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?

March Didn't Come in Like a Lion

March didn't come in like a lion this year.  There have been quite a few snowstorms lately but today we had a sunny day.  Maybe it will storm tomorrow.
We did get to celebrate three holidays today, however.
March 1 is Share a Smile Day.  It is National Pig Day.  It is also National Peanut Butter Lover's Day.
Jr. decided to combine them all at dinnertime.  We had pigs in a blanket, he used his banana as a smiling mouth, and put a jar of peanut butter in the middle of his plate.

The other boys enjoyed making smiling faces, too- on their plates and on themselves.

International Polar Bear Day 2017

February 27 is International Polar Bear Day.  We ate fish sticks (even though polar bears don't usually eat fish). 

We also ate caramel crunch bars because the brand had a polar bear on its logo.  Tee Hee.

Jeremy put on a sort of nature show that had polar bears in it.

We spent some time realizing we don't have any movies with polar bears in them, but Nichole mentioned that Studio C has a sketch with a polar bear in it, so we watched some Studio C.
That's how we celebrated this year.

No Blog Post

February 23 is National Rationalization Day so I'm rationalizing not doing a blog post because I don't want to.  So there.

Legend of Zelda Dinner

February 21 is the Anniversary of the Legend of Zelda so we planned a lovely Legend of Zelda Dinner.  We took ideas from several different games.  Some items fit into multiple games.  Here are some of the things we ate:
Tasty meat (chicken drumsticks)

We also thought of the drumsticks because there are birds in Skyward Sword (ewww) along with clouds (mashed potatoes).

Red chuchus with hearts inside and green chuchus with magic inside (jello jigglers made in mini muffin tins with red or green runts inside)

Magic milk

Blue potion (Kool-Aid)

Deku scrub cheeseball

We also ate carrots since you can feed Epona (horse) carrots to make her go faster.
Some other ideas we came up with but didn't make:
magic refried beans (from magic beans)
salmon burgers (because of fish you can go fishing for)
While we ate Jeremy played The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for us.

I love going with a theme like this.  It's fun to celebrate.

Playgrounds on Presidents' Day

One day while we were out for a nice afternoon drive, Jr. needed to stretch his legs.  We stopped and a few of us got out to stretch our legs.  We were near a playground at the time and Jeremy came up with a wonderful idea.  "We go and spend a day out birding, but every park we pass that has a playground, we have to stop and spend five minutes playing on it."  That way Jeremy and I get our birding in, but the kids don't have to stay cooped up in the van the whole time and get to have some fun as well.
Enter a day off of school.  Today.  Jeremy planned out a route and we made sure to have enough food and snacks in the van as well as movies for the kids to watch during our in the van time.  They each got to pick a movie from the library for our trip- extra incentive to go out.

 
Honestly it was fun.  We ended up stopping at quite a few playgrounds, some we planned on and some we happened upon.  A few of the playgrounds the kids got extra time at because there were birds to watch.  They didn't complain about that.  I got a new life bird.  We got some better pictures of some birds than we had before.  We didn't stick strictly to the route Jeremy planned because a fellow birder contacted us while we were out and gave us some suggestions of what birds we could find in certain places.  That was fun.  We also didn't get to all the places on Jeremy's list, but we went to some others because hey, it was our trip and we could be flexible.

 

Look.  It's our national bird- the bald eagle (juvenile, not adult).  Perfect for Presidents' Day.

It was a good family day.

Cereal... Again

It's that time of year again.  Lots of reasons to celebrate with cereal.
We celebrated the anniversary of William Kellogg founding the breakfast cereal company on February 19 by having those individual boxes of Kellogg's cereal again... this time for dinner.

We had a decent breakfast and lunch so cereal for dinner totally works.