Easter/Spring Week

Hello All

Sorry I haven't been prompt on my posts this week.  I am in a week long all day Professional Development workshop and haven't had a moment to post :(.  I have still be making G his special lunches...  so here is the week so far,

Monday

 Hatching Egg...
Bread round, white cheese for the egg, used an oval cutter and cut it in two pieces, a little chick out of cheddar with a white cheese beak..  cheese cracker, pepperoni and cheese, carrots and strawberries, and a spring cupcake.


Tuesday

The Early Bird Gets the Worms :)
     leftover ziti (worms).... Duckie out of cheese and a Duckie sugar cookie with frosting... strawberries and carrots, and the extra cheese.

Wednesday

 Butterfy and Bunnie in a Garden

Sandwich round with Butterfly out of cheese (with carrot antennas), a bunny cookie (sugar with frosting, G and Daddy made them this weekend).. strawberries, carrots and the extra cheese and pepperoni

Thursday (Today)

Carrot Garden
     Rice (dirt).. cheese carrots, pretzels spread out in bottom.. a carrot sugar cookie (used my markers on it to try to make it look more like a carrot)  pepperoni, strawberries and carrots.


Of course all the lunches would not be complete without a yogurt and juice box!

Hopefully I will find some time tomorrow to post :)

What happens when you are running late

Well yesterday I had to have G at school early in order to catch my ride to DC for the day.  I had great plans of waking up early and putting together his lunch (why I didn't do it the night before I do not know) well I woke up super late and had to throw something together... I thought for about 30 seconds that he was not going to get a "special" lunch till I looked in the fridge.

Here is what I came up with...

I had some left over green rice from the other day and that became the grass.. I had hotdogs so sliced them up and cut them up with my new tiny flower cutter... Cut out a tulip out of cheese, with some edible markers, some pretzel sticks for the stem.. a strawberry and carrot flower in a cup and to complete the meal.. a cup cake.  Not too shabby for 5 min.....  he had his yogurt and juice too.

Had a great day in DC visiting the Library of  Congress!

Here is the view of the Capital from right outside the Library of Congress.

Great day and it was Beautiful!

Next time I have to take a work trip I will remember to be a bit more organized.

Have a great weekend

Pizza and Chips

So last night G came to me and said.. in his cute 3 year old way..  Mommy, tomorrow can I have pizza and chips in my lunch.. it doesn't need to be a special lunch..... oiy my breaking heart... no special lunch... well I decided that I would grant his wish and still make it fun (and special)

So Today....

We have Pizza in the shape of flowers, Apple slices cored with a flower cutter (same I used on the smaller pizza) his chips he asked for and some carrots..  I hope he is happy with it.
He still wanted his yogurt and juice, so that is in his box to.

Buzzzzz

We were lucky here today, schools had a 2 hour delay due to thick fog so G and I got to hang out this morning and play.  We played trains, read books and started a Spring painting craft... wish I could have more days like this, but then the two hours were up and we were both off to school...

So today's lunch is  Buzzing with Bees .. G is learning a poem about Bee's in school today so his lunch had to represent that.

(sorry it's a tad bit fuzzy today, must start using my good camera)

 I used my new cookies cutters for the bread with my edible markers, the bees are little birds actually, but I think they can pass (we all know how great my free handed stuff is) made out of cheese. 

He has the leftover cheese and some pepperoni, carrots, and strawberries, pretzels and a cookie. 
His yougurt and juice are also in his box.

Bunnies

Yesterday the polar express truck (what G class the UPS truck) brought me some new Spring cutters! 
Wilton Easter 18pc Metal Cookie Cutter Set
I love using Amazon Prime to ship my things...It also brought G a gift from his YaYa.. that made him so happy :).So with my new cutters and something that was in the box from YaYa. I came up with doing Bunnies...

He has green (colored with my natural food colors) rice, with a bunny hot dog... a cheese bunny with the floppy ear (from my new cutters) he has carrots, (thats what bunnies eat) and strawberries (bunnies like those to) His treat today is a bunny peep (that's from YaYa).  His yogurt and juice box are in his lunchbox (ok my lunchbox because I left HIS box at school yesterday... don't know where my mind has been)

He got to help me build this lunch, so I think he will be super excited today.

Spring Fever

With tomorrow being the official start of spring and G's theme at school being Spring.  I thought I would do a week of spring lunches...

Today to start off we have flowers, made from cheese petals (used a leaf cookie cutter) and a cracker inside, with a pretzel stem.  Then he has cheese balls as his treat, carrots, strawberry flowers and more cheese and crackers.

His yogurt and juice box are in the bag too.

Leprechaun

Today lunch goes with yesterday :)  It shows who went there... the Leprechaun

Bread round, with shredded cheese beard and hair.  Cheese Hat, eyes :)
Pretzel sticks, carrots, ham and lucky charms and rainbow airhead.

Tomorrow is the St. Patty's parade!  Can't wait to see G's Face