Bear head eggs with hoisin lines and carrots on top of a kamaboko salad. An "Alice in Wonderland" inspired fruit row and more soba noodles. We have all fallen in love with these. They are dressed with soy sauce, sesame oil, and scallions and that's it, but they are heavenly.

More spring time wishes! Cheese and carrot flowers, interspersed orange and apple slices, lentil mash, chicken & leek dumplings with nori frogs. The lettuce was quite limp very fast. I think iceberg will work better next time.

As much of a winter person as I normally am, I'm so incredibly excited for spring this year and this bento is reflecting that. Carrot flowers and scallion grass decorate soba noodles and tuna salad. A few triscuits, mandarin oranges, and a penguin of mayo finishes it off.

Leftovers made it easy to have fun with this bento. Meatball girlies in spaghetti and springy kamaboko flowers with a mandarin orange and surprise!, lucky candy. Yes, I actually put candy in her lunch. After, how crazy and sad Annie's last day of school was last week, hopefully the smiley girls and lucky candy will remind her that life goes on and the sun always comes back out.

Didn't have much for protein except one egg, so that's what she got! Remembering Norby's super cute star punch, I decided to use that theme. Star pressed eggs with little stars, skewered tomatoes and cheese, blackberries and kiwis with little stars too. Also, I included a hello kitty container of Annie's Cheddar Bunnies since the filling foods seemed small this time. Here's to my little Star!

Annie is 9! Can't believe how time flies and yet, I can't imagine life before her either. Just goes to prove that time is static. Anyways, this one has all of her Swedish favorites; blackberries and kiwi with cheese flowers; blueberry stuffed Swedish pancakes with some more blackberries and a penguin of powdered sugar; tomato roses on one side, sweet peas on the other, both with cheese flowers and some wrapped up pickled herring. Oh and I almost forgot, to make the Swedish theme complete, she has a lingonberry juice box from Ikea too!

I wanted a picture of the penguin but when I put this bento together, I liked the balanced look of it so I included a picture without the penguin too.

Happy Birthday Boo Boo!

My second messiest bento ever! Proud? Well, sure. Still good food choices and still slightly thematic. Apples and cheese skewers with carrot leaves in top row; cheese, quail eggs, carrot and apple leaves and Annie's Cheddar Bunnies in the middle row; and an entire row of dumplings with carrot leaf garnishes.

Also, I realize my pictures have become entirely uniform so I tried a new angle. I should really pull out the real camera to take these pictures instead of simply using my iPhone. One of these days, I suppose I will! Picture taking was my first obsession anyways.