Encouragement Goes A Long Way

Some days he asks for plain boring sandwiches, especially if the discussion is at 6:30 in the morning while he's struggling to shovel cereal into his sleepy head. I rarely do that unless we're staying home and can show him all day in little ways that I love him. These lunches are my little hugs at lunch time to let him know I'm thinking about him, his likes and interests, or important events going on. He always loves them at lunch time along with our silly napkin notes. They just finished up the second 9 week testing period which is always stressful for students and teachers as there is a lot of work to accomplish. Though we know he's smart, communicating that in the way the school wants requires him to pay full attention and willingly participate...and that depends on the day. Happy to report he did great as and his only constructive criticisms are regarding behaviors like not talking during work time, and packing his things and putting them away in a timely manner, otherwise known as perfectly normal 6 year old boy-isms. :)

I love you 

Always and forever.

In this lunch : In an Easy Lunchbox

• I - Cinnamon schoolhouse cookie
• <3 -="" and="" butter="" jelly="" li="" peanut="" sandwich="" you="">
• Orange slices and heart strawberries
• Peanut butter and celery with You're #1 pick

Report Card Day 

Star Student

 In this lunch : In an Easy Lunchbox

• School and Stars - Peanut butter and jelly sandwich with 1,2,3 and A,B,C picks
• Star honeydew melon and grapes
• Celery with peanut butter and Star Student pick

 How do you get through test season?

February 4 - 8 Lunches

The monkeys were off school again this time for teacher training conferences. So I went back to just a weekly post this week. I did include a few of my on-the-go lunches as well, because hey Momma has to eat too!

Tuesday - We headed out to the Austin Nature and Science Center with some friends to play.

 In my lunch :

• Garden salad with carrots, broccoli, cauliflower
• Tuna butterfly with string cheese
• Trail mix - almonds, pistachios, yogurt covered raisins, dark chocolate goji berries, dark chocolate acai berries
• Grapes and strawberries

In Green monkey's lunch :

• PB&J sandwich with string cheese Tic-Tac-Toe
• Teddy grahams
• Grapes and strawberry
• Pickles - He wanted a pickle sandwich I talked him into a side of pickles instead

In Blue monkey's Yubo lunch box:

• PB&J with string cheese Tic-tac-toe
• Teddy grahams
• Grapes and strawberry
• Carrots

Wednesday - We were supposed to go play but they chose to stay home instead. I had already packed lunches.

In my lunch:

• Salad with broccoli and S carrots celebrating the upcoming Chinese New Year - Year of the snake
• Ham and cheese and turkey and cheese roll-ups
• Almonds and pistachios
• Grapes and strawberry

In Blue monkey's lunch :

• PB&J Snake with candy eyes and fruit leather tongue
• Veggies straws
• S shaped snake watermelon

In Green monkey's lunch :

• PB&J AT-AT (front view) with pretzel guns
• Pirates booty
• Droid watermelons

Thursday - Back to school for Green monkey, back to errands and gym for little blue and me (We ate out).

In Green monkey's lunch : Time lords love twice as much

• Layered heart sandwich ham, turkey, and cheese and TARDIS topped with cheese and marshamallow
• Double heart cheese and crackers
• Heart watermelon, strawberry, and grape

Friday - Green monkey buys lunch at school, Blue and I come picnic with him.

 In my lunch :

• Salad with carrots, ham and turkey roll-ups, Cheese cupid hearts
• Almonds and pistachios
• Grapes

 In Blue monkey's Yubo lunch box : He asked for a planet

• PB&J Earth with cheese hearts
• Grapes
• Carrots

Since Valentine's day is next week I've been sneaking hearts into their lunches all month. Next week is filled with parties stay tuned for our homemade valentines coming up this weekend.