Ever since I had Vivian I’ve been trying to do something “special” daily with Christian to make him feel like a big boy. It doesn’t always happen especially lately since I’ve been a little overwhelmed with the basic tasks at hand with our traveling schedule. Usually we just read and/or do some kind of project or have what Christian calls a “learning lesson” where I let him do letter or number worksheets that I’ve laminated with contact paper so that he can use the dry-erase markers and redo them a couple of times (it helps cut down on paper).
Christian really does like to cook so when I saw this idea on my friend Shawna’s blog, I thought that it would be a fun activity to do with Christian. They’re spaghetti octopus’s (I actually used linguine noodles because I thought they would be a little more sturdy). I heated up some spaghetti sauce in the fridge and it was a little weird (I’m really not used to eating spaghetti with hot dogs). But then I realized later that a creamy cheese sauce would have tasted really good with these. I know it’s not the most healthy meal so we made veggie wagons to go with them as you can see on the left edge of the picture.
Here is Chef Christian Happy to show off his work. He had so much fun making them that I totally let him take over and I only did a couple.
Later that day as we were eating our salad’s, Christian put all of his olives on his fingers like I’m sure every kid does and started giggling… “Look, I’m a red-eyed tree frog!” It was just too cute not to take a picture of.
Too bad he didn’t get red-eye for the photo (j/k).
Christian is so cute, I think that pasta hot dog thing is so weird, but it's actually a pretty genius idea I guess. I do think the only thing you could eat it with would be cheese sauce.
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