St. Patrick's Day is such a fun holiday and our family always looks forward to it. Last year we built individual traps, but this year we stayed up watching "Darby O'gill and the Little People," (which totally freaked the kids out by the way...) and didn't havea too much time for our trap. We talked the kids into doing one as a family and ended up with this laundry basket ditty. Oh well, it totally satisfied them.
We always put out the kids shoes for the leprechauns to fill with candy, which is really funny because I think this idea came form St. Nicholas' Day, but it is fun anyway.
Lincoln wrote a cute note to the leprechauns about how he wanted to be their friend. It was so cute. They wrote him a little not back. It is interesting to note that our kids are really skeptical of Santa, but thus far have not questioned the reality of leprechauns at all.
In the morning the trap was sprung, but we did not get a leprechaun, which the boys were totally disappointed about and told me all of the flaws of our trap so we could do better next year.
But they were excited about the treats and the notes that the leprechaun wrote to them.
Palmer had brought home a penny from school that looked like gold. He thought the trap would definitely trick the leprechaun...it didn't and the leprechaun gave back the penny with a "nice try" on a paper.
We gave the boys St. Patrick's Day shirt so they didn't get pinched. Dad however didn't wear green and he got some pinching throughout the day. We headed up to Logan to a going away party for my nephew Alex and visited Josh's cute grandma. It was a fun day and we loved seeing Josh's side of the family. I didn't bring my camera, so no pictures.
When we got home we had our traditional dinner of Irish Stew, Irish Soda bread (that is SO SO good) and Kristen brought guacamole (from Cafe Rio!) and some fun shamrock pies for dessert.
These were so cute and good. Kristen and I have been celebrating St. Patrick's Day together since Palmer was one.
After dinner we did a little 4 leaf clover craft that he boys loved. McKaydiscovered his love of coloring. He colored for about 45 minutes and has colored for hours since. I have never had a child color for long periods of time when they were this young (coloring on walls doesn't count)
It was a full and fun St. Patrick's Day!
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