Well, here are some pictures from our St. Patrick's Day. I love doing fun little things with the kids for all of the little holidays along the way, to make things fun & exciting. I guess you could say I'm a big kid at heart. So making St. Patty's Treasure Cupcakes, Green Shamrock Milk, Pot O' Gold Jello and talking up the Leprechauns - well, that's just fun!
I started a tradition about 3 years ago with Natalie for St. Patrick's Day. (Here is the link to to where I got the idea:
It's so fun to see the girls get so excited about the LEPRECHAUNS COMING TO VISIT OUR HOUSE. This isn't Santa we are talking about here. The leprechauns do not come to everyone's house, ya know?!
The girls each now have a homemade LEPRECHAUN BOX (Ryan will get his in a year or 2) and to make a long story short, you make a wish and set the leprechaun box in the window before bed (and you can peak out the window to look for them, but they can disguise themselves as leaves and grass). The leprechauns will put your wish in to the box while you are sleeping (it has to be something small b/c leprechauns are small) and hide it somewhere in the house. But they usually leave a path of 'green' to the hiding spot.
The girls both wished for chocolate.....and we read our St. Patrick's Day books before bed. They were so excited, maybe almost as much as Santa or the Easter Bunny.
The girls each now have a homemade LEPRECHAUN BOX (Ryan will get his in a year or 2) and to make a long story short, you make a wish and set the leprechaun box in the window before bed (and you can peak out the window to look for them, but they can disguise themselves as leaves and grass). The leprechauns will put your wish in to the box while you are sleeping (it has to be something small b/c leprechauns are small) and hide it somewhere in the house. But they usually leave a path of 'green' to the hiding spot.
The girls both wished for chocolate.....and we read our St. Patrick's Day books before bed. They were so excited, maybe almost as much as Santa or the Easter Bunny.
Reading St. Patrick's books before bed
Amanda peeks out in to the night and thinks she sees a Leprechaun!
Natalie searches for Leprechauns, but thinks they have disguised themselves as grass
The girls have followed a path of shamrocks (printed and cut out by Mommy) from their bedrooms doors downstairs...
...and the girls each find their Leprechaun boxes!!!!!!
Oh the Luck of the Blarney!
Natalie's and Amanda's Leprechaun Boxes filled with chocolate and coins
The girls enjoy green Shamrock Milk and of course chocolate for breakfast, pancakes too!
And to top the day off, Grandma Diamond was "Secret Reader" at Natalie's preschool that day. Natalie was beside herself when she realized it was her Grandma reading that day!
Grandma read a special St. Patrick's Day book we had checked out from the library that the girls had been enjoying.
1 comments:
So newsy! Love to see the fun holiday pictures. Keep up the good work!
Love,
Mom aka Grandma Diamond!
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