I’ve been collecting some good links lately and thought I would share them with you, Internet.

Craft Blog — I feel pretty neutral about Craft magazine — don’t love it, don’t hate it — but I looooove their blog. They always have great, interesting, amusing projects and post a bunch every day.

Bembo’s Zoo — Great site for kids. Animals and letters combine in a cool visual tool.

This Tom Selleck Cake — I’d like a hunk of cake like this!

Where the Hell is Matt — his videos rock. I find it very difficult to watch these without tearing up at the thought of how amazing this world is. And we’re going to vacation in Vallejo this summer….

Japanese Paper Dioramas — I keep telling myself, “I don’t have time for another hobby. I don’t have time for another hobby.” So far I’ve resisted.

The Big Picture — amazing photos updated every few days.

Classic Photos recreated in Legos — click through to the photo page to get links to the originals.

Here’s what I sent for Wyatt’s lunches last week:

Apricots, apple bar, strawberries and a half a leftover burrito. This lunch went over very well. I wasn’t sure if he would eat the burrito because I packed it cold, but he ate everything except the apricots.

Watermelon (it was a very hot day), salami, the last of the blueberry muffins from the freezer and a few Triscuits.

Peanut butter and jelly on white bread, gold fish crackers, apple wedges and a couple of grape tomatoes for color.

Peaches, chunks of white bread, rolled up slices of deli ham and a cheese stick.

Here’s what Wyatt had in his bento boxes last week:

Banana bread, tofu, yellow tomatoes and strawberries.

Apple chunks (dipped in pineapple juice to prevent browning) salami, harvarti cheese shapes, pretzel sticks.

More banana bread, chicken sausage and catsup, pretzel sticks and grapes.

Strawberries, hotdog bun (a particular favorite) and salami.

We walked over to the store with the wagon to get a few groceries, but Wyatt started acting a little bored almost even before we left our front yard.

To distract him, I handed him my point and shoot and asked him if he could take pictures of things as we walked along. His first assignment? Take a picture of something blue:

Take a picture of something red:

Take a picture of something purple:

Take a picture of some garbage:

I did not instruct him to take a picture of my booty, but that’s one of the hazards of handing your child a camera when you’re pulling him in the wagon. Of course, a normal person wouldn’t have posted this picture on the internet….

Wyatt has been doing very well with his lunches the past couple of weeks. Reducing the amount of food I send to school with him has really seemed to improve the amount he eats. I’m sure that it’s helping a lot that he’s settling in at preschool too. The excitement of eating with all the other kids seems to be wearing off a bit and I think that helps him to sit still and actually eat a bit more of his lunch each day.

Since he’s been eating more of his lunch, I decided to branch out from what I had been sending and start adding vegetables back into his lunches. In the past, I’ve tried sending veggies and they all returned home untouched. My goal this week was to send something different every day to see what got eaten and what didn’t.

Tuesday was green bean day. Wyatt will occasionally gobble down all of his green beans at dinner, but other times he leaves them untouched. I also sent blueberries, half a banana and smoked chicken and gruyere sausage cut into chunks.

Veggie Success: None! He ate everything except the green beans.

Wednesday was tomato day. I cut them in half and drizzled them with a little strawberry balsamic vinegar. I also sent half a PB&J sandwich, more blueberries and some goldfish crackers.

Veggie Success: Partial! He ate about half the tomatoes.

Thursday was peas day. I also sent another chicken sausage (cut in half length-wise and horizontally), ketchup for dipping, cheese stars and a mini blueberry muffin from the freezer.

Veggie Success: Partial. The peas came home untouched but he ate them as a snack along with the leftover sausage before dinner.

Friday is corn day. I really had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to put this lunch together because we were out of nearly everything. Along with the corn he’s getting grapes, a mini blueberry muffin and home-made trail mix of Puffins, dried blueberries and a couple of chocolate chips.

Veggie Success: Unknown. He’s still at preschool as I’m typing this.

Wyatt takes a little rest on the couch before getting dressed for preschool.