Pink Fuzzy Bunnies

When KoKo used to be afraid of the dark and didn't want to go to sleep at night, I told her to absolutely not dream about fluffy puppy dogs or pink fuzzy bunnies.  My hope was that as she was falling asleep, she would be thinking of these things and then eventually dream about them instead of scary monsters or whatever it is kids bad dreams are made of.  I had zero inspiration on Wednesday, so ended up making a bunny lunch because of the cute little pink bunny silicone cup...

I recently found a Pampered Chef sandwich sealer, so I decided to make a homemade PB&J uncrustable sandwich that I topped with a little fruit leather bunny.  She also had baby goldfish crackers, carrots in the pink flower silicone cup with a pink bunny pick, raisins in the bunny silicone cup, and four little panda bear cookies she begged me to send.  She also had applesauce with little flower sprinkles in the pink container with the bunny looking character.

The very next day (Thursday), was Grandparent's Day.  KoKo got to eat lunch with her Grandma, but didn't want the chicken fried steak they were having at school.  Seriously...who can blame her?  As seems to be the case, I really needed to get to the grocery store, but ended up filling her thermos with a couple of slices of thin ham steak and Italian sliced green beans.  It wasn't pretty at all, so I didn't take a picture of it, but she LOVED it.  Apparently it was a huge hit.  Who knew?  I went grocery shopping today, so will have some very cute lunches to share later this week.  :o)

Have a Hoppy Day!

So, I am once again trying to get in gear and make lunches every day.  It seems we do this every school year, but KoKo starts out looking at the lunch menu and wants to eat everything.  Then, she asks for a Bento one day, and she wants them every day.

Today, Little Miss KoKo has a cute froggy lunch in her two-tier frog Bento box.  The top tier has a peanut butter sandwich cut in half with four little frog faces cut out of white American cheese (with the faces drawn on by my food safe markers) along with a little frog pick.  The bottom tier has two little silicone cups, one with plain cheerios and the other with cut up baby carrots and cucumbers to look like flowers.  She also had a separate container of applesauce and the little yellow frog container has sprinkles for her applesauce.

I also sent her a breakfast in a cute box this morning.  She has a cut up cereal bar in the bottom tier and cut up banana with a little girl pick in the top tier.  This is one of my favorite Bento boxes, but it is really small, so we don't use it that often.

I have been looking through my Pinterest board to try to get some inspiration.  I can't wait to get some more lunches together for her next week!  :o)

Back to School

Well I spectacularly failed at taking pictures of our lunches this summer.  I honestly got very lazy and made very few cute lunches.  In fact, the girls made several of their own bentos (and were super excited to do that).  However, I got my behind in gear yesterday because it was the last day of summer vacation for KoKo.  She officially started 2nd grade today.  She is such a funny little duck.  She asked me to take her to school and said she wanted me to stay with her, but when we got there, she all but shoved me out the door.  And forget about kisses and hugs.  Apparently she is too grown up for all that.  I did get my hug and kiss, but not because she wanted to give them!  :o)  I expect she'll be too cool for all that next year, so we'll have to get them before leaving home.

So, we have had a tradition since Preschool that we read The Kissing Hand the night before school.  We also trace our hands and put a heart on the hand and exchange them.  JayJay is going to Preschool this year and she got to make her hand too.  She loved the story and was super excited to join in.  Honestly, she has been included every other year, but she didn't remember.  So we did our story and hands yesterday and then they got a special lunch.

I found these cute little school paper plates at Walmart and put their lunch on them.  The peanut butter and jelly sandwich is a cut out hand with cheese heart to represent the kiss from Chester's mom from the story.  They also had a "school" of goldfish, bananas and grapes with a balloon pick, and yogurt with stars sprinkles.

So here's KoKo's first day of school.  I drew a heart on her hand as an extra to our story this year.  She is such a big girl!  JayJay starts Preschool tomorrow.  What in the world will I do with myself?!

