artin has officially started what ario called "the first day of a very long time of torture"...he never liked school, if you didn't catch that. i, on the other hand, was so excited for him! well, really just excited for me because i got to go school supply shopping!! it was awesome, even though i didn't like how artin had his own preferences and wouldn't get what i wanted him to get. damn kid, i'm paying for this shit, what's wrong with a thundercats lunchbox??? he chose a super mario galaxy backpack and a mariokart wii lunchbox. i also bought him a bento box because i thought it would be cute for him to have a little bit of everything without all the millions of plastic bags etc. i was also so happy he could take a lunch he would eat--his preschool and kindergarten school had a "no nuts" rule because of all the kids with allergies, so you can imagine what little choice that left for a kid whose entire diet consists of nuts or soy of some sort--peanut butter, almond butter, tofu, and the likes. you have no idea how excited i was to make him that almond butter and honey sandwich, cut it up and put it in his bento box with clementines, fruit snacks, and a little tiny snickers. lookie:
cute, right?? well the shit didn't eat any of it. not that i blame him. i guess i left some room for things to move around, so when he brought his lunchbag home, i saw the pretty little bento meal all conglomerated into one nasty-looking mix of a sandwich conglomerated with fruit snacks and snickers swimming in clementine juice. i didn't take a picture because it was a hot mess of a lunch and frankly it kinda depressed me.
anyway, the school is very close to us and it's been very...quaint and suburb-y walking with the kids in the morning. there is one little street to cross and the rest of the way artin can go by himself. which he pretty much does since he walks ahead of us (niek likes to stop and look at every little thing on the ground. and avisa, while fast, is inefficient sometimes as she runs in zigzags instead of straight lines.) i'm thinking second grade he can go by himself, if we're still here (a constantly changing thing for us, where we'll be).
anyway, here are some pics of the milestone day:
i can't believe that's the same artini martini. he's all grown up! awww, our little orlando bloom. you are such a good mom -- i remember my parents had the bright idea of putting "dates" into my healthy lunch box and kids at school thought it was a roach. no one wanted to swap stuff with me either! what DID he end up eating??
ReplyDeleteomg, i also thought dates looked like roaches so i never ate them! azi, that is hilarious! what a beautiful lunch you created. if he didn't eat any of it, what did he end up eating? bravo for the healthy lunch but next time, throw in an oreo cookie or something:)
ReplyDeletehe didn't eat anything that day! but things are better now that i'm learning how to pack a lunch!
ReplyDeleteand raha, i had fruit snacks (Allllllll sugar!) AND a snickers!! i don't think it was the healthy factor, it was the nasty factor that put him off :)