meatball monday

Today's theme for Muffin Tin Monday was "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs!" Now, we haven't read the book yet, and the one at the library was checked out, so all we could find was this youtube video of a daddy reading it for his little girl! The boys are just dying to see the movie, so hopefully we'll be getting out to do that soon.


Here's what we did before lunch. I got this idea from someone's blog, but I can't remember whose! It's so cute - yarn spaghetti with pom pom meatballs!

Alli liked it better up here. I guess if she wants to wear pasta, I will appreciate that it's this kind of pasta. :)

For our muffin tin lunch, we had spaghetti in foil "bowls." (Couldn't think of a more clever way to put spaghetti in muffin tins.) I topped each one with a coctail umbrella, just in case there were showers of more meatballs.

Then I let them pour on their own spaghetti sauce, which they never get to do, so they actually liked that.

For dessert, we microwaved marshmallow "clouds" and watched them puff up!

Then Spencer added some chocolate chips and we sandwiched them between Ritz crackers for some makeshift S'mores. NOT a clean Muffin Tin lunch, but very fun!

After lunch, we listened to a recording of On Top of Spaghetti, just to "top" it all off.

Oh, yeah. I'm so funny.

Happy Monday!