Glasses Girl

KoKo recently got glasses and I have been wanting to create something to commemorate this occasion.  When we were out of town last week, I visited a kitchen store and found this adorable cookie cutter in the shape of glasses.  I snatched it up and finally created the cutest little lunch today!

The bottom tier has a ham and cheese sandwich cut with my circle cutter.  I made the hair with the circle cutter also.  The glasses are made out of white American cheese and colored purple (since her glasses are purple) with a food safe marker and the mouth out of pink food safe marker.  I have yet to figure out how to make that stinking marker look good on bread, but at least she has a mouth...There are also goldfish crackers and a package of smarties.  The top tier has grapes with a little girl pick and some baby carrots.  I also included a Gogurt and a small container with grape jello, along with a juice box for her drink.

And oh the problems I had right after taking this stinking picture!  We live in a second floor apartment that faces the north and had a storm that blew through last night.  There was a little leftover wind this morning and since we apparently live in a little wind tunnel, we have to be very careful of having things out on our deck.  I have been taking lunches out there to get pictures of it because it is so much better lighting than in my kitchen.  I just finished the picture when a gust of wind came up and blew the entire lunch box over.  I was able to salvage the sandwich and smarties, but everything else had to go.  I was so upset, but apparently, that was just getting my day started.  I had to get gas on the way to take KoKo to camp and ended up having gas come back out and spit all over me.  Lovely day...I should have just gone back to bed after that.  Hope it gets better soon.

Anyway, this kid is absolutely cracking me up with her little camp.  Today is camo/military day.  Look at this little face!  :o)

She Ra and Cheerleaders

KoKo is going to camp this week at church.  She signed up for the cheer/dance part, so I came up with a cheerleader lunch.

I made two little megaphone sandwiches and put the little cheerleader girl on top.  Her body is made of American cheese cut in a heart shape, a white American cheese circle head with a face drawn on with food safe marker, and hair cut with with the circle cutter and a flower barrette.  Her pompoms are made out of white American cheese and fruit leather cut with fruit and starburst shapes.  She also has a pocky stick, baby carrots, goldfish crackers, and yogurt covered raisins (under the goldfish).  She also had a small container of applesauce and a Gogurt.  The little bunny container has sprinkles for the applesauce.

Today, she had to dress like a super hero and she chose She Ra.  I'm not artistic at all, but this is what I came up with.  She was so excited and it turns out she wanted to be She Ra because she loves the red jewel on the headpiece...um, yeah.  That's so my kid.  :o)

Catching up...

Summer is off and running!  We have been very busy and I have been very lazy about taking pictures of lunches.  I did get a picture of this cute one, though which was made last week after KoKo took her first horseback riding lesson.  She has always loved horses and I had an email from Groupon about a one-hour lesson for $15.  I wasn't about to pass that up, so we packed up the car and headed west last Thursday. 

She was a natural!  I couldn't believe how easy everything was for her.  She got to lead the horse, tie the lead to the hitching post, brush him, and put the bridle and saddle on.  Then she led him to the small area and mounted him all by herself.  I didn't see her without a smile the entire time.  She was just so sweet!

So, lunch included strawberry yogurt with sprinkles, a horse sandwich, and mandarin oranges a little clover pick.  They also had carrots, but those were added after the picture was taken.

 This is my favorite picture.  That is the sweetest face and she was just loving it.  SO SWEET!  :o)

Last Day of School

I completely forgot to post KoKo's last day of school bento.  I found the idea on another blog, but can't remember where at the moment.

She had a ham and cheese wrap with little balloon picks with "First Grade is wrapping up" written in food safe marker.  There is also grape jello, applesauce with alphabet and number sprinkles, carrots, and a little Smarties candy stuck in there.  She also had a Teddy Grahams soft paw cookie.

More penguins

We saw the penguins last night and they are super cute!  Of course, by the time we made it through the line that wound halfway across the zoo, they were tuckered out and all cuddled together to sleep.  It was 7:30.  I would give anything to have my kids tuckered out and cuddled up to sleep by that time. **Sigh** 

I don't quite know what everyone is looking at in this picture.  I told them to look at Mommy and all three of them are looking at someone who was way off to my left.  They were sure having fun, though!

