Happy St. Patrick's Day!!
Michelle, I hope you don't mind me recording Isaiah's cute story here.
My grandmother was full Irish and so this morning my sister in law told my nephew that he was at least 1/8 Irish. He thought about it for a moment and then said that his right leg was the Irish part. :)
Aren't kids the best?
We had an exciting start to our day because the Leprechaun's came for a visit last night!
My goodness, as if I don't have enough to clean up...those pesky little things made a mess of the boys bathroom...
they tipped over the kitchen chairs and put the ottoman on the sofa! Matthew said, "They might be small, but they sure are strong!"
Indeed.
The exciting part was a trail of shamrocks that led to bags of gold chocolate coins for the kids!
Mommy was a tad disappointed that two very excited little boys ran around before mommy got up and saw all of the treats (so I don't have any photos of them to share)....two sorry little boys got a little talk about waiting for Kaitlin so she could share in the fun...so two sweet little boys put the shamrocks back so that Katie could re-discover them.
And oh my, it was SO CUTE. We can't find our video camera right now and I was SO sad not to be able to record it because over and over she kept saying, "WOW!!!!" "WOW!!!" "WOW!!!!!" As she'd pick up shamrocks and tiny shamrock confetti. She was THRILLED. I finally remembered the little camera Dan gave me has the ability to record and so I took a short video. I managed to capture one "wow." :) You can tell how LOUD she is in this video! (Is it just me, or does everyone hate listening to themselves on video?)
Our St. Patrick's Day was actually pretty simple. I'm nursing a sinus infection now and wasn't up to my usual holiday fanfare. Little things were left undone and Dan ended up just ordering pizza for dinner rather than cooking anything. But the best part ended up being just sitting around the dinner table telling stories to the kids. About them as babies...and Dan told them about the first time he talked to me at the mall when I went into the store he was working at to buy a CD during summer vacation, and Matthew said, "It's fun telling stories." He kept asking to hear more.
I remember listening to my parents (especially Dad) tell stories growing up, so it was kind of strange to be sitting at the table telling stories to the kids about what Easter was like when I was little....
After dinner I let the kids decorate cupcakes with green sprinkles for a fun dessert for them.
This is a terrible photo of Kaitlin but she was not wanting to be in the photo with the boys at the top and so I just snapped this quickly as we were about to run and get Matthew off the bus today. I just wanted something to document the occasion.
Just another sweet memory from the day that I wanted to remember. After getting Matthew from the bus I sat on the front step with him and talked about his day. Then he told me he thought it would be fun to put a stand in the front yard with different drinks and food for people who are walking by. He said, "I just want to do something nice for someone. I want to make someone happy."
These are my favorite moments of being a parent. (And just to keep it real, as I'm typing this sweet story the boys are upstairs getting in trouble with Dan for not being kind to each other! :))
I hope everyone had a fun St. Patrick's Day!!
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