growing & learning with him
My blog theme for the week is the 4th of July. I used to celebrate holidays on the week they happened. After thinking about it, it made more sense to share my holiday ideas the week before the holiday. This is JDaniel’s 4th of July tin a week early.
JDaniel has a berry good time dipping blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries into the strawberry yogurt. Why is the cereal there? I started using breakfast cereal as sprinkles on his oatmeal in the morning. Now we have “sprinkles” on yogurt too.
JDaniel loved trying to catch the water in his hands while the water enjoyed spraying his upper thighs.
I wasn’t sure that a seven and ten-year-old would get into playing in the fountains. They seemed to enjoy it as much as JDaniel did. The words in the window say,” More and more and More.” That’s how long they wanted to stay and play.
JDaniel took notes on a few new tricks he learned about playing in the water. If you flick the water coming out of the fountains, you can get other people really wet. Can you see the wheels turning in his head as he watches his cousin Jason?
JDaniel has missed his outdoor toys while we have been inside avoiding pollen. I decided to have him wash his Cozy Coupe a few weeks ago so that we could bring it inside the house for a while. He had a blast.
JDaniel even ended up with some of the chicken salad in his tin. He also had sunlight peaches, mandarin oranges, and cheese pieces on the top row. Besides the chicken salad, he had goldfish swimming in jello on the bottom. The fish inflated a little as the jello set. I thought they looked icky. He loved them.
Happy First Day of Summer!
I was invited to participate in the Swanson Mommy Blogger Challenge. Each blog in the challenge was asked to come up with a recipe using a can of Swanson’s chicken. If I can be up front and honest with you, I am not a much a cook. I have just gotten to the point where I can follow a recipe and experiment with it if I don’t have all the right ingredients. The moms in my playgroup know that to come up with this recipe I bounced every ingredient past them. My friend from playgroup Heather emailed me back and forth a few times with ideas too. This recipe for Fruitful Chicken Salad is really simple and may already be something that you make at home. For me this is a new recipe and creates something both my guys wanted seconds of.
9. When serving the salad, place it on a bed of lettuce. Sprinkle a few on the remaining walnuts on the top of each person’s serving.
This salad serves 4-6 if used as a main dish.
This is one of my favorite pictures of my husband and son.
Muffin Tin Monday doesn’t have a theme this week. I decided to create a lunch based on the blog’s theme which is Father’s Day. JDaniel loved the fact he was having a “Dad” lunch.
What is “Dad” lunch? You have chicken breast cut into a D, a cantaloupe A, and a cheddar cheese D in the first row. The second row has peaches set out in a D, an A made of raisins on cottage cheese, and a tortilla D.
JDaniel loves cottage cheese right now and peaches. The other foods are old favorites. I think Dad would have liked this lunch too. He would have wanted the peaches to be fresh though.
The Picky Apple did an wonderful Gardening Sensory Bin. I think JDaniel would love to have one of these.
If you need to stop a train coming down a track, he can do that too.
