Building a house & dogs for lunch

The monster's lunch from Thursday. Chicken stix and a couple of scooby snacks and some mini M&M's in a paper cup,fruit salad- with one of our new picks!!! Mini hot dog, cut up mini hot dog in blue cup- with another new pick and a sauce bottle! They look so cute, it's very unfortunate that the picks did not make their way back home, along with the blue elastic strap for the bento box! Very unhappy.

And here's what the little monster got up to today. Building a cubby house with the spare mattress. He had a ball. It's amazing the simple things that can amuse a kid for hours.

Have a great day!

picks and bottles

Our picks and bottles came!!! We got 3 packets of picks, 1 sea creatures and 2 animals. And our super cute little sauce bottles. I can't wait to use these in the little monster's lunch!!!

Here's his lunch for today in the new decor lunch box: back 1/4 sections- spc chompies lollies and chicken stix biscuits, sauce in silicone cup and fritz/devon. In the front 1/4 sections- fruit salad of grapes, watermelon and rockmelon, his new fork sitting on top, soft centre cookie and rolled up tortilla.

The little monster was very excited to give the picks a go when he got home from school. He thought they were very cute! He loved eating some grapes off of them :)

Here's the little monster's lunch for today: front container = fruit salad of grapes, rockmelon and watermelon, a chocolate bear cake, and some crackers and cheese hearts on the white lid. In the back container is a leftover slice of pizza (no topping- the little monster hates it), with some shaved ham on top and some pretzels.

Here's another container we found today. It's a decor. It has four removable containers inside. It's a little hard to see in the picture as it's clear.

And last but not least, a cutlery set. The monster's fork wouldn't fit in some of the lunch boxes, so this will be perfect!

another bento lunch

Here's our second bento. The little monster is loving lunch like this, hopefully that means he might start trying new things if they are in his bento box. In this lunch is: The 1st compartment: a mini donut, 2 small dinosaur shaped sandwiches, pretzels and a packet of SPC chompie lollies. In the 2nd compartment: apple slices and french onion dip for the pretzels. Our first "real" bento box came in the mail today. We're very excited to try it out. Photos to come!

our first bento lunch

Here's our first go at a bento style lunch. The little monster had: a vegemite sandwich cut into quarters, some pretzels, french onion dip, apple slices, strawberry yoghurt in the small lided container and some chompies lollies. Initially I came across a couple of great bento lunch blogs and thought that presenting the little monsters lunch in this style might encourage him to eat a bit more, and maybe try some new things. Unfortunately, there aren't any bento suppliers around here, so I had to work with what I had. We've started a collection of cookie cutters, and just purchased our first bento box on ebay, just waiting for it to be delivered. I would love some of the cute little picks and small forks, etc that I see around the blogosphere, but i'm yet to find any around this neck of the woods! Boo hoo.... So far the little monster seems to enjoy lunch like this.

What have I been up to?????

Taking the little monster out in the sunshine to run and run and run and run!!!

Eating yummy ice cream in the sunshine!!!
Mmmmm, baking.....

Some good reading....and project planning!!!

And some cute vintage fabric finding!!!

What have you been up to???

4 now.....

The little monster's birthday has been and gone. He had so much fun, and got a lot of presents.

He got a glide 2 ride bike,

this one was the Tinkerbell DS game,
and Thomas the tank engine skates, just to name a few.

Dressed in his best for the day, isn't he gorgeous.

Tucking into some yummy party food.

His mama made birthday tshirt.

Blowing out the candles on his ladybug cake.

Getting ready to cut the cake.......yum!!!