And there they are!  Kind of hard to see, but they're up there.  I couldn't get a good picture of them because of how many people were in there.  Like I said, they were all cuddled up together.  There are six of them and they're on loan from a zoo not too far from us.  We had the opportunity to visit that zoo two summers ago and they are an exhibit in the aquarium.  My girls loved watching them jump into the water, so I'm sure we'll be visiting our zoo to see these guys many times this summer.  Thank goodness for our membership!

Speaking of my monkey girls.  They have been on a roll the last few weeks.  I have said it before and I'm going to say it again...They CANNOT wait for summer vacation.  Tomorrow is KoKo's play day and JayJay and I will be joining her.  Next week, she only goes Monday, Tuesday, and a couple of hours on Wednesday.

Speaking of school...my mother is a kindergarten teacher and they had an incubator with chick eggs in the classroom the last couple of weeks.  The chicks started hatching and as of this morning, she had 23 chicks.  They are so adorable and my girls think they're hysterical.  They had them out on the carpet yesterday after school and were trying to get them to race.  Oy vey...They even got to clean up chick poop since it got all over the carpet.  I guess I can be thankful it didn't land all over them.  :o)  I'll post pictures of the chicks later because I honestly forgot to take pictures last night.  *mental forehead smack*

So, you're all here to see the lunch...I"ll get on with it now.  Today's lunch was another penguin theme.  There is a penguin peanut butter sandwich with a heart sprinkle and eyes and beak colored in with food markers.  There is also a salad in the smooshed red heart silicone container (without dressing because my kids don't like dressing which is completely weird), goldfish crackers, blue jello, and strawberry yogurt with heart sprinkles. 

I went to our cake supply store yesterday and hit the jackpot.  Their bottles of sprinkles were $2 and the same size that I have seen at Walmart for around $5.  I also got several cookie cutters and even got some picks.  I was super thrilled and can't wait to make some of the lunches I have planned.  I also found the container this is packed in at Walmart yesterday for only $3.  Score!!!  Oh, and we got a dustbuster and JayJay is running around sweeping up all the crumbs.  Score one for this mom!

Penguins!

The penguins have arrived!!  The grand opening of their exhibit is tomorrow morning at 9:45, but I just heard there is a sneak peak tonight.  Of course, today's lunch had to be all about the penguins.

On the bottom tier, there is a peanut butter igloo sandwich on flat sandwich rounds with two little fruit leather penguins with icing eyes and fruit leather beaks and feet along with goldfish crackers.  In the top tier, there are grapes and cupcake flavored goldfish crackers with yogurt covered raisins.  There was also a Gogurt in the bag.  I wrote a little note with some fun facts about the African penguins that will be at the zoo.

I'm thrilled with how stinking cute this one turned out.  Please excuse the picture...I put two pieces of paper together and didn't even see the seam until I uploaded the stinking picture to my computer.  I'll get better...I hope.  Happy penguin day!  :o) 

Phinneas and Ferb

I was walking through Walmart the other day (which I completely hate to do...) and ran across an entire section filled with bags of Phinneas and Ferb shaped pretzels.  My kids don't really get it watch the show much at all, but KoKo loves it and would sit and watch for hours if I let her.  I couldn't resist the pretzels and decided right there she would get a Phinneas and Ferb lunch.  This is what I came up with...

So, she has a Phinneas shaped sandwich with carrot hair, Phinneas and Ferb shaped pretzels (Perry the Platypus is on top), some yogurt, a sliced string cheese stick, and some grapes.  I showed her this morning and she really wasn't all that excited.  Fabulous...I'm not sure by her overwhelming lack of response if it is really bad or if she just didn't care...She didn't know who her sandwich was supposed to be either, so I'm guessing I'll add this one to the fail column. 

