Foster Family Fabulous Feast-Dr. Seuss' birthday!

Back in January when I decided to start having Foster Family Fabulous Feasts, I knew right away that Dr. Seuss' birthday, today, March 2, was going to be one of our feast nights. All of my kids love Dr. Seuss (They each have their favorites-Foster Child 1-Hop on Pop, Foster Child 2-Ten Apples Up on Top, and Foster Child 3-Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?), and I, as a reading teacher, love celebrating Dr. Seuss, the author of over 60 books!

Just some of the books in our Dr. Seuss collection. We couldn't fit them all on the sideboard!

Our celebration started early as before dinner we made Cat in the Hat hats. These were made with paper plates and I got the idea from here



I also purchased some eyeliner for us to create cat whiskers and Cat in the Hat's black nose.
What I love about my children is their eagerness to take the excitement and fun to the next level. Having hats and whiskers weren't creative enough for them as they scrounged through their dress up bin, winter gear bin and closet to complete the Cat in the Hat look (notice the gloves, tail, cat ears, and umbrella in the below photo). Foster child 1 even said, "Mom, we should use that pen and take off our clothes, and draw fur on ourselves so we can really look like him! You know, like a cat!" (She was dead serious by the way.) When I gave her a strange look, she said, "Well we'd keep our underwear on!" (Yeah, that whole idea was nixed!)

Our dinner consisted of Green Eggs and Ham, and sliced apples. But before dinner we had a Ten Apples Up on Top contest, but only using 1 apple per person, although Foster Dad, since he's an adult tried to get 2 up there!



The family consensus for green eggs and ham-
Say!
We like green eggs and ham!
We do! We like them, Sam-I-am!
All except Foster Child 3
Who we let be
Eating his fruit
Cause he's so darn cute!





Of course, we had to read Green Eggs and Ham during dinner.

After dinner, and before dessert Foster Child 1 and I read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, before partaking in our Red Fish, Blue Fish cupcakes.





Aren't these cute? The scales and eyes are M&M's and the mouths are gummy Life Savers cut in half.


And we ended the night snuggled together watching Horton Hears a Who, except for Foster Child 3 who was in bed already.

This night totally exceeded my expectations. The kids were hilarious. Foster Child 1 was just like a teacher as she read to us, and she even said, "You know, you can laugh, cause this is funny stuff! And if I had a dollar for every time Foster Child 2 said, "I like Dr. Seuss Day!" I'd be a millionaire, but wait, after tonight, I feel like a million bucks!