Caterpillar Sandwiches

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRUMAN!!!

For his birthday, we thought eating bugs would be fun!!

Turns out, eating bugs really IS fun!

We made us some caterpillar sandwiches, with ham to make 'em look fleshy!

They were pretty tasty, and fun to look at. The grown ups had a harder time eating the poor little buggers than the children did... it was weird for Paps to bite off the head of a cute little dude just minding his own business on Paps' plate!

Fisher thought plucking off the eyes and saying "HA! Sucker! I've got your eyes, haha!" was the highlight of his evening. We had a blast! Normally I would use spinach tortillas, not wheat, so that the buggy fellas are green, which is just much cooler, but I couldn't find them and didn't want to store-hop in search of them. Oh well though, these guys were cool!

Octopus Pasta

Fisher wanted to help me make lunch today, so we decided to do something fun. We made "crazy pasta" (4 types of pasta together) with alfredo sauce, and cut up a hot dog, gave him mustard eyes and sat him up on the noodles. I was thinking next time I'll put a few goldfish crackers on the side here and there so that the octopus has a few ocean buddies to hang out with. Fisher loved it, he thought it was awesome to have a creature on his lunch, and cracked up when he bit off the octopus' head!  Fun meals rule, baby!