Daddy and Son Afternoon aka my kid is now one of the no red dye kids

My sister's friend had won two tickets to Walking With the Dinosaurs, so she gave them to us for Cole. Since there were only two, I sent Mike with Cole. He's the one who's constantly watching that stuff on History and Discovery. Cole loved it. Except for the T Rex. Understandable, he was one of the biggest and loudest. And this really "nice" lady sitting behind them kept giving Cole cotton candy. Purple cotton candy. He loved it. And he kept getting more. He DID.NOT.STOP. moving for a good 3 hours after. Total gibberish coming out of his mouth, practically flying around the room, just chaos. The kind that makes you pull out your best parenting moves and scream "JUST STOP!!! Quiet game for two minutes!" while you down two extra strength Advil liqui-gels, or you're pretty sure your head is going to explode. And then who is going to clean up that mess? You. The 2 year old isn't going to do it. No matter how much he likes to "help" right now. The baby is a total loss in the help department right now. And your husband is just going to stand there with a dumbfounded look on his face, like "what do we do now?". You know. You've been there. You might not want to admit it. But we all have. Unless you live in Stepford. In which case, that's just really freaky. And this is all going on while you're trying to bake the super-nutritious meal of chicken strips and fries.

In the quest of trying to be more nutritious I got the Eating Right Chicken Strips. They're at Safeway for the Canadians. Safeway, Fry's, Kroger, Von's and Ralph's, I believe for the Americans. Skip them. Don't even look at them. They do not exist, they're that bad. Their little dot on the box is because they're high in protein. Which they are. They also boast they haven't been fried. And you can tell. I'm assuming they also figure if you want low in saturated fats, you're not looking for flavour, either. Because they're totally devoid of that. They're basically cardboard chunks shaped to look like chicken strips. I never, and I mean never salt my food. I was quite liberal with it last night. So save yourself the money. Don't buy them.

Anyways, mental note taken. No more red food dye for Cole. And now I'm not just label reading for nutrition (no glucose-fructose in the first 3 ingredients), I'm label reading to check for red food dye.

Today is one of those days where you're pretty positive fall is here. Too bad it's not even Labour Day yet. I want to go to the apple farm, but I'm pretty sure it's not even open for the season yet. I'm ready to clean up the backyard and store everything until spring. Maybe if the weather was more than 8C, I wouldn't feel that way. It's one of those casserole for dinner type of days. So, we're having one of Mike's favourites, Taco Bake. I'll post it by itself, so it's easier to link back.

Happy Sunday everyone!