Life is sooo good...: January 2011

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Salmon Pasta Salad

January 31, 2011

Muffin Tin Monday

January 31, 2011

Recipe

Southwestern Chili Cheese Dogs

January 30, 2011

Recipe

First Dat at Hockey Practice!!!

January 29, 2011

It's snowing again today. Woohoo, it's warming up and we are no longer freezing! Penelope and I went to story time at the library and we made an sea life craft that is going to be displayed at the Bunell Art Gallery in town. Too cute! All the kiddos at storytime got to create their own work of art and these will be displayed for all to see next month. I will be sure and take pictures!

Here is Penelope's bento for today...

She had leftover meat pizza from Starvin Marvin's here in town, yum. Some black olives, grapes, strawberries and blueberries.

And one last thing... so as you already know from a previous post Penelope has been quite the mischievous one lately. I really think she is getting so sick of hanging out with me all day. The girl needs a change of scenery. HAHA Sooo, yesterday we went and checked out a preschool for her and it turned out to be awesome. Chris and I decided it would be a great idea to sign her to go 2 days, halftime. That would be 8:00 till 11:45am. She will get to get out and make some friends and forget about me for awhile. I am excited for her cause I know she is going to love it but I am also a little sad. I know it's only 2 days a week for a few hours but I have been with her everyday of her life! It will be good for her though, kids need to socialize with their peers and learn how to interact with each other. I believe it's healthy for their development and the school looks great. They focus on arts and hands on learning, they even hold field trips for the little ones to local parks, museums, and nature centers and I can volunteer to come along to those. Fun Fun... She is so ready for this she is always talking about going to school and even packs her little Tinker Bell backpack with books and pencils. Whenever she does something out of nowhere and I ask her where she got it from she says she learned it at school. :) I will be sure and let you know how her first day goes, she starts February 1st. Oh my, in just a couple of years she will be in school full time and I will be all alone. WHAAA!

Bento

Taste the Rainbow

January 16, 2011

My Little Picasso

January 13, 2011

Muffin Tin Monday

January 10, 2011

Bento

Cold Day at the Park and Lunch

January 08, 2011

Last night I promised Penelope I would take her to the park today if it was sunny again. We have been having unseasonable weather for this time of year. Well, it was sunny today, 15 degrees but sunny, so we took a stroll to the tiny park just a few houses down from ours.

It was cold, brrr, yesterday would have been a better day to (hold that thought, wild animal at my window again, cute little snow bunny this time, oooh with red eyes.) head out to the park. It was in the 30's and with the sun shining felt great. It was nice to get out of the house though and Penelope had a blast she even made a couple of friends that live just 2 houses down from us. The grass was all matted down with frost and ice and felt all squishy to walk on Penelope kept saying "whoa" and rocking. Happy to say we survived this outing without witnessing any bears, large wild cats, or any rabid bunny rabbits.

Here is a photo of Penelope's lunch today.

She had 2 piggie open faced sandwiches, a celery stick with Laughing Cow cheese and another with Nutella, carrot sticks with Ranch for dipping, cherries and chocolate covered Craisins.
I found these Limited Edition chocolate covered Craisins by Ocean Spray yesterday at Safeway. They were B1G1 Free and they are good. I would check out your local Safeway/Vons and see if they have the same deal going on. I also found an awesome deal on cherries, a large bag for $2.79, and they were fresh. This is the first time I have seen cherries at the store here and I was surprised because our produce is usually not the greatest selection. I guess we do have a lot to choose from but it isn't always the prettiest and the prices can be a little high. I had to buy these because the only kind of cherries Penelope had ever had were those ones that come from a jar. I was worried about trying to pit the cherries before giving them to her without having a cherry pitter but I managed to find the perfect substitute. A chopstick! That's right all you gotta do is pull off the stem and use the pointed side of the chopstick to poke a hole through the cherry. Once you've managed to get in just turn the chopstick around and push the pit out with the wider end. Perfect pitted cherry!

Muffin Tin Monday

January 03, 2011

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