still frozen friday

The temperature may have warmed up past zero, but the ponds in the area were still frozen and patchworked with ice fisherman. We went out across Dug Pond in Natick to Blueberry Island for a look around...no blueberries to be found this time of year though!

In food news, I was gifted the Happy 101 award AGAIN! This time via Kashmirkat over at An American In Bento. Kewl!

Ryan's lunch: striped apple slices; avocado maki; peanuts; a dropper of soy sauce; dried apricots; cucumber slices; cold tofu.

I didn't think this
little box would
be big enough, but
Maia climbed right
in and Ryan pushed
her around. The box
contained an order
of vitamins--something
I don't worry too much about--but the kids do enjoy the Animal Parade multivitamins and calcium (which tastes like vanilla ice cream sundae).

a great year already

Woohoo! Thanks to Jenn
at Bento for Kidlet for my
new blog award! What a
great way to start off the
new year. If you want to
see some nifty food
marker art, check out
her blog!

I hope no one minds that
I don't have time right
now to list 10 things about myself or pass along the award. Life is busy busy busy! But how cool is it to receive a blog award with cupcakes on it?!

In case you haven't noticed, I've been packing Ryan's lunches in tall slender bentos recently. His metal lunch box broke, and he's presently using one of my old soft lunch bags until we can afford him a new one. His regular single tier bentos don't fit without being tipped sideways, so I'm using only the longer variety bentos for now...
Ryan's lunch: vegetable gyoza; brown rice; steamed broccoli; fresh pineapple; cold tofu w/soy sauce; cantaloupe chunks.