Happy St. Patrick's Day

The girls woke up to a surprise from a Leprechaun. They had golden coin and golden cereal as well as green milk, mind game puzzles and green stemmed roses.

And since the girls have to wear uniforms to school, we had to be creative to get green on them. We painted their nails green and added some green strips of hair.

St. Patrick's Day

Once again, a little leprechaun visited our house and brought some fun goodies for the girls. This year it was chocolate coins, green hair, nail polish, Golden Grahams, and the movie Hercules. Don't mind the bed hair in this picture. Thankfully Emma doesn't have any hair yet.

Since St. Patrick's Day fell on a Sunday this year, we had to find some way to incorporate green into their Sunday dresses. Cindy made my girls these super cute green dresses a couple of years ago and it just so happened that Kali's fit Sadie and Sadie's fit Ashlyn. But even better, Cindy gave me one that no longer fit one of her girls and it now fits Kali. The only one left out of the matching was Emma, but we still found a way to dress her in green and she looked just as cute.

St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is always a fun event at our house. Every year we're lucky enough to have a little Leprechaun come and leave gifts for our children. We never see him, but he leaves footprints on the wall so we know he was there. This year he left the girls a movie, green cups and straws, some sand toys and kites.

He also turned the milk green which allowed us to have some interesting looking meals. Our breakfast was green french toast.

The day just happened to be quite windy so we spent the morning trying out the girls' new kites. The wind was blowing so hard for a while that I wondered if Sadie's kite would lift her off the ground. Hers was the only one that we successfully got in the air.

Kali's kite whipped around in the air until it got caught in our neighbor's trees. We finally pulled out the ladder to get it down, which was no simple task.

Ashlyn really wanted to fly her kite but with the struggle we had with Kali's, we didn't even attempt it. She had to settle for using chalk instead.

Girls in Green

St. Patrick's Day was a fun holiday for me growing up. Not only did we have to wear green, but we often had a leprechaun that would stop by our house. We never saw him, but we knew he came because of the little green footprints on the walls. And the leprechaun would always leave a little goodie or toy. A couple of years we even set up traps, but leprechauns are pretty tricky and always manage to fool the trap or escape. Now that I'm older, I still wake up on St. Patrick's Day to green feet on the wall and green milk in the fridge. The girls love it.