Luck O the Irish

What a beeeeeeutiful day today is!  Right now I have a window open downstairs to air out all the winter germs.  Watch out this is a long post:

I LOOOOVE St. Patrick's Day!  It is one of my favorite holidays.  I always like the little ones that are often forgotten.  For most kids it just means wearing green.  For college students it means drinking from sun up to sun down.  And for older adults, it means absolutely nothing.  But I will always love it.  St. Patrick's Day makes me miss being a preschool teacher.  Man you can tell 4 years olds anything and they will believe it.  I loved telling kids about leprechauns and how they are sneaky and love to play tricks.  We would make traps for them, write letters to them, and dream about what we would do with a pot of gold.  I would turn everything green on St. Patrick's Day. We would make pudding in the morning and it would amazingly turn green while they were sleeping.  I would sneak into the kitchen and make everything green (milk, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese) much to my coworkers disgust and blame it all on sneaky leprechauns.  I would somehow always get a dry throat in the middle of a lesson and the whole class would need to escort me down the hall to get a drink from the fountain. Then I would sneak away while they were distracted and dump over desks, throw chairs across the room and switch around all the toys!  It was madness!!!  When we got back to the room, those crazy leprechauns had made such a mess!  It was amazing how quickly 4 year olds could clean up a room all by themselves just to see if the leprechauns would do it again so they could catch them this time.  I would leave a pile of green glitter on the floor and then announce, "OH my goodness LOOK they must have been here."  Then I would motion to expertly placed, slightly open window that the leprechaun MUST have snuck out of when we weren't looking.  The entire day is madness and SO MUCH FUN!  It's the little things like that I can't wait to share with my little ones when they are big enough.  Is making a bottle of formula green a little overboard?  I think so..........next year!

Here is my little Irish man:

Ahh the dog keeps messing up my picture

This is my serious look

Doing an Irish Jig

Ok Mom done with the hat

What? Next year I get green pancakes for breakfast???

You'll never get me lucky charms!

Cutest leprechaun ever

In honor of the holiday, I made a yummy treat.  I successfully chose the box that was not sugar free this time.

 Can you guess what I'm making yet?

My  helper fell asleep on me.  He danced one too many jigs today and tuckered out in the middle of the kitchen floor.

Fresh from the oven

Topped with a yummy cloud

Yummy rainbow cupcakes with cloud icing.  They are way easy to make and a good lesson on color mixing for kids.  Just separate your cake batter into equal bowls and color each bowl with a color of the rainbow.  My violet ended up plum and my orange ended up peach because I was rocking a baby while color mixing.  Or a least that's the excuse I'm going to use.  Then fill cupcake holders with one color at a time.  I put each color in piping bags (aka ziplock bags with the tip cut) so they got in evenly.  then bake a usual.  So cute and the colors don't run together!  I promptly sent 90% of them off with Nick to his work because I could not keep them in the house or I would eat all 14 cupcakes.  I don't know why 14, that's just how many they made.

In honor of the beautiful weather (even up north), we made our first trip outside!!!!!!!  So exciting!!!!

First we need an outfit change because of a minor vomit issue.

I swear I won't throw up....at least for a couple hours mom.

Psssst  Mom, Let's blow this Popsicle stand

All bundled up.  There may have been extra bundling, but we weren't taking any chances

Enjoying the view

Charlie came too. This was the first time, I did not want to put him up for sale

Loved it!!

Nicky had a blast and slept pretty much the entire time. Charlie was surprisingly good too and stayed with me the whole time.  I think we were all just so grateful to bust out of the house.  Nicky came home and slept for 3 more hours.  He just woke up so I've gotta go.


I-Rish you all a happy St. Patty's day!