Keeping Up with the Johnsons: If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.” ― Dr. Seuss

Happy Birthday to Theodor Seuss Geisel!
Of course when Remley came and informed me it was Dr. Seuss' birthday next week, my obsessive theme, theme, theme planning brain kicked into high gear. I had all kinds of ideas and started speaking in funny rhymes (in my head, at least). I found a million cute ideas for snacks to send to school and it all seemed like such a good idea. As some of you may know, sometimes my good ideas are only good for a minute or two.. but hey, I tried and we all had fun doing it!

Cindy Loo, is that you?!

Rhett on Crazy Sock Day

Vera Seuss

Remley helped me write One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue fish on cups. Twenty-seven times. We filled the cups with blue jello and one fish, two fish for her special class snack. Boil one cup of water, add gelatin, stir, add ice, pour carefully into cups... repeat, repeat, repeat. Twenty-Seven times.

We found Cat in the Hat ribbon and jazzed up a skirt and put a bow in her hair. I thought the wild braids must be a bit distracting for a school day. Super cute, either way :)

For Rhett's class I had the great idea to make Truffula tree cupcakes with cotton candy tree tops. How fun! And the teachers will love me, not only for sending in cupcakes, but cupcakes topped with cookies topped with cotton candy!
I figured this warranted a trial run, especially since last weekend we were stuck inside with rain, rain and more rain...

"Water Front Property"

So, my first go with store bought cotton candy looked pretty cute.

Only, come to find out, cotton candy starts melting as soon as you handle it. And you have to handle it a lot to get it to stick to something in a ball shape. So, in a few minutes you have...

The real party day was upon us, so I solicited the help of GG, since she is much better at baking and more so, frosting! She piped grass for the trees. That definitely looked better than mine!

I tired making the cotton candy thinking that might eliminate some of the "handling" that contributed to the melting...so I borrowed a cotton candy maker and made it fresh myself .. thinking maybe that would do the trick. That was sort of fun, didn't taste too bad... but there was no getting around the melting. So, my kids get bags of cotton candy and Rhett's class got lollipops stuck in the Truffula tree trunks.