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Today has been Dr. Seuss’ birthday! We’re big fans. I always have been, always will be and I hope to raise two little boys who have an appreciation for him as well. We’re on track with that as I can’t count the number of times I have read The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax (our most recent addition) or the other numerous books on our Shelf O’Seuss. I thought we’d do something a little special today since it was his birthday.
BigBrother was my inspiration for today’s plans since he brought home a very cute craft from preschool yesterday.
That’s right. I made Green Eggs and Ham. Not the kind featured in the book but scrambled eggs with bits of ham, which the Seussville website told me how to do in case I couldn’t figure out how to add green food coloring to liquid egg and cook it up. I also took it a step further and added some green food coloring when I was cooking up the ham.
When I first added the egg, it looked…. interesting.
But soon it started to scramble up and look kind of like eggs with ham. Somewhat.
When I put it on the table, the boys looked at it a bit skeptically. I mean, I can’t blame them all that much. It just looks… weird.
But LittleBrother eventually said, “I’ll pretend it’s broccoli!” He likes broccoli so that’s a good thing.
And despite his texture issues, scrambled eggs are an acceptable food with BigBrother, no matter their color, and he ate it just as slowly as he eats any meal that I make.
FireDad chose to wait until after I started the process to tell me a horror story from his youth. Apparently his sister and a friend made green pancakes one morning. FireDad ate said pancakes and, later that day due to an unrelated illness, he got sick and threw up. He forever blamed the green pancakes. I would like to report, however, that he has not yet hurled.
I take that as a sign of success.
Tasted fine to me!
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
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My name is Jenna, aka FireMom. I blog here, 
“Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?” is the current Seuss favorite in our house. Childhood just would not be the same without Theodor Geisel!
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Last week we had pink eggs and blue eggs. In honor of nothing, but it was fun anyhow! We also tend to have colored pancakes
And we love Dr Seuss as well!
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I want to make rainbow pancakes in the near future. I need to remember to do that.
I still remember my mom doing just this when I was a kid – I must have been 3 or 4. She also made us “curds and whey” (really it was just cottage cheese), mini pies (to stick our thumbs in and say “What a good girl am I!”), and other silly themed things. My sister was a really picky eater, so I imagine it was an attempt to get her to try new things.
Your eggs look better than mine!
Yay for March 2nd! It also happens to be my favorite uncle and my sister’s birthday.
If you ever get a chance, the Dr. Seuss memorial sculpture garden in Springfield Massachusetts is amazing. There is a life size Horton, Dr. Seuss, Grinch, Cat in the Hat, etc. etc.
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Parties all around!
And I totally need to see a life size Horton. Oh, we love Horton.
I give FireDad mad props for eating it. Because one time – the LAST time – I ate red velvet cake I threw up all night. I haven’t been able to bring myself to trying it again.
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I love Love LOVE Dr Seuss. He and I are old friends as I was a preschool teacher BC. You can get so much out of his books with children and the illustrations are always so amusing. Those green pancakes are so much fun. I did them with my preschoolers and they were always VERY cautious. I bet they still talk about them occasionally, even though it was many years ago.
Ha ha we came up with the same blog title for today.
And yay sounds great! 
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Look at you being all crafty and fun and educational all rolled into one. I love Dr Seuss and we even have a cookbook and I still completely forgot about doing anything for his birthday. I stink!!
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I must confess, I have never thought of coloring our breakfast foods, but as we are HUGE Seuss fans around here, I may consider it. This week, we have And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street and Yertle the Turtle from the library. The Lorax is probably the girls’ favorite — I know it’s mine.
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Huh. After reading this and several of the comments, I have come to the realization that I am the worst, most fun-meal-neglectful mother ever. I am so buying some food coloring tonight.
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