Laptop lunchbox

Inspired by vegan_lunchbox, I bought Laptop Lunches for me and Delia. Delia had to rush out the door before I could take a picture of hers, but here's mine for the first day: Chicken orange curry with lentils in the back (from naomikritzer), a vegetable medley in the front (cauliflower, broccoli, artichoke hearts and beans marinated in Newman's own balsamic vinagrette), cantelope (there was a frantic search for the melon baller this morning) and homemade chocolate yogurt: melt chocolate chips in the microwave with a TB of water for one minute, and stir in plain yogurt.

Delia had the melon and chocolate yogurt, also, and then she had a sandwich and some sliced orange bell pepper. The goal is to try to include one fruit and one vegetable each day. We are going to have to do some heavy-duty exploring of vegetables for Miss Delia. I was frankly surprised that she agreed to the sliced bell pepper, since she has usually refused it in the past. Perhaps her new Laptop Lunchbox gives the bell pepper an exciting new glamour.



I won't be posting our lunches each day, goodness knows, but just thought I'd show off our starting attempt.

Edited to add: Well, that was certainly more than enough food for one adult for lunch. The marinated vegetables leaked just a little bit, but then, I hadn't put the cover on that compartment. I'll know to do that next time. I would say that the first day, at least for me, was a success.

Edited to add again: Delia handled the bell pepper in her lunch by--simply not eating any of it. Which is what I expected she would do. Just a few bites of the sandwich, 1/2 of the cantelope, and all of the chocolate yogurt. She is a slow eater, and it is a continual problem that she doesn't finish her lunch.

Space Camp presentation at Delia's school

In a really wonderful effort to give parents and friends an idea of what our children have been learning at Space Camp, the teachers and chaperones helped the kids assemble a mock up of the Space Shuttle in the school gym, and the kids showed off posters, pictures, quizzes, mock tasks that astronauts might do in space, a PowerPoint presentation, and a mock mission to present to the parents.



That mock space shuttle was really cool. They even rigged with a pulley system overhead so that they could "open the bay doors" on the top of the shuttle.

Here is Delia helping with the set up:





See more pictures of the set up here and the presentation here. All the various images, including the pictures of the kids taking the science classes at Leonardo's Basement in the weeks leading up to Space Camp, can be found here. Major kudos to Andy Peterson, Reach for the Stars' media consultant, who took these and all the other wonderful pictures during the whole experience.