Dinosaur Day--August 12

It started with this:

Harmless enough, right? I found it at Walmart for $1.88 and could not live without it. So I put together step by step instructions for you to enjoy. :]

Step 1: Assemble ingredients

Peanut Butter

Nutella

1 butter knife

2 slices of bread

1 Dinosaur Sandwich Maker

Step 2: Spread on the PB

Step 3: Lick your fingers

Step 4: Spread on the Chocolate :)

Step 5: Lick your fingers, and the knife [and possibly eat another spoonful...]

Step 6: Chocolate meets Peanut Butter

Step 7: Place Dino on top and push down

Step 8: Make sure it cuts all the way through

Step 9: Eat the extra crust

Step 10: Bite the head off of your Dino, and slowly consume

It might be worth mentioning that we didn't set out to have Dinosaur Day, it just kind of happened. But now I'm positively sure that it is a yearly tradition that I will never forget. August 12--Dinosaur Day. It's official now. So if anyone wants to celebrate with me next year, I will make great plans!

Kenz and I were quilting and so in the background we watched/listened to We're Back! A Dinosaur's Tale, and Land Before Time. [If you haven't watched the original Land Before Time in a while, you should do it. It really is fantastic! The others are quite...awful, BUT the first one is really cute.]

FACT: There are now XIII Land Before Time movies. If you don't read roman numerals, that's 13. Yep. No I haven't seen them all, but most of my childhood was based on the first 3.

So, naturally I looked for other dinosaur things to do. Kenz and I printed some coloring pages and colored pictures of them. I even learned the names over in the process. When I was little I knew all the dinosaurs, but that little tidbit had been silent for so long I had to try hard to remember. Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Pterodactyl, "Apatosaurus" instead of Brontosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex.

If you know me, no celebration is complete without some special food. More often than not it's cookies shaped like a holiday object. But tonight was different.

Dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. I just HAD to have them.

So I set out to convince my mom. I told her how easy it was, and that they are just at Reams, and that we can make those yummy yam fries with it. I pointed out that she is always asking us what we should make and I was finally telling her what to make. But the REAL seller was this:

"Winner winner.
Chicken Nugget Dinner."

Have I ever told you that I have the coolest mom ever? She lets me act like a 3 year old.

I was really excited

So that, my friends, is how Dinosaur Day is done.