St. Patrick's Day is great. Really. When I was a kid, the milk was green, we wore a green shirt, you got pinched and all that jazz. I'm not sure what happened but St. Patty's Day is now a BIG deal. For over a week Isaac was talking about how he was going to catch a leprechaun. I didn't think much of it until he insisted on really making a trap. He was finding all different ways to do that until him and his dad thought of a box, with wood that would slam down on the leprechaun. Isaac set it up days in advance. He couldn't wait! I'm sure glad our leprechaun didn't disappoint!
Isaac used fake shiny gold to lure him into the box. He even taped some gold to the wood so the leprechaun would try and steal it, in doing so, he would shake the wood, causing the box to land on top of him.
Dax was the first to wake up. He was very sleepy but kept finding these gold coins thinking they were Isaac's trap coins! He kept picking them up very concerned they were all over the house!
Of course when he went into the bathroom everything was green! He didn't know what to do! The leprechaun had caused mischief all around the house. He wrote on Isaac's bathroom mirror, "can't catch me latte!"Isaac heard Dax's excitement and jumped out of bed to see everything that was happening. He helped Dax collect the coins.
He went potty in the boys toilet.
He spilled his lucky charms all over the counter. He dumped chairs and laundry baskets all over the house! He had little green footprints showing his tracks too. They went all the
way out to my front door. We knew he was going to be in the box! But...
then we noticed a tiny hole in the top, a candy rope coming out of the
whole and rolled all the way down the side of the box. That tricky
leprechaun escaped!!!
Inside the box, on the shiny tinfoil Isaac had laid out, our leprechaun had left behind chocolate gold coins!! (Isaac was really hoping for that! Forget about real gold, he wanted the chocolate!) And he couldn't squeeze his little hat out of the hole, so that too was left behind.
The boys loved the little hat. Dax tried to wear it on his head.
The boys ate their lucky charms but when they poured the white milk into the bowl... it turned green!!! That tricky leprechaun got them again!
Dax didn't really "eat" that morning... other then candy, he was on a bit of a sugar high!
I hope we don't have to have this exciting of an adventure every year!!! It sure made me tired! Maybe next year Isaac's teacher won't make the kids soooo excited for St. Patty's Day!!!
