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.

Easter 2014

This is little S's second Easter and the first time he really has gotten to participate in a egg hunt although his first Easter the bunny did leave some really large eggs and he got to take a bath with them; this year the bunny hid eggs all over the backyard!



Little S's Easter Basket - the basket is a Dragon Pail and could be used as a room trashcan it's that big at any rate we'll use it for tons of things I'm sure. He also received Cotton Tails (white cheese balls),  Orange M&M's, lollipops, a ruber ducky wearing bunny ears, two puzzles, a kite and several books.

M's Easter basket - Jelly beans, Peeps, snicker eggs and chocolate egg candies

My Easter gift - It's complicated for holidays sometimes because I'm Paleo and do not consume sugar or grain... I received a pink bunny from the Easter Bunny and a very nice card from M and little S.

Egg Hunt!

ready to take your calls

I loaned M my old headset from when I was working on the phones in a call center and Little S confiscated it for a trial run. The funnies thing about it was that he put it on.. grabbed the mute button and looked at us like well send the calls I'm ready. When M and I started laughing.. he grabbed his ear the one with the speaker and said.. "Hi Hi ya doing?" like he was really getting a call and having trouble hearing because of noisy cube neighbors.


we both looked at each other and cracked up.

no bake energy bites for a quick project

Little S and I today took a few minutes and made some no bake energy bites as a quick hands on project in the kitchen.


These little babies are packed with fiber and sticky goodness and as a bonus little S loved them.

In a medium bowl mix together all ingredients then chill 30 minutes.

1 cup oatmeal
2/3 cup coconut
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup flaxseed
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/3 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla

Using a small scoop, scoop and roll into balls. Store in the refrigerator in a sealed container up to one week.
 Makes 20-25

Easter Lunches

In a count down to Easter we had a week of spring/Easter themed lunches.


Day 1 - Little S has the stomach flu so he's on a brat diet (Banana, Rice, Applesauce and Toast) so this lunch is pretty plain to not upset his tummy

The bunnies are rice balls with plain Matzoh ears- They are nibbling on dried apples. He also had teething biscuits and fruit and veggie drops. The side dishes are both early eater munchies so they have added nutrients and are easy to break down and digest.




Day 2 - Little S is a little better - Spring Flower

Waffle flower with sugar free strawberry jam in the center, Strawberry applesauce squeezie, and :Super Why" Alphabits cereal. Super Why is his favorite show and this was the first time he had character recognition on packaging.



Day 3 - Little S is doing loads better back to normal foods Tulips

Mango tulips with Kiwi steams and leaves, diced chicken with ranch for dipping and a few more teething crackers to help settle his tummy some.




Good Friday breakfast we had dinosaur eggs - hard boiled eggs that have cracked shells and the food coloring is added to the cracked hard boiled egg directly before letting it dry and peeling.

Day 4: Bunnies every where lunch

Strawberry bunnies - strawberries cut in half with the other half cut to make the ears (attached with toothpicks) food coloring dotted for the eyes. A hard boiled molded bunny egg, carrot sticks for the bunnies to eat, a 18 rabbit Jr. cranberry and apricot granola bar, diced mango and pear.