Happy St. Patrick's Day

In honor of the day, we had our St. Patrick's Day meal, hunt for four-leaf clovers, and our traditional gold scavengar hunt from the leprechaun.  No luck this year, the leprechaun trap didn't work again! ;)

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Happy St. Patrick's Day

We started the day off with a yummy green breakfast... compliments of Jake.  He made green pancakes, green scrambled eggs, and kiwi. :).  Before we headed out for the day, Hayden left some skittles in his leprechaun trap, in hopes of one last chance to catch him! Then we headed to an awesome place in Charlotte called White Water Center.  They have hiking trails, rock walls, ziplines, ropes courses and rapids!  They had a fun celebration that included Irish Music, a leprechaun, and a 'turning the rapids green' ceremony.
After spending some time watching everyone brave the green rapids, Hayden and Jake tried their hand at Rock Climbing.  I was so proud of Hayden for giving it a good try.  I felt bad, because he was so hard on himself for not getting to the top of the wall like Jake did, but he can try again next year! :)

After a fun day at the rapids, we enjoyed a yummy Irish dinner out, and headed home.  To Hayden's surprise, his skittles in the trap helped... although he didn't catch anything, he did find a trail of gold that lead to a bag of goodies from the leprechaun. :)

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Tricky Leprechaun

The leprechaun has been very mischevious the past few days.  Sometimes we wake up to a mess in the kitchen or goodies left in the trap.  Today Hayden received a poem and green pudding from him.

  

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Happy St. Patrick's Day

We had such a fun day today!!  This morning, after finding the mess the leprechaun made, we checked the trap to find a neat Shamrock plant!! :)  After our green breakfast, Hayden went to preschool and had some more St. Patty's fun!  After school, we made Shamrock cookies... my personal favorite from when I was a kid.  When Hayden woke up from his nap, we found that the leprechaun paid us another visit. Although this time, he left a trail of gold and some little treasures!  We ended the night with a yummy Baked Potato Bar dinner and a game of sequence Rummy!

Roy G. Biv

The leprechaun left us some rainbow goodies in the trap today!  Hayden loves mixing colors to see what turns out!  After creating various colors in our water glasses, we placed some white carnations into them to see how long it will take for them to change colors... Hayden can't wait to see this happen!  We also made more rainbow cupcakes... although they turned out better last year :).  Can't wait for some St. Patrick's Day fun tomorrow.

St. Patrick's Day Parade

Today, we wanted to get out for some fresh air, so we headed to the St. Patrick's Day Parade.  Hayden really liked seeing the firetrucks, especially seeing the lights & hearing the sirens.  My favorite part were the bag pipes!  Although it was a little chilly, it was nice to be outside in the sun!  We can't wait for Spring to arrive!

Wax Shamrocks

Today, we did a fun Shamrock craft!  We went through our gigantic crayon box and pulled out the different shades of green.  Then we used a pencil sharpener to make wax shavings on a piece of wax paper.  Once we had enough, we ironed over them which melted the shavings and wa-lah!... wax Shamrocks!  Hayden loved using the pencil sharpener and seeing how the shavings melted into cool designs!!  I think we will be doing this craft again for Easter.

Lucky Leprechaun Magical Powder

The tricky leprechaun paid us a visit last night!  Although we didn't catch him, he left us a fun treat!  After mixing the leprechaun powder with some milk, we had some yummy pistachio pudding!  Wow... it was magical!! :)