Muffin Tin Monday

Christmas Theme!  I decided to go with stars, because Owen didn't know what a star was until we put up the tree and now he is always pointing at it and saying "star."  And then the rest of the food is orange, because.. well, it just is ;)

so we have carrots, peanut butter toast, cheese crackers, apple, orange slices and cheese.
And this is Owen. He took one look at the lunch and said "up! up!" lol, clearly not enthused. He still has not taken one bite, guess we will try again later...

Muffin Tin Monday

This week there is no theme. I was contemplating making my own theme but I decided to just keep it simple and put in some foods he doesn't normally eat. So we have turkey, apple slices, bran flakes, raisins, cheese, and tomatoes. Oh, the excitement, its killing me! (note the sarcasm...)

On a totally unrelated note, we checked out the Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? book from the library this weekend and Owen is absolutely obsessed with it. He carries it around saying "brow bea" constantly and I am quite certain it has been read at least 15 times per day. I know there are tons of ideas on the internets about activities to do with the book, but I was wondering what you might have done or if you have any suggestions! thanks ;)

House Fun!

Well I was thinking of playing with color today but that kind of failed miserably so we moved onto bigger and better things! We made another contact paper craft; I cut out shapes of a house, trees, sun and had Owen help put them onto the contact paper. He loves to help "pat, pat, PAT!" (if that makes no sense to you, he helps "pat" the papers down.) I had put double sided tape onto the windows and doors to get them to stick. We had a lot of fun putting the cotton snow down.

I wanted to put this up on the wall next to the house from yesterday, but knew from our experience with the red collage that Owen was going to touch it and get his fingers stuck to the page and get dog hair on it and pull off the shapes and just make a big mess. soooo... I put saran wrap on it. Weird, I know. And probably there was a better solution but that was the one I tried. So here is our saran-wrapped finished product:

Since he enjoyed muffin tin monday so much I decided to make a house-themed lunch, which I thought was pretty cute.

But Owen pretty much made a mess of it and asked for cheese crackers. Isn't that just how it goes??

We also tried putting straws into a Parmesan cheese container because, well, all the other bloggers are doing it but that was only fun for about two seconds.

Things that were more fun:
--throwing the Parmesan container
--running with the Parmesan container
--chasing the dog with the Parmesan container
--getting tiny boy fingers stuck in the holes of the Parmesan container (several times, lol).
--leaving straws all over the house
Anyway, hope you are having fun getting ready for Thanksgiving tomorrow! If I am lucky maybe we will do another fun craft. OH, and I should definitely post my MIL's sangria cranberries recipe. YUM.

Muffin Tin Monday!

This week's theme is Thanksgiving, and I was wracking my brain to come up with something I could do with food we already had. So I made a turkey! It kind of looks like a severed hand, no? Anyway, the contents are bread body, turkey dog feathers, pretzel head, raisin eyes, cheese cracker beak, and turkey pepperoni wattle. I was just putting a small amount of cheese and grapes in the other sections because Owen is in that barely eating toddler phase and I noticed I could make little flowers out of them. So there is no symbolism there, just cuteness ;)

He actually ate a lot of it, success!