{ st. patty's }

This is the first year my boys actually enjoyed Sant Patrick's day.  We've never been able to celebrate it before.  Here's why.... 

Last year I had every intention to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.  A week or so before March 17th I was expalining to the boys about the holiday; rainbows, pot o' gold, the color green and how leprechauns sneak into the homes and leave treats into children's shoes. They were fascinated about the whole leprechaun idea.  They kept asking questions about them.  Where do they live?  What do they eat?  What do they look like?  So I told them we'd google them and find a picture of what they look like.  So they gathered excitedly around the laptop and I googled "leprechaun", clicked images and, I'm not kidding, this popped up on the screen:

Oh my gosh. The boys FREAKED out. They wanted NOTHING to do with Saint Patrick's Day from that point on. At night before bed for the next two weeks they sobbed, "Are the leprechauns coming tonight?" So needless to say, we skipped St. Patty's.
This year, however, was different. They've completely forgot about the horrible picture and were totally excited. When they woke up the followed the "lepercorn" tracks to their shoes filled with treats. Tanner HAD to wear green today even though he was just hanging out with me and running errands. He dumped all his drawers searching for something green. I wouldn't let him wear shorts today so he came downstairs like this:He's such a crazy kid.