Mo Willems - We Are In A Book!

The first book John picked out to read from the latest trip to the library was Mo Willems' We Are In A Book!  We've been saying "banana" and cracking up ever since.

Gerald and Piggie are bologna and cheese on wheat. "Banana" is cut from colby jack cheese. He also has some Honey-Nana Chobani Champions yogurt, banana chips, and a chocolate chip granola bar with a banana pic stuck in it.

Doctor Who - The Idiot's Lantern

Ahhh The Doctor and Rose. While not my favorite companion of all-time (that has to go to Sarah Jane), or even of the New-Who (that's Donna Noble), she and The Doctor certainly had something remarkable together. Back when I first joined Pinterest I stumbled upon an image from The Idiot's Lantern that is just so them ... and had to become lunch.

I couldn't think of anything much more vintagely "domestic" for dinner than meatloaf, mac&cheese and broccoli. It was 1953, after all.





In case you didn't know:
The quote "the domestic approach" comes about from the episode. It was first uttered by Ten at the very beginning of the episode (in the scene immediately following the opening credits ... which is oddly absent from YouTube), and again by Rose at the very end:

Doctor Who The Angels Take Manhattan ... again

73 Days until Christmas the return of Doctor Who!  Until then I've got a lot of bits and pieces from episodes that I haven't covered yet. You know, almost fifty years worth. From the first time we saw The Statue of Liberty in "The Angels Take Manhattan" ...

Flax seed bread covered with pasta sauce and provolone, a colby jack stick, pepperoni slices and a not-quite-so-big apple. Yeah, I'm totally thinking pizza .... and an apple.

Frank Was A Monster Who Wanted To Dance

One of the things I love about the library is the ability to borrow eBooks like the one John read and fell in love with a couple of days ago: Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance by Keith Graves. It took a couple of days for Frank to make it into lunch because we couldn't decide which page to use ... until we re-read it Thursday night.

Poor Frank had already danced his brain out .... and lost an eye .... and an arm .... but he loved to dance so much that in spite of it all he just kept on going "and laughed as his head fell off of his neck."

Frank is bologna and cheese on wheat and is cut into three mini sandwiches since he isn't all in one piece anymore anyway. The "hahaha" is colby jack cheese. In the right hand section he has grapes, Halloween LifeSaver Gummies, and frozen yogurt brains. I know that by the time he gets to lunch it will just be yogurt, but he'll know that they started out as brains!

Max Spaniel: Dinosaur Hunt

When John came home from school today he had two new Storia eBooks waiting for him on my iPad. The pick of the night (and, therefore, tomorrow's lunch): Max Spaniel: Dinosaur Hunt!

(Can you tell I was having fun playing with my new Nikon COOLPIX S4300 with Eye-Fi card?)

Max is pb&j on wheat holding a football head pick. The flower bed is SnaPea Crisps with fruit snack flowers. There are also grapes, veggie cream cheese for dipping, and alphabet cookies spelling out Max.