What Happens When You Fix Green Eggs and Ham for Breakfast

Jr.:  Those are so yummy.  The mold on the eggs is the most nutritious part.

Yeah, my kids are hams.  To celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday, March 2, we had green eggs and ham for breakfast.  I put food coloring on them, not mold.

Later, Jr. Jr. worked on some Dr. Seuss worksheets. 

Jr. Jr. and Lucky watched "The Lorax," and Jr. Jr. drew some characters from "The Lorax."

Tonight I read them some Dr. Seuss books.
And I read a lot today and didn't get a lot of cleaning done.  Dr. Seuss' birthday is known as Read Across America Day.  C'mon.  What else was I supposed to have done?

Read Across America Day 2013

March 2, Read Across America Day, celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday.  We always eat green eggs and ham for this holiday.  This year I requested them on bagels with cheese.  We used eggs with green shells again. 

After we ate, the kids acted out the book, Green Eggs and Ham, for us.  It was very entertaining.

At bedtime, the older kids got to stay up a little later than usual reading books.

Jr. Jr. got some special one on one time with Daddy who was willing to read him Green Eggs and Ham again.

Dr. Seuss' Birthday (Read Across America Day) 2012

A few days ago, Nichole was learning about Dr. Seuss at her school library. This is what she learned:
"This is when Dr. Seuss was young. Uh... He was drawing zoo animals on the wall and his parents let him. And then he wrote funny books.
And his mom told him her favorite animal. It's ears were 9 feet long. And that's why Dr. Seuss did funny pictures on the ceiling of zoo animals. The End"

This is what they did at school today:
"We read Dr. Seuss books and read as a class Fox, Beware. And we had bookmarks that when you're done reading ten books you can color them any way you want. And if you finished we could have one from Mrs. Schiller. The first bookmark had a boy wearing a Cat in the Hat hat and we had to color the hat to number 10. The End. Oh, and we also did The Lorax." She also told me she finished a Cat in the Hat project.

It seems that lots of people are celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday today. We are. This is what we've done:
We had green eggs and ham, of course.
This year, we didn't put food coloring in our eggs. The shells of the eggs were green to begin with.

Isn't that fun? There is a type of chicken that lays green eggs. Now if we could only find a goose that lays golden eggs...

During breakfast, Nichole and Jr. also acted out the story for us.

We had fun rhyming from time to time throughout the day. After school, Jeremy and I read the book, Green Eggs and Ham, to the children. The Cat in the Hat wasn't available at the library otherwise we would have read that, too. Oh well.

Our celebrating of this holiday was kind of simple this year, but the important thing is we still had fun.

Oh, and do you remember this little guy from last year's Read Across America Day?

I'm thinking this is the only one who survived through the year. We found it as we were organizing.

How did you celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday? I know a lot of you did.

Dr. Seuss' Birthday (Read Across America Day)

The March 2011 issue of FamilyFun Magazine had some fun ideas for celebrating Read Across America Day on March 2. Since March 2 is Dr. Seuss' birthday, we took some of the FamilyFun ideas and went with it in a Seussical direction.

And how could we start but with a dinner of green eggs and ham?

Don't worry. We made sure the yolks were cooked before eating them. Say, "Ham."

Jeremy then did an animated reading of Green Eggs and Ham that really captured the kids' attention.

We enjoyed some bookworm treats (caterpillars in the kids' minds) from FamilyFun that Jr. and Jeremy made.

During Me Time this week, I sewed library bags for the kids, which I presented during our party, so now they have something to cart their books to and from the library as well as keeping them organized at home.

We brought out pillows and blankets to make the living room comfortable and let everyone relax and read or look at books for a while. And when we needed to take a break from reading (to change the occasional diaper), we had bookmark bracelets (which Jr. decided were snakes) to keep our place- also an idea from FamilyFun. Since the instructions aren't on the FamilyFun website, I'll share the basic idea from the magazine. It's really easy as you can see from my photos.

Cut a one-inch wide strip of cardstock to the shape of a worm and draw a face. Cut slits on top behind the head and below in front of the tail so they overlap to make a bracelet when it's not being used as a bookmark. That way you can keep track of the bookmark while you're getting lost in a good book.

I think my favorite part of the whole evening however was watching Nichole read to her little brother.

It was a good family party.