St. Patrick's Day

I haven't been the type of Mommy that has holidays planned out and coordinated so that they are super-fun for my kids. But, I decided that I would like to give it a shot :)

So - today, we had the typical green food treatment - green scrambled eggs, toast with green butter and then I made green limeade for Myla and Gavan to enjoy for breakfast. They ate it right up! I thought it looked pretty icky myself. Should have taken a picture.

Myla had a nice green shamrock shirt to wear today, courtesy of our kind neighbor Lynn and her daughter Shaylee. Gavan was pretty determined to wear his "Robodog" shirt so we stuck a few shamrock stickers on him and called it good. And, this picture is the most-still I could get him to stand...

The bulk of our day was pretty standard: running errands, doing housework and baking, except we were treated to Uncle Jordan's company in the morning, which was very nice.

Then, we headed over to my parents' house for a somewhat-Irish dinner. There was cabbage and Irish soda bread (which was really yummy!) but the Irish-ness stops there. It was a fun change of pace to have a mid-week dinner at Grandma's house. We wrapped it up with a walk around the block and Myla and Gavan both fell asleep in the truck on the drive home. They are still asleep and I am banking on them staying down for the night! There is nothing worse than a two hour nap that starts at 6:30pm!

We hope you all had a fun day wearing green, eating different things and celebrating the Saint that chased the snakes out of Ireland (symbolically speaking of course).