Pajama Day

Day 5 of school Spirit Week is Pajama Day. I found it unacceptable that the school principal was NOT directing drop-off traffic in pjs and bunny slippers...how rude! Anyhow...what better food is there for a pajama party than pizza! We ordered pizzas from Gianni's last night and had a few slices leftover. So I cut one down to bento size...Ryan's lunch, top tier: leftover spinach, mushroom, black olive pizza; snap peas...bottom tier: vegetable potato chips; orange slices; carrots; meatless meatballs.

Ryan wore his winter
animal pajamas. The
5th grader next door
was flaunting big dog
slippers. There were
lots of plaid flannel
pants seen lining up
for school this morning.



Nate has followed his brothers'
lead and has started picking me
flowers. AJ already picks me
dozens of dandelions daily, while
Ryan has made it his job to spread
dandelion fluff everywhere he can
via a new Dandelion Tag game he's
invented.


I'm sure our other neighbor
must watch from inside
hyperventilating that one of
the dandelions will seed itself
in his all-green dandelion-free
yard.

Teacher conferences in pajamas!

Yes, I wore my pajamas, Hello Kitty pajamas, to two parent-teacher conferences today. There was a reason--my 5 year old's pajama breakfast (or brunch really) at preschool--but ya' know I'd have probably done it anyway as I often don't get dressed til the afternoon anyhow, if at all. Four kids will do that to a person.

I sent vegan equivalents
of bagel w/cream cheese
(Tofutti cream cheese),
scrambled eggs (broccoli &
onion tofu quiche), pancakes
(just basic vegan pancakes
made with Vitasoy soymilk),
and real maple syrup versus
corn syrup sweetened fake
syrup. I tossed in some raisins too.
For the class we provided sliced oranges, and a bag of oranges so the kids could learn to squeeze their own juice. There were also banana slices & strawberries, cut by the kids. This was a huge amount of food, but AJ ate all but a few crumbs plus some of the class fruit, and a full size drink box of Rice Dream rice milk!
Instead of allowing the leftover fruit and class bagel pieces to be tossed in the trash, we brought them home and made fruit smoothies with coconut milk, and spread some peanut butter on the bagel pieces.

Just beforehand we met with
Nate's teacher for spring
parent-teacher conferences.
Maia came along and played on
the floor while we chatted with
his wonderful teacher. She is
just so great with the toddler
age. I wouldn't normally consider
sending a 2 year old to preschool,
but when we visited the school for
Ryan when he was 3 and found
out about the toddler class, we
just had to send AJ too. It's been a great experience for everyone. The boys have all loved going to school, never a complaint!

So this is AJ's third and
final year in preschool. I
think he will miss it!

Since he was having
breakfast for lunch, I
just gave the other boys
the same food in their
lunches...



Nate's lunch: pancakes w/maple syrup; sliced strawberries; piece of broccoli & onion tofu quiche; bagel w/Tofutti cream cheese.

Ryan's
lunch:
same
as his
brothers'
lunches,
with the
addition
of some
dried
apricots.

At Ryan's
parent-
teacher
conference
today,
one of the
assisant
teacher's who apparently ends up on cafeteria duty commented on his awesome lunches. And his teacher said he is "very ready for 1st grade" and is doing so well in all areas of school.