The penguins are coming Thursday to our zoo and we can't wait!!!  I'm headed to the local cupcake/candy supply store on Wednesday to see if I can find a penguin cookie cutter.  Keeping my fingers crossed!!!

May the Fourth With You...

Yesterday's lunch was super simple and quick to make.

It was just a peanut butter sandwich with cheese cut into little birdies.  In the other container, there are peaches with a little birdie pick and some pretzel sticks with two more birdie cheese cut outs.  There was also a Gogurt in the bag.  She ate her sandwich and some of the peaches.  She didn't eat the cheese at all and didn't even touch the pretzels.  Apparently, the peaches leaked onto the pretzels and they were soaked.  :o(  I felt so bad for her...

So, today's lunch was in honor of Cinco De Mayo.  It's not cute and I didn't take any pictures, but she has a burrito, taco chips with re-fried beans and cheese to dip, salad, and yogurt.

Apparently, today is Star Wars Day.  I didn't realize this until I woke up and saw all these posts on Facebook.  I'm really not a big fan of Star Wars, but my brother was OBSESSED with it growing up.  In fact, I don't know many guys around my age that weren't...Anyway, I'm going to share something in honor of Star Wars Day.  This group is The Piano Guys and I'm completely in love with them.  They are based out of Utah and put out videos on YouTube every few weeks.  I play both the piano and the cello and am completely inspired by these guys.  Enjoy and May the Fourth Be With You!  :o)

Bunnies

This week, I have started using a bunny theme, for some reason.  I found this great idea before Easter to make a bunny face sandwich from bunny lip pops.  I scoured every.single.store in my town for these stinking bunny lip pops and couldn't find them anywhere.  So, after doing a Google search, I found them on Amazon.com, but when I went to purchase them, it said they were sold out.  Ugh.  I signed up to be notified by email when they became available again, thinking I wouldn't ever get an email.  A few days later, I got an email saying they had 6 more in stock.  I snatched my two up as fast as I could!  Of course, it was the Monday after Easter when they arrived, but hey, I can still use the idea...

First things first, I had to get rid of the lollipop part, so the girls each got to eat the lollipop.  They were so stinking cute!!!  They both got about halfway through it and decided they didn't want the rest, so I put them in water to dissolve.  After washing them, I turned their sandwich into this:

I took a peanut butter sandwich and cut it with my circle cookie cutter.  I pushed the bunny lips into the sandwich and used icing eyes.  The ears were apple slices that were dipped in pineapple juice to keep them from turning brown.  In the blue silicone cup, they had Wheat Thin crackers and the pink silicone flower cup has grapes and bunny pick.  They also each had a Gogurt.

For today's lunch, KoKo has a peanut butter sandwich with little bunny fruit leather cutouts, some kettle corn from a fundraiser we participated in last weekend and a sliced plum in the yellow container with a ladybug and daisy picks.  She also had a Gogurt in her bag.  JayJay will be at her babysitter's house for lunch today, so that's super easy!  :o)

I'm really thinking about making a trip to our cake, candy, and cookie store to stock up on some cookie cutters that I really want.  Our zoo is getting ready to open a penguin exhibit and I would love to have a penguin cookie cutter. 

I ruff you

Every Friday at school is "Panther Pride Friday".  The kiddos are supposed to wear purple and celebrate their school pride.  When I first started making bento style lunches, my plan was to make a special paw print lunch every Friday.  I have made a total of one of those since March.  Not only did I not do a paw print lunch today, I just realized KoKo went to school wearing an adorable pink and brown argyle print skirt and a pink shirt with a brown cat.  We're clearly slacking in the Panther Pride.  I can tell the school year is winding down to a close as I'm getting more and more lazy.  At least we are still getting the homework done...


Speaking of getting lazy as the school year winds down, I can't wait for summer to get started.  Wow...I can't believe I just typed that.  I'm not a summer person.  I honestly really would like to live in Alaska, but I live in the midwest where we have really awful humidity and heat in the summer.  Not to mention the bugs.  Don't get me started on the bugs.  But this year, I'm really excited to spend time with my kiddos.  I saw an idea on Pinterest to make a first day of summer gift basket and I can't wait to make them for the girls!  I'm going to fill it with sidewalk chalk, bubbles, fun little activity pads I found at Michaels for 50 cents each, a new reading book for each, swimming punch cards, and a list of some of the activities we will be doing this summer.  They're going to be super excited!!


