35. Spring Chick Bento

Quail eggs, hard boiled, with details in dried seaweed. Yup, did the whole Japanese thing there. The rest of the bento is simpler: celery, a little wheel of cheese in a wax coating, an olive, some radish shoots, cheeze-its, and little chicks cut from carrots. This is one of two bento boxes that are stacked and silly-banded together. The other box had apple slices cut into bunny rabbit shapes, with a couple of gummy bears and sunflower seeds. Maeve had a little peanut butter, dry milk, sesame seeds, and honey ball in with hers, too, but Sophia can't have peanut butter in her classroom so she missed out (as I wrote that she said "gross" so I guess she wouldn't have missed it; Maeve ate it gone).

Gotta say, quail eggs have quite the compact cuteness factor.

6. Valentine Bento

Coming off vacation, not too creative. But Sophia wanted hearts in her bento yesterday and I at least had some hard fruits and veggies to oblige her. I do bento lunches every day now, for two girls. Sometimes they are awesome. Other times they are serviceable. This was serviceable. But I still have yet to find another way to get Maeve to eat everything...

The first two are two separate boxes of Maeve's lunch. Sophia had the two-bowl bento box yesterday so hers are more condensed. Yes, that's a chocolate covered strawberry. No, they didn't deserve them.