Crafts, Potty, and Tofu---Oh My!

Another cute idea I found on Pinterest (do I even need to credit Pinterest anymore?? Maybe if I ever actually think of something on my own I will give myself credit!) was to use a cupcake tin to dye shaving cream all different colors. 

So I squirted the shaving cream into each little cup while Emmery watched and waited patiently.

Then I let her drip the food coloring into the cups and swirl them with a craft stick.

Pretty colors!

The idea was to then use the shaving cream to "paint" the bathtub. We didn't make it that far because I chickened out in fear of staining the bathtub. Instead I let her take it into the art room and smear it all over the paper on the easel. It was pretty messy and the only picture I got was the aftermath of the cupcake tin...

I got out the Elmo potty for Marc-man because he is so aware of going to the bathroom. When he poops he'll point to his butt and say, "poo-poo." And he LOVES it when we flush his poop down the toilet and he gets a chance to say "bye-bye poo-poo!" We haven't gotten lucky yet but it's fun to stick him on there. I mean, how cute is this???

In honor of the upcoming holiday I have started my search for St. Patty's Day crafts! Here we just did a simple cut and paste, but Emmery loves these.

While she was working on these I came up with an idea (hey, look at that, I DO come up with ideas on my own!!! ha!) to get her to practice spelling her name. She can spell it verbally, I taught her a singsongy way to remember it. But I'm not sure she could manually put the letters in order. I cut up the letters and she had to paste them on top of her name. 

At first she seemed to like the idea, but she quit after this picture. I think it got a little annoying to glue the flimsy pieces of paper. Next time I'll print it on card stock to make the gluing a little easier.


So I do believe we are officially on a health kick! After watching Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead we have started to focus on health and nutrition a little more. One thing that I would like to change is the amount of "meat" we eat (I know, I know, I don't eat meat!). But we eat a ton of chicken and from what we've learned it's important to get protein from non-animal sources. So tofu it is! We had tried tofu a long time ago, I think we lived in Atlanta, and I remember not liking it. But I have recently found some recipes that actually look pretty appetizing so we gave it another shot. This recipe was for spaghetti bolognese with tofu instead of ground beef. After I almost burned down the house... I got the sauce started. 

Tofu and onions.

Lots of veggies!

Bolognese sauce!

It turned out... okay. Actually I really liked it.  Marc seemed to enjoy it. Emmery was indifferent, lately she is more into PLAYING with her food rather than eating it. Mikey is always very sweet and never says my cooking is bad, but I'm pretty sure he dumped half a bottle of Red Hot on his :-) But since we have joined the gym we are working on changing our daily/nightly schedules up a bit. I go to the gym with the kids in the morning and Mikey goes right after work. Which usually gets him home around 7:30. Which means I cook.
Anyway back to the tofu. The sauce, with all the veggies in there it had a really garden fresh taste that I love. It's true what they say about tofu, it just takes on the flavor of the food around it. The texture is a little strange, I think it is something you have to get used to. But overall, I think we will be doing lots more with tofu.