Imaginary Friend Update

In addition to C6's imaginary friends Dieter and Yun Yun, we now have Boing Punk and Pipetty (pronounced PIPE-etty). They are a hilarious bunch! Here they are, hangin' out at the park.

Bento stuff!

My Bento Hero, Biggie, tells us that, come November, we'll be able to buy Bento stuff online at (hopefully) more reasonable prices.
"Ichiban Kan, a rocking Japanese-style dollar store in the San Francisco Bay Area tells me that they’re going to open an online store in November 2007 that will sell inexpensive bento gear...Most products are US$1 to $1.50 in the store; we’ll see how they price things online. I hope they’ll give us a nice break from those sky-high eBay prices (not to mention shipping from Japan — ugh)!"
Woo hoo!

What C6 likes to do

C6 likes to make a map of the "T" (Boston subway system) with pipecleaners:

And he likes to make an elevator in the hallway, sticking up guitar picks with poster putty for buttons:
In the above photo, C6 is wearing one of my fave shirts - it is a picture of his stomach, with a sleeping (or dead) ice cream cone in it!

He also likes to outline a house using pompoms:

Scurvyann Simpson

This is me, all Simpson-ized! Make one yourself at the Simpsons Movie Website. (Click on "Create Your Simpsons Avatar" at the top of the page and get to it. I don't know if there's an easier way to save the character you create- I took a screen shot and then opened it in Photoshop to crop it.)

Check me out - here I am at Moe's, hangin' out with Homer and the gang. (I'm wearin' LIPSTICK cuz I'm out on the town.)

Mangia! Mangia! and - Unintentional Messy Day

C6 and I love the book "Mangia! Mangia!" by Amy Wilson Sanger. We got it around the time we got the Sushi book by the same author. These books are so much fun.

Anyhoo, one of the pages of "Mangia! Mangia!" is about antipasti, and it mentions "prosciutto wrapped melone". C6 was curious about this, so we decided to make some prosciutto wrapped melone ourselves. We picked up a nice ripe cantaloupe and a few slices of prosciutto at the market.

Here is where it became UNINTENTIONAL MESSY DAY! (Bonus!)

I cut the melon in half and let C6 scoop out all the seeds and "guts" into a bowl. We started with spoons but of course that wasn't going to last - it was full-on HANDS-ON! Wow. This was a whole lotta fun. He remembered when we made jack-o-lanterns for Hallowe'en and compared it to that. Even after we finished getting all the gunk out of the cantaloupe and into the bowl, we just squooshed around in the seeds and stuff. Y'know, just for fun. Squooshy, squooshy, fun. Instant Messy Day! (At least he didn't try to make a "cantaloupe guts angel" on the floor.)

After Squooshfest 2007, I sliced the cantaloupe and removed the rind. C6 helped wind slices of prosciutto around the melon. The kid loved the prosciutto, not so wild about the cantaloupe this time around (though he likes it). I suppose he was all cantalouped out by that point!

Knock Knock!
Who's there?
Cantaloupe!
Cantaloupe who?
Cantaloupe tonight, Dad has the car!

Cute Bento Eggies

Oh! I totally forgot to show yez our bear and bunnie Bento eggs. Here they are in all their eggy glory. How eggs-citing! We just love to MUNCH ON THEIR HEADS.

(Previous Bento entries are here and here.)

I like Elephants!

This is cute. And silllllllly. Just like I like'em! HAHrhhhah!!!!
Eric Herman's "I Like Elephants".