The leprechaun left footprints....
Mason loves it when the leprechaun visits, Ellery not so much! She has been worried all week long about the leprechaun and was very concerned about him coming into her room! He didn't go into her room, but he did go into Mason's room and mess up the books and threw all the underwear out of the drawer.
Per Mason""He also took my underwear and threw it all around, but not the ones from my body!" with a sigh of relief on his face.
The leprechaun also left a few green footprints in the house that lead onto the deck, down the steps, on the patio, and into the garden. He dropped his box of gold in the garden and left his hat on the fence! He also messed up a few things around the house before he got paint all over himself making the treasure map. A difficult map that says "my gold is outside."
The kids were thrilled and excited and after the excitement wore off we had our yearly tradition of Green Milk. The tradition that Grandma Debbie did with Uncle Dan! Ellery was slow to warm up to trying it, but with a bit of persuasion ended up tasting it. She could tell by the looks of it that it didn't taste good despite that her brother kept telling her that it didn't taste any different!

Happy St. Pats Day

Oh what a lucky day! The kids wanted to draw rainbows, because Mason learned that one could find a pot of gold at the end of it. I served up some green milk in the am and no one spilled it this year! We took Mason to school and a leprechaun had visited the room. He left green foot prints all over the room, turned over chairs, played in the toys, and left chocolate gold coins all over. Ellery was even into looking at all the things the leprechaun did. The kids had also made leprechaun traps at school in hopes of catching him. His teacher this year is wonderful.
When our kids got home we thought we could play off what happened at school and colored the toilet water green in their bathrooms and left a few quarters around their rooms. I thought we were being creative and fun. I had no idea I was scarring the kids and mass chaos broke out. We flushed the green away before Ellery saw it in her bathroom because she was screaming and crying hysterically because a leprechaun had been in the house. Mason refused to flush down the green leprechaun pee, but was happy he left some silver coins for him. After a long long process Ellery finally calmed down, and we learned she isn't a fan of people being in her room or our house for that matter. Thank goodness I didn't pull over toys or do anything else!

Happy St. Pats Day

Our little green leprechauns, that bring joy to our lives.Grandma Debbie used to give her son green milk on this Happy Day so I decided to do it for my kids. I contemplated going a bit darker, but decided not to since I was serving it in clear glass glasses for maximum color effect.

I think I made a wise choice!
No one cries over spilled milk in this house.