St. Patrick's Day 2009!

This was my first year that I really did something for St. Patrick's Day!  The kids were so into it and talking about it, I couldn't let it slip by!  It was 11:58 as we were running out the door to school and we hadn't seen any sign of that Leprechaun! (probably because the Leprechaun stayed up to late the night before sewing and had forgotten to plan anything for breakfast.)  

Cole wanted to quickly sent a trap for him.  The conversation went a little like this:

M: How can we set a trap?  We have no time!

C:  We need to hide gold for him!

M: We don't have any gold!

C:  I know!  The Golden Plates!!!

 (something Cole is just obsessed with! GOLD!  He found these plates at my parents house and

 doesn't want to return them anytime soon.)

So we quickly set a trap to try to catch that Leprechaun while the kids were at school and Mom was out running errands.  

And to our disappointment, we didn't catch him!

But he sure messed up everything in our house!!  That darn Leprechaun!  My gym shoe was hanging on my my guitar, pillows in my chandelier!!  Messes, messes, messes!  Sadie did not know what to make of it all!

After observing all that he had done, she sat on the couch and just started to worry about it all!  And the GOLDEN PLATES!  Oh if I could post every expression on her face as she went through her emotions!  

This was just before she had her mini melt down saying "Grandpa is going to be so mad that the leprechaun took our Golden Plates!!!"  Worried little girl!  

Luckily he hid them next to the kids "pot of gold"

And that made her much happier!

My attempt to get a picture of the girls in their cute St. Patty's attire.  Notice the fabric?  I was inspired by my blog paper...just hours before St. Patrick's Day.  Why do I do this to myself?  I couldn't get it out of my head!

Cute enough to wear all summer! ;)  It was so warm!  I should of taken MaryJane's long sleeve undershirt off.  The dress is so much cuter without it!

I had to post these frame by frame pics of MaryJane showing off her cute personality!  For some reason she thought she was so funny!

It was a ruff day for poor little Sadie!  When I picked her up at preschool her teacher told me that Sadie said the quote of the year!  After they had their Leprechaun hunt her teacher served them green juice and green rice crispy treats.  Sadie burst into tears and cried "I don't want to eat or drink one more green thing ever again!!!!"  Oh my picky little eater.  Thanks to the book Pinkalicous, Sadie now hates to eat anything green!  She was so relieved when she came home and found our food in the fridge not all green!

I had no idea how fun today was going to be!  I'm now convinced of the fun this holiday brings!  It was so thrilling to watch the kids discover, learn, and devour all things St. Patrick's!

Hope you all had a great day too!!

p.s. Sadie calls four leaf clovers "Leffyclovie"  or shamrock if she thinks real hard.