Foiled!!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day from my little leprechauns! I swear, getting them both to smile normal smiles at the same time is like trying to eliminate all of the dandelions from my yard...super frustrating and virtually impossible. In other news, I would like to publicly thank my mother-in-law (aka my nanny) for going on vacation and giving me a good excuse to stay home with my kids. We have been very busy....here are all of the details from our fun filled Saint Patrick's Day! It started this weekend when we made our leprechaun trap. Actually, it started last Saint Patrick's Day when that naughty leprechaun came in the middle of the night and trashed the playroom. Thus the need for the trap this year. Here they are building the ramp for the leprechaun to get up to the to of the trap. They built the ramp all by themselves. Abby glued and Ben put the pieces on. I had brought some supplies home from school for them to use, including my jar of "craft sticks". While I was in the other room I heard her say to him, "Why do you think Mom has a collection of Popsicle sticks? That's gross!".

Here they are with their completed trap. The leprechaun sees the gold (Ben decided that we should use Golden Grahams) and climbs the ramp to get it...

little does he know that there is a hole under the "grass" and he falls in. Abby thought that once we caught him we should either tie him up in a bag and throw him away or keep him as a pet.

Even though we had a trap, we wanted to make sure that the shenanigans of last year were not repeated.

This morning when we woke up, this is what we found:

When we checked the trap, there was no leprechaun, but he did leave some gold coins and little pins for them to wear to school. We also found some other mischief. Like this:

Yes, apparently he used our toilets and no, he did not flush!



But the biggest surprise was that he completely rearranged the playroom!! For those of you thinking "That doesn't look any different," look carefully. He moved all of the furniture and toys to the opposite side of the room from where it was when we went to bed. We CANNOT figure out how someone so little could move all of that big stuff!!

In the fridge we found green milk and rainbow cookie dough with directions for baking.

Which means....after school, we made some cookies!! Well, Abby and I made some cookies.

Ben ate his candy.

And the flour off the counter.

Here are our special rainbow cookies. Rainbows, shamrocks and gold coins! And they are tasty!!

So there's our day so far. Fun, right? Tonight we will celebrate with our friends and as we speak, my first ever corned beef is cooking away in the crock pot. Today I had a little reminder about how much fun it is to be at home in the middle of the week. Can't wait for summer!!