{ story and a snack sunday - 3 pigs mania }

Happy Jack has recently started to really dig fairy tales.  Like a lot.  A lot, A LOT.  He's especially been loving the story of the Three Little Pigs lately.  He's made it his mission to read virtually every version ever written. It's a fairy tale that's certainly not for the faint of heart, if you ask me.  But he gets a kick out of the piggies getting gobbled up.  Boys.  Go figure. This past weekend we checked out as many versions as our little local library had on hand.  

Then we set up our weekly book parade.

  Ya'll do a book parade after trips to the library, right? That's when you set up all the library books you checked out into a happy, little parade, and everybody gets all giddy about all the fun about to be had while all snuggled up and reading!

It was such a nice day that when we were finished with our stack of stories, we went outside to huff and puff at the giant cardboard house that Santa brought us.

A little piggy in quite possibly the world's cutest hat.
Loved it so much that I bought both colorways!

He does the most adorable OINK sound. ;)

Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!

Brothers!

Grateful for winter sunshine and warmish temps!

On Sundays, we like to make a little snack inspired by one of the stories that we read that day.  We made Three Little Pigs snack mix this particular Sunday.  I've had this one tucked away from way back in the day when I used to work at the most magical library-where I got paid to color, read picture books and present storytimes to cute and silly little munchkins.  I still get paid, actually - just in hugs and kisses, instead of dollars ;)

adorable illustration from here

I used these fruit twist snacks from Target instead of sliced Twizzlers for our "bricks" in an effort to keep the sugar count on the lower side.  Hey, I try ;)  Little Brother ate almost his entire bowl!

Jack took quite a bit of time digging for "bricks" from his own bowl.  No surprise there.

We do LOVE our Sundays!

  Hope your weekend was tons of fun too!

{ story & snack sundays - winnie sammies }

My boys are on a real Winnie-the-Pooh kick.  We went to see the Pooh movie recently, and since then we've been gobbling up Pooh books by the dozen.  Our library card is getting a real workout thanks to this silly, old bear ;)

This past weekend, for our story and snack Sunday, we made some fun, little Pooh Bear peanut butter sandwiches to go along with our latest reading obsessions.  I told Jack that I was pretty sure that Pooh wore a red t-shirt, but he insisted that he wear a red bowtie instead on our "special sandwich", as he called it. Okey, dokey, kid.

I simply cut my bread into a Pooh Bear-shaped head with a knife.  Then I made the bowtie with some sliced apple and strawberry, and I piped on the sweet face with good ol' Nutella in a plastic bag.  And finally, I popped on a chocolate chip for a nose. These were easy peasy to make, and the boys absolutely LOVED them! 

{ story & snack sundays - strawberry mice }

Unbelievably, we're still digging on strawberries around here.  We still have quite a few delicious berries hanging around, so this past weekend we made a snack inspired by the story,
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear.

These little guys are so fun and totally easy-peasy to make. Learn how here.
They're almost too cute to eat. Almost.

Hope your week is off to a wonderful start!

{ story & snack sundays - pb&j sushi }

Every day my boys and I love to gather a huge stack of books, a big pile of pillows and plop down in a cozy spot for storytime-a-rama.  We try to devote two half-hour blocks of time per day to reading, one in the morning and one after nap time.   It's a special time that I treasure.  On Sundays we have an extra special storytime tradition that we do at our house: we make a tasty snack that's inspired by one of the books we've read.  Yesterday, we read (for the billionth time), Amy Wilson Sanger's awesome First Book of Sushi.  It's part of an adorable series of board books
 that focuses on different types of wordly cuisine. 

Happy Jack loves to repeat the fun phrase,

"Big, BIG futomaki has so many grains of rice!". 

 And while these little guys aren't too keen on real sushi just yet, they were on board for sampling a little PB&J sushi snack. 

We got out our Fred Chopstick Kids Chopsticks Holders and our favorite, silly plate to make things even more fun. 

Okay, now steaaaady.

Got it!

Oops. Where'd it go?

Hey, they LIKE IT!

Aww, brothers :)

Fingers crossed that I can get them to

 eat real sushi someday soon :)

Hope you had a fabulous weekend too!