So, on to lunch...

I got a cute little set of puppy dog cookie cutters from my local grocery store and got to use them today.  The bottom tier has a ham and cheese dog shaped sandwich.  I used my food marker to make the ear, eye, nose, and mouth.  I also cut a little paw print out of the sandwich.  The bones are out of a slice of American cheese, stacked together.  The top tier has Triscuit crackers and mandarin oranges.  There is also a tube of Gogurt in the lunch bag.  I always pack a water bottle as well.

KoKo has a birthday party to go to tonight, so I am off to get a birthday present.  I'm taking JayJay to eat pizza and play on the playground while big sister is at the party.  It should be a fun filled evening!  :o)  Have a happy weekend!

Quit Monkeying Around!

Yeah...I'm not doing so well at making lunches recently.  I have been doing it, but I've been too tired lazy busy uninspired to make something cute.  So, I'm kind of stealing borrowing copying being inspired by a post I found somewhere and pinned on my Pinterest page. 

Both of my girls have been given the nickname of Monkey.  I don't know why, but they are Monkey 1 and Monkey 2.  They love this and have decided I am Mommy Monkey.  So since we apparently love monkeys, I had to try this idea.

Isn't he cute?!  The little monkey is just a peanut butter sandwich cut with my circle cookie cutter.  I cut a vanilla wafer in half (incidentally, do this with a serrated knife if you don't want it to crumble...that took a few tries) for the nose/mouth area, added icing eyes, and fruit leather ears.  There is also a container of sliced bananas with a monkey pick in the green square silicone cup in the upper left side.  The bottom left has an "M" alphabet cookie with pretzel sticks and cut up fruit leather surprise under the pretzel sticks. 

I found these adorable monkey lunch notes and stickers at Michaels yesterday for 49 cents!  I love stuff like that!  Sorry for the horrible picture, but my little note said to have a monkey-tastic day.  Aren't they cute?!

I also packed a breakfast this morning, which I have been horrible about.  She loves some of the breakfasts they serve at school, so I have been completely lazy about sending a healthy one for her...Anyway, I broke apart a cereal bar for the bottom tier and put sliced cantaloupe in the top tier.  I just realized I forgot to send a pick for the cantaloupe, which I totally meant to do.  I'm sure she will figure out to use her fingers...I got this little box from the Fit Japan store out of Houston.  It is adorable, but tiny and I didn't realize I needed a strap to keep the two tiers together.  Doh!  So, unfortunately, it is completely, unstylishly held together with a rubber band from my desk.  Ummm...yeah.  Anyway, we LOVE cantaloupe and I was super excited to see tiny, really yummy cantaloupes at the grocery store this week.  I can't wait to get some more as this won't last more than another hour or so in our house.  Although, JayJay just informed me it tastes like fingernail polish remover.  We had a fairly lengthy conversation about why she knows what fingernail polish remover tastes like...Gotta love 4 year olds!  :o)  I have deemed the cantaloupe as delicious, so it is delicious.

I'll try really hard to do another cute, post-worthy lunch again tomorrow.

My inspiration - Meet the Dubiens: BENTO GIVEAWAY

So, way back last fall, I started using Pinterest and one day came across this stinking adorable lunch.  I followed the link and found the blog for Meet the Dubiens and was instantly hooked.  Jill is having a giveaway and it is awesome!  She's giving away an adorable bento box with a strap, a cute set of cutters, silicone cups, and picks.  Check out the link below to sign up.

Meet the Dubiens: BENTO GIVEAWAY: No, my computer is not fixed yet. They have it for the weekend and I'm praying for good news tomorrow. Thank-you to everyone for your well...

