volcanoes & pajamas

Ryan had a volcano in his lunch on monday, because that night he would be presenting his volcano project at the district's iNight for gifted students. His lunch was made of: steamed broccoli; his favourite Tofurky, lettuce, soy cheese sandwich with Tofurky volcano, ketchup lava, & rice cheese letters; and a chocolate chip cookie.

Here are Maia and Nate watching Ryan do an experiment with yeast and hydrogen peroxide to illustrate pressure inside a volcano.

AJ had a similar
lunch, with his
name in the center
of his sandwich.





Tuesday
lunch:
pasta
salad;
banana
walnut
mini
muffin;
sesame
tofu;
carrot;
canta-
loupe.










Wednesday's lunches: Thermos of artichoke olive ravioli w/sauce; 1/2 an apple; green grapes; carrots; cucumber slices; snap peas.

Thursday I decided
to start looking ahead
to easter: tomato
couscous decorated
with rice cheese
"eggs"; green beans;
cantaloupe & purple
grapes.

I thought the grapes looked rather like jelly beans because they were so small and dark. For the couscous, I substituted a tomato-basil pasta sauce for 1/4 of the cooking liquid to give it a new flavour.

Friday:
pickle
slices;
carrots;
canta-
loupe;
mini
onion
broc-
coli
tofu
quiche;
toast.










Nate's class was having
its annual pajama
breakfast. In place of
scrambled eggs, I made
tofu quiche. I forgot to
buy bagels, so I cut a
piece of toast into a
circle and spread it with
Tofutti cream cheese;
and I sent pancakes along with real maple syrup. Nate loved everything. His class also had bananas, strawberries & grapes, and they squeezed their own orange juice.

post easter temps

Record highs in the mid-80s here today! Makin' me crazy! Playing hookie from the blog, among other things...Ryan's lunch: hummus; smoked almond crackers; Annie's chocolate chip bunny cookies; carrots; celery sticks; strawberry; mini banana blueberry muffin; cucumber slices.

Pics from sunday...





















In the afternoon the kids did a second hunt at their cousins' house...
The kids loved watching
two of their older cousins
hunt for eggs they'd hidden
for each other. It got a little
extreme!

Ryan admitted on the way
home that he'd eaten THIRTY
Swedish Fish candies (the big
size, not the minis)! He didn't
go to school due to a stomach-
ache, LOL.

Got me

Thank you.
I can't remember when I have been so randomly and completely complimented for something so simple. After a week mulling it over I cannot think of an appropriately generous response...to this thoughtful blog, with a post called "An Interesting Blog" devoted solely to my blog.
So, thank you. And again. (And thank you Google for your misguidance.)
It's so seldom that someone really "gets you". And this blogger got it.
Check out her blog. "In A Garden Called Life", is beautiful.

I feel obligated to respond to her rather mystified comments though...regarding my blog's title, LOL:"I am yet to understand the relevance of the blog title"...I hear ya...
So since next month is May, and it's the month containing mother's day, I have decided that I will divulge more about me, including the immature backstory to my blog's name, and anything else anyone chooses to ask me. So ask away until the month of May if you have any burning questions...otherwise I'll just bore you with the usual boring "why did I become vegan?", "what's my favourite film?" and "what dead people would I want to have dinner with."

Happy Easter! - Maia is 9 months old today!

Hippity Hoppity

Nate's lunch: edamame;
rice "egg & chick"; broccoli;
watermelon "flowers" &
melon "leaves".

I got some paper bunny
toothpicks & food cups at
A.C. Moore and Target.

AJ's
snack:
Annie's
chocolate
bunny
grahams;
broccoli;
rice egg
& chick;
watermelon
"flowers"
& honey-
dew melon
"leaves";
edamame.




Ryan's lunch: same as his brothers', with an eggstra rice egg!













Here's Nate at preschool this morning "baking" sand "muffins".

And here's AJ's
beautiful drawing
of him picking a
flower for me.
















And I just love the one above of him looking at the sky...and this one of him playing outside in the rain.
Ryan made this awesome
drawing of a water slide.
Apparently he drew Maia
as he envisions her when
she is older, going down the
steepest slide!



And here is a picture of
himself outside watching
the sunrise. After he drew
it he thought it was a good
idea and immediately went
outside to catch the end of
daybreak in the yard.


We finally got Ryan's drawing back from the school art show (they'd lost it!). It's a very colorful owl!