End of School...

So; although it has been a few weeks ago, we had the end of the school year.  I don't send lunch every day. He often eats hot lunch; so the last lunch I sent was 6 days out.  He really like the lunch. One of his favorite cold lunches is a bagel with cream cheese.


And being that this is my first "end of school year" gift, I had no idea what to give.  I knew his teacher enjoyed gardening, so I decided to get her a plant and gift card to a local nursery.  My son made a card and I laminated it.  I hope she enjoyed it.  I thought it turned out pretty cute.  Sorry the pictures are so poor.  I took this at night at was experimenting with my camera.   

Well, hopefully I will get back to blogging soon.  We move one week from today; and hopefully life will be back to "normal" soon!  We are enjoying summer so far, aside from all the boxes!

The Letter B...

So I have finally gotten around to posting about the letter "B"... we had fun doing our activities to go along with the letter B. Nature helped us out a bit too!

First we worked on the Big B.  We made a letter B out of Bubble Wrap.

We also painted with the Bubble Paper

Then we made a small "b" boat

We read the B Book...many times

We also made Banana muffins.  You can find my recipe that I use here.

He had his "B" Lunch.  Brown Bear Crackers; Apple Boats with Bear passengers; Blueberry yogurt with more bears & a Bone; Blueberry Bagel letter "B" and more Bones and last but not least Berries with more Bear Sprinkles.  

Last but not least...we had a Bumble Bee land on our back door and would not go away after alot of banging. It was kind of weird, but I have to say, I have never seen a bee that close. I hope to get C done in a more timely manor.

Fun Food

I was going to post another muffin recipe, but I haven't taken pictures of them yet, so it will have to wait. In the mean time, here are some fun things that I have made for the boys recently...

My oldest, who is in Kindergarten, usually eats hot lunch, but when he doesn't I try to make him something fun.  Here is a bologna sandwich with gold fish and blueberries & cucumbers.

   

This is the VERY YUMMY Creamy Hazelnut Dip I made the other night for Date Night.  Was it every good.  I highly recommend it!

This was actually my oldest's sons design.  He wanted a "silly snack" after school, with which I was unprepared, so this is what he came up with.  It's a frog.  I made him a lunch that matched today, so I'll try to post it sometime too.

I made this a while ago, but just loved it and had to share it!

This was a very tasty dinner.  I'll share the recipe below, to the best of my ability.  I made it up and didn't write it down.  This is the big kid version.

This is the one year old version.

These were quesadilla.  I made a filling of canned black beans that I pureed  and to that added sour cream and cumin.  Then I mixed shredded cheddar cheese and a carrot puree.  I spread the bean mixture on a tortilla then topped it with the cheese mixture and  put the top tortilla on.  Then I baked it in the oven, I'm guessing at 350^ until the filling was melted and they were a bit browned.

Sorry for the lousy directions, but I really don't remember exactly what I did or amounts I used, but they were really good!!!