shopping any chance you get.

It makes him a big helper, teaches him what things are ok to have in your cart, teaches the process of grocery shopping and you'll both get plenty of exerscise.

Alphabet Inspired Lunches - Week L

This week we are celebrating the letter L and Earth Day falls during the week so there will be a Earth Day lunch as well.




Day 1 week L:  L = Ladybug

The ladybugs are jumbo strawberries cut in half with blueberry dots and heads, Steak fries, and steak bites with ranch for dipping.




Earth Day 2014

The Earth is a waffle water color painted with food coloring to show continents in normal waffle color and water in Blue. M&M's from Easter are the eyes, and a strawberry piece for the mouth.  EARTH is spelled in organic veggie cookies (from the random letters that come in the boxes). There is a salad of pear and strawberries, carrots, and the Earth's animals are represented with animal crackers.




Day 2 Week L: L= Lion Love

Today little S has a cheese and tortilla lion - I used a circle cutter to cut the tortilla into a round for his face, and used a glass that was slightly larger to cut the circle out of cheese for his mane. I then used a knife to cutt he notches to represent fur and added a few of the pieces I removed from the edges for his bangs. I drew the face on with food coloring using a toothpick that I dipped into the color. He also has large strawberries that were decorated with a pink heart pick, and steak bites decorated with a red heart pick, and a few baby carrots.



Day 3 Week L: L = Light bulb

Today's lunch is a tortilla with cheese (it was a hit the day before) cut into the shape of a light bulb with the screw in part cut from a piece of salami and painted with food color marker to show the curves. The bulb is lit because of an additional piece of cheese that was cut to the size and decorated with the GE logo using food color and a Q-Tip. Also for lunch is corn chips and strawberries.



Day 4 Week L  L= Leis, lollipop and the letter for the refrigerator.

The Leis is mango and apple flowers alternating with the wooden letter L for the refrigerator for completing week L. He also has cheeseballs, carrots, a lollipop from Easter, and Ham rolls.