Five Not So Green and Speckled Frogs

Today's lunch is inspired by the book Five Green and Speckled Frogs by Priscilla Burris.  You can see or purchase the book here.

In the lunch box is a celery and peanut butter log with raisin flies.  The little frog sandwiches are tortillas with cheese.  I added candy eyes and heart sprinkles for their mouths.  She also has a half a banana (to help keep things from moving around!), a small container of strawberry yogurt (I covered with foil to avoid spilling), and a small container with some cucumber frogs with a little frog pick.  KoKo hates cucumbers, but I asked her to try them, so we'll see...

On the lid, I wrote with a dry erase marker: "Five not so green and speckled frogs, sitting on a speckled log.  Eating some most delicious bugs.  Yum yum!  I love you - Mommy".  She is thrilled beyond thrilled.  I'm a little nervous that they are going to move around, but she got to see it before we packed it away, so she knows what it looks like.

This one was super fun to make.  I got some new cutters in the mail yesterday and this is actually a bear head, but can be used to make frogs.  I couldn't wait to use them!  :o)

Today's lunch

I had ordered this adorable Bento box in March off of Ebay.  It came all the way from Japan and took about three weeks to get here.  I'm thrilled with it!  :o)  KoKo adores it and is so excited to be taking her lunch in it today too.

She had grapes with a little chomping duck pick and cheese flowers in the top section.  In the bottom section, she had leftover Easter ham with two little cheese flowers and a pig pick (couldn't resist the pig with the ham) and leftover Apple Snicker Salad (completely yummy) in the silicone heart cup.  She also has a banana in her lunch box and water in her reusable bottle.

Here's the box all put together.  It has a mommy and baby seal on the front and says "Happy Aquarium".  My kids love animals of all kinds and this is the perfect box.  I'm thinking I need a couple more of these type boxes.  Too cute!  :o)

Happy Easter!

On Saturday, we took a train ride with the Easter bunny.  The trip took about two hours and was 11 miles round trip.  The girls got to see the Easter bunny and got to get off half way to go on a Easter egg hunt.  They got quite a few eggs filled with candy.  They also each got a dollar and JayJay got a special prize from the conductor (she picked out a kite)!  Here are a few pictures of them from Easter.

We went to church Sunday morning and celebrated that afternoon with an egg hunt of our own.  They had a lot of fun and were little angels.  :o)  Hope everyone had a happy Easter!

Here Chickie Chickie!

KoKo was home from school on Friday, but I still made a cute little lunch for both girls.

The sandwich was turkey and cheese and cut in an egg shape.  It had little candy eyes, and the wings, legs, hair tuft, and beak were made of carrot shreds.  They also had yogurt with Easter egg sprinkles, rice snack puffs, and a carrot heart with a bunny pick.
 

They also had a little grape and banana slice kebob.

Yummy, super simple, and very fast to make...just my kind of lunch!  :o)

Happy Easter Week!

KoKo asked to have school lunch on Monday and Tuesday and since there is no school on Friday, I only had two lunches to pack this week.

Wednesday's lunch was bunny food.  She had two little turkey and cheese bunny sandwiches with little marshmallow tails and eyes made from food safe markers.  There was also wheat thin crackers and little Lifesaver gummies in the green silicone cup, some strawberry yogurt with Easter sprinkles in the plastic container, sliced kiwi with bunny pick in the blue silicone cup and carrots in the pink flower silicone cup.  Once again, all the kids loved it and she gobbled up the entire lunch.  :o)

Today's lunch was an Easter egg hunt surprise.  It was turkey and cheese cut in various Easter shapes (chicks, eggs, crosses, and bunnies), bunny graham crackers from Target, bunny marshmallows, and these adorable egg shaped M&Ms on edible Easter grass.  The eggs are sitting on more of the edible Easter grass and there is some edible Easter confetti sprinkled in there too.  She also had a small baggie with cheddar cheese flavored rice snacks.

