Momming

When your toddler asks for a snack, or “snaaaack,” 100 times a day, healthy options are always nice! We make this simple peanut butter (or Nutella) filled banana!   Is this a known thing? I’m no food blogger, so this will be quick and painless. It’s super easy to make and more fun than just eating peanut butter off a spoon. The only trick is separating the sections of the banana to get it ‘filled’— who knew bananas had sections? Sectioned! Slide your finger into one of the three sections that make up the banana and separate it— slide all the way down until it’s in two pieces, slather on the spread of choice and close it back up! Cutting optional ;) Yum!

This year I decided not to decorate for Halloween specifically and instead went with something that can be out from September through November. Originally, I wanted this to be geared more towards my 2-year-old, and decided cute-covered ‘Halloween’ books would be great. But then my friend happened to gift me a letter board— welcome slippery slope... Since these are all-popular, I immediately searched Pinterest for fall/pumpkin letter board inspiration and wasn’t seeing anything I loved, so I decided to turn the letters into the shape of a pumpkin. Once I had the idea, I searched for it too and nothing came up, imagination to the rescue! I love how it turned out and I LOVE that I feel like it’s original! All I did was use rounded letters to make the outline of the pumpkin and flat-bottomed ones for the bottom— then filled in the inside. Absolutely no rhyme or reason. I laid them all on loosely and after I was happy with the look I pressed them in. It was missing something so ...