It's All About The Little People

When I was a kid St. Patrick's Day was just about wearing green to school so you wouldn't get pinched.  Until I had kids I had never picked up that it has become so much more.  Luckily it hasn't been overly commercialized yet, and the additions to the standard wear green tradition are a lot of fun.  Now on St. Patrick's Day the Leprechaun actually visits your house and maybe even your class at school and plays tricks on you.  Unlike the Elf at Christmas you don't often see the Leprechaun while he's up to his tricks so the thing to do is to build a trap to catch the Leprechaun.

This was our first year building a trap but after last year when he came and peed green in our toilet and didn't flush we knew we had to change our game this year.  McKenzie was all about the trap and she spent most of a Sunday morning constructing what she thought was a foolproof trap.  She included all of his favorite things - rainbows, clovers, a feeling lucky sign and even helped bake green cookies to lure him in.

This trap involved a whole lot of colored paper, crayons, glue and imagination.  Love to see her putting all that creativity to use.

The proud owner of a Leprechaun trap!

Our trap the morning of St. Patty's Day - judging by the clues the Leprechaun left we think he had to leave his gold to escape using the candy rainbows.

Ben's face says it all.  He is so amazing that a Leprechaun came into our house while we were sleeping and left his gold in McKenzie's trap.  We're a few dollars closer to filling up our Mickey Mouse House jar!

We headed over to Gina's to visit Atticus on St. Patrick's Day and I couldn't resist creating some theme food to bring with us.  Who can resist a fruit rainbow especially when there's a pot of gold to dip it in?  As usual thanks goes out to Pinterest for the idea.

I am thankful for some new traditions with which to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.  If I didn't have these two little people in my life it could so easily be just be another day of the year.   I might just have worn some green but instead it's a day to celebrate and provides us an excuse to get creative!