Dots, Cheeseburgers and Pirates - Oh My!!

What a busy week!  We had lots of specialty lunches and fun times.

Monday Sept 15 was International Dot Day.  Why, you ask, is there a International Dot Day?  Well, I'll tell you.  International Dot Day celebrates Creativity, Courage and Collaboration.  The kids came home on the Friday before and educated me about this.  They had read a book in school called "The Dot" and it was all about how a girl who thought she couldn't draw, so the teacher told her to make a mark and see where it took her.  The girl made a dot and the teacher said "Sign It!!".  Then the girl made lots of dots and at the art show the walls were covered with her dot art.  A boy came and said he loved her drawing but he couldn't even draw a line with a ruler.  The girl said "show me" and the boy drew a squiggle and the girl said "Sign It!!" So we had to honor and celebrate this special day!

Ham and Pepperoni "Dot" sandwich; dot bread pieces

Green grapes with dot picks

Snap peas, "dot" rainbow carrots, cucumber with pepper dots

Tuesday we had simple lunches:

Snap peas, baby carrots, cherry tomatoes from the garden

Rainbow pasta with sauce in the orange lidded container

Green and red grapes

Wednesday we had breakfast for lunch.  Not the healthiest with all the convenience foods but I was not feeling creative on this day.

Maya carried her new Frozen lunch box with banana and ham/turkey skewers in the bottom section and Cinnamon bread in the top section.  She also had a fruit sauce pouch and a fruit juice box.  

Max and the other kids had Cinnamon bread, hard boiled egg, banana, applesauce pouch and fruit juice box.

Thursday Sept 18 was National Cheeseburger Day!  Yum!  We had a huge party not too long ago so we had a lot of burgers left over.

Max's cheeseburger with Ketchup and Mustard in little squeeze bottles and pickles in the green small container

Grapes with a bear pick (Max doesn't like cantaloupe)

Baby carrots, yellow pepper rounds, cherry tomatoes from the garden and cucumber "burger" rounds

I wrapped the burgers in tin foil to keep them warm and Maya along with the other kids had cantaloupe instead of grapes

Friday Sept 19 was International Talk Like a Pirate Day.  ARGH!  

 PB&J sandwich maps with X marking the spot below the treasure of cookies (Max got graham crackers because he doesn't like chocolate - crazy kid!)

Multi colored carrot and cucumber coins for treasure

Pirate booty

Grapes

Everyone else got mini chocolate chip cookies and cantaloupe.  Maya got Veggie booty since she can't eat cheese.

Hope you enjoyed the treasure hunt!

Thanks for Reading!

Deb