0 Provolone Moon Sandwich, Ham Cubes with Bats

 October 29 2012

Lunch: Turkey Sandwich with Provolone Cheese Moon. Ham cubes with cute Bat Picks.  Cheese Tortillas hiding under napkin. Tomatoes in halloween cupcake cup.

Snacks:  Bear Hard Boiled Eggs (refer to previous post for DIY instructions), Ham or Cheese, Grapes, with Halloween tooth picks.

YumLunch?  Yes. Although, minor issues with the cheese. If it winds up being eaten in the late afternoon, it starts to get sweaty, and boy doesn't finish.  Will try freezing cubes, and see if that works better.

Cute pics of the boy:  Pumpkin husband carved (boy drew what he wanted on dry erase board).  Cool battery run candle that changes color. Photo was shot while it was green. Spooky.

0 Wacky Wednesday

Wacky Wednesday, Oct 3, 2012


Our son's teacher told us this is opposite week, and the kids would meet Ms. Wacky W. Today is wacky opposite hair day. My son is blonde, so we found a purple hairspray (purple is opposite yellow on the color wheel). Also, my son has not yet adopted any gender color bias yet.

We styled his hair in a purple faux-hawk. We shrouded him in towels and sprayed the purple stuff, then ran out of the bathroom because the smell was so noxious.

Lunch: Opposite sandwich - ham on outside. Cream cheese spread instead of mayo. Cut into wacky W.

Snack: Wrong Way Car on Carrot road. Wrong way sign cut out leftover from sandwich.

Snack: Hard Boiled Egg Car, some Rotisserie Chicken, Grapes.

YumLunch?
Yep. All Gone

0 Nana Banana Sandwich with Cute Monkeys

YAY Nana!  She's been visiting with us, and we are so happy to have her here.  She also shared a favorite of hers when she was a girl - Peanut Butter Banana "Sandwich" (no bread - just peanut butter and bananas.)

Did I mention? No one in our son's class has a peanut allergy.

While here, we say my husband's improv team Whirled News Tonight on their 9th anniversary show. As a reward for not disrupting the show, the boy received a bag of pretzels. He requested more pretzels to be incorporated into lunch.

September 19, 2012

Lunch:  Nana Banana Sandwich, with cute Japanese Bento Monkey Picks. Liverwurst sandwich - just phoned it in with no cute cookie cutter action today, and pretzels - as requested.

Snack AM: Avocado!  (Much better picture than last time.)

Snack PM: frozen cheese and ham cubes (they thaw by 2PM).

YumLunch? 
Oh yeah.  Although my son commented that "the monkeys did not work at all - they did not hold the banana together, and it was a total mess."   Oh well.






















Cute pictures of the boy and his Nana.

0 A Late Morning with Fred.

Lunch:  Pre-Fab Tuna Salad from Aldi, Crackers, and Grapes.

Snack AM:  Carrots, half a hard boiled egg bunny, and hummus.

Snack PM:  More Grapes and half a hard boiled egg bunny.

Yum Lunch?  
We thinks so.
The Tuna container was thrown away.

Today was a wake-up-late day.  Booo. 
I took benedryl last night, and woke with that awesome my-tongue-no-worky, my vision bleary, huh-what-am-I-doing, benedryl-hangover feeling.  

In fact, I was in the middle of who knows what and started muttering, "What am I doing? What am I doing? What am I doing?"

So my husband taught my son and I the Fred Schneider game his improv team uses as a warm up. In your best Love Shack voice, you say "Hey, hey Mommy (or insert name), what whatcha doing?" then the other person replies with a brief description of her or his activity. The goal is to do your best Fred impersonation, and stick to a love shack meter similar to "hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale"

Kiddo picked up the meter and did a great Fred impersonation! We were WhatWatchaDoing all morning long, all the way until drop off.

Of course lunch suffered a little. I reached for pre-packaged tuna salad from Aldi. These cost a dollar, and have a proven Yumfactor, because my son and I ate them all summer.

Despite the jovial Fred-Schneider wackiness, I was still a sluggy stuffing-head.

Fashion also suffered - I had to drop boy off in my ugliest house-hag sweats complete with uncombed bed-head. Boy looked fresh as a daisy, although even he suffered fashion faux pas -- he somehow managed to grab a pair of mommy's socks! which had to be rolled down from his knee. Hopefully the rolled-down socks looked cute in a woodsy-mountain-bootish kinda way, and not pathetic, like a certain depression-era cartoon character's socks.

Oops - Mommy's socks.

0 Hard Boiled Egg Cuties! 2nd Week of School

Hurray! My hard boiled eggs turned out - See cute bunnies...
(Well, three out of four turned out... One got sort of mangled. Oh well, more egg salad.)


Snack AM: Annie's organic cheesy bunny crackers, carrot, and half a hard boiled bunny egg.

Snack PM: other half of bunny-egg, and grapes.

Lunch: whole avocado, rotisserie chicken.

Note: avocado does not work-it for the camera, or create a YumLunch glamor shot. Still, avocado is a fav with my boy. I cut the avocado in half, score it, but leave the pit and reassemble it. The pit helps to keep the avocado from turning brown. My son uses the skin like a bowl and scoops the avocado out with a spoon. He has been eating them like this since he was a baby.

YumLunch?
Yes. All Gone Mommy.


Also, here are some gratuitous baby pictures of my son conquering avocado when he was 14 months old. (Sigh. Sniffle. My baby is a big boy now.  And now he's at school. Whaaaaa.)

0 First Day of school. Sept 4.

So excited about the first day, I forgot to take a picture of lunch. Derrrrrr.

Oh well, it was only a single snack because school let out early @ 11:30. Lunch and afternoon snack at home.

Snack: ham & cheese cubes plus grape tomatoes - all favorites.

YumLunch? Yes!
All the snack was eaten.