Hippity Hoppity!

Wow, I haven't posted in over a year. I suppose it's time! Scotty's in the third grade now, 9 years old, obsessed with Star Wars, Legos and Minecraft. He's in to the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid book series and the Origami Yoda books. I'm incredibly happy that he loves reading. He's doing so well in school, honor roll all year long, and he got Citizen Of the Month for a knowledge in January, he makes me very proud. He joined Cub Scouts, he's a Bear, and we have really enjoyed it. We've been on 3 campouts so far and he's gearing up for the Pack's pinewood derby this weekend. It's all been a great experience for both of us.

Easter is coming up and the Easter Bunny is still alive and well in our house. The bunny is seriously struggling with ideas for the basket. Younger children are easy, throw some candy, sidewalk chalk, a ball and a bottle of bubbles in there and they're good to go. Older kids are not quite as easy. Last year, the basket was filled with beach toys from the Target dollar spot, new flip flops and swim trunks and a few treats and candy. This year the bunny had to look a little harder.

There's a few R2D2 and Darth Vader 'eggs' filled with Skittles, a Peeps pop, a Star Wars t-shirt, sidewalk chalk, Star Wars Legos, packs of gummy bunnies, Star Wars sticky notes pad, a Star Wars dry erase board and a book, Princess Labelmaker, from the Origami Yoda series. He loved it, but the bunny thinks that the older he gets, the more these baskets are costing to put together. Luckily, a few of these items came from the Dollar Spot bins!

We had our Friday Family Night on Good Friday and watched 'It's The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown'. I made a fun dinner with snacks for the movie organized in egg cartons.

I made a grilled cheese bunny sandwich, and served baked cheese puffs, fruit snacks, carrots, mini chocolate eggs, apples and peanut butter with a fancy cake! 

TMNT Mania Has Struck This House

So most little boys go through a Ninja Turtles phase pretty early on, say 4-5 years old. Scotty has just become obsessed the past couple of weeks. I suppose the excitement of the new movie coming out, combined with the Lego line, (he loves all things Lego, so that was a given), has really gotten him into a frenzy.

 It's Friday, and that means it's Friday Family Movie Night! We had the TMNT movie from 2007 already in our DVD library, so that was an easy choice. We made homemade pizza, (because that's what turtles eat, of course!), with pepperoni and green peppers on my half and only cheese on his because, like most kids, he doesn't want 'any stuff on it'! I also made these super cute ninja turtle sugar cookies. I already had half a pack of the break & bake sugar cookie dough in the freezer, so I pulled it out and thawed it, rolled them in green sprinkles and baked them as the package directed. Then I used decorating icing to make the masks and added candy eyes that I had in the cupboard from my fun lunch supplies. (I did not have purple icing, so I used my noggin and mixed red and blue together. It isn't perfect, but he didn't seem to be that critical!)