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 Inspired by an old Martha Stewart Kids mag (Winter/Spring 2003), Lu and I made a dinosaur diorama. Martha's examples can be seen here. Ours may not get hung on a wall or passed on to Lucy's grandchildren, but it was a fun project to do together and maybe she'll keep the memories around longer than the diorama. Her preschool's theme for the week was Dandy Dino's and she was assigned to do a "Show and Teach" so this was perfect to take. We sorted through the bag of cheap dinosaurs we'd picked up at Target a while ago and found her favorite ones. We hunted in the yard for rocks and plants that might look like little trees and cliffs. We cut and glued pics from magazines and we hot glued it all in place.

Emmie and I stayed home sick from church one day and I thought I'd catch her on video without her big sis around. This is one of those sweet everyday moments you just want to hold on to forever. . . and then I had to say something. I didn't know I'd ruined the video until I watched it weeks later when I downloaded it. I ruined the video and ruined the moment with my creepy voice. Just watch.

Good thing Lucy is not camera shy. She gets to be the model for a lot of my projects. . . she's even cute with bushy eyebrows and a beard! This is a fun little St. Patty's Day craft project. . . print the templates on paper, cut out, tape together and play dress-up. Oh, and finish it up with a photo-shoot. We had a lot of fun working on this together. And if you don't have orange and green paper laying around, just print it on normal white paper and let your little leprechaun color it herself. Link for free printable Leprechaun Hat and Beard (and Buckles!): here on TodaysMama.com

I've designed two St. Patty's Day printables for the nice lassies over at TodaysMama.com . They're free! Go ahead! Download and print the Shamrock Tags and the Shamrock Pennant Garland and make your March a little more green. . . uh, er, that's the classic form of green. The color kind.