It's finally time for the FIRST day of preschool!!!

After moving from Frisco, TX to West Hills, CA it took us over 3 months to finally decide on a preschool for our son.  Sadly to say, the determining factor that pushed us to make a decision was that I'm due with baby #2 any day now and I wanted him to start before the baby came.  Although I still don't think the school compares to what we would have picked in Frisco, we're going to give it a try.

I think I was more excited to put together his first lunch for preschool than he is about starting school.  I decided to go with something I thought would be easy to make and what I already had on-hand in the refrigerator/freezer.

• Octopus from mini weiners - I cut the tenacles and put it in the toaster oven for a few minutes to let it curl up a bit.  I used nori for the band around each octopus and a paper punch to punch out the nori for eyes. Some of the tenacles turned out better than others but I'm sure he won't mind. 
• I sprinkled some edamame around the octopus
• Grapes and cheese on tooth picks
• A clementine
• chocolate milk
• Mini oatmeal chocolate chip cookie and a chocolate coin

I can already tell you the first thing he will eat is the chocolate coin!

 


This is definitely more than what he would normally eat for lunch but since it's his first day at school, I'm not sure how hungry he will be at lunch time.
I'm still trying to figure what containers will work for us so for today I just used a Klip-It Lunch Cube from The Container Store.  They now have really cute colorful ones at The Container Store but the nearest one to us is almost 20 miles away.  Let's not try and translate that into hours on the road from here =)  I also used paper muffin cups to separate the food items.  One thing I don't like with this container is that the "sandwich" part folds over and all the items in it will be shuffled around.
Not bad for my first attempt.  I think it only took me about 30 minutes.  Hopefully the lunches will start looking better and taking less time.  But most importantly, I had fun making this for him and I hope he enjoys it!