When Irish Eyes Are Smiling...

Ok...pretty sure we aren't Irish, however we had a smashing good St. Patrick's Day! Of course I had to get the kids some cute St. Patty's shirts! Of course, nobody wanted to pose nice for the camera! Except Liam who decided to ham it up for once. I have a video of him on a ride at Chuck E. Cheese where he hardly even smiles. Come on kid you're at CHUCK E. CHEESE! Anyways...we will start with the food! 

For breakfast Eric requested green french toast. As soon as Liam saw it he said, "EW! Yucky..." I had to force him to eat one bite and then he got over it. The same thing happened at lunch. I was done with green food for the day but Eric just HAD to have something green, so I dyed their fry sauce green to dip their chicken nuggets in. Liam also thought this was disgusting and so chose not to dip. That night I made rainbow cupcakes...very messy and time consuming, but super cute.

 Here are the adorable children.

Nick kept either posing like some male model or sticking out his tongue. 
 

Eric kept laughing so much that all the pictures came out weird of him, these were the best ones.

 Liam was making all sorts of faces and dancing around and wanting to constantly be in front of the camera.

 
Yeah...he's pretty cute...even when he's doing some sort of squatting dance.

3 out of 3

This coming Tuesday will mark 2 weeks of Liam potty training (or if you are a parent's guide to raising kids, "Toilet Learning"). The reason I started him at it is because he kept trying to use the potty on his own. It is AMAZING how much easier it is when they really want to use the potty. He wants to be in the Nick and Eric club sooo bad. Lately they have been including him a bit more, and that makes me happy. In my crazy Mom dreams they all loooove each other soooo much and want to all do everything together all the time and stick up for one another. That's totally how they will be once in Jr. High-Highschool right?

The other really fantastic thing that is happening with Liam's potty training is that Nick and Eric are super excited to help. As in, "Who wants to help Liam put his pee in the big potty and help him wash his hands?" and all I hear is, "I DO! I DO!" We have a stool in the bathroom, with 2 books stacked on it (Sorry parenting guide and my Beatles coffee table book...) and Liam still can't reach the faucet. Liam also has an uncool habit of either sticking his hands in the toilet or running the roll of TP under the faucet, OR dunking the roll in the toilet, the best of both worlds.

Yesterday Nick started his Speech Class (fiiiiiiiiiiiinally) and he did so well! She got him to actually say the letter "F" which is pretty amazing, since he never has before. She thinks he is gonna pick things up pretty fast, even if he does get distracted by EVERYTHING. Is ADD hereditary? I'm thinking we might have a mini-Ryan here.

Eric has been full of just random funny things lately. So has Nick really...I'm thinking I need to put a piece of paper on the fridge and just write down the silly stuff they say, so that I can remember these things. One of my favorites:

So I'm cleaning the kitchen counters the other day (miracles do happen) and
Eric says: MOM! Look at me!
Me: I'm lookin'!
Eric: I'm Handy Manny!
Me: You are?

He then proceeds to turn his head where I see a pen behind his ear. He grabs it down and pretends to go down a checklist on a piece of paper saying, "See, I write things here and here and here and then I put it on my ear and I am Handy Manny."

A couple days ago I got brave and decided to let all the kids wield scissors. All 3 actually did pretty well. I had them cut up some green construction paper and then I got out some glue and they glued them onto a four leaf clover. After they dried I cut them out and they turned out pretty cute and are now decorating my kitchen! Yay for kid crafting!

The only other news is that we are taking a family vacay in July! Watch out Missouri, we are gonna tear you up!