wednesday night dinner

last night i made spaghetti for dinner.
i had been hankering for spaghetti for awhile now. generally i steer clear of pasta because it means that i'll have to make a different meal for noah altogether which is just more work than it's usually worth {we've tried to get noah to eat pasta - many, many, times. i blame my lack of perseverance when he was a baby. i think that would have definitely helped. sad. so let this be a lesson to you mom's introducing foods to your baby. if at first you don't succeed - or food ends up all over the floor or in their bib or everywhere but their mouths, TRY TRY AGAIN. Apparently it can take up to 10 tries of a food before a child will like - or at least tolerate - a kind of food. but i digress.} but yesterday i was willing to work out an alternate dinner for him.
on the menu {for me and the judester}:

whole wheat spaghettini 
hearty veggie-filled spaghetti sauce (LOADED with ground beef, green and red peppers, onions, mushrooms, carrots)
finely grated cheddar cheese + parmesan cheese for sprinkling on top


i served up some ground beef with the veggies on a plate for noah with a bit of sprinkled cheese {because it's fun!}.
for jude i just served up a big plate of spaghetti with sauce and i cut it up as small as i could.
jude started shoving handfuls of spaghetti into his mouth until it was all gone. and it was gone FAST. praise the Lord i have a child who loves pasta!
and noah ate up all his ground beef {the one type of meat he will eat - i swear the kid is a vegetarian! unless it's chicken nuggets in which case he gobbles it up. gah.} and veggies.
and i sat down to a delicious and hearty plate of spaghetti.


YUM.
{and it was so yummy i didn't even bother to take a picture. well, that and i was trying to keep jude's spaghetti mess somewhat contained.}


also: jamie was out so it was just me and the boys. we do pretty well on our own. it's taken awhile to get here {with 2 young kids} and we miss jamie, but we do pretty well if i do say so myself.