Here are the egg shaped M&Ms.  I drew little chickies on them with a food safe marker.  Unfortunately, one of them smudged when I was taking the picture.  :o(  Oh well...KoKo adored her lunch, and that's all that matters.

Also, I made a little craft this morning that I saw on Pinterest the other day.  I am so glad I did it and think it turned out fantastic!  It is a beautiful little wreath made with fuzzy yarn that looks like grass wrapped around the a foam form and little daisy flowers pinned on with beautiful pink pearl like straight pins.  Although I don't love the bow yet, I love the way it turned out!

We are going on a scavenger hunt at the zoo tomorrow and working on some crafts.  We are also going on a Easter egg hunt train ride with the Easter bunny Saturday morning.  I'm sure I'll have a lot of pictures after the weekend is over.  Happy Easter!

This week in Bentos

So, last week was spring break for us and I got very sick with strep throat.  I'm just now beginning to feel like myself again and although these meals aren't quite as creative as I was hoping for, they have made KoKo very happy at school.  She told me just tonight that the kids at her table all asked her to tell me they like her lunches.  Squeeee!!!  :o)  She has been very excited to see what I create each day.

Here are my girls at the Clifford Live show we got to see on Sunday afternoon.  They were so excited to see Clifford the Big Red Dog and Emily Elizabeth on stage.  I loved watching them as they sat in their seats holding their little stuffed Cleo dogs.  Their little faces would just light up every time they saw Clifford!  I love these girls...

So of course, Tuesday's lunch had to reflect Clifford.  I wasn't happy with it, but still feeling a little under the weather, I guess it was okay.  I used a huge Lock and Lock container I purchased through Amazon.  It barely fit in the lunchbox and I packed way too much food, but at least there was leftovers for snack!

 I desperately needed to get to the grocery store, but used what I had on hand.  There were two little heart shaped sandwiches, dog bone and heart shaped cheese in the red heart silicone cup, dried apple chips, a clementine orange with little flower pick in the blue square silicone cup, a bazillion wheat thin crackers, and two spring time Oreos for dessert.

Tuesday night, we had taco salad.  For lunch on Wednesday, we had leftover taco salad, which I did a build your own taco salad thing.  I completely forgot to take pictures, but it wasn't all that inspiring.  I also got yelled at Tuesday night because they apparently had pickles with their school lunch that day.  Bad mommy for not letting her have a pickle!

Thursday, I played with an under the sea theme.  I really need to come up with cute names for these lunches.  I love that on other blogs.  Oh well, maybe someday I'll come up with some.  Anyhoo...there was a peanut butter sandwich on Pepperidge Farm goldfish bread (LOVE that stuff!) with a little pink heart sprinkle, little white American cheese fish and American cheese waves, pineapple in the blue square silicone container with a couple of fishy picks, American cheese whales with white American cheese blow hole stuff in the red heart silicone container, goldfish crackers with more cheese fish on top in the green silicone container, and a small container of yogurt.  She LOVED it!  Success!  Oh yeah, she also got a pickle in a ziplock.

Tomorrow is Panther Pride day at school.  They all wear purple (their school color) every single stinking Friday of the school year.  Ugh.  We have so much purple it's insane.  Anyway, I wasted a piece of bread trying to make the sandwich at first.  I ordered my paw print cookie cutter on Amazon and didn't realize when it said it was 4.5 inches that would be bigger than even normal sandwich bread.  So...after thinking for a moment, I remembered someone somewhere made some sandwich roll ups where they had flattened their bread a little first.  Surely I could do something like that and get enough bread to get the shape cut out.  I pulled out my trusty, handy dandy rolling pin, went to work, and voila!  It worked!  Yay!!!

So, the paw print sandwich has turkey and white American cheese and RV (for Royal Valley) written in food safe marker.  The second container has carrots (with two carrot hearts on top) in the pink heart silicone container and an oatmeal raisin Teddy Grahams Soft Paws.  I'm also going to send another stinking pickle and a cup of peaches.

This has become such an addiction for me.  I'm LOVING it and I know the girls are too.  Hope you all enjoy!