Last week was Dylan's week at school to be "Star of the Week". This is where for 1 week he gets to bring an item that is special or important to him each day to share with the class. Then we as parents get to (be punished by :P ) send a snack for the whole class each day.
- Monday Dylan wanted to take a few things from our Florida trip. He took his shark tooth necklace that he picked as his souvenir while we were there, a few shells we found while at the beach, and a post card I had to scrapbook with that showed a map of where we stayed. He was so excited!
J.D. had stayed up pretty late the night before making some homemade peanut butter cookies for his snack - which Dylan was excited about too of course! - Tuesday he took his box of crystals from when we went to Meramec Caverns in 2007, as well as a large crystal Grannie neighbor gave him.
For snack we sent some fudge stripe cookies and some creme wafer cookies(yes we cheated via WM). But there was a mis understanding and they only got to eat the fudge stripe one because his teacher thought he had brought 2 days worth of snacks, but there were only enough to have 1 cookie each so she handed out chocolate animal crackers with them. Dylan came home VERY bummed out, but we got it all worked out... - Wednesday insects were his item of choice. We worked very hard Tuesday evening pinning some of his favorite insects we had been storing in the freezer. He picked 5 to pin in a cigar/pencil style box.
For snack I made brownies. I actually got up first thing Wednesday morning to make these. (I was waiting on a response from his teacher after the cookie incident just to make sure brownies were okay to send so I had waited until the last min. since I hadn't heard back yet). So the plan was that J.D. was going to drop these by the school on his lunch break for Dylan's class for snack, but on the way to school Dylan let J.D. know that they actually do snack in the mornings!!! So J.D. quickly returned home to help speed cool the brownies using a second sheet pan with ice in it. We were able to cool a 13x17 inch pan in like 10 min! We got them all cut, wrapped and he rushed them back to Dylan's school to ensure they were there by snack time.
- Thursday he wanted to take a couple of his Wooden Nutcrackers. He's trying to get a collection of these. So far he has 3 of his own & I hear he has one in the works! ;)
Snack consisted of the missed cookies from Tuesday & Apple slices. - Friday was the day to bring the penny collection! This one has always intrigued me... Dylan just loves to collect pennies from those machines that squish them w/ a picture on them like the zoo, aquariums, museums etc. He has a nice little collection and always searches for these machines when we go to new places. He always has the hardest time deciding on which design to get as well (each machine normally has 4 to choose from).
Snack for his last day were snowman cookies. I started baking these around 5pm Thursday evening and finally finished decorating around 4 hours later - luckily J.D. helped. We don't have all that great decorating skills, but they still turned out cute!
