Today is a late start day. You’d think since we didn’t have to show up until 10 instead of 8am that I would be less rushed. No such luck! Baby L was up really really early and I ended up lightly dozing (that’s not the best word for it, I’m fully aware of whats going on around me, not actually sleeping, just resting) while Kidlet played his new game (He is on a reward system for behavior at school and yesterday picked out a five day reward – Bakugan game for the xbox, which I had pre-ordered) and baby L took a short nap. I suddenly realized it was 9:30 and it was rush rush rush to get out the door! Thankfully almost everything for today’s lunch was already finished.
Crescent roll and lil smokie mummies, yellow and red raspberries, carrot disks, jicama cut into skull shapes, chocolate vampire, PB&J sandwich with a cucumber monster.
I stole the cucumber monster from Lunchbox Limbo. I made my monster on a tortilla (as you can see I did an imperfect job of trimming the edges!) so that if the kidlet decides to reject the cucumber, he can lift it away and it wouldn’t get cucumber juice all over the pb & j. Also, as I talked about the other day, his lunch gets tossed around so much, the monster would never last unless it was stuck down. I used whipped cream cheese flavored with a little bit of hidden valley ranch dry mix as my glue, and adhered everything together so it will hopefully survive until lunch.
I made everything except the sandwich yesterday evening, so assembly this morning took only a few minutes. Cutting the crescent rolls and winding them up proably took about 10 minutes, but I made 6 of them; saved the rest for his afternoon snack. While they were baking (18 minutes in my oven) I finished all the skulls (there are more of those too 😉 and also made some bones from jicama. I didn’t have a cutter for those, so I kinda carved them freehand — they will probably show up tomorrow. I constructed the monster while the mummies were cooling down (didn’t want to put them in the fridge hot, or they’d steam up the container and get soggy), probably another 15 – 20 minutes. I did this while watching TV with the baby sleeping next to me – multi-tasking mama